she said, grudgingly...

OK at least it's not as butt-ugly as it was when I signed on the other day to find LIGHT BLUE everywhere. For the moment I'm taking the path of least resistance: embellishing this one a bit b/c I don't have the time/patience to try to resolve the whole getting-the-old-template-back situation. And yes, I admit, this is kind of a nice change of pace, mostly since I could still play with colors a bit and could use my own photo for the background.

Sprained my ankle tonight. Er... last night. Then fell asleep while icing it. Slept a long time and woke up at 11 (I wonder why?!) just in time (coincidence!) for S&L's bedtime snack (crazy!) and then proceeded to be WIDE AWAKE the rest of the night.

I'm going to go for another hour now even tho I still don't feel sleepy; long day ahead tho.

Starting CERAMICS again!!!!! After a French Club thing I'm not looking forward to... bof.

oh yeah, my ankle

As long as I'm wasting time instead of grading... :) I might as well tell you today was another ankle sprain day. yay! Luckily spraining one's ankle 3-4 times a year over 25 or so years creates Champion Ankle Icers.

Maybe having to sit here with frozen peas on my foot will force me to work... if I can get off the internet anyway.

Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge frozen on my aching head, 3 months old

That huge knock you heard last night coming from my area of the globe was not a lost sound file in the ether from the American Revolution, nor was it Titans clashing or big horn sheep politics... It was my head colliding with the piano as I tried to extract Miss Lucy from under the boudoir chair for her monthly Frontline application.

Not that I needed much force but I decided to try to get her out sideways and somehow when I swung my body to get to the side of the chair, I lost my balance and I hit my head harder than I ever remember hitting it on anything. I even felt light-headed altho as you may have guessed that could have been simple fatigue. Holy cow it hurt so bad. Tears are coming to my eyes even now as I think back on it.

Today it's tender and there's a sizable lump at my scalp line but not the measliest bruise! After that much pain I thought I'd have pretty impressive visible proof but the frozen peas (that I bought in June for my ankle and decided to keep handy in the freezer) must have worked too well.

It's always such a quandary, which is more important in such cases... getting rid of the pain and avoiding a possible light concussion, or milking sympathy with a nice big bruise?! Of course as I get older it takes ages for bruises to go away so it's probably good there isn't one.