friday ambiguous feelings non-list: because.
Normally I’d be doing a Love List here, since it IS Friday AND it’s the first Friday of the year.
It seems wrong to consider doing anything else!
But as I was walking home, I was rewarded for the first time I’d worn a skirt out of doors in months.
As I walked down the icy snow/crunchy snow/slick ice/frozen whatnot road about a block away from my home, my Uggs (it was not their fault, they’ve had gorgeous grip) hit a patch of what felt like banana peels sprayed with Pam, and BOOM… I hit the ground.
The crunchy, stabby, uneven ice-packed ground.
Bah.
My first fall of the season, period.
Skirt now ripped. Leg hacked to bits. Wrist worse for wear. Blood on Uggs (I’ll get it out, I weather-treated them well). And I’m pretty sure I’ll have bruises in places I’m not aware of yet.
Damn the no-road-clearing. Damn the melt-freeze-melt-freeze cycle. Damn the pretty day that convinced me I could take the risk and not look like bleeeargh in my old jeans.
I mean, oh well. Could be much worse.
But I don’t feel LOVEY, per se. I’ll try for it tomorrow.
Happy January 2nd!
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Sorry about your fall. My wife fell twice yesterday trying to get to work. Took me half an hour to find a parking spot on Main today for dim sum. Enough with the frozen wasteland!
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Oh man…I can so relate!
I’m a klutz to begin with. When we had the cold temps and snow several weeks back I would fall 2-4 times just walking from my truck in the parking lot into work. I HATE ICE…unless it is in drinks.
Hope you heal quickly, Meg, and that you get the stains out of your still-new Uggs. Yay for weathertreating, huh??
January 3rd, 2009 at 7:47 am
Ouch!