Grrrr

I just got to work after a morning ankle doctor check-up. According to my hero, Dr. Dalton, I am officially ahead of the curve in my recovery from surgery performed two months ago yesterday. However, when I got to work and checked my email I was surprised to find an email from my boss asking for a list of our responsibilities by the end of the week. Apparently budget reviews are coming soon.

All I want is to keep this job until I'm closer to finishing physical therapy (I need the insurance) and/or I get my TV job. I'm working furiously on both goals, trust me. So, yeah, why can't things just go the way I want them to go?

Done whining. For now.

I'm getting pretty good at Dr. Mario.

New Toys

I've decided why waiting to have kids until your 30s is absolutely the smartest thing you can do: New Toys. I grew up one of four kids (all three and half years apart) and I always wanted new toys. My parent are upper-middle class, but four kids and a stay-at-home mom (Bless you, Lalah) keeps you forever wanting. My mom was my age when she got pregnant with me and for the next few years kept poppin' out. My claim to fame is that I was the only planned pregnancy.

Well, last night Arthur brought home Wii Active. We have been talking about getting it and Wii Fit since he got the Wii about a month ago. However, I decided to wait until I could actually use it (ankle surgery). But he decided to get it. He starts playing it while I watched and we realized how awesome it is. It's like a real personal trainer - BUT SO MUCH CHEAPER. Arthur creates his physical profile and completes his first work-out. We're both blown away by the awesomeness of it. Right away he says he have to get Wii Fit now. You can use the Fit board with the Active.

He leaves, comes back and here is our new Wii Fit. The profile part is even better (it weighs you and gives you your BMI and stuff). I told him when I set mine up he has to leave the apartment and I teased about password protecting it since it tells you if your overweight or obese. Turns out YOU CAN password protect your weight and stuff. NICE. Anyway, as it turns out the Wii Fit is mostly about balance and stuff which is exactly what I'm doing in Physical Therapy. So I am so excited about doing more PT exersizes at home and maybe speed up my two more months of recovery. This is awesome, right???

So back to why it's truly smart to wait and have kids - if Arthur or I had kids we would be buying them kid toys and not enjoying our money ourselves. It really is such a short period that you make enough money (well, Arthur, not me, makes enough) that you can actually buy things you want - whenever you want. When you're a kid you depend on your parents and they ain't driving to Best Buy on a whim to buy Wii toys and when you become a parent you have so many real responsibilities.

So I am going to really enjoy these years without worries, responsibilities (oh, I know I have bills and shit) and appreciate them. I have plenty of good child-bearing years ahead of me.

Now let's play with our big girl and big boy toys!!!

The Tuesday After

Love that it's already Tuesday. You just can't beat weeks without Mondays, right? Although, I already have a full calendar for the weekend. Alisa on Friday and a staff event on Sunday.

The weekend was fun - at the least the part I was up for was. On Friday evening I met Sadie, Royale, Kerry, Laura and her bf James at Trudy's for dinner and drinks. It was fun catching up - although I had to stand up for Meredith and ended up making Laura cry. But I'm Meredith's friend and I just want to look at her choices as learning experiences. Keep it positive. They all went downtown, but I had to go home and put my foot up.

On Saturday afternoon Royale and Anderson hosted their engagement party at the Pence Ranch. I stayed about 4 hours and then had to go home to put the ankle up. I pretty much stayed that way the rest of the weekend. The BBQ was great. Caught up with more friends and Amanda and Mark ended up spending the night at my apartment later that evening. I brought everyone breakfast tacos and biscuits the next morning. I love being a good hostess.

Yesterday, Arthur and I just sat around, watched a lot of tv and ate too much food. But, honestly, that's all I really feel like doing anyway. I have my first real physical therapy appointment this evening and I will be having them every Tuesday and Thursday for a while I guess. I did my PT homework every day this weekend - so I guess I give myself an A+. The weird part so far doing my PT stuff is how little I can move my left calf, shin, foot, ankle, even my toes. It hurts big time when I have to move my toes. OUCH!