My creative efforts to add character to my face continue. The last couple weeks, I've felt like my rollerblading was progressing very well. Yesterday, I had done five miles and was going to add another lap for 7.5 when I my right blade got a leaf stuck in it. So I stopped and bent over to pull it out. *Wham*, I fell over and landed on my nose. Now it is swollen and warm. I don't it's broken, but it doesn't feel great, and it looks funny. Since this is the second time I've fallen on my face, I think I'm going to have switch my current helmet for something with face protection, like maybe a lacross type helmet. Fortunately, I have a somewhat larger, well padded nose to start out with. If I had a narrow, pointy thing, it would probably would have broken for sure.

In other news, my mother has spent the last couple days in the hospital. She had severe chest pains a few nights ago. It wasn't a heart attack, and they think it was stress related. They are doing a test to confirm that today.