A+ in Therapy

One of my major concerns, and reason for withdrawal these past couple months, has been my knee. I had intended to write while I was off recovering from my surgery. However, my body had different plans for me. The day or two after surgery my leg started popping. Popping like it did before surgery. As you can imagine this hit me really hard. Here I was going through this painful experience and then to feel my knee pop just like I had never had surgery, was very hard to deal with. I knew that it was making me an unpleasant person to be around. I just ignored that and pressed on. It wasn't until three weeks ago at therapy that I lost it. I am glad I lost it there instead of my doctor's office the next day. However, losing your composure is something you really don't want to do.

My therapist Marc is WONDERFUL! I am so glad that we have found each other. He has been fantastic in helping me recover from my hip surgery and guiding me through my knee surgery. That day he went through and showed me how my knee was recovering. He pointed out the problems but showed me the promising things and told me to keep working and things would be getting better. That day I made a promise to myself to really try hard and work hard in the pool and do my exercises at home. I have kept that promise to myself and worked on things at home and pushed myself hard at the pool. I have seen a difference in my strength in fact I climbed 2 flights of stairs this weekend on my own. That is something that I haven't done in over 2 months.

I haven't seen Marc in a couple weeks because we have been alternating between him and his assistant and then he went out of town. Now I have to great guys looking out for me. In fact I was walking in the therapy room today and his assistant was watching me too. Marc told me that I have made the most progress since my surgery in the past three weeks. He was very happy with what I was able to do. He still notices some limp and snapping back of my knee but overall much better. I am so happy that I have been able to accomplish this. I really hope to keep it up and to not have anything else go wrong!

I'mmmm Baaaaaaack

I finally have something to write about that is exciting. I got a promotion yesterday! I am now an Associate Scientist III. It comes with a big fat raise! I am so super excited!!!! I needed something new and exciting to spur me onto writing again. It isn't that things have been that terrible. It has just been a hard past 3 months. Between the my surgery and my mom's and rehab and crazy work the time has flown. I hadn't meant to stop writing for three months but hopefully it has inspired my passion again.

Temporarily Speechless

I am taking a break.... We have been busy around the house. Work has been insane. I am enjoying the silence.

I will be off for knee surgery Feb 8th-16th. Maybe I will be up to talking by then. So many things in my head I just don't have the energy to type them up.

See you soon!

Honey I'm Home

This weekend we moved into the house. I think that this was our fastest move yet. By 12:30pm Saturday afternoon everything was in the house except for the garage stuff that had to be left because there wasn’t room. We had been moving boxes every time that we went to the house so all of that stuff was there already. In the past we had to move stuff and boxes all at once.

I have been very happy with how everything has come together. The only room that I wasn’t sure about the arrangement was the family room since the design is kinda funky. However, the way that it had to be arranged (due to the location of the cable outlet) turned out quite nice.

I am very happy with how the color choices made fit with all of our stuff. The bathroom turned out smashing and our bedroom is just gorgeous! I feel nothing but comfy and cozy in our living room and could spend hours staring at our red accent wall in the kitchen. It is odd to hear people speak of my bold color choices because I really don’t think that they are that bright. The colors warm the house up and just make you want to spend time there. Each room draws you in more than the last.

Now we face the dubious task of shopping. Since we have two spare beds I need to pick out another comforter set. There is the issue of lighting. There are not really any lights on the ceiling so we have to buy lamps for some of the rooms. I have had my eye on a set of lamps from Bed Bath & Beyond. We have to find window treatments for all of the other rooms now. The blinds are nice but, I want something to go over them.

It is crazy how smoothly every thing has gone. The only SNAFU so far has been a mix-up with a programmable thermostat. Although it caused a lot of stress at the time, it was an easy fix and it wasn’t even our fault! Already it seems like we have lived in our house forever and we have never lived anywhere else. I hope that I don’t get so comfy that I forget that we have an apartment to clean.

I am content

Is this the end?