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Will and I like to go to the New Hope Cinema Grill to catch a movie. They cost less than the other first run screens and you get to eat real food and even drink a beer if that is your poison. On the walls outside of the theatres they have posters up of various movies from Grease to North By Northwest to Shrek. I overheard this conversation between a young boy, maybe 4 or 5 and his father…

“Daddy, who is ET?”
“He’s an alien in a movie”
The boy gets excited, “Was he in Star Wars?!”

Words cannot express.

I acutally have a minute while my little one takes a nap so I thought I’d do a quick post.

 Even though some people would think that I should have figured this out earlier, most know I’m kinda an optimist and never give up hope. Well, I think I’ve come to a point where I’m realising that MMORPG’s are not going to be a part of my life much at all for a few years. This sucks to me but it’s something I can deal with. I might be able to get an hour a week give or take but only one game that I play has a loading time of less than 5 minutes so that’s really the only one I can easily play. It also happens to be the cheapest one so that’s a good thing.

 Ok so, not the epiphany of all epiphanies that I could have after having a baby and all that, but come on…I’m a gamer at heart and can’t wait until my little Jemma is old enough to play games with her mom and dad.

ok, some of you may have noticed that the front page timer went from 2 days to 8 days again. The Dr.’s think that since my blood pressure is starting to normalize and isn’t causing any major risks at this point that they will wait to induce and see if baby doesn’t come naturally. I’ve got some tests being run right now and will have more info on Friday to see where we are at. So Official Due Date is back to the 16th again but baby may decide to come out anytime it wants now.

You know it’s kinda nice catching up with old friends. I just got to IM with my friend Marilyn who I haven’t seen or really talked to in at least 5-6 years I think and that meeting was a brief one at a restaurant. It’s cool hearing how friends and family are doing that you remember while growing up and lost track of. One brother went into business with their father, one brother is pursuing acting in LA and the three younger are still in school, college x 1 and high x 2. Old friends of ours and what they are doing now and where they might be going. It’s good to hear these stories and experiences.

Friends are interesting things though. Some come into your life and leave, some come in to your life and stay and some come in and out of your life like the tides.

I should have waited one more week to write that last post.

Friday morning before x-mess, on my way to PT, I have a huge fight with my front steps who were being very icey to me and they kicked my arse. If you don’t get what I mean, I slipped and fell on my bum. Damn that hurts! So I’m about 30 minutes late to PT cause I have to crawl back into the front doorway, lay there for about 5 minutes letting the intense pain dull down a little, pull myself off the ground with one arm, grab the remainder of the salt and sprinkle it down the steps so I don’t fall on my face the next time.

And all this before an hour at PT and then a full day of work follwed by a seven hour drive to Chicago. BAH HUMBUG! ! !

I hate coming up with titles for blog entries, expecially one that has no definite purpose other than to update on what’s going on in my life. “News” or “Ouch” might be appropriate though.

So last Monday I was at work…oh yeah, Dakota Woodlands has hired me temporarily to work Mon, Tue and Fri to help out with the “Season of Giving” which is the wonderful time of when everyone and their neighbor donates to their favorite charity and we are a lot of people’s charity of choice this year…We love you all!... So I was at work last Monday and I’m helping move some boxes around in the big garage with two co-workers. (do you see where this might be going yet?) Co-worker #1 (not naming names of course) was on the ladder helping move things on the top shelf and co-worker #2 and I are on the ground helping lift boxes to #1. (now can you see where this is going?) So we get to the last two tall boxes which were both full and rather heavy. #2 and I lift the first box up, it took both of us to lift the darn thing, and start to hand it off to #1. (if you don’t see where this is going yet I’m surprised, see title choice number 2) I of course am directly under the box and it slips out of #1’s hand, (duh!) lands on my right shoulder and then falls to the floor. I went about half way down with it but remained standing. Luckily, my shoulder did not dislocate, otherwise this would take a lot longer to type, but I did sustain injury. Well what do you expect when it takes two people to lift a box and we all think that one person can lift it the rest of the way some 5.5 feet off the ground. So I get to relax from any lifting the rest of the day but eating with my left hand is not something I want to get used to.

I finally go to the med. clinic on thursday, first available time slot of course, and luckily the x-rays showed no fractures and I probably only subluxed the joint (not quite dislocated, partially dislocated, didn’t pop out all the way but tried to) and I got prescribed anti-inflamatories (which I’m still on for my back) and physical therapy which I started yesterday.

My PT is pretty cool, he told me what was wrong and he said, “It’s a really technical term. It’s called a shoulder sprain.” (laugh now, that’s funny) So what’s wrong with me is that my rotator cuff (shoulder joint for the non-medically inclined) is inflamed and is pinching a bit more than normal which is causing the pain and the lower mobility. To help this out, I have to ice, take the drugs and do excercises, the first of which are just to keep the joint from getting worse while we get the inflammation d