Time Flies

The last two weeks were a complete blur, but I’m glad that they’re over, and now I can just be “at work”, instead of “back at work”. I’ve had a follow-up appointment with my surgeon and he said that everything looks good. I may actually see if he can prescribe one or two sessions of physical therapy, just so I know what I can and can’t do at the gym, short- and long-term – I’ve asked him about continuing physical restrictions, but would feel better having someone show me. Because not experiencing that ever again would be swell. Besides, I’m still a bit sore, and while I don’t think it’s necessarily a sign that anything is Wrong, I still think that I could feel better. I also notice that I’m still really tired, and that it happens easily. I suppose that my body is still working out how to finish knitting everything back together?

Special K and I have remarked a few times on how quickly the wedding is approaching – time really has flown by! I kind of wish I could slow it all down so that I could live in it a little more, but I have some idea of what’s coming, and I think that’s going to be pretty great, too. I’ve seen enough to know how lucky I am to have Special K, and to really appreciate what a great person he is, and how well we compliment each other. I have my very type-A side, and he’s definitely more of a type-B, but that’s a good thing. If I were to marry someone just like me, I’d kill me inside of a week – maybe longer if I cooked *and* did the dishes. And laundry.

I have never really cared much, one way or the other, about Valentine’s Day – I view it largely as a Hallmark holiday and a non-event. Well, Special K wanted to do something nice for me, because he’s just that kind of guy, but I had a large project due that day. And, as I predicted, I had to work all night to get it done, wrapping up at 9 am on Thursday morning. At which point I showered and went into work in a bit of a fatigue-induced haze. All this to say that I was quite glad that we had just decided to do something special on Saturday, when he made me a delicious dinner (roast lamb and chipotle scalloped sweet potatoes) and we curled up on the couch, watching a movie.

2007 promises to be a year full of all kinds of interesting changes and opportunities, which is kind of fun, and a little intimidating all at the same time. It’s still funny to think that I was in Yemen this time last year, and counting the days until I could leave. I really wish that I’d felt safer there (I suppose I could say “I wish I’d been safer there”; that’s always subjective, to some degree), because although I really did appreciate the unique opportunity I had in being there, I still think that a lot of it was clouded in some of the hostility I experienced, and it really is a beautiful and interesting place. However, I’d say that my life is kind of in a beautiful and interesting place now, so it’s been a good trip getting here.

And now that I’m done waxing philosophical, it’s time for me to get back to work…