today

today seamus turned 6. that is crazy to me. we will have a little party for her tomorrow, but today we all went to her school so we could participate in her classroom birthday festivities. they sat in a circle and went around the room and each of the kids said something nice about her. i almost cried. for her birthday dinner she wanted to go to the redmond pancake house and then we went to coldstone creamery. yes, they had gone twice this week, but oh well. i asked her if she would like to open one of her birthday presents today or if she would like to wait for her party. she said she wanted to wait, which i thought showed a lot of self restraint for a 6 year old! uh, so i was going to make a collage just now of photos from every year but i have none of those photos on this computer.. so that will be a project for another day.
a few weeks ago i hurt my wrist. i was doing pushups and just pushing up through the pain when i realized my wrist really hurt, so i stopped. but my wrist never got better. the other day at the pt i asked her to take a look at it. ok, so one of those little bones in there is all stuck. she did some moving of stuff around and it was all better, just like that. she said no more push ups and that i should keep doing the stretches she gave me, and that it should be ok. apparently i have a lot of bones all over the place that are stuck, but the wrist thing was funny because she made the comment, hmm, yeah, your wrist really doesn't bend.... its just stuck. whatever.
the other day we noticed that pawpi didn't look so good. her eye was all goopy and her face looked swollen. we gave it a day and decided yeah, she did not look good at all. eric and the kids took her to the vet today. they say that it looks as though one of the other cats must have hooked their claw in her eyelid, poked a hole in it and sratched her eyeball. then the whole shebang got infected. eric said they pinched her cheek and all kind of nasty squished out her eyeball. groooooosssss!! so they took her in back, shaved her cheek and lanced the grodyness. now she is on eye goop antibiotics, some oral antibiotics and some pain medicine, too. she is just chilling out and seems in good spirits, but then again that could be the pain medicine. she however, does not look good but will get better soon.

tomorrow before seamus's bday party i am meeting some of the girls for a 3:15 bike ride. sunday is a 1:30 run, that will be fun... and i am working on breaking in my new orthotics. the verdict is still out on them, but they do make me go faster, i can tell it already.