Saturday, March 24, 2012

Rainy Saturday

So I've started PT for my ankle, and the cold is pretty much gone, but now it's raining out and I'm afraid of a relapse if I go outside and get wet and cold. And I've gotten really, really lazy.

Listened to NPR for a couple of hours this morning, catching "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" live for the first time in a very long time. I usually catch it as a podcast, via my ipod or Kindle Fire. This news quiz is my favorite radio show, and I was pleased to have gotten many of the answers correct.

I caught my cat Einstein in a particularly cute pose today. He enjoys lying on the window sill in the living room, above the baseboard heater, so he gets the benefit of both the rising heat and the view of the street. I keep the blinds closed for privacy, and they hang in front of the sill. Today, his left rear paw hung off the edge of the sill, below the bottom of the blinds. It was the only visible part of his body. His foot is mostly white (he's a gray tabby), and looked rather like a rabbit's foot. It's certainly every bit as soft as a rabbit's foot. And I feel lucky to have him.

The other day I thought I saw him in the back yard, but when I turned around, there he was in the living room - at the same time. The cat in the yard had the same colors in his coat, the same white front and points, and the same black stripes on its tail. It didn't seem to be wearing a collar, and seemed a bit bigger than Einstein, but otherwise looked just like him. And s/he seemed very at home in my yard, so I suspect this is not the first time s/he has visited. Perhaps he has a close relative nearby ...

Anyway, that's all I can think of right now. Stay dry.

Monday, March 12, 2012

No News Might be Bad News

So, after  I'd been singing with Occupella for a month or so, I got around to seeing a new podiatrist for an injury to my ankle that I believe occurred when I misstepped on a pothole back in October. The highly rated new doctor took an ultrasound image and slapped me in a walking cast, finding that I'd torn a tendon. Thankfully, it was only frayed, not torn clear through, so no surgery was needed, but I stayed in that cast, and mostly off my feet, for six weeks.

I've graduated to wearing a brace and am supposed to begin physical therapy, but now I've got a lovely cold/laryngitis thing that has turned me from a soprano to a bass-baritone. They don't want my germs at the PT office, and I don't blame them any. So now I'm resting my voice as well as my ankle, except for a single balancing-on-one-foot exercise that the doctor told me to do.

Which all explains why I haven't posted recently. My life's been pretty quiet.