Oh dear. I seem to have started on entirely the wrong foot. My first three movies have been rough and horror fatigue is already setting in, at least for D. I’m holding up, but I can see how badly this could go if I don’t pace myself.
Have you seen this video by Ron Howard? You have to watch it. Go now. I’ll wait right here.
It’s just the best video I’ve ever seen. Except my Halloween video from last year.
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
-Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables
Well, who can be low for long, huh? It’s October! You know what that means…it’s time for my
Woo!
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Couple of weeks ago, I had a lovely birthday. Got this:
and I really, really love it. We took her out to a lovely state park two weekends in a row to get the tires muddy. On our second weekend, which involved a tent as well, we went on a fairly aggressive (for a newbie like me) trail, complete with big ruts and roots. And soon, I steered into a big root to avoid a big tree and ended up with a big ouch when Pinky Lee’s top tube whacked my leg with a Tonya Harding-like efficiency.
Ok, so my tibia doesn’t exactly look like this. X-rays showed no fracture but plenty of swelling of the soft tissues – and even without the fracture I’m in the sort of pain that a fracture might cause. No, it hurts more. I have some good narcotics that whack me out and ice packs which I apply several times a day. I can’t make it worse; I can only manage the pain until it gets better. Which I hope is really soon.
Because we’re going to Japan next Saturday.
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I have one foot firmly planted in today and one in a pink kitchen in a suburb in 1957. It's not that I want to live in the past; I just love the aprons. I also have a thing for horror movies.
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