The Injury of the Week

Tonight was my final softball game of the season, and I felt it my duty to go out w/ a bang- literally.
In the 5th inning, I was playing 3rd base, when the scariest player of the opposing team was up to bat. His last at bat he hit a screaming line-drive right at me, which I stopped w/ my gloved hand, which is now bruised.
So when he came up again, I was a bit apprehensive. Low and behold, he hit yet another screaming line drive, I got in front of it w/ my glove, but it bounced and ricocheted to my right. Unwittingly, I reached w/ my bare right hand to grab it. The ball smacked my hand where it meets the wrist. I dropped it, picked it up and tossed it to the shortstop, and then looked down at the now throbbing hand. Already, a large bluish cicle appeared on the inside of my wrist., and my entire wrist/hand area was puffing up and red.
I stayed to finish the game, but finished from the bench, my wrist growing bigger and more red by the minute.
After the game, I drove to the local urgent care for xrays. They determined that it's too swollen to tell for sure, but they couldn't find a break, although it looks and feels like a hairline fracture at least. The odd thing to me is the fact that the x-ray guy took xrays of the top of my wrist, not the inside of my wrist and hand, where all the swelling and pain is.
So, they put it in a soft cast, and told me to follow up w/ my regular doc next week, for more x-rays, once some of the swelling is down.
So that's my story, probable fractured wrist, in the last game of the season. Yee hah.
I'm typing one-handed, so this has taken quite a while to type. I think I'll go shower now, and wash away all the blood and dirt. :-) Grrrr.

The jobs are fillled

I received my teaching permit on Monday, finally!
The jobs I applied for remained posted until this am. I never received a call. So, I'm off to the district to submit an application to substitute teach. I'm sure there's a master plan there always seems to be. Trying not to be discouraged.

Think good thoughts, pray strong prayers...

School starts here next Thursday. As of last Friday, I was officially finished with my schooling to be a real-life teacher.
There are presently two open positions here in the local school district for history teachers that have not yet been filled.
I have applied for both, although my teaching permit hasn't arrived.
We're down to the wire here. Please pray that my teaching permit arrives in time, and subsequently the district to give me a job.

The Blodgett's Come to Town

My sister Sara, her husband Joey, and their little son Skylend came to visit us in Gig Harbor this past weekend. After they arrived late Saturday night, we had a leisurely morning before loading up and heading over to Seattle, as neither Sara or Joey have been since high school. We walked the waterfront, went to the Seattle Aquarium and had a lunch that turned out to be less than great. We would have done some more touring, but it turned out that it was "hemp fest" this weekend in Seattle, so after lunch, we headed back home. We did a little shopping of our Target, and spent the rest of the evening watching a movie. Twas a lovely time. Here are the photos:

Don and Lynette's Wedding

My cousin Lynette was married in Bothell last night to her new hubby, Don Kelly.
We had a great time, the wedding was beautiful, the reception a blast. I took the liberty of snapping a few shots during the wedding and reception- below is a small preview.

Pictures of Don and Lynette's Wedding

Concussion Land

Hey friends,
I realize it's been a little while since I've last posted to the ole' blog. The reason, or at least my excuse, for not posting lately is the fact that I am concussed.
I did not listen to wisdom of old, and I played with a ball in the house. I was standing in the living room, bounding a ball against the laundry room door when Puck came in and thought that looked like a game he could play. I continued to bounce the ball against the door, and he suddenly jumped up, bounced himself against me and caught the ball. Meanwhile, his bouncing off of me caused me to lose my footing and fall backwards. I landed slamming my head against the coffee table and subsequently fell asleep momentarily. This was last weekend...as in 11 days ago. I spent the whole of last week in my bed w/ ice packs on my head, taking pain pills. I went to the doctor a couple of times, who said it would take a while for me to feel normal again. Sunday, as I was still pretty much a lump, Nancy and Mike (my cousins,) came over from Wenatchee to help me out. I spent the weekend laying on the couch while Nancy commenced doing all the laundry, organizing my pantry and making me food. It was just so very nice to have someone here, I wasn't expecting such service, but I was so grateful to have everything done.
My headache has finally all but subsided, but I still have the feeling that I'm sitting on a boat in rough seas.
In other news, Bryan has been out of town for a week, and will return this afternoon. He flew to Detroit for the weekend to be w/ his grandfather who is in the hospital and very, very ill.
He then flew to Wisconsin for a work training event. He's on his way home right now. Yay.
And that is what is up with us. We hope all of you are doing well.