Oh Where, Oh Where, Has This Blogger Gone?

If you can find her, let me know.  I need to tell her to get caught up on her blog posts.  It’s pretty bad when she promises new and exciting posts and then disappears for two more weeks.

I wish I had an exciting reason for not blogging, but it’s mostly just that I spend my time doing other things.  These past few weeks have seemed particularly hectic, possibly because I’ve added two physical therapy sessions each week, and those end up getting squeezed in at the most inconvenient times.

Charlotte told me the other day, “It just seems like we’re busier.”  I must say she’s right, although it doesn’t seem as if two PT sessions should throw our schedule into such an uproar.

Oh, well.  Thanksgiving is coming, and I am looking forward to a nice break!

We’re going a bit non-traditional this year.  We had originally expected my brother, sister-in-law, and niece and/or my dad to come here for Thanksgiving, but my dad decided to come the first weekend in December instead.  That weekend offers Elijah in the church Christmas play, breakfast with Santa, and Charlotte’s first basketball game, instead of a big meal and Black Friday.  Then, Zech and Alyse worked it out that they could come that weekend, too, so we are on our own Thursday.

I’ve decided to save the turkey breast I bought for when everyone comes and bought some turkey burgers and turkey hot dogs.  As it’s supposed to be a fairly pretty day (for November), we are going to grill and relax. 

On Black Friday, I will go to physical therapy at 9:00 and smugly revel in the fact that I already have most of my Christmas shopping done.  Then, that evening, we will hang out with some friends whom we saw this summer in Minneapolis as they visit Peoria.  Saturday will bring FOLEPI River Trail Classic with my running group.  As I am currently injured, I will be doing the two-mile fun walk, while most of them do the four-mile run.  And, sometime in there, I hope to put up the Christmas tree!

Instead of cram-packed days, we’ll do something each day we like (with the exception of physical therapy) and spend the rest of the time relaxing.  I can’t wait!

And I’ll end this post with a random picture, just because it’s funny.

And maybe, just maybe, I’ll get a few posts up about our Great Northwestern Adventure.  But no promises.

Have a good one!

Back at Last

Although I appear to have disappeared from the blogosphere, I was simply out gathering material for my next set of posts.  We returned on Saturday evening from a nine-day trip to Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.  I call it our “silver lining” vacation, as our airfare and rental cars were completely paid for with Jeff’s frequent-flier miles.

Due to a number of factors, which I’ll surely enumerate later, I wouldn’t call this the best of vacations, but it did have some truly memorable and remarkable moments.  One of the factors that may slow down the blogging process, however, is the fact that we forgot to pack the charger for our camera battery.  Therefore, most of the pictures we took on this trip were on our phones.  They loaded to the computer upside down, so it should be lots of fun trying to figure out what was taken where.  Plus, we still have some on the camera.  This should be a fun challenge for me!

But, hopefully, I will have some posts up soon.

In other news, Jeff left for Japan again this morning.  This is our second vacation this year that was virtually bookended by his trips.  He is a bit tired, to say the least.  He comes back home on Friday, though, if all things go as planned.  I am very grateful that he is not headed back to flooded Bangkok on this particular trip.

And that’s our past couple weeks in brief!  Talk to you soon!