what a day!

well as always, things have to be crazy to be my life. i don't know how i would function without bizzare things occuring everyday to keep me amused. the last 48 hours have been no exception.

tuesday started rather normally. i had class that day until 3. after coming home and doing some homework, i left again to go pick up a girl for a private lesson. i brought her back to my house and we worked for about an hour and half, then we went to starbucks and met her grandma and i came home. my dad has been sick for a couple of days, i think he's catching the flu stuff that's going around, so i've been trying to steer clear of him.

well tuesday night i was doing some heavy studying for my spanish test the next day. suddenly it hit me - i had YET to send keaton's valentine's day gift. yikes! i told you i'm bad at this stuff. i started looking for a box and couldn't find anything. usually i have boxes all over the place so i can send little care packages to keaton. but i guess i've used them all cause i've got nothin'. so i made a note in my calendar to go buy a box on wednesday (i HATE buying boxes. it seems like such a waste when you can buy something IN a box and then just re-use the box. but i had no need to buy anything that came in a box ... so i was going to give in and just buy a box. a stupid, empty box.)

i was stinky from the private lesson, so i took a shower before i got in bed. apparently, i was messy when i got out and let water drip on the floor. because when i walked back in the bathroom to hang up my towel ...

WHAM!!
BAM!!
CRUNCH!!
UGH!!
OOF!!

i slipped on the water on the tile floor. my feet just slid right out from underneath me. i really wish i could have seen it because it felt really funny! i basically richoched off of everything in the bathroom, like a ball in a pin machine. i was laughing hysterically. you know, one of those things that hurts so bad you just laugh to keep from crying.

i'm a big klutz and i fall all the time, so i tried to just hop up and keep going. but i couldn't put any weight on my left foot. i went ahead and elevated it and put ice on it that night.

i can't stand to go to the doctor, i guess i think it makes me not tough or something, i don't know ... but i refuse to go if at all possible. but the next morning when i woke and my left ankle was about 4 times as big as my right and all bruised up, i decided to go ahead and give the doc a call. i asked them to just call in some xrays for me, which they did. so after my first two classes (which i had to hobble to on crutches) i went to the radiologist to have my ankle xrayed. then it was back to school for my spanish test.

i had COMPLETELY forgotten about keaton's package, what with going between the doctor and class and all. but when i got home that day, there was a package on the front porch from keaton!! it made me so happy! he's such a sweetie! he usually likes me to wait until the actual day we're celebrating to open his gifts, even if they get there early. but ... i needed the box.

yes, i know, i'm absolutely horrible. i opened his valentine's gift early so i could take the box it came in, pack his stuff in it, re-address it, and ship it right back to tallahassee.

i had just finished packing the box and was taping it up when the cat jumped up on the table. perfect timing. i basically taped his super fluffy tail to the box. i swear, i must have the stickiest packing tape on the planet, and trying to hold down a feisty "teenage" cat who is scratching and biting and trying to gently free his tail hairs loose from this tape is NOT an easy feat!! especially when you're trying to balance on one leg and you're laughing your bum off!

once the cat was finally free, i took keaton's box to the post office and had it overnighted (which of course came with a fee ... why can't i just do this stuff in advance?!? is it really that difficult?) so he should be getting it sometime today! yay!! happy valentine's day, baby!

later i got a call from the doc. my ankle will be fine, it's just fractured. i'm supposed to use crutches for 3-5 weeks and ice and elevate everyday until the swelling's down. then i'm supposed to wrap it daily and it should be good as new in 6-8 weeks. he decided not to cast it because it was a hairline fracture and it had already been so long that if it wasn't perfectly in line, he would have to break it. he knows i would refuse to do that, so he said just wrapping it is fine.

so say hi the next time you see me on campus, on the front desk at the hampton inn, or attempting to teach a dance class on one leg. i'll be the one with swollen armpits (from the silly crutches) hobbling around with one leg up looking like an idiot. yep, that's me.

of course, to end on a positive note, there are a lot of good things about all this. the cat's tail is a little bit thinner now. it was my left ankle that was injured, which means i can still drive! and i think keaton's valentine's day gift will actually make it on valentine's day!!

happy valentine's day everyone!