Well, 2024 so far has been an… adventure. Sure. That’s what we’ll call it.
Things really started getting interesting on December 21st, when I fell off my horse (there was a scary, scary pole on the ground that we had already trotted over a million times.) Unfortunately I really did a number on my ankle, and it is not meaningfully closer to being healed at this point, though a more informed diagnosis and prognosis are still yet to come.
I traveled home to Utah for Christmas, which was fortunately pretty uneventful. We had a very crammed, busy holiday trip, including a jaunt up to Yellowstone, where it was very cold.
On New Year’s Eve, my partner wasn’t feeling well and tried to go to bed early. This escalated to a 3am emergency room visit due to a GI bug he was suffering from. On the 2nd, I saw an orthopedist about my ankle, who put me in a hard cast. A few days later, Tater Tot threw her back out, and had to be carried up and down stairs for a week. This was especially challenging considering I am not, myself, particularly good on stairs at the moment. The cast came off after two weeks, and the walking boot went back on, and the MRI was scheduled. We got snow.
I have mostly been exhausted this year, between The Events and the fact that it’s January, which is objectively The Worst Month. However, I did finally finish a project I started last year. It’s a Zelda-themed cross-stitch. I was hoping to finish it before the new Zelda game came out last May, but instead I left it with only a little bit of the border remaining to do.
So that’s done. As for what will be finished next? Who knows. I hope the answer is “January.”
Caroline M. Steele 