Mary Hawkins

Go to bhangra class.
Go to gymnastics class.
Do this week’s French homework.
Clean the bathroom.
Be active, but don’t hurt myself.
Keep working on my mom’s holiday gift.

Wayne prodded me, so here’s an update! Last week I made an effort to get out and do all the things I’d been meaning to do. I went to a bhangra class with my sister on Monday, went rollerskating in the middle of Brooklyn on Wednesday and took my first gymnastics class on Friday. Today? Today I hurt. While the gymnastics class was super fun and didn’t leave me as achy as I expected it to, my hips and butt hurt now. My pain meds gave me some really loopy veritgo on Saturday so I’m avoiding them for now. Resting is better anyway. Calamity seems to enjoy having me around. When I got home, she wandered over to me and then sat in my lap purring for a good long time. She rarely purrs over me when I’m awake, so this was a nice change…

I had a dream last night that I bought new rollerskates. For a few weeks I’ve been debating what goal I should accomplish or what good thing I should do for myself so I can have “real” skates, but I’m going to take that as a sign that I should hurry up and finish thinking about it already!

_{Thanks Wayne!}

Not walk much until the 22nd.
Cheer on Sunday.
Survive our coöp board meeting without breaking out into flames.
Finish this week’s French homework.
Clean the bathroom.
Be active, but don’t hurt myself.

I’m still kicking myself about all the things I should have talked about at our coöp meeting. Our board president is batty and vindictive and generally not nice. She sent out a letter to everyone with a bunch of blatant misinformation and then essentially said, “that’s not what I meant. Could we move on?” at our meeting. My lawyer sister reminded me that if she shoots her mouth off, it’s an official communication and we can get sued for that sort of crap and we have to pick up her lawyer bill. See? Not happy making… Ugh.

I’m still achy from cheering on Sunday, but I bought a foam roller and aaaah! It’s heavenly. I was already trying to massage myself and stretch more, but the foam roller is really, really nice and got my knots out super fast. I’m still trying to figure out how much moving I can do without hurting myself again. I walked home the other day and then ran a bunch of errands yesterday and in combination, that was 6+ miles. Today my hips hurt in a new place and I’m worried again. I want to go roller skating, but I may just go home. Sigh.

Keep working on my French, roller skating and, well, everything else.
Reschedule eye doctor’s appointment.
Buy new shoes.
Not walk much until the 22nd.
Go to French class.
Do my homework.

It’s been an easy week, but also an annoying one. My meds have made me tired, so I pretty much get home and flop on the couch. My boyfriend has also been sick, so we’re a lot of fun…