I spent the whole weekend over at Jon’s place, playing Dungeon Siege, Silent Hill 4 and crocheting. When I got home today I watched Intolerable Cruelty, a Coen brothers film, and was highly entertained. George Clooney is actually tolerable in the film, and Catherine Zeta-Jones presents herself in a “Look at me, I’m tantalizingly sexy and I know it, and I’m gonna totally screw you over and we both know it” kind of way. Heh. I recommend it, especially if you liked Fargo and The Big Lebowski. Tis the same kind of humor.

After that I decided to go rollerblading. It’s been about a week and a half since I’ve gone and I’ve missed it a lot. It was such a beautiful day out, quite hot and sunny, so it was nearly perfect. Then, on the last stretch of my final lap, I hit a twig on the ground with my right skate, which stopped that foot while my other one kept going, so I ended up landing on my left side, skidding across the pavement for several feet. I landed on both of my hands, which got slightly scraped but are just fine now. (Thank you, wonderful wrist guards!) My leg, however, didn’t fare as well. I have a huge abrasion across the entire outside of my left knee, which trails down about 5 inches along the outside of the calf, and another large abrasion on the outside of my thigh, which is a patch about 4 inches across and down. Some people stopped to ask me if I was okay, but I didn’t want help…I knew nothing was broken, and I was determined to finish my lap. So I got up and brushed myself off and told everyone I was just fine, and skated off to my car. I could see the blood already coagulating on my knee, so I wasn’t too worried. It stayed numb for the drive home and I was able to shower and shave before dressing the abrasions without any pain. After I got dressed I went off to Target to get some more large bandages (I’d used up the last of our gauze pads on my thigh.) It still doesn’t hurt all that much…it looks FAR worse than it feels, but I’ll have to see if that holds up tomorrow as well. sigh Interestingly enough, being injured this badly only registers in my mind as a minor annoyance and slight inconvenience. I think many people in that situation would have freaked out pretty badly but all I could think of was finishing my 10 miles. When I showed my mom the abrasion on my thigh, all she said was “Hmm, looks like you slid into second base.” She has the same rather non-chalant attitude towards scrapes and such, and is no stranger to that sort of injury thanks to the many years of softball she played in her younger years. It was a little strange having to ask for her help putting the bandage on my thigh, but it was okay in the end. ~_~

So I guess I won’t be skating tomorrow. Mehhhh. I probably could but it would probably not be too good getting too much sweat in the abrasions, plus I think that would make the bandages peel off. Oh well, I guess that’s just God’s way of telling me to take a rest for a bit. So I will.