My foot has elephantitis

I decided to be free of the crutches today and walk on my own 1 1/2 feet. I got out of the car and started "walking" (I use the term loosely), I thought I was doing good. Then I started getting closer to work and further from the car, where my crutches lay, and realize that I probably wasn't ready cause my foot started hurting. I pushed forward and made it to my desk. One of the partners is calling me "hops-a-long". But when I got to my desk and pulled my chair out to sit down my computer tower decided to take a topple onto my already crippled foot. Tears came to my eyes. It did not feel good. The swelling has gone down but it still is pretty swollen. Especially my ankle where it looks like a golf ball is protruding from my foot. My foot and leg are starting to look a pretty shade of purply green.

On another note, I had the WORST manicure of my life yesterday. My cousin Sara offered to give me a manicure when I got to Utah but I couldn't make any of her days. So I decided to go to one of the day spa's here where I had a free manicure because James has spent so much there (Valentines Day). I also had a half a pedicure.... The girl was fresh out of school and sliced my pinkie with the sharp file. That hurt and started to bleed. And her nail polish skills were questionable. Now my pinkie is throbbing and I have band-aids on it. I proceeded to go home and take my nail polish off and re-do my nails myself. Typing is taking forever today. On that note...

Here is my foot under my desk...

My sorry looking pinkie. But my nails look nice. My hands look fat, the elephantitis has spread...

A craptastic ending to softball season

Well tonight was my last softball game this season for two reasons. One, I'll be flying to and from Utah for our official last game and playoffs. Two, I decided I wanted to slide into third. It didn't end well. I was safe but I also slammed my ankle into the bag and heard a pop. I had to go to the WNY Immediate Care. They were kind enough to do some x-rays, wrap my ankle and give me some crutches. It's not broken and I get to use the crutches for 3-4 days. My ankle is getting to be a pretty color of purple and the size of a golf ball. Needless to say, my season would have ended with my atrocious slide into third anyway. At least I went out with a bang. The only upside to using the crutches is that it is going to help with my yoga since I was never good at the balancing part.

A side view of my cankle

There's my golf ball ankle

A follow up to exercising

James is no help. This is our e-mail correspondence from this afternoon:

Brooke: Are you ready to go to the gym??!!

James: I feel sick. I shouldn't go.

Brooke: You are full of shit. You are still going.

James: Ahhhhh come on.

Brooke: Nope. I will pick you up at 6. Be ready.

James: oooohhhhh

I do not like exercising

I'm wondering why it is so difficult for me to go to the gym. Once I get there I'm fine and I work out for an hour or so but the hard part is actually getting myself there. I often use the excuse that I have to clean or I have too much to do. It's not really the case. My house is not that big where I need to be cleaning all the time. I like taking yoga and pilates but I can't seem to drag myself to the gym to actually take the class. Saturday was the perfect day to go to the gym. I finally didn't have to work in the morning, James was going to work at one and I didn't have Corinne's dinner until 7. But I felt that those hours between one and six were better spent watching things I had taped on DVR. Ugh, I'm so lazy. I'm finally going to the gym today only because I convinced an even lazier person to come too... James.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises ~ Buzz Aldrin

I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick ~ Abe Lemons

I Like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me ~ Fred A Allen

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain ~ Carol Leifer

They only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heaving breathing again ~ Ema Bombeck

Whenever I feel like exercising I lie down until the feeling passes ~ Robert M Hutchins

Missing: Blue The Turtle

Today is a sad, horrible day. Blue the turtle is missing. We don't know if he was kidnapped or ran away. He was in a kiddy pool on our deck and he tries to get out but it is almost physically impossible to do. So we have come to the conclusion that someone has taken him. Who would do such a horrific thing, you ask? I don't know, but they will pay for it when I find out. James is distraught. Roger, his pool mate, isn't talking. We have no clues. We put up signs around the neighborhood and knocked on some doors. But we have come up with nothing. Our turtle has mysteriously vanished from his pool. Here are some pictures of the missing:

Blue and Roger, Blue is the bigger one

The site of the alleged incident

Roger, he isn't giving any clues about the disappearance

A possible place that he could have gone, pond in our backyard

Fun, fun and more fun...

This past week was packed full of fun. Jaime and Pete had come to visit us. They started their trip off well by bringing me Taco Time burritos. They flew in last Tuesday morning and that night they watched me kick ass in my softball game. I had a couple good hits but according to James they were “too good for a girl”. Riiiight.

On Wednesday Jaime and Pete drove an hour and a half to Palmyra. I had already been there so I stayed and worked for the day. Driving that long to see a big hill wasn’t too appealing to me. On Thursday we drove into Canadia to do all the Falls stuff on that side since Jaime has already done all the stuff on the American side. Plus the Canadia side is better even though I hate Canadians because they come down to shop and they drive like they’ve fallen asleep at the wheel. We did the Journey Behind the Falls, the River Walkway, the Maid of the Mist, and walked along Clifton Hill (which I would describe it as an amusement park on a street). Of course I needed to visit the Hershey store to get my chocolate covered marshmellows. After all that we headed back to the US to go to the buffet at the casino and to lose another $60 because the Wheel Of Fortune slot machine hates me even though I love Wheel Of Fortune.

On Friday we dragged Pete to the Outlet Mall of Niagara Falls. It was only for 3 hours so he survived. That night Jaime had her first fish fry and we went to the Bison’s baseball game.

Saturday we drove back up to the Niagara River for the Whirlpool Jet Boat Tour. It’s a big boat made for 20 people and they drive you up the river to the Whirlpool that can suck you down to the 300 foot bottom and kill you. But after that they go back down in the class 5 (class 6 is the highest) rapids and you get soaked. It was awesome! It’s $60 a person so we won’t be doing that again soon.

Sunday we went downtown for the Taste of Buffalo where Jaime and Pete got to see some of Buffalo’s finest people. Not really though. I think people crawl out of their holes for events like this. But the food was good. Later that night we went to Canal Fest along the Niagara River. It is held in North Tonawanda which is known breeding ground for some very white trash people. And it lived up to the hype. Why do some people feel it’s ok to wear shorts that look like underwear when you are over the age of 40? I’m not sure either. We rode the Hydro-Bike’s down the river and almost got hit by a few boats.

Monday we went back up into stupid Canadia to African Lion Safari. It’s basically a big zoo that you can drive through. But you don’t want to take your own car because the monkies like to rip shit off. Which we saw while we were there. Then some rhino’s decided to run across the road and charge the giraffes. It was a good time but again some of Canadia’s finest were out in full. All in all it was a good trip and we had a lot of fun. Here are some pictures below. Beware, there are a lot!

Niagara Falls Slideshow

Canal Fest Slideshow

African Lion Safari Slideshow

Thanks Jaime & Pete!

Jaime came to visit yesterday. She and Pete were kind enough to stow away in their carry on the greatest food on the planet, Taco Time. Words cannot express how I feel about Taco Time. When I worked there I gained 20 pounds in two months because I would eat a Crisp Chicken Burrito with a side of ranch and loaded mexi-fries (covered in cheese). Delicious. They brought me two Crisp Chickens, four Crisp Meats, and four Crisp Beans. Amazing. I HEART TACO TIME!!!!

Doesn't this look sooooo good?