Can only make me stronger
I need y’all to hurry up right now
‘Cause I can’t wait much longer
-- Kanye West

Wow. This time it was really hard to come up with just the right opening lyrics because there are so many good choices right now. The other choice was:

You’re going crazy
Running on empty
You can’t make up your mind
You try to hide it
But you had to say it
Restless all this time
So completely drained from every thing that’s in your life
It’s so wrong but you had to scream every thought you kept inside

One minute you laugh
The next minute you’re slowly sinking into something black
I get the feeling that lately nothing ever really lasts
I keep trying to get up but I keep falling back
And you love
And you hate
And you wait
Cause one minute goes fast
-- Kelly Clarkson

But I figured if I led with that one the few of you that read this would freak again and worry. But I’m ok, y’all. So let’s get to it. What’s been going on?

Professionally, things aren’t the best right now. I make it my policy not to talk about work on here, but sometimes I make an exception. The two colleagues that helped me with what I do both resigned and I’m all alone. My job is unique in that I can’t do it by myself, I have to rely on others and I don’t care for that. So I’m in a bind right now.

Personally, things are ok. Its football season and I’m having fun with that. I’ll be honest though, I am amped it is an off weekend for me this week. I’m pretty much planning on sleeping right up until kick off on Saturday. My house is in desperate need of attention so I’ve got to get cracking on that. To do lists are kicking my ass right now.

And now to the main event. Most of you know this, but for those of you that don’t, or for those of you that enjoy reliving my many, many misfortunes, here you go.

Back in early September, I went to a movie and got home around 9 on a Wednesday night. When I unlocked my door I heard a loud flapping sound over my head and something flew into my house. I freaked. I mean, I totally freaked out. I thought it was a bat at first. So I went in and saw some crap on my chair and realized it was a bird. We had a 5 minute standoff while I contemplated what to do. So I finally did what any self-respecting adult would do – I called my mom. My mom was sympathetic and offered suggestions involving brooms and loud noises, etc. These were suggestions that didn’t appeal to me and she passed the phone to my dad who thought this was the funniest thing he’d ever heard in his life. When he realized just how NOT amused I was, he suggested I go get my neighbor David to help.

Walking over to David and Sherry’s house, I stepped in a hole. And by stepped I mean stumbled into a hole, causing my right foot to twist completely back and underneath. I didn’t fall and but I did burst into tears. When I got a hold of myself I knocked on their door and they grabbed a broom and came back to my house. All David did was open the door and the dang thing flew right out. I thanked them and went inside to ice my foot.

I talked to my parents later and told them about the foot issue but assured them I was ok. By 11:30 I wasn’t ok and I called them again but they had gone to bed. By 2 a.m. I REALLY wasn’t ok and called my dad’s cell phone and they got ready and came to my house. My foot was swollen and bruised and I couldn’t put any weight on it at all. The doc in the box said it was just a severe foot sprain but no breaks.

Three days later it was still hurting and I had a friend of mine that works in orthopedics check out my x-rays. He managed to get me an appointment with a foot specialist. The resident on my case was Ryan Pflugner -- otherwise known as the kicker that was at Alabama while I was there. He was very cool and nice. The main doctor diagnosed the severe foot sprain and ligament damage in big fancy words which included “stretched bones and compressed ligaments which are difficult to heal” and put me in a little boot/shoe for a month. I’ll go back next Wednesday to see what we do next. So good times around here. How’s everyone else doing?