I spent this New Years with some friends at a lakehouse, getting drunk, playing trivial pursuit, blowing things up and getting drunker. Oh, that and tetris. yeah. Wow. I think I broke my toe.
So, here I am sitting with an icepack on my foot (unable to dance, if it is broken, for at least a month), and tired as a mofo after the holidays.
Such, I suppose, is life.
Of course, in Tarot, the card for change is Death. Seeing the doctor for my toe involved getting a blood pressure checkup. Wow. it's high. Of course, now I'm nervous about it, which doesn't help much. I hope I'll be able to address it through diet and more exercise, as opposed to lifetime medication. Damnit. I'm not exactly in shape, but hell. I dance, I take the stairs, I don't eat terribly badly or pile on the salt. And I'm young! I'm not particularly happy about this.
So, I'm monitoring my bloodpressure. It's nowhere near as bad as it was appearing (whitecoat hypertension, it seems). It's still a bit above what it should be, and seems to vary greatly depending on time of day (higher in the morning, lower in the evening, even after a caffeinated and intense day, go fig). It seems to swing between normal at the lowest, high normal generally, and type I hypertension. When I'm super pumped-up, it can get much higher, but these (after many readings) seem to be the exception, not the rule. So, it's time to get better about eating and exercising. I should do that anyway, this gives me a good reason.
My toe is much better. If I don't bind it, I can wear shoes now (though it's a Good Thing to keep it bound in general) and I danced around on it a bit last night in shoes without undue pain. Which gets me to thinking about dancing sooner than I was expecting, which will also help with the hypertension thing.
...Could someone get the number of the party that hit me?
I think next year, I'll require NDAs (Non-disclosure agreements).
There was less intermingling between social groups this year, but that's OK too. There were many interesting events, the 6 person shower, the battle of the mikes, dancin', fish bombing, and I can only presume more.
I have no clue how I'm going to top this party next year. Maybe professional lights?
I managed to start the new year off with a bad foot. Not on, with. It takes real skill to do that. Yeah. Right.
...The REAL Millennium!
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