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February 28, 2005

thanks for all

the concern that everyone has expressed! We really appreciate it. It's wonderful to have people in our lives who care about our well-being. Nothing like a scary accident to make you realize that you can't take the people in your lives for granted.

The update:

Both of us have broken and displaced noses. Yay. That means we check in with plastic and sinus specialists tomorrow to see where we go from here. My face is starting to look a bit more normal again though. The puffiness is now a sweet jaundice-yellow color and will hopefully be gone in a day or two. My lip sports a smaller scab than before. I don't think my lip will scar but there are marks between my lip and nose that I worry about. My neck is stiff so they gave me some muscle-relaxers to take at night. Hoping that goes away soon too.

And yes, we have good lawyers.

The sad thing is that it looks like I could have been in a bad fight or something rather than a car accident. When I was getting my nose x-rayed today, the radiologist asked me if I had fallen. But the way she asked me was more of in an expectant sort of way, as though she assumed that is the "story" I had. She seemed surprised when I mentioned it was a car accident. I suspect she sees a lot of battered women coming in to that office. Made me sad. It's hard too, to be in public places, e.g.: going to the grocery store to get my prescription filled, walking downtown to go to the lawyers or even in the hospital itself. Everyone stares at me, wondering why my face is such a strange sort of yellow. I'll be extra glad when I just look normal again.

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February 25, 2005

you win some and lose some

Vegas was wonderful but the trip back was a nightmare. Barely three miles from home, on Tuesday night, our maniac cab driver was speeding across Storrow and as he was crossing the intersection at Western to join up with the main part of Storrow, he never slowed down...kept his 60mph speed, which meant that when a guy decided to run the red light, there was no time to react. We t-boned. Blood everywhere, our faces up against the plexiglass. Both drivers were okay, however we were carted out on stretchers with neckbraces, with lovely facial injuries. The friends that we had just left at the airport to head home came back to the hospital to pick our mangled selves up and get us home. We're pretty beat up. Joe has 7 stitches down his nose...the gash tore all the way through. I have lacerations and stitches in my upper lip (which split).

Our dear friend Paulette came the next day and got us groceries and took Joe to pick up percoset perscriptions and my glasses from the impounding place. We really needed the help and it's been good knowing she's around this week if we need it.

We keep looking uglier by the day...or at least I do. My face is nearly unrecognizable. It's a massive puffy mess. Bruises around my eyes. Lip is scabbed and puffy. My body aches and aches. This morning I don't seem to have full range of movement in my neck. I'm not going to be able to sit at the computer much longer today. Joe was lucky to have a plastic surgeon give him his stitches...they look like they will heal up nicely. His nose is surely broken though...he had a bump there that is missing and he is in considerable sinus pain.


But we're alive and that's what really matters. Please, please, think about putting your seatbelts on the next time you are in a taxicab. Most people I know don't when in a cab...and take it from us, you should.

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February 16, 2005

in my very near future, i'm looking forward to

staying here:

eating at Fleur De Lys:

making wine angels fetch at Aureole:

drinking champagne here:

watching Zumanity:

and who knows what else? ;-)

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February 14, 2005

Happy Valentine's Day--the Martian Way

The one above is a a 279 yard wide mesa and the one below is actually a 1.4 mile wide pit.

Posted by crystallyn at 07:03 AM

February 09, 2005

i think i might be insane

I'm thinking that I might want to start training toward a mini-triathlon. Not for this year, but maybe next year, if I begin training now. I've been adding some jogging into my walking program and I'm beginning to really kick ass on the elliptical, so I am thinking that it's not entirely beyond me if I work at it.

Plus then I'll have a real fitness goal to work toward, rather than just dropping pounds and clothes sizes; which is, truthfully, the real goal, but I need to make it something more driving and challenging, I think. I tend to get so discouraged when I plateau, so instead of focusing on the weight loss, what if I focus on becoming as fit as possible? And proving it to myself?

Beginning Triathalete makes me think that maybe it's something attainable. There are some great beginning runner programs charted out there. I have access to a pool, treadmill and bike. As the weather gets warmer, there is a 3-mile-around lake to walk/run a block from my house. I have all the tools and I am dedicated to the gym...why not work toward a real goal?

I can't believe that I have written this post. Me, who has always hated exercise and here I am, actually aspiring to become an athlete. I think it's a way to extend my understanding of who I am. I am becoming healthy--I am determined and NOTHING is going to make me lose sight of that. I've been going to the gym faithfully for 10 months straight...a record for me. My body is slowly changing, but it is changing. I had a setback at Christmas (7 lb setback!) but I've quickly found my groove again and am back at the weights that I was doing before I fell off the wagon. I feel funny if I don't make it to the gym on a given day. I sleep better. My cholesterol is near optimum (even though I'm still overweight). I am stronger than I have been in years.

I can do this.

So here it is...a new goal. Closer to a mini-triathlon by my birthday, June 5, 2006.

Posted by crystallyn at 07:33 PM | Comments (3)

February 02, 2005

green taxis in Boston

Daily Candy Boston had an article on new environmentally friendly taxis in the Boston area. VERY cool and you can bet that next time I need a taxi I'll be thinking about this type of service instead.

Posted by crystallyn at 07:43 PM | Comments (3)

jetting around with the jetta

This little friend has a new home...in my driveway.

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February 01, 2005

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE!


Joe is probably cringing as sees this, but really, it's all just a bunch of numbers. He has the looks of someone ten years younger, easily. Throw a baseball hat on him and he'll get carded everytime. He has better 8-year old humor than even Bart Simpson. Yet at the same time, he has the wisdom and experience that make him the perfect package. He has excellent style, superb taste in music and he's artsy without the fartsy. He knows more about wine than most people would ever dream of knowing. And boy, can he cook! I want to send a big huge NYAH-NYAH to all the girls that let him slip through their fingers. Because now he's mine all mine! It's me that gets to be lucky enough to spend the next 40 years with him!


Happy Birthday Joe!

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