oh!

But I will say, it still does smart a little to go downstairs. If you try to cycle normally and go quickly, the bad leg doesn't really do it right. And going upstairs, if there are too many, it hurts a little. And hyperextending it SUCKS to high heaven. And sometimes it's stiff in the morning. And other times it feels fine.

And it makes me afraid to do things. Like learn how to snowboard one day, or run, or jump, or spin around, or whatever.

Eep.

jumping on a trampoline

That could serve as a metaphor for the ups and downs of life. Or, it could be what I did in PT yesterday. Well, not a FULL trampoline, just a small square rebounder. And I bounced up and down on it. And I pushed myself off the Total Gym and landed on my left foot (you lay down on a sliding mat and it uses your own weight as workout). So yeah. Greg thinks maybe another 4 weeks and I might be done. We might try running next time :) :) I'm excited. But of course, it will still be not FULL running. Running speed, but I feel like I won't be landing right.

I haven't been writing here because nothing has been happening leg-related really. I mean... I could write about my life, but I'd get too caught up in it and I'd rather not. I did, however, receive The Complete Calvin and Hobbes from my parents for my 21st birthday (Oct. 5th). And I LOVE IT! I'm so excited about reading them, once I get some free time away from school reading lol. They're so pretty and BIG and they have ALLLLL the C+H comics. All of them. Yum.
Still haven't finished reading the Watchmen, which Chris borrowed in the middle of my reading it, and it's somewhere in his laptop back. Realllly good graphic novel, a collection of the 12 comics that were put out a while ago. Supposedly the greatest graphic novel of all time. Eh.


School time.

Stuff

Leg stuff going well. Exercising going well. I still can't squat or kneel. The pressure on my knee feels bad, and then squatting, I just can't bend that far and have that much weight on my leg. I did LARP yesterday though (live action role playing). I didn't go as crazy as I wanted to and as I used to because of the leg. I only was in 2 little battles, and I wasn't running. I can jog though :)

SO, the big news is that I GOT A JOB!!!! I'm going to be a "Client Service Coordinator", aka front-desk-person lol, at the Banfield Pet Hospital inside the Cary Petsmart. It's 6 miles from where I live, so not far. $9/hr to start off, and 15% discount on Petsmart stuff!! AND after 3 months of P/T work, I can put Rikku on their Wellness Plan (preventative healthcare, covers exams and office visits and vaccines etc) for FREEEEEE. I'm excited. And they can cross-train, so if I wanted to learn how to help out the nurses and stuff, I could :) I'm nervous about it though because you know, new job new rules new things to learn. I observe tomorrow from 4-8 I think. Yay :)

That's the big news. Nothing else really. School is eating up my life! I ALWAYS have reading and homework and studying--2 exams this week and a quiz and a paper. Blech.
Onward, to do those things.

the paces are changing

Leg stuff is slowing down, school stuff is speeding up.

I haven't been posting as frequently, and that will continue to be the norm. Things are improving bit by bit, or mostly staying the same. I feel that this blog will get to a point where the posts are few and far between and then it just ends. But I guess that's how recovery is. I wasn't expecting to get so far so fast and then plateau for so long. Eh.

School is getting more intensive. LOTS of reading for history--we don't have tests, just papers. And oh my gosh. And then Arabic is one unit at a time, but that's like 4 new letters per unit. Eep. Audio Production is also a lot of reading, but not nearly as much as history. Media Relations is now going to be a TON of research. And Media History, that's namely discussion and reading one article per class period :)

So. Things are going fairly well as we head into mid-September. I am still without a job, so we'll see how that goes. I hope everyone else is doing well!

ugh

Sick as a dog.
My nose, my eyes, my throat, my head. UGH.

Other than that, Greg is putting me down to seeing him once a week instead of twice, he says I'm doing great. There's room for improvement (always), he'd give me a B on quad strength. But I'm doing well. Basically, before we move on to skipping or jumping or shock absorbing things with my left leg, I need to just work on continually strengthening the leg :)

I missed my doctor's appointment yesterday. I stayed in bed and felt sickly :( But so it goes. I also missed my first class, but bit the bullet and went to my Arabic class and my history discussion. This cold came out of NOWHERE. Ugh.
Anyway. Today was chicken noodle soup and tomato soup with grilled cheese, lunch and dinner respectively. As well as a whole lotta nothin'.
I did get the laundry done though. And I vacuumed before I got sick, so that's done.
But I need to study tomorrow and get homework done. SIGH. Oh the things to do.

Hmph.

Well I'll be seeing Greg only once a week starting next week. He says I'm doing really well, and that I can do most everything on my own, so I'll be good.
He also did know that I went horseback riding, I told him, and he said that I would be fine but there's always the risk of that happening again (duh, same with getting in a car). Yes, I realize it was foolish, but it isn't an intensive sport. You sit on the horse. It walks. And when you're around 5 other horses on a trail ride (aka walking, some trotting), nothing fucked up is gonna happen. But yes, it was dumb.

I got my haircut today--it's adorable! I have bangs across the front, it's a chin-length bob that frames my face, and goes up a little in the back. Adorable. I'll have to take a picture :) It was 30 bucks (shampoo, cut and style), but that's everywhere lol.

I revised my exercise schedule. And I'm going to try and do it when I get back on T/H after class, and then in the afternoon M/W/F.
I have an interview with Liberty Mutual tomorrow afternoon at 4pm. Most likely, they want me to do calls for them and make money on commission. In which case, I'm not driving 20 minutes there and back to work there. But an interview can't hurt.

Onward to doing my Arabic homework.

on the horse again

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Nothing really exciting has been happening. But I did get back on a horse on Saturday. For Katrina's birthday, we went out to the barn she works at and did a 2 hour trail ride. We only cantered once, and trotted maybe 3 times, sadly. I was initially nervous, but then was fine and realized how much I missed it and really enjoy being in the saddle. I really enjoyed leasing out Porsche, even if it was really far away and even if she was really stubborn... it was really nice. I loved it.
But hey, I can still ride lol! Cedric said I was very brave to get back up. I think it was part brave, part stupid... but oh well. I'm not going to be afraid of horses and never get back up on one just because something bad happened. Although, if something bad happened again I'm sure my parents would kill me or I'd have to take out a loan lol.

Leg is doing all right. I need to do my exercises better. I don't know why, I just can't focus :/
I also need to go to the grocery store, do Unit 3 of Arabic, study for a map quiz, print out discussion questions, and clean the shower/bath.
I'm reading Watchmen right now, supposedly the greatest graphic novel of all time. I'm really really enjoying it. Hopefully I won't get started and addicted to comics or graphic novels, but I love the concepts of the frames and how it's written--we learned a little about that in the media writing class over the summer.
By the way, it's hard to type with a band-aid on. It's weird.
Okay, things to do!