Pretty much my entire summer world was turned upside down last wednesday. I can no longer do yard work, lift weights, play softball, or waste my time looking for a job for at least another 4 or 5 weeks. I thought I was just supposed to be wary of the contact sports, but little did I know that tennis would be my downfall. On one of my lethal (almost literally) jump-serves--which I aced by the way--I came down and realized that instead of landing on the flat part of my right foot, it had bent inward under me. It was pretty painful, to say the least, even to a guy who played half a society football game with internal bleeding. Right away I noticed swelling, it looked like I had a second ankle bone right next to the normal one on the outside of my foot.
A visit to the E.R. the next day revealed I had sprained it badly...badly enough that when the ligament connecting to the top of the ankle pulled away it pulled off a small (less than a millimeter) piece of the bone. So they put a splint on it and sent me home to sit around and read, and watch movies, and sleep, and read, and watch movies, and read some more...it was horrendous.
Today I had an appointment with an Orthopedic doctor, who confirmed that it was "only" a bad sprain and that the total recovery time would be six to eight weeks (at least five to six weeks too long). He was merciful enough to give me a walking-boot. Which means I can be up and around a whole lot more. The unfortunate thing is that my ankle was still swollen, black and blue and very tender...so putting weight on it will take a couple days as will walking without the crutches.
During the past week I have realized what it feels like to be helpless. I couldn't walk right, stand right, I was barely able to clothe myself, I relied on others to bring me what I needed. It is times like these that make me stop and count my blessings, at least it will "only" take 6 to 8 weeks to heal. And I don't have to totally relearn how to walk. My younger brother was on crutches for two months and when he was off of them he had to relearn how to walk.
Oh yeah...friday I had an interview at Kohl's, I went even though I was on crutches with a bandaged up ankle, and they sent me a very nice letter today...it said that they weren't hiring me.

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So when I started this blogging thing I figured that I would just have random great, magnificent ideas about what I should write about...and since my last epiphany about lizards, rats, komodo dragons and other such adventures no epiphanies have come to me. So I really have no idea what to write about butI figured the fan club would like to hear what my life is like, so here goes.
I have picked up and filled out probably 20 jop applications in the past month...and so far I have had one job interview at Babies R Us. And after that interview nobody has called me. I kinda feel like I am wasting my time and gas driving 15-25 miles to some place, getting and application, taking 30 minutes to fill it out, and then taking it back in whether or not they have a "Now Hiring" sign in the front window...and wondering what "hiring" means these days.
Other than that I have been working out every day...a great stress reliever. I was in the gym for two hours today and would have been there longer were it not for the parentals calling and wondering where in the world I was.
I have also been doing lots of yardwork, got 7 or 8 new trees planted this week and there are at least 7 or 8 more to plant, and always weeding to be done. Since it is Colorado and it doesn't rain I haven't had to mow all five acres yet...probably wont this summer unless we get hit with that hurricane or something.
I have been playing softball on thursday nights. Me, a friend a year younger than me and a friend two years younger are playing with the "old guys" (average age about 35) this year. For some reason we are 6-1. Our closest game we won by 8 runs. The one we lost we lost by, ahem, 22.
So there you have it...that is life for me this summer...thrilling, I know, I had you on the edge of your seat the entire time and then you fell off when you fell asleep...