one clumsy girl

Our house in DC metro finally sold, we bought a place out here, and everything in storage was delivered — finally! When the mover was unloading my bag of gear, N asked him, “hey, how bad does that smell?” Mover, “uh. Maybe a little…” Heh. I started doing Couch to 5k again and (of course! [...]

When I moved to Seattle in late 2001, my dad emailed me a link to the Seattle Women’s Hockey Club. At the time I didn’t have the budget to invest in all of the equipment, but I kept it in the back of my mind. I moved back to the DC area in 2003. In [...]

I upgraded wordpress last night to the current version including upgrading the database schema. Please let me know if there is anything awry. From a content standpoint, I’m trying to decide if I want to start [b]logging things other than skating since I’m still not able to skate due to my knee (but I think [...]

Less than 24 hours after I wrote the PT update the other day, my sharp knee pain was back with a vengeance. Was it the weather? Did I do any different activity on those days? Was it because I missed my at-home exercises twice last week? No idea. Today it felt better again until after [...]

This week is my fourth week of physical therapy for my PFS and ITBS. The first week I did not feel any worse or better. The second week I felt worse (my orthopaedist warned me that would probably happen). At the end of last week, my third week, my knee finally started to feel a [...]

Just a quick FYI: the site will be down for a period of time this weekend while my WSP moves a bunch of servers to their new datacenter. They suggest a 12 hour window from midnight eastern (GMT -4) through noon on Saturday, 22 March 2008. Working in the industry, I think this is a [...]

At the beginning of February, when I was planning to jump back into hockey practice, my knee started to hurt. It wasn’t just a wee bit of pain, it was weak, it would collapse when I put weight on it, and it had been clicking and locking. After a month of limiting my activity and [...]