Aside from a second Craig Ferguson comedy special and some TV I'm mostly reading again. I'm starting to see more tangible results from the physical therapy. I hope to return to work in two weeks. As it has been all along sitting is the hardest part. So far I haven't managed it for longer than 21 consecutive minutes. It's a long painfully hard road ( Read more... )

It turns out that even I can grow tired of reading if given enough weeks of unlimited reading time. So I've been watching Amazon Prime Movies including a LOT of Masterpiece ( Read more... )

Today Sharainchains came visiting with a stack of movies and a big bag of Thai. Who could ask for anything more? Physical therapy continues to bring incremental improvements. Going back to work on the 13th is starting to seem feasible. Fingers crossed ( Read more... )

Yesterday my friend Karin came over. She brought me flowers and strawberries and the makings for home made Orange Julius. We talked and watched St. Trinian's which is sort of Animal House for British girls. VERY funny ( Read more... )

Today I ripped through a funny werewolf book: Ready to Were. It reminded me of the vampire Queen Betsy books. As a bonus it's a free download from Amazon. Now I'm trying to read a Jasper Fforde about a pig detective. It's reaching for noir, perhaps a little too hard. I'm also trying to work through my two remaining depressing books ( Read more... )

The amount of paperwork to apply for short term disability. All of it needs to be printed out, filled out, signed, and faxed. HR told me how simple it would be to do this, but I pointed out that if I could sit at a desk without extreme pain I wouldn't NEED to be on disability. Also some of these forms need to be faxed to my doctor who is charging ( Read more... )

So the orthopedist says yes all that stuff the GP read off the MRI is true, but that's the knee pain you've been living with for years. The new pain is a severely strained calf. I think. Lets try treating it that way and see how it responds. We will deal with all the knee junk later when you can't stand it anymore ( Read more... )

I have torn cartilage in my knee. Seeing orthopedist on Tuesday to see if I need surgery. No book club for me today. No Ravencon for me next week. No work until the doctor OKs it. Taking very good pain pills. Reading and Amazon Video will be everything as I lay housebound. Hubby taking good care of me ( Read more... )

Took time this weekend to hang out with some girlfriends I hadn't seen in a very long time. Sherry and Marva met me for all you can eat sushi followed by binge shopping at the huge Macy's sale. I felt like I was shoplifting when I scored thigh high leather boots for $20 ( Read more... )

Spent all day Saturday at a gifted and talented student conference. Ran two workshops. Totally right not to have any rug rats of my own. I would love not to see another one for the rest of the year ( Read more... )