Boom
Dropped the boom on Yanek. Now he just has to flop around a bit before he's marching away with the other "recruits." The chapter will end in drum training camp, which I cannot find any references for so I'm making it up whole cloth. So glad this is a fantasy. I figure they drum and drum and drum, mostly.
On another front, I witnessed the most amazing tantrums today. We think the child in question is having tooth and tummy discomfort, but all we know is he was doing the back flop and the kick and lash and screaming. The most amazing part was when I had laid him gently on the floor to keep him from launching roughly there off my lap. He put up his hands -- like he wanted me to pull him back up, which is not unusual -- but as soon as he got th8em, he pulled himself half up and tried to launch himself as hard as he could on the floor. I stopped him, making his descent softer, but it made him even angrier. Later he was still doing it when we were outside (he stopped long enough to eat snack, at least) and he threw himself backwards in the sandbox: while he was ltying there, he threw sand in his own face.
Tyke is seventeen months old. He has a lot of new words, but apparently not enough.
On another front, I can carry a box of groceries up a short flight of stairs putting one foot in front of the other like a normal person now, instead of having to step and place the right foot on the same level as the left before proceeding. Nine months of physical therapy! And also, I can squat to clean a thing on the ground, instead of getting down on my butt. Nine months! Of physical therapy! MRI in late December, pre-op early January, first surgery late January or early February. I have to log some paid work time between the surgeries or I have to pay a thousand dollars a month COBRA payment to keep my insurance, so the second surgery will be in mid-May.
My friend who has had a different type of knee replacement says the thing to watch out for is not going back to work too early. Can't be helped. But at least at my job I have a boss and coworkers who will help me do whatever is the least wrong we can figure out.
On yet another front, I spent last night listening to Warren Zevon on youtube and tonight listening to the COon Creek Girls. It's kind of hard to find much of them. And you have to get the early stuff, and not "The New Coon Creek Girls" or videos with (TRIO) in the description. After a while it's inevitable: you must ditch the girls and start listening to Grayson and Whittier.
On another front, I witnessed the most amazing tantrums today. We think the child in question is having tooth and tummy discomfort, but all we know is he was doing the back flop and the kick and lash and screaming. The most amazing part was when I had laid him gently on the floor to keep him from launching roughly there off my lap. He put up his hands -- like he wanted me to pull him back up, which is not unusual -- but as soon as he got th8em, he pulled himself half up and tried to launch himself as hard as he could on the floor. I stopped him, making his descent softer, but it made him even angrier. Later he was still doing it when we were outside (he stopped long enough to eat snack, at least) and he threw himself backwards in the sandbox: while he was ltying there, he threw sand in his own face.
Tyke is seventeen months old. He has a lot of new words, but apparently not enough.
On another front, I can carry a box of groceries up a short flight of stairs putting one foot in front of the other like a normal person now, instead of having to step and place the right foot on the same level as the left before proceeding. Nine months of physical therapy! And also, I can squat to clean a thing on the ground, instead of getting down on my butt. Nine months! Of physical therapy! MRI in late December, pre-op early January, first surgery late January or early February. I have to log some paid work time between the surgeries or I have to pay a thousand dollars a month COBRA payment to keep my insurance, so the second surgery will be in mid-May.
My friend who has had a different type of knee replacement says the thing to watch out for is not going back to work too early. Can't be helped. But at least at my job I have a boss and coworkers who will help me do whatever is the least wrong we can figure out.
On yet another front, I spent last night listening to Warren Zevon on youtube and tonight listening to the COon Creek Girls. It's kind of hard to find much of them. And you have to get the early stuff, and not "The New Coon Creek Girls" or videos with (TRIO) in the description. After a while it's inevitable: you must ditch the girls and start listening to Grayson and Whittier.