I just had a baaaad crash...

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

"RiRi"- I like that nickname!
It does my heart good to read your "novels". Keep writing them!
Such happy inspiration to everyone here.
Rest and heal and don't overdo, now!

[margo49]

Beautiful stitching job.
It made everything so much easier that you only had the fracture there and no compound-ing.
I agree - it's worth a bottle of scotch

[pooks]

riri --

Your horse sounds like every young girl's dream -- and my dream, too.

I'm glad you're doing so well -- now DON'T PUSH IT!

Or trip number 3 to the er will happen.

[tap-tap-tap]

Have you turned every hair on your mother's head gray?

(I love reading your novels, too!)

[run it, ride it]

Work finally got back to me. I will get paid for one-and-a-quarter days and be put on leave of absence until I'm back in action. Case in point: I still have a job. and I have such mixed feelings. this means I'll have to stay out here in the middle of nowhere for three months, without a vehicle (and no, there's nowhere to road bike safely or MTB at all). I have no excuse not to; the job pays well, and I won't pushed beyond my limits. But part of me knows that staying in my university town with people to ride with and DGIS and friends and finding a job, even if not one with amazing pay, is -possible.- I never have liked it here, I never have liked my job or the people I work with...is it really worth the money to be here? I can't say.

DGWBTM moved me with his truck. the whole trip was torrential rain and we narrowly missed a tornado. Had to stop to fix the tarp over all my earthly possessions more than once. Oh boy. it was like even the weather wanted me to stay.

seeing DGIS could be tricky at best, and the relationship is so young I've just had a TASTE of it before having to throw this wrench in--my first non-long-distance connetion with a guy in eight years. three months seemed a really short time in the relationships that started out long distance. but because this started within close proximity, it looms like an eon. I don't want to kill what we've got, because it's so fun and interesting and unique. the second I arrived here i've wanted to go back.

I have, of course, been overdoing it. I won't even say what I did, not to anyone (telling my mother I hopped on my horse was bad enough!). I'm not sure I've even ever completed the same task by myself without a broken bone. But I do insist it was safe and I used every part of my body aside from that arm to do it. No worries, I don't plan on returning to the ER--it's a bit of a drive from out here!

perhaps a change of weather will lighten my mood and speed along my recovery. maybe even work will be tolerable, and I'll find ways to get back to the town I miss so much. Or maybe I'll just haul anchor and run straight back in a few weeks regardless.