The Doodle-head:

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Apparently, I'm still learning how to walk

Because I don't pay attention to where I'm going, nor do I pick up my feet sufficiently as I'm trying to get there. And therefore, Sunday night, I paid for it in a very painful way... I broke my pinky toe. And because I never do anything halfway, the x-rays showed it was broken quite significantly in two pieces, diagonally down the bone.

The best thing that I can say about it (because there isn't much good one can say about a broken toe) is that it happened on my left foot and not my right. I can't drive anywhere (we only have stick-shift cars), but at least I can still sew!

I was afraid I wouldn't have been able to go to my quilt guild meeting today, but I have two wonderful friends who agreed to be my chauffeurs. And I would have missed a fabulous speaker - Janet Jones Worley. Her anecodotes were hilarious, and it was great to see her quilts and hear about her journey in quilting. If you ever get the chance to meet her and hear her speak, I highly recommend it. I didn't get to take either of her classes, but if I have the chance in the future, I would love to.

I was also afraid that I wouldn't be able to go to my machine quilting class tomorrow night, but DH has lovingly agreed to chauffeur me the half-hour drive to the class, and then come back and pick me up when it is over. I know how lucky I am, because it means that his evening is pretty much shot to hell with just transporting me back and forth, and anyone who knows him knows how much he values his evenings at home after work - for the relaxing downtime after a hard day's work, especially when it's already started getting hot around here.

Just because my toe's broken and I am pretty much home-bound, though, doesn't mean that I've got a couple of weeks off. Nope, I'll continue to work (too many projects going on right now to get a couple of weeks off anyway, ha!). But at least I won't have to worry about traffic and gas prices for a few weeks. So, while there's a down side to having a broken toe (pain, obviously), I'm lucky enough to have an up side too.