bloggity break

Yes, I've been missing from the online community. Yes, I've been busy. Do I care to share? Well of course I do. Aside from the 2 quick updates on DJKs bday and the closet makeover, I've been all kinds of cleaning and remodeling the house. Juggling my 40+ hrs at work (and just finishing mentoring a level 1 OT student for a week), picked up some PRN work on Fri PMs and Saturday AMs to make a little side cash to pay my student loans and still trying to work out more OT classes at Gigi's. Made more trips to goodwill in the last 4 weeks to purge my home of all random junk. Seriously, it was intense. But well worth the cause seeing as how I've got a new house guest -- which I couldn't be happier about! Ps. He got a job here in Atlanta and officially relocated!

So with that being said, why don't I just share in photos?

happy to back at the peachtree office with my big corner desk!

it's been raining a ton here

         

took tigs to the vet .. took 3 people to get him out of his carrier ....

purchased tix to the usc v ou game for nov!

completed my sprint tri 11 months post hip sx

Sir Lexicon is just as strange as ever

my parents are moving to montana and my mom finally had to get rid of my shrine of trophys -- but she made me take a pic and send to the boyfriend so that "he would know how awesome i am"

tigger doing what he does best ...

lex is longer than 2 size 8 shoes stacked ....

made it to a food truck party some time ago ... the food was ok. It was no Armondo's.

you can make sound

Quick hip update here: Yesterday I worked all day, therefore today I sat at home and did absolutely nothing. Let's just say the two balanced each other out. Working all day tomorrow again and can't really say I'm looking forward to it. What I am looking forward to however is only 1 more week of taking the celebrex (love the 'weight gain' warning on top of the fact that I can't exercise...). I CAN'T WAIT TO ACTUALLY BREAK A PRODUCTIVE SWEAT!!! It's killing me to just sit around all day and watch myself get more and more and more and more and more and more out of shape. UGH!

Kitty update: I still miss Kujo -- a ton. My family brought Tigs over today. So I'm officially the weird cat lady again with 2 massive orange fat cats. Tigs isn't really too happy about being relocated, but he'll be fine in a day or two.

Crafty update: Finished my first metal stamping project today! Once you get the hang of the technique it's actually really simple. Best part about how I made the bracelet is that the washer is completely interchangeable, so you can have 6 of them that say different things and keep using the same bracelet!

photog & love

 Today was a pretty good day -- got/took my stitches out, spent time with my sister and nephews, started some arts & craft projects, submitted a photo to some cheesy contest, and still feeling pretty dang good. The to-do list is getting shorter ... didn't add anything to it today, but knocked 2 and 1/4 more off.  My nephews are getting bigger and more adorable by the day. My hip is tolerating being off crutches 80% of the day. Even walked around Michael's for a while without them. It wasn't pretty, but I did it. Stairs are a pain still, but hey, it's only been a week.

was a time I could move, there was a time I could breathe

 A few things to note for the day:

• Not quite ready for a full day without the painkillers. Holy moly, not ready for that one yet. I'll stick to my 1/2 dose every 5 hrs thank you kindly. 

• Vitamin E oil is the only pedicure I'll ever pay for again. Seriously -- busted open a capsule on my poor cuticles and BAM. It's like magic. 

• Not okay that the vet place that I took Kujo to be cremated sent me a condolences card that has paw prints ... like real paw prints ... stamped in it and says Kujo, an angle with a tail. Seriously. I know that was not my cats feet --- she was WAY tinier than that. AND I'M STILL GRIEVING PEOPLE. 

• I managed to get 1 thing done off my long term to do-list ... and add 7 more. Cross off "add patch to henley shadowbox". Check.

• Big yay to my little sister who moved into her first apartment (dorm) today!! So proud of her -- and I'm sure my parents will actually enjoy the sanity that comes with empty nest syndrome. 

• Only have to get through 13 more days till the boyfriend is back in town!

• Oh, and my crutches gave me a serious case of tennis elbow ... thank gawd i know how to treat it .. but still ..OWW!

Tomorrow: See sister and the nephews, cross a few things off the 'list', and just plain old be amazing.

(This was a really exciting post, I know ...)

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every step, a victory it was

''I came in this way and here now I'll stay
If the unknown have to wait one more day
There's often times that it comes out wrong
But luckily I, I got a mind to know
On my way back home''

Today: Day 4 post op. Fun times. Made it into a ridiculously uncomfortable chair at a 8am meeting with the surgeons I work for, hung out sitting on a pillow & a hot pack on the office floor for the majority of the day, caught a ride home then pushed the boundaries and walked down the hallway crutchless -- relatively normal, not perfect, but more a 'sprained ankle' limp than a hip surgery gimp.  So I mean if you needed to know how I was today and still haven't asked, I guess you could get the gist that I'm doing pretty okay. Or at least that's what I'd tell you anyhow .... In other news, I'm super excited to be able to drive tomorrow or thursday. 

Still missing Kujo, it's a little easier every day, and Lexicon is absolutely stepping up his game.

to infinity

Today, which I think is Sunday has been quite boring. My hip is definitely in some pain today -- not the bad kind of pain, but the 'healing' kind -- that achy, burning, all kinds of fun type of pain. I've pretty much accomplished nothing today with the exception of reading blogs about metal stamps and contemplating making this a new hobby of mine. Lexicon is bored as ever with me not having moved much today. He's protesting openly by crushing me with his large body mass.


Did get a chance to get out of the house for 30 minutes earlier with my sister. Her and my oldest nephew, Jax, picked me up and took me to Babies R Us with them. I seriously despise the place, but they did have band aids and rubbing alcohol that I definitely needed. It was about time to get this betadine off of my leg and downgrade to just some toy story bandaids!
 

before rubbing alcohol

finally got it clean ....well, cleaner

to infinity & beyond

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sx: hip, the 24 hr aftermath

24 hrs after waking up, this is what my hip looks like. Not too terrible. The betadine refused to come off -- although I did give up pretty quickly after soap and hydrogen peroxide didn't work.Today was pretty smooth for the most part. Was up most of the morning, from 5am or so till about 2. Then I passed out all afternoon for some much needed rest. Got dressed and went out to dinner with 2 friends while one's mom was in town visiting. It was super nice to get out of the house, not that Lexicon hasn't been great company and all. "Nurse Lexicon" has been running amuck all over my bed to get me to play with him. He's only pounced on my leg like 6 times, but he means well ((as seen by him using his abnormally large body mass to hold one of my ice packs in place)). 

I'm getting around the house really well on just 1 crutch, but I still need both when I'm out in public -- mainly to get up and down the scary steep steps to my condo, but also because I get tired quickly on just the one. Well, really on both, as I learned quickly yesterday during the shopping adventure. 

(still pretty excited about my LOFT sale buys!!)

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"Nurse Lexicon" goes sti rcrazy ---

wussy banana

Exactly 12 hrs from when they put me to sleep ... my legs pretty bruised and beat up, but all in all I'm feeling pretty good. The doc didn't have to go in and do any 'major' work, mainly cleaning up all the crummy articular cartilage damage that he found and frayed/mini tear in the labrum.  Waking up from anesthesia  was easier than I remember it every being for the other two surgeries & getting up and around is pretty simple except for the crutches (only 6 days to go with those annoying suckers). On the agenda today: begin my exercises, take off this massive bandage, assessing how intense this bruising is, and SHOWER!!! Yessss.

Ps. Me & Lexicon  still miss Kujo. --

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