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Injured Again

Wow. It’s been FOREVER since I’ve written. It’s not like there hasn’t been things that I’ve wanted to write about – ’cause there’s been a ton – but I wasn’t sure what I wanted to share with the world. Not like I think that the whole world reads my blog, but I do publish it online so there’s definitely the potential that someone else would read it. But more on all that later. Maybe…

Today, what inspired me to write is the fact that I’m injured. Again. What’s frustrating about that, beyond the hurtiness, is the fact that yet again I’ve injured myself within the first couple of weeks of being back at Weight Watchers and/or the gym. Argh!!! As I’ve whined before, it’s like God wants me to be fat!

This time I didn’t fall down the stairs (thank God!), but it was almost equally as enbarassing. I was leaving work around the same time as three of the people who work for me: Kelley, Jaime, and Chris. They were getting into their cars while I was walking towards my car when I suddenly rolled my ankle (on flat ground). I heard the familiar “Pop! Pop! Pop!” that happens when I roll my ankle hard enough to sprain it and felt the pain pretty much immediately. I started to fall, but caught myself on a car. Kelley, Jaime and Chris saw me holding myself up on the car and realized that I’d hurt myself.

I have to say, I love the people on my team. Even though it was freezing out and dark and the end of a long work day, they stopped to help me. They wouldn’t let me drive myself home (since driving a standard would be pretty much impossible with only one good foot) and since Kelley and Jaime were carpooling and only Chris could drive stick, Chris drove me home while Jaime followed in Chris’s car and Kelley followed behind them. Luckily, I live very close to work, but I was still super embarrassed to have inexplicably hurt myself on flat ground and to need their help.

So now I’m pouty about being hurt again. I’d wanted to hit the gym hardcore this weekend since I’ve got a couple work related functions this weekend and Monday where I’m not sure if there’ll be any healthy food available. Alex thinks I’ll probably be able to be back to the gym in a few days. I hope so! I’ve let injuries derail my weight loss plans in the past and I just really don’t want that to happen again.

I’m such a freaking klutz! Ugh.

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So is this why I’ve been Obsessed with Tetris Party on the Wii lately?

clipped from lifehacker.com Tetris Wipes Out Bad Memories, Say Scientists According to researchers at Oxford University, playing the popular, classic puzzle game Tetris after a traumatic experience could significantly reduce emotional scars. Apparently Tetris—which requires serious brain power on your part—blocks your brain from storing those bad memories. The catch: It needs to be played immediately following the traumatic event, so break out your old Game Boys and stick ‘em in your emergency kit. Photo by Micah Taylor. [via] kflott 9:20 AM You have to arrange the bad memories so they fit together, each time you complete a row, that row of bad memories disappear. Unfortunately, the longer you do this, the faster the bad memories fall, making it harder and harder to keep up.

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