Getting back to real life has been more difficult that I anticipated. It’s been six weeks and one day since my surgery, and I’ve been back at work for more than three weeks. I may have hit the ground a little aggressively, but there were some things I could not help. I could not help that I HAD to go see Libby run in the New York Marathon the first week in November. It’s not my fault that it got cancelled last year. Libby had to train twice, and the least I could do was rebook my trip. Plus, I really wanted to go, and I needed to see Betsy and Andrew and meet sweet baby Cash. I can’t help it that being in New York necessitates a lot of walking. Going to New York left me in the Boot for an extra week, but I was able to get around surprisingly well, and I don’t think the extra boot walking caused any lasting damage.
I’ve had the opportunity to see a lot of music this month, which I was not expecting. The first weekend I was back in Charleston, someone gave me a ticket to the Robert Earl Keen show at the Charleston Music Hall, at the last minute, so I had to go to that. Then Michael Franti was at the Music Farm and I went with my sweet friend Anita. Finally, The Avett Brothers played at the Coliseum last week, and those tickets were purchased this summer. All three shows were fantastic. I’ve seen REK and The Avett Brothers at the Georgia Theater, and it’s hard to compare any show to a Theater show, but the Charleston Music Hall is a really cool venue if you ever get a chance to see it, and the Avett Brothers are a completely different band than they were in the Georgia Theater days. When I first saw the Avett Brothers in 2007, it was three guys, and the entire show was high energy Bluegrass Ska music. Now there are seven or eight band members, and it’s a much more professional production. It’s nice to watch a band grow up. The show last week was one of the best shows I’ve seen in a long time. It was well paced, with lots of old music, and lots of new music, and we stood up the entire time. The only thing I did not understand was the couple with the baby in the Bjorn in front of us. Or the other couple with the two boys, aged maybe four and six. The two boys were clearly miserable, with the four year old plugging his ears the whole time. How is that fun for anyone involved? And they stayed almost the entire show. It’s not normal for kids to stay out til 11 on a school night, right?
Speaking of music, I’ve been enjoying the new Katy Perry album. Hate all you want, she’s fun. Also, I love Eminem. I tolerate Rihanna when she is playing with Eminem. I love that this new song is about seeming crazy. I realized the other day that a casual observer would think I spend all day talking to myself. But the reality is that not I’m talking to myself, I’m talking to the inanimate objects around me. Example, I’m pulling sheets out of the dryer, and they are not dry, “Dude! You aren’t dry at all! Look at this, you’ve gotten all wadded and tangled up, you are never going to dry that way. Get back in there.”
The weather has been crazy, yesterday it was 83 degrees, 90% humidity. This morning it was 50 degrees, 60% humidity, with winds 20 mph. The former is a lot hotter than you’d think, and the latter is a lot colder than you’d expect. I’ve completed all of the levels of candy crush, and now we wait for an update. In television news, you should be watching The Blacklist. That is the only new television show I can definitely vouch for as amazing. If you watch Homeland and Scandal, you should be reading this weekly blog series The Heroine Watch. It definitely enhances what otherwise has been a season of extremely depressing and upsetting story lines.
I can’t wait until I can run and go to yoga and play tennis again, I’m hoping to be able to start doing more in the next couple of week. I’ve been walking a mile in the morning and a mile at night, and standing up at my desk during the day, and I’ve been able to do that with occasional pain. The range of motion in my ankle is limited in all directions, but I believe that it is getting a little better every day. I still have some numbness in my big toe and on the outside of my heel, but the scar is healing well.
Until then, Briscoe and her pink gorilla are making sure my yoga mat feels loved.
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I live in Charleston too and you are right, the weather is really weird lately! Yesterday I just wanted to go to the beach, but this morning, everything reminded me of Fall, there were even leaves on the track where I was working out. Good times.
That’s really nice of you to go see your friend run the marathon, to travel all that way for her. I’m not sure what happened to your ankle but I’m glad you’re able to get up and walk around a little bit. Injuries stink majorly :(.