Happy New Year
January 2nd, 2007
I fell down today and twisted my ankle! Ow! My dogs were not sympathetic and now I am sitting, foot up. No swelling but it hurt a stunning amount for a while. Less stunning now. Still very hard to walk.
This is the year of writing! I don’t think I can do a meaningful wordcount though, because I’m doing it in such stages…. writing a summary, dictating, cleaning up dictation, eventual rewriting. But goal-wise, I’d like to finish three books and may aim to finish four. Well, by ‘finish’, I mean ‘in rough draft form’. I’d like to do detailed world creation for two settings. And I’d like to submit the TFN trilogy by September or so.
Um. I have a lot of self-doubts. My reaction to hurting my ankle was to lounge around on a couch playing a video game, instead of soldiering on. I haven’t met any deadline I’ve set yet. I have a role model self inside but I’ve fallen down on pressuring myself to measure up to her. Hoping too much for external pressure, I suppose. And falling prey to too many distractions. I WANT to stay aware of the world, want to pursue external adventures, but I think especially without medication, I need to utterly lose myself. I will probably be able to post about myself when I feel like it and I think I should since I forget my past otherwise, but… wow, tuning out is hard.
I HAVE been very sleepy lately, and in my sleep, dreaming again. Yay!
Categories: Updates From the Void | Tags: Health, Me, Writing
Well cheer up! It’s the new year and with the new year all OLD self doubts should die away as the clock strikes midnight
Rest that ankle! Trying not to walk much and/or bracing it will help. The joint needs to stay at rest for a while to recover.
Icing it will help with the pain some and keeps swelling down. You said it’s not swelling so you may not need to compress it or elevate it but it may not hurt to do a little of that.