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Made it

We made it to Friday and the end of eternal January! I will tell you what it seemed like this week and the month would never end. Honestly, I am stoked for a weekend without work. Tomorrow we’re headed to brunch, the Panthers game, and the casino. It should be a spectacular day. Sunday the Mayor has his second to last league game at Skate Zone. His team is playing the second-place team, so it should be an amazing game.

January was long and arduous, but it taught me a few lessons. Importantly, I took two key lessons away from our Nashville trip. First of all, the party bus taught me that I need to stretch before I “get low” again. Secondly, I hate the cold. I legit cannot cope with the cold dry air that winter brings or the icy roads. Outside of the Nashville trip, this January I learned that blizzards can come to Florida. Okay, it wasn’t a blizzard by Minnesota standards, but certainly was by Florida standards. January also taught me that while time flies by on a macro scale, the month of January lasted 17 years. I’m just glad we made it to the end.

Goalielocks at the Beach Volleyball Social

2025 Goal Tracker:

  • Run a 5K: in training
  • Complete Kayla Itsines program: in progress
  • No afternoon Starbucks (except for travel/vacations): 31 days in and I haven’t buckled!
  • Top performer at work: on it!
  • Travel: working on it
  • Eat to lower inflammation: in progress
  • Read daily: in progress. I’m currently reading Armadale by Wilkie Collins– so good.
  • Get out of debt: in progress
  • Financial independence: in progress

What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?

I’m afraid to skydive. There’s nothing you could do to induce me into skydiving. I have no desire to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

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Healing Nicely

The patient’s finger is healing nicely. These simple words spoken by his orthopedic PA were music to our ears. They took some X-rays, removed the stitches, and cast. For the first time since he broke the finger, I saw him wince with pain as they removed the bandages. Unfortunately, he still has the pins in for the foreseeable future. We’re hopeful that they’ll be able to remove the pins at his next follow-up appointment two weeks from today. Crossing my fingers that it’s still healing nicely at our next follow-up!

In the meantime, he’s in a smaller bandaged splint. He’s supposed to remove the splint and work the lower joint on the finer several times a day. This will prevent the joint from getting stiff. Additionally, he still has to keep the cast and his claw, I mean pins, dry. Not that he is one to spend a lot of time in the pool or ocean. He also has to be careful not to knock the pins as they extend beyond the tip of his finger.

What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?

I would love to scuba dive but I’m terrified of the water and can’t swim. It’s hard to reconcile my abject fear of water with the desire to Scuba, but life underwater looks so peaceful and beautiful. I’m not sure there’s anything that could convince me to get into the deep.