Friday Gratitudes and The Foot Drama

A Little Blog Business
I’m contemplating stopping my weekly Friday Gratitudes post or at least not doing them every week. I’m starting to get bored and frustrated with the rigid schedule I set for my blogging over the last year (A Year of Weekends on Monday, Crafty Wednesday, Friday Gratitudes, Monthly Round Ups, monthly He & She posts). There is some of it I definitely want to keep, and others I want to post only when I feel like it, not because it’s Friday and I have a gratitude post scheduled. I started this blog because I thought it would be fun, and it’s not that fun anymore (not for me and probably not for those of you that read it either). So I will still post my Gratitudes on Fridays when I feel like it, but there will be many weeks where I don’t post them. Anyway, all this to say: expect some changes around the blog. I plan to blog some things that happened over the fall/winter that I still haven’t blogged and get back into posting more photos and stories of things going on around here. Hopefully a little more interesting!

Foot Drama
If you haven’t heard, I hurt my foot. Basically still in the beginning stages of my half-marathon training, I ran 4 miles on the Monday after Christmas and felt a little twinge in my left foot at the very end of my run. I took two days off from running and my foot didn’t bother me much at all. I had 2.5 miles on the schedule for that Thursday and I did it on the treadmill. I knew in the first half mile that something might be pretty bad, but I stupidly soldiered on through the full 2.5 miles. By about halfway through, my stride was completely jacked up because my foot was hurting. That was my last run (about 184 hours ago, but who's counting? ;). I gimped around for four days and after the New Year’s holiday I went to the doctor. He thinks I have a stress fracture in the third metatarsal (the bone in the top of your foot that connects to your middle toe).

 
I went for an x-ray on Wednesday but, as expected, it showed nothing. I have heard that most stress fractures aren’t able to be seen on an x-ray until several weeks after they’ve started to heal. It can be confirmed by MRI if I want to shell out the money (no thanks).


Anyway, it looks like I’ll have several weeks of no running. Most things I’ve seen online have said 8 weeks. Which means my running the Mini on May 5th is definitely in jeopardy. I’m keeping my fingers crossed to just be able to run/walk it.

Anyway, I decided to post my Gratitudes this week because sometimes I just need a reminder that my life is very good. This has been a tough week and I’ve actually been pretty depressed about the no-running thing (the complete lack of exercise-induced endorphins is probably a big part of that), and I need a kick-in-the-pants type reminder that my life is hella good.

I’m thankful for the determination I still have to get back into running for good once this whole stress fracture thing is past (hopefully this determination sticks around the whole time I’m sidelined).

I’m thankful to have a husband that snaps me back to reality when I’m totally wallowing in self pity (“Honey, it could be worse.” “HOW? (insert annoying whiny voice) “Um, well, you're not terminally ill.”). Made me feel like a complete ass for being so whiny, which I totally needed.

I'm thankful for pink glittery nail polish (and the 80-year-old woman admitting me to the hospital for my x-ray whose nails inspired me :).

I'm thankful for a new toy: the Silhouette Cameo (purchased for around $30 with Amazon credit card reward points - normally $300). It's an electronic die cutting machine that cuts paper, vinyl, etc. from eletronic files on the computer. Expect to see pictures of all the fun things I cut with it soon. The first (and only, so far) thing I cut with it is below. It's going in the title page of my 2012 Project Life scrapbook.