I accidentally in your base

Well, some people turned up for my birthday party-ish thing yesterday (azekeil, kissycat1000 and gothslut among them). Some other people sent apologies or just didn't make it - particularly missed were darklightimages who's been busy half-dying of asthma from the sound of it, and ninneviane who seems to have just a few things to be getting on with at present  :)

On the whole it was a lot quieter than I was hoping - more of a gathering than a party. I suspect this was either caused or aided by the fact that half the people buggered off really early. Still, it was nice to see people anyway... and maybe I'm too old for having loud parties now - whether I want them or not?  ;)

Toward the end of the night, I got comfortable enough lounging around on the floor eating KFC and watching Red Dwarf that I temporarily forgot my leg was broken and tried to use it as part of the process of sitting up. There was a loud squeal and a short burst of swearing on my part, and it still hurts quite a bit today. I've been waiting for something like that to happen, an instinctive movement that slips through the mental safety nets I've been building around everything I do. Still, hopefully no permanent damage done, just a loud and definite warning to be even more careful in future.

I've got a hospital appointment on the 16th when I get x-rayed and find out how things are going inside the leg... so far I can't say that it feels particularly encouraging - there are definitely still bits rattling around loose in there. Even before I strained it last night there were still directions that I can't let the leg take its own weight in without some rather unattractive 'crunch' noises resulting. I'm not sure whether this means it's not healing very well, or whether it's to be expected that it will take longer than this before it starts being even vaguely intact again.

I'm reaching another one of those points where this whole process seems to be interminable... I'm not even a quarter of the way through the full healing period yet, and less than halfway to the time I can try walking again even if all goes well. I'm really starting to miss dancing an incredible amount - I had no idea how much pleasure I got from going out to Full Tilt at the Electric Ballroom and bouncing around like a loony for a few hours. I'm a bit miffed that there will be bouncy bands at Whitby, which although it is months away, will still be within my 'not even walking' time let alone my 'not safe to dance like a loony yet' time.

Tangent 1: gothslut managed to leave her phone here today... if anyone known to either me or her is going to be going from MK to Cambridge sometime in the next couple of days, please let us know - otherwise I'll have to post it. Trusting someone else's property to the MK post fills me with a certain amount of dread.

Tangent 2: I waited until 10 to 11 tonight before deciding that yes, I was hungry enough for it to be worth me phoning a pizza. Only to find out that the pizza place's driver was taking an early night and had just gone out on his last delivery run. They did ask if I could collect, but of course that's not really an option at present. Bah.