The Maestro - Christmas Project '09

ZobieCat

More Autumn

2 more shots from around town...

Fall Catch Up

Haven't posted in a long time. Staying busy with classes, patients, thesis contemplation, gym, doing video work for PO's Christmas CD/DVD and the other generalities of life.

Need to find time to work with GD on guitar parts and songs...feeling a bit of a creative surge coming on again.

Dishwasher decided to take a permanent vacation last week. 11 years of active duty at our house and one day, nothing. Picking up new one today and hoping to install tonight. Wish me luck.

Rainy and cold in NJ today. Much more like winter than autumn.

12 Steps Up & 1 Sore Back

Well, it was bound to happen. I was feeling great yesterday. Even thought I quite possibly had the back issue licked. Then a simple attempt at picking up the laundry basket, one that was not heavy at all, one that I had already moved once this morning and bam! Out goes the back again. Down on my knees and 3 minutes before getting off the floor.

A trip to the Chiro soon after and its better but still nowhere near yesterday. I feel as though I'm back at the third day of the original injury. Ugh! Another Chiro trip later today and ice in my future. Wish me luck.

8 Weeks

August 12th already and I haven't written a thing further on the thesis. This summer is flying. Now that PP is dead I will need to comb over the process notes from the past year and a half, analyze some patterns and link them to theories. I believe once I start writing again it will flow on its own. Just need to make the leap.

LC is gone now. Taken back to Greystone after causing a scene at a local law office and then transferred to a hospital. She called me at the group home once to chat. I fear now that she is back at Greystone I won't hear from her again. I hope she gets the care she needs.

Learned some interesting but sad and disturbing information about J. A suicide attempt where a friend found and saved him while still on the chair.

The positive highlight this week - HS sketched a very creative and artistic face on paper with markers. She has been in the system for many years and I'm told she doesn't do this. I can't help but wonder if our sessions have anything to do with it.

New Day, Better Back

Ok, so the back is better but it feels like I've been mugged. Wonder masseur-in-training AF worked magic for me yesterday. Relief was mine and sleep was much improved.

Today much of that remains, yet I feel as I once did after many hours of skating drills in my hockey days. No doubt it would be certainly worse had I not been treated to AF's capable hands.

Wrentched

Wife and Daughter at the beach and I stuck at home with a wrentched back since Friday. I got out of the house yesterday to see patients and drop by the school but I fear the driving may have been too much. Not sure at this point if I will attempt it again today. A trip to Great Adventure this week seems unfathomable to me right now. I surely will miss out if this doesn't improve pronto.

Ugh!

Sideview on E 4th

The Perfect Human