Big City Hippie

I <3 our little car. I’ve been able to nab parking spots all over the place that most vehicles couldn’t fit into. Granted sometimes I have to be a contortionist to get out of the car (bonus points for having my leg in a brace that only allows up to 45 degrees of flexibility) but still! It’s a good feeling when I can fit into the last spot somewhere just because we decided to go for a small car and not a huge SUV. Neener neener.

I had to stop at the grocery store after a consultation with Carl regarding breakfast stuff. I’ve gone to class two days in a row now without breakfast and when I get out of class at 11:20am, I am starving. So I picked up some fruit (oranges, bananas, pineapple), Greek yogurt, granola, tortillas to make egg/ham/cheese burritos, and bread for toast. I think we’re set. I never used to need breakfast. Well, *need*. I would get hungry and start snacking around 10am, never really stopping til dinnertime. If I eat breakfast, I am fine until lunch, and usually fine until dinner unless it’s Carl’s kung fu night (when we eat at 9pm). Breakfast really works for me.

Saw my doc and physical therapist. I’m weeks ahead of schedule in regards to muscle movement (primarily quads), flexibility, and movement. I have some specific exercises to work on but the physical therapist said I could just do them on my own and come back in a month when I need to get my next x-ray. Brace will have to stay on until Feb. 5th at this point. *sighs*

I’ve also been cleared to shower w/out a plastic bag over the sutures, which means I will go back to showering 1-2x per day again instead of every 3 days. It was a pain in the butt to cover everything with a produce bag and tape both ends down.

They also gave me a compression stocking for the right leg to help with potential swelling now that I’m back up on my feet 5x a week for school, though the doc said I don’t *really* need it, it’s obvious I’ve been up and around already. Daily dog park FTW!

I actually went out in it for a few minutes, with Carl holding me up.

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This is what happens after a few mimosas.

Mike, Lauren, Caine, Lisa, Carl and myself had Breakfastfest. Lauren cooked delicious latkes. Carl and I made aebelskivers. We had mimosas. We ate lemon cake. It was grand. A few hours later, we started on the beer (or everyone else did, I wasn’t up to it). 8 hours after originally arriving for breakfast, we finally took ourselves home. We must repeat this.

Lauren and Carl sharing the stove.

Lisa’s lemon cake.

Pile of latkes.

Mike loving his beer.

Turning the aebelskivers.

Carl wants to make Indian food next.

The finished product. This was our first time making aebelskivers on our own (without Grandma’s help). Success!

I made an almond pear tart last night. It’s delicious.

I think it’s a sign that we need to take the beer bottles out when they number more than 50.

Carl took the car to work, which resulted in a very bored puppy. I can take him outside to relieve himself, but that’s the extent of it. I’ve been giving him things to tear up, he’s currently working on a Saltine cracker box. I also managed to crutch over to Madison Market (though the wind almost knocked me over) to get some stuff. I’m going to make a pear almond tart.

I am down to taking Percoset only when I go to bed, and I’ll probably quit that in the next few days. Since I am no longer drugged up during the day, I started to go a bit stir-crazy. I’ve since cleaned and reorganized the pantry, currently working on the kitchen, and will soon tackle the bathroom if I can keep up the stamina. We’ll see. I have all week to get the place in order. I also can’t wait to go back to school because that means I will have something to do every freaking day.

First off, my life is complete again. Ronan is currently curled up on my feet keeping them warm. (Actually he’s sighing heavily, he wants to go for a long walk) I knew I missed him, but didn’t realize just how much he is a part of our lives. Carl was saying the same thing last night, after finally breaking down and inviting Ronan on the bed. He gave a happy sigh and said “this feels right”.

Last night, it took Carl just over 30 minutes to dig the car out and put chains on the front tires. The car handles like a dream in the snow, so we’re very happy about this. When we buy a place, we’ll have a set of winter tires in the garage for times like this, but for now, the ancient chains we have are the way to go. It took us an hour last night to get off the hill. We live 1.10 miles from the freeway onramp, but traffic was so bad we averaged 1 block every 10 minutes down Pine. We first attempted to go to Broadway where it turns into 10th, but traffic moving towards Roanoke/520 was even slower, so we turned around and went for the Olive Way onramp. Sheesh, it was bad. People were forcing their way into the line of cars, sneaking around to the right whenever there was a bus stop, using the oncoming traffic lane to pass people…people were fighting dirty. Got onto I-5 and flew to Mukilteo with no problems. Whidbey’s main highway was bare pavement, and we stuck to 20mph on the street to the Mother in law’s and didn’t have to put the chains on. We left the apartment at 3:30 and arrived at their place at 7:30.

I hear it’s snowing again at home, but not here. I’m glad we got out when we could. I spent 12 days cooped up in our apartment without being able to go anywhere for the last 9 of that, and was more than ready for a change of scenery.