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September 10, 2007
September 10
I've been a way awhile, I know. It's just been that kind of summer. I feel like I've been running on empty since before June, and there's no stop in sight. Oh well, that's the way things go some times.
Right now I'm not riding my bike and it's driving me nuts. About three weeks ago now, I was riding the Oma to meet up with Sweetie for dinner, and I was thinking about dinner and not about the road surface, or the fact that there were old rails set into the road. You know what happened next. I managed to bruise, well, just about all of me.
At this point, my calf and foot are still swollen, but the calf is looking less and less purple as it drains into my foot :). The knee was very tender for awhile, but it seems to be getting better.
Unfortunately, this summer, I've had a few cases of heat stress (or quite possibly, heat exhaustion), so I don't dare ride when the temps are going to be scorching. So this means that I haven't been getting my favorite part of the working day in, which wears on me too.
Jeff asks about the scooter: I still have my blue Kymco Grand Vista 250, and I still love it, though I'll love it more once I get the right-side mirror replaced and my speedometer fixed. Someone backed into my scoot when it was parked maybe a month ago or 5 weeks, and so while I have the insurance settlement, I'm still waiting on the parts to come into the shop.
And to be honest, I haven't been riding that so much either, since hitting any sort of bump made my knee (the one with a bit, ahem, of road rash from the other day) really hurt. I actually had to drive my car the other day, and you know how I feel about that. The poor thing is 15 years old, and only the dirt is holding it together.
So anyways, I'm hoping that the heat will let up and my knee will heal and my life can go back to how it was when I was a carefree two-wheeler 24/7. Because otherwise, this is bumming me out.
On the knitting front, I am close to the end of the Summer Shawlette. Or at least, I'm close to the end of the ball of cashmere, so I'll have to switch out to Sea Silk. Oh, sadness. I'm loving it, it's gorgeous, and I'll be very sad when it's over. I just started to read Yarn Harlot: the secret life of a knitter by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and it's just the shot of hilarity that I'm needing right now.
