Highlights from Thanksgiving Weekend

I hope you had an amazing holiday weekend! Mine was excellent, and I’m sad to see it over. Boo to that part! Anyway, here are a few of the highlights:

Plus, I caught up with family and friends. And I hit a new distance record in running for me — 5 miles. Woot! :) I got to play lacrosse some. Oh! And I applied for school to get the math degree mentioned in my bucket list. Yay!

The big thing I did this weekend though was to take time and reflect upon the year and mull over the direction I am going. I’ve got my graph paper out and will be building my Character Tome, thank you Nerdist for that idea! I’m still fussing with what to call it. So far I’m leaning towards Project Vohm. And I just got sidetracked while I was writing that thinking of a visual map on the wall made out of scherenschnitte. Ooh, that could be fun. But also perhaps a little too time intensive. :P Regardless of how I set up the map, I plan to have something sketched out by the end of the year so I can hit the ground running in the New Year. Woooo!

I also took some more time to reflect upon what I’m thankful for. It’s been a difficult year so it was nice to pause and think about positive things. I’ve tried all month to write a post reflecting on the things I’m thankful for, but it ended up being to hard to write. So I’ll just share a clip from the ramble I posted on Facebook on Thanksgiving:

“I kept meaning to write a blog post about what I’m thankful for but then I just kept getting all weepy…I’m a spaz like that. So I’ll just sum up, thankful for family and friends. Love you all! Thank you for all your love and support. Thankful for the happy expansions to our family this year too. Woot! Also thankful for finally finding doctors who actually understand PCOS and are nice too. And for music that makes me feel alive like Zoe Keating’s magnificent cello playing. And thankful for discovering the zen that comes in running. And so damn thankful to be able to use my lacrosse stick! I can go on and on. I’ll end with being thankful for the quite moments with Ruki. Sure, she’s included in family too already but so what. :P”

Rambly yes. But fitting too.

So, all in all, one awesome weekend.

Hope you have a wonderful rest of the weekend! :)

I’ll leave you with a song by Robyn that I found myself hitting repeat on a lot while I was running:

Enjoy!