Tylenol how I love thee

I discovered on Saturday that 2 extra-strength tylenol (1000mg total) makes the knee pain a smidge more bearable. Not do al of warm-up bearable, but skate a decent relay without crying bearable. I still hurt, but a bit of the edge (and thus much of the fear) goes away.

My neato discovery led to practice on Saturday being on of my better in recent memory. Not fantabulos, but I was able to skate. Practice today was not quite as good. The pain was a little worse but the big problem was landing on my ass. Now, the good thing about my rear is that it is well-padded and I would much rather land on it than on my knee. The bad thing about landing on my patoot is that it tends to throw my spine out. Add to that the fact that I was pushed down by Bryce of all people giving me a cruddy downward-tag and it takes the bloom off the ES Tylenol. (Note: Bryce has been skating since she could walk, how she could blow her tags like that amazes me. Somedays it sucks being short.)

Tomorrow is thankfully a dance-only day, so I can hopefully stretch out some of the kinks I put into my body this weekend. Barre stretches are good things. I keep being tempted to drop Wednesday practice because I'm so tired when I get to class that I dance really poorly, but that would leave me with nearly no time on my skates, given the fact that I can't attend Auburn practice until I get a car. Rock meet hard place

My knee just popped. Ick. Need to move that doctor's appointment up from the 22nd. I have a sneaking suspicion I'm going back into PT. Grrrrrrr

Weekend

I spent the weekend (surprise, surprise) with seanb. Did some shopping (grocery, target), cooked some food: chicken pitas for lunch on saturday, breakfast with biscuits, sausages, and eggs. Also toos several naps, because lets admit it: I love to nap. Went to practices (see previous post).

On Saturday night we watched Shrek 2 with mom and then Sean indulged me by geeking while I sat and watched The Company (finally!). Thanks to my previous nap I even stayed up past midnight. Miracles do happen. Sunday morning was breakfast, paper, a nap, and a walk in the woods. They are utterly filled with leaves and it's soooo much fun to go walking through them. Sean doesn't get it, but he's a strange boy.

After practice I went to McLendon's and bought a replacement fixture for my faulty lamp (which I managed to shock myself with while disassembling) and a bulb for one of my bathroom fixtures. I also was a bad girl and stopped at DQ and had a small mint-oreo blizzard. Needless t say - that was lunch for the day. But oh it was a tasty lunch.

Overall it was a lovely relaxing weekend. Just what I needed.