today marked my second day off of the week. the last time i had TWO days off was about two months ago. i spent it as leisurely as possible. well, as leisurely as possible with over-stretched calves. a few days ago, i took the stairs down instead of the elevator. yeah. what a great idea that was. considering we live on the 27th floor. i don't know what i was thinking. okay, obviously i wasn't. or maybe i was. because i vaguely remember telling myself that i wasn't walking UP the stairs, i was going DOWN, so it wouldn't be difficult at all. and i also remember reminding myself that almost a year ago, when our elevator went out at our previous apartment, i was walking up and down twelve flights of stairs. but of course there's a HUGE difference between twelve floors and twenty-seven floors. like fifteen to be precise.
but truthfully, i went down the stairs easily enough. and didn't think it had any effect on me. until two days later. i've been in extreme pain ever since. at first i was getting around the apartment by shuffling or sumo-walking. or, if i completely gave in, by crawling. the only time i'm not completely in pain is when i'm wearing my heels at work, which seems to misguidingly alleviate the stretching in my calves.
jon's been caring for me. he wraps my right calf, the more affected one, with bandage wrap and he's been making sure i do my stretches.
so truthfully, the reason i had the day off today was because i had to request it. jon's old high school invited him to talk at their career day to speak about being an auto technician. it was fun watching, as jon's NOT a public speaker. at all. well, neither am i ... but at least i'd try to prepare SOMETHING. jon went in with a general idea of what to say and what he wanted to do and completely improv'd (as in improvised) the rest of it.
but he was very realistic about the industry. touching on the stresses of the job that not a lot of people consider. informing them of how much needs to be invested in the career, mentally, physically as well as monetarily. he also did some demonstration using my car. showing how he diagnoses certain problems using certain testing equipment.
i could tell he was pretty nervous, but he did a great job. i'm very proud of my mechanic.
we decided to go to the matinee showing of "curious george". i enjoyed it very much it's an incredibly light-hearted movie and of course, brings back some childhood memories. since "memoirs of a geisha" (which i STILL haven't gotten a chance to see yet. i'll probably just wait for the dvd), i haven't really been anticipating the release of any movie. well, no. i want to see "ice age: the meltdown". but that's about it.