Tis finally July, and??

Well, I'm finally posting again, yay!!  May and June are finally behind me, yay!!  I'm hanging in there (sorta on/off), yay!!  I'm going back to work tomorrow....not too sure bout the yay factor just yet.  Will leave that for a future post.

Summer has arrived full force.  Trent's B-day (aka 1st day of summer) was pretty mild around here.  Tho by the end of June things were starting to heat up nicely. 

Tho I'm not a heat type of person.  You know, 85 degrees is about my heat index limit.  I do live in the hi-desert region of So Ca. or W. Riverside County shall we say.  I guess they consider this hi-desert around these parts.  It's been pretty cooking here....lets just say 95+ for the last 5-4days or so.  Ick!, and then some.  Like I said, not a heat type of person at all.


I've been fighting off a repetitive running injury which adds to all of my pleasure lately.  My ITB is acting up again, this time in a major pain in the ass way...literally, and literally causing parts of my R leg to go numb from time to time. 

Nice, not!!  I decided, nuf is enuf and sought out a local ART practitioner.  She is actually very awesome indeed.  I was a little leery cuz most of the ART peeps are chiropractors, and I don't have alot of faith in most of them.  I got an eval from one of them a long time ago.  Lets just say, he suggested orthotics ("his" mind you, and I have a neutral gait and no hip/leg length discrepancies), and "his" vitamins, that were/are s'posedly better than any other vits/minerals you could buy local retail or online.  Yep, see ya fella.  I swallowed the bullet and decided I needed ART, her website was the best, and she is new to her craft, but very skilled.  Not once in 4 visits has she mentioned orthotics or vitamins.  Yay!!  I know my leg is getting better, but it seems to be a slow process indeed.  At this point Chicago is still on the calendar, but maybe just finishing in a decent time might be doable.  I hope to do better than my current expectations that is for sure, but I'm keeping things honest right now.

Other things are sorta coming together, but then grief will hit me blindside again, and then again, and it takes me a bit to right myself all over again.  I guess that is normal, eh?  I've never been thru this with a child, so I understand the 4-5 deals with grief;  lets see there is, Denial/Isolation, Anger (which I have still yet to be really pissy with Trent),  Bargaining (oh yeah, been there done that and repeated),  Depression (like no shit Sherlock), Acceptance.  Anyhow, I think I p'bly have a long road to go, cuz I know I've been thru things, but not all the way, of that I'm sure. 

Another words, I have no idea how I will cope at work tomorrow.  Wish me luck, and even tho God does have a frickin ass bizarre sense of humor lately and then some, say a prayer or two for me.   I figure it can't hurt, and hopefully help, yes?