Feels Like Winter . . . at last!!

Wow - this week has been COLD!!  Even had to break out the winter coat!  Unfortunately it was at work (I'd worn it one day when it was raining because it has a hood) so the morning meeting was REALLY cold - and the room was a fridge (or so it seemed)! It certainly felt good when I got to work and was able to wear the jacket home!!

Today was a sweatshirt with turtleneck day (which did make it a bit harder when I remembered it was also Flu Shot Day)!! In fact the news reported that there were snow flakes seen in Virginia Beach today - I didn't see them but I would think they'd have been some of the earliest ones!

It's also my mother's 86th birthday -  Happy Birthday Mom!

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

I say - Celebrate the Small Stuff!

Example 1: Yesterday, for the first time in 10 weeks, I used BOTH my hands to brush my hair, gather it (somewhat sloppily!) into a ponytail AND twist a scrunchy around it tight enough to last for 14 hours!!

Example 2: An early meeting (before the hand swells too much) called for more notes than my poor left hand could laboriously handle - so, with brace on and a stiff thumb requiring an awkward pen position, my right hand rose to the challenge! And in the chicken scratch that resulted I actually saw shadows of my former handwriting!

World peace is still a distant dream, cancer is still uncured and gas and fuel prices continue to soar but my optimistic glass got a few drops fuller and the dim flicker at the end of what seems like an endless tunnel of aching, stiff and somewhat useless wrist got a little bit brighter. So I'm going to Sweat and Celebrate the small stuff and, hopefully, the big stuff will follow along.

Diane - now feeling that sometime in 2008 my wrist will be back to its new normal!