Good morning crickets and welcome to day number 20 of this year's NaNoWriMo Challenge where I am still two days ahead of the recommended pace and am damn close to being two days ahead of my SNL viewing challenge as well. I think I mentioned this yesterday in passing but my new plan is to get ahead of my work as much as possible to be able to take a couple guilt-free days off for Thanksgiving.

I'm sure I'll go into the history of this more on Thanksgiving Day but I have a drinking tradition that I've consistently practiced for at least a decade and a half. Now that I think about it, this is more of an anti-celebration but it's still a tradition to me. In fact, I think it's the only annual practice that I've to fail to repeat and actually look forward to doing it.

I am extra excited about this year's reclusive festivities because it will be the first time that I will be taking an official day off since I don't know when. Granted, I did just use my safety net backup review just the other day when I accidentally turned a nap into slumber but the fact that I didn't plan ahead for this break, the guilt that I felt for not keeping my lead left me wondering if it was really worth it.

I'm hoping that by Thursday I will be three days ahead of my schedule allowing me to take not only Thanksgiving off but the day after as well since I'm sure I'll be suffering from a hangover. The third day ahead would allow me to do all of this nonsense while keeping at least a scrap safety intact in case I might need it for a future accident.

In order to do this, I really need to get to work so it's now time to move on to my next task for the day. As always, I'll keep you posted as to what I end up getting into when I check in with tomorrow's update. Until then, good day and good luck to you and all of your projects.

  Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker

P.S. If you are reading this and playing along with this year's NaNoWriMo feel free to add fubunker as your writing buddy and I will buddy you back.