A new path

I took a long walk down the bike path just a few steps outside our condo door on Friday. The trees are just beginning to bud so it looks rather stark, but promising. Harry too is looking promising. The swelling is going down quickly and he never complains as I have tried to find new and interesting liquids for him to drink. His staple each day is Carnation instant breakfast which the doctor said will give him enough nutrition until Thursday when he has a post surgery follow-up appointment. At this appointment they may be able to remove some of the complex system of rubber bands which are currently holding his jaw back in position. If that is so he will be able to go back to the smashed and mashed diet he was on post- accident in mid-March. He is looking very slim and trim and I tell him that everyday, repeatedly. I remember during my first divorce, when I lost 20 or so pounds, my mother kept telling me I had never looked better. With this in mind, I feel my "you are looking so trim" remarks make a hard situation a bit more tolerable. Who among us would not like to lose a few pounds? Of course this way of doing it, like a bad divorce, is not exactly a choice one would make willingly, but is sure works.


I took off on the trail wearing my new tennis shoes I bought last week called "shape-ups" by Sketchers. My friend Linda was wearing them in Florida when we visited over Christmas and she said they were fabulous. They are constructed in a way to make your feet and body believe you are walking barefoot on sand which is supposed to be the best way to walk. Who knew? Of course any excuse to buy a pair of new shoes works for me. They are bouncy and fun to walk in. Just in case you didn't know Joe Montana wears "shape-ups" all the time now. I learned this from the life-size picture of him at the shoe store so I figured if he loves them and Linda loves them, how can you go wrong? Well, I did go wrong because the shoes come with the caution one should wear them for short periods each day or you may suffer some aches and pains. And aches and pains I currently have thanks to these cute shoes. Guess I need to shape up and walk a bit less.


I have decided walking each day will be my new sort of job for now so having new shoes is nice. I always bought myself a new outfit when I started a new job, but for now the shoes are doing the trick. I think I will love not working everyday and I think I will dislike not having to work everyday. My other new job is to read the New York Times everyday on my Kindle. This was not possible in Mexico because I did not have the whisper-net option on my Kindle so I could not download newspapers or magazines. I have not read newspapers in nearly two years so having this paper at my fingertips is quite the most wonderful thing in the world. My friend Bill in Florida is now reading the Times on his I-Pad with all the color pictures but for now, though I am jealous of Bill and his new I-Pad, I am very content. (My other two temporary jobs I should mention were watching the first season of Nurse Jackie and the first season of Glee on Blockbuster DVDs) So, I am on a new path: the joy of watching a husband who is healing up beautifully and I have my two new jobs to contend with. Damn lucky I'd say!