Just wanted to let everone know of a few other milestones reached.

Put my contacts in for the first time since Dec. 11th!!! That's a biggie. Never occurred to me before that it takes two hands to get those little suckers into my eyes -- so now, finally! I can raise my left hand to eye level, at least. Got my earrings in, too, including the little rubber dealies that keep them from slipping out of where they belong. (Just a note - I got my ears pierced 40 years ago so I wouldn't lose earrings and, guess what -- discovered they're just as susceptible as clip ons and screw backs unless you spring for German wires or little rubber stoppers on the backs of French wires.)

So I didn't have to stumble about in glasses (with or without bifocal) while voting this morning in the NH primary.

I can ALMOST wash my hair without assistance. Now that I've gotten Tom broken in on the job (oops, maybe bad choice of phrase), I probably won't need his his help in that regard much longer. However, I still need help getting into a bra. Did try the front closure one -- that was actually worse than the standard issue. Tom had to help me get OUT of it (after about 10 minutes trying, I had given up on getting even one front hook hooked).

We postponed all the holidays, including our "Other Anniversary" (double anniversary on Dec. 15th of the night we met in 1980, and of the year later when, while celebrating knowing each other for a year, we decided to get married) -- and we're aiming for this Saturday for that. I can, at long last, DRINK the champagne instead of just admiring it, and we'll have some fancy munchies. No tree to trim, though, as we usually do. May even get around to celebrating Christmas one of these days. Again, no tree -- maybe I'll hang an ornament from the flowering maple. (Maybe not.)

I occasionally fear I'm not exercising the arm enough, but then at night tight muscles in the shoulder and in the neck reassure me I am -- even if the discomfort interferes with sleep. And I wonder what I've gotten accomplished after being laid up a month, but I guess I've not only been healing the arm, but healing my "burnt outedness" caused by three years of the job from hell. I'm starting to feel creative again -- I had been feeling as dull as the newsprint my publication was printed on.

I guess I'm feeling better!

Linn