Quasimoto

Sunday, August 1st 2010

I can't believe it's already August!  Where did the time go?  Only three more weeks remain before my disability hearing.  I still get nervous when I think about it.

I'm a bit stiff and hobbly so far this morning.  Standing up straight takes a bit of effort and an additional minute.  Walking is slow going.  The left leg is trying to catch up, but it's having difficulty today.  I've been taking a half a pain pill more days than not lately.  :-(  I'm hoping after my hearing it doesn't take too long for Medicare to kick in so I can get the proper treatment to get a bit better.  I know they can't make me 100% better, but better than this would be nice.  I am grateful I am better than last year, but I still would like to improve so I can live daily without pain medication to do daily activities.

My pleasure this morning was seeing my beautiful daughter sprawled out on the pull-out couch.  I smiled.  She helped me push the couch back a bit last night and opened the bed part for the first time.  We made up the bed with her Happy Bunny sheets, changed her pillowcases, and laid on the bed while we watched George of the Jungle.  Seeing her sprawled out on a diagonal made me smile.  I am so happy to have found this couch.  I'm glad she wanted to test out the bed this weekend instead of just sleeping on the couch.

My other pleasure this morning is coffee!  Java.  Yum.  As I got up to get another cup, I remembered something vitally important.  Stand...THEN walk.  The whole starting to walk while finishing the standing part resulted in my looking like Quasimoto the Hunchback.  Walking is definitely interesting that way.

Dayna and I went to the library yesterday.  She checked out 11 manga's (basically Japanese comic books written in English) and I checked out Eragon.  When she woke up, we sat at the table, her with Frosted Flaked and Marshmallows and I with my coffee, and read our books.  That's basically all we did all day.  We had a nice relaxing day reading at the table together.  Then I brought her back to her dad's so she could go to theater camp again on Monday.