what up

well... guess I'll make this a relatively brief synopsis of the last few months.

My company had me working part time Dec - March. It was an interesting engagement, but didn't have anything to do with numbers. All these years I've thought I didn't like number crunching, but I discovered I missed it! LOL That does NOT mean I want to be an accountant per se, but I really do enjoy the challenges in analyzing financial data.

We did not go on a winter cruise as we have become accustomed to doing... and I really missed it!! January and February around here just really suck. ;)


We DID go on our annual ski trip up nort'. This year there were 21 of us. As we've done the past few years, we rent an entire floor of Davos, a slopeside chalet at Whitecap. As typical, there was lots of skiing, food, beverages and games, including wiiwii this year. Yep, we had two wii games going! However, this particular trip wasn't one of my best. On day one, Friday, right before lunch, I had an oops. I hit the ground, my body facing one way, and my left leg facing the other. I was taken back to the chalet on the medic snowmobile. Well, that was the end of my skiing for the weekend. :(


Greg and I also joined most of our bike club friends for a weekend in the Dells. This is an annual event where we hang out at a hotel where we have a "party room" that we commandeer for the entire weekend. We always have a great time - doing some "off the beaten path" tours, eating, drinking, and playing tons of sheepshead (a German card game).

Ok, so now the bad news about my ski trip fall... I tore my ACL (a main knee ligament) completely, had a grade 2 sprain of my LCL (another knee ligament), bruised a bone in my knee, as well as some other little stuff. The ACL provides stability in the knee, so that the knee does not "give out." Of course most of the issues were self-healing, but not the ACL. So I had to have surgery. It's actually quite fascinating - they took out the center third of my patellar (knee) tendon, along with a little bit of bone from each end. Then they cleaned out the old torn ACL, and screwed the patellar tendon into place as a graft to create a new ACL. Surgery was three weeks ago now. I'm going thru physical therapy - recovery timelines vary widely. I think my recovery is a bit slow, because I couldn't walk much for the month between the incident and my surgery, so my muscles aren't as strong or flexible as they were. But I'm managing. DH is awesome - helping me out so much!

Right now I'm planning for an upcoming vacation - part cruise, part motorcycle. I am SO looking forward to it!! Even though I haven't been working, I still feel a need to get away from home. ;) Gotta satisfy the vagabond in me.

So that's what's been up... a little fun, a little not-so-fun.