Lifestyles for the Short and Famous

Hello all. Good Morning!

:)

The past two days have been what you would call very eye opening. Life changing. And utterly unambiguous.

Up until the time I was 19 I was active, very active, to the point where my two surgeries aside I cannot actually remember a long period of time where I wasn't doing, playing, learning something. (Hiking all the way up Mount Sqwiggles is still one of my all time favorite memories of my life.)

From 19 until last year I was...how to put this politely...crippled. If I was a horse I would have been dog food long before now. Hell as a human I was very close to hopping into the Alpo can, well shuffling anyways.

The first six months after my last nerve root block (a lovely shot really) was spent getting out of the hell that is life with chronic pain and generally walking around in a daze. But there was also a bucketload of fear. Fear that the pain would come back. But, it didn't. A year passed and still nothing, nothing like it once was. Nearly two now and life is good. Running is still kind of out but I can live with that. The best part? That fear is finally going away.

Yesterday was the first day I had the time, energy and appriopriate weather to test out my new bike tires. (June had something like 23 straight days of rain and 4 sunny days. Grunge music started speaking to me again. Yeah it was that cheery.) So I hop on in full view of every active child in the surrounding area. Thankfully I didn't fall off until after getting out of their line of sight. Riding a bike. When it's been 6 years there is a surprise adjusting period of peddle peddle peddle OMG my legs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That quickly changed to OMG my head's going to explode but once that drifted off it was an incredibly sweet little trip along Massasiot, to the park and past all the cookie cutter houses that creep me out. It wasn't even ruined when I realized as I was going down my hill that the bike has really no breaks (Feet as Brakes FTW!)

The outcome? I now no longer feel like a lump of flesh for sitting for so long as I happily used both Kelso and Lecanu (or Lucy Ann if you ask Lefty) for the AZ guys full Naxx clear. (I even got a new neck and a new ring! Who doesn't love getting phat loots! ) I still apparently retain some youngster resilience as I am not sore, limping or anything today. Woot!

And today it's raining again. Great.....

Hmmm well I guess a nap is in order....when I get off from work obviously! ;)

And myabe some WoW. Or an afternoon spent at Borders. Maybe both. I live decadently after all!

Plus I am beginning to plan my vacation. To where you may ask? That, my friends, is another post.