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The Cover-All-Bases Update
Feb. 28th, 2008 07:01 pmThe snow is very pretty, but I find it a little worrying. It hasn't snowed heavily since I started moving around post-surgery. Eek. When I got home from work today, I saw a cardinal sitting at the edge of my snow-covered birdfeeder, investigating the few grains of seed still inside, while the snow blew around him. It was a perfect moment, but destined to remain unphotographed--cardinals are amazingly skittish birds, and my kitchen window has a wire screen that ruins all photographs I try to take through it anyway. Perhaps one day I'll rig an outside remote-control digital camera. Sounds complicated, though.
Today, my mail was mostly awesome! I got the complimentary copy of Queen of the Country, the book that my photograph was used as the cover for, and it has gone into what Phil calls "the museum." One day, I'll have a shelf--no, a bookshelf!--devoted just to my very own complimentary copies. (Might as well dream big.) I also got the new Dexter book, which made my little heart go thumpitty-thump. I have such a soft spot for serial killer entertainment. I've postponed reading it until my bus ride tomorrow, on the theory that otherwise nothing else would get done tonight, and I wouldn't go to sleep at anything approaching a reasonable time. And I'm so tired.
Instead, I reheated curry for dinner (three cheers for freezing a portion of vasty quantities of leftovers), watched Blackmail is My Life with Phil while folding laundry, and will soon depart for wonderful, wonderful sleepyland, just as soon as I play a game of online mah johng.
Work
The (2nd) huge project that we've been working on lately has almost come to an end. I really hope I have a couple of days of downtime, because I'd like to catch up on writing and other projects abandoned first due to surgery recovery and then because I've been working full-time ever since I could hobble along. Today there was a tour coming through, and we were told to dress "professionally." More fool me, I interpreted this to mean "not a t-shirt". Surely they couldn't expect us to wear those short-sleeved polo shirts in this cold weather (it's been freezing indoors too)? Um, yes, they could. I ended up borrowing a shirt from the floor manager. At least they didn't make me buy another one.
State of the Knee
Lots of people have started commenting on how much "better" I'm doing. Woo. I am hobbling slightly less, though a cane is still of dire necessity. My leg still doesn't straighten out all the way. I don't need painkillers as much, though I notice I've almost gone through an entire bottle of Ibuprofen in a week and a half. And I'm usually carrying two different kinds of painkiller with me. It's a highly relative "better". I'm also thinking of querying various magazines with knee surgery-/surgery-related article ideas. Phil has also grown weary of me demanding TV rights for an hour every night so that I can watch what I want while I do my knee exercises/icing. Huge fight yesterday (but the basketball game's on!), though mostly just us both being testy and tired.
Today, my mail was mostly awesome! I got the complimentary copy of Queen of the Country, the book that my photograph was used as the cover for, and it has gone into what Phil calls "the museum." One day, I'll have a shelf--no, a bookshelf!--devoted just to my very own complimentary copies. (Might as well dream big.) I also got the new Dexter book, which made my little heart go thumpitty-thump. I have such a soft spot for serial killer entertainment. I've postponed reading it until my bus ride tomorrow, on the theory that otherwise nothing else would get done tonight, and I wouldn't go to sleep at anything approaching a reasonable time. And I'm so tired.
Instead, I reheated curry for dinner (three cheers for freezing a portion of vasty quantities of leftovers), watched Blackmail is My Life with Phil while folding laundry, and will soon depart for wonderful, wonderful sleepyland, just as soon as I play a game of online mah johng.
Work
The (2nd) huge project that we've been working on lately has almost come to an end. I really hope I have a couple of days of downtime, because I'd like to catch up on writing and other projects abandoned first due to surgery recovery and then because I've been working full-time ever since I could hobble along. Today there was a tour coming through, and we were told to dress "professionally." More fool me, I interpreted this to mean "not a t-shirt". Surely they couldn't expect us to wear those short-sleeved polo shirts in this cold weather (it's been freezing indoors too)? Um, yes, they could. I ended up borrowing a shirt from the floor manager. At least they didn't make me buy another one.
State of the Knee
Lots of people have started commenting on how much "better" I'm doing. Woo. I am hobbling slightly less, though a cane is still of dire necessity. My leg still doesn't straighten out all the way. I don't need painkillers as much, though I notice I've almost gone through an entire bottle of Ibuprofen in a week and a half. And I'm usually carrying two different kinds of painkiller with me. It's a highly relative "better". I'm also thinking of querying various magazines with knee surgery-/surgery-related article ideas. Phil has also grown weary of me demanding TV rights for an hour every night so that I can watch what I want while I do my knee exercises/icing. Huge fight yesterday (but the basketball game's on!), though mostly just us both being testy and tired.