bionic knees

so a catch up on life. the last two weeks have been crazy and are getting crazier!

jump!

go cubbies! with some coworkers

i was in chicago for a few days working and then playing. i LOVE chicago. love it! the conference was a fun one. great coworkers that week and a good group of students. sadly i missed any st. patrick's day fun as i was in conference mode but i was crazy that weekend working with the first/second round of march madness. i couldn't watch many games due to work - but i was checking scores like crazy on my phone. and then sunday afternoon - tuesday i had a wonderful few days frolicking around chicago. it was in the low 80s and just gorgeous weather. i had some fun with co-workers and also some erin travel adventure time but took it the sights and did an architecture tour which was awesome, saw a second city show, saw sue the t-rex, walked along lake michigan, did the magnificent mile, saw both wrigley and solider field, played at the bean and ate deep dish pizza and a chicago hot dog. soooo glad i had a chance to go to chicago and i also was able to cross it off my 30 by 30 list! wooooo! and by officially going to illinois i've now been to 32 states! for the last year i was counting illinois as my 31.5 state, as i've flown in and out of o'hare a lot for transfers, but until i actually do something it is counted as a state.

name twins - aaron & erin

and then i was home for approximately 18 hours where i repacked, ran some errands and met my momma for lunch before heading to a zeta event and then on my way to my next conference in princeton which is luckily only about an hour away from home. so it was nice to be close. it was an interesting conference - fun coworkers and a lot of basketball talk, plus we were playing a hunger games game so we were all paranoid trying not to do silly things as we tried to get our coworkers to give us high 5's, thumbs up, dance around or take off our shoes among other things. and yes i did die - my coworker got me to take off my shoe. uugh. but it was funny! and then i didn't stay to play since i had to be back home monday morning. but it was an entertaining weekend.


so monday morning i headed across the border to pennsylvania to pick up my new knee brace. for when i start playing sports/being more active i need a heavy duty brace so i was able to get her on monday. so i have my second bionic knee. for the next year or so whenever i do anything physical i'll wear it on my right knee (the one i just broke) and then gradually i'll wear it less and less depending on the activity but i always wear them to ski and to hike. so i took a picture of the two bionic knees! and omg, the new brace is so sexy. it is soooo light and just amazing compared to big red. i need to think of a name for my new brace - yes i know i'm crazy! and then i had an appointment at my knee doctor where he said my knee was doing awesome! woooo! i no longer need physical therapy - which is good as insurance said they would no longer cover it. i just need to work out 4 times a week which i have been doing. so that is good news! and that i can return to sports and an active lifestyle in 3 months! so i have to wait a bit more to start running more than 5 minutes but i'm happy to hear everything is healing well! annnnnnnd since i'm done with physical therapy is means I"M HEADED BACK TO CHARLESTON! woooooo! i'm driving down to dc on wednesday and seeing some friends and then on thursday making the trek down! so excited! eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

so that is my big fun news! back to charleston! yay! so excited to be back in the south!

so maybe i'll get back to blogging regularly again?