So I may have reached new heights of stupidity… what I should have done is stay in bed, possibly all day, but I’d promised myself I was going to take the Jellicle Cat pancakes for lunch (and FJ and Lexy) and frankly I have to much to do to waste the morning in bed…
Penguin was too busy with Builders and Estate Agents to rescue me as we’d planned so I called MoT to grab me the ingredients (in return I paid him in pancakes) and I had a bit of a baking session…I learned many things, mostly about how when I toss pancakes I actually put pressure onto my left foot (the sprained one). Also I learned that yes, the ankle is sprained, not strained, not a little bit twisted but not really but actually honest to god strained… I’m trying to convince myself here that I’m not a hypochondriac… it isn’t easy.
The expression on the Jellicle’s face when I turned up for lunch limping on my Fuji Stick (well it is the coolest walking stick in the world) made it all worth it and by turning up for lunch I got to stick around with FJ afterwards and we’re thinking that Lace and Steel might even be ready to playtest in the Summer Term, which I am pretty excited by. I’m thinking I’m going to attempt to play a Saturday Live in a couple of weeks so I can really get my head around combat and then…well we’ll see what else we need to work on.
A random aside, the only annoying thing about walking around with my Fuji Stick is that people aren’t entirely sure whether to take the limp seriously, that and the fact that I can’t limp…no seriously, I end up mis-stepping and feeling the pain…you wouldn’t think you’d need to learn how to limp but apparently I do…
I have had to make myself promise not to go shopping tomorrow and I’m not entirely sure that the house is going to be in the state I wanted it to be when my parents come visit on Sunday…but such is life.
Now I’m going to go to bed, me and my Fuji stick
I think most folk need to learn how to limp with a stick properly. For instance, there’s a common tendency to hold the stick on the opposite side to the dodgy leg, which generally isn’t a good idea!
I seem to do best holding it in the middle.