Happy Birthday Mom!
Hope you have a great day!

Well, I suppose it's time I entertained you guys with a monthly post isn't it?  lol!  As you can see I've *finally* changed my layout.  The other was one was boring my eyes to tears!!!!  Agh!  The picture above was actually taken in the parking lot of our nearest JCPenny store.  I cropped off the bottom half and cloned out the light poles and viola (is that how you spell it?  cause it looks like the instrument to me), it's a beautiful sky picture.  I even added a painter graphic to it so it looks even a little more interesting than the actual thing.  Cool huh?


And now I must, must, must thank Sharla for giving me the blogger reflection award!  Thanks so much!  I've even thought up an idea of my own for awards.  I'm not going to tell anyone yet.....mwuahaha.


Okay, I need to share the most recent news from my last doctor vist!  Otherwise known.....*dundadunda! 

Ankle Update! 

We drove all the way into Chicago to see an ankle specialist.  He took some more X-rays and looked at the ones with brought with us as well.  He said it's a rather large bone chip and instead of fixing (meaning screws) it like the other doctor suggested we should just take it out.  He said in my age range he's found that fixing it doesn't work well.  He also said the same thing as the other guy, there really isn't anything else we should do because we've already tried it!  So after some consideration we decided to go with taking the bone chip out.  The hopeful goal of this is to rid of the pain and to be able to flex my ankle once again.  If this first surgery doesn't work then we would move on to something more complicated which invovles opening up my entire ankle.  But hopefully it won't go that way!  My surgery date is August 16th.  A week from tomorrow, gah!  I think they said I will be in crutches for about 6-8 weeks.  Then therapy starts.  <--Joy right? lol.
So that's the news on.....*dundadunda*


Ankle Update!

Bwuah, so I'm savoring each day of walking till I hit the crutches.  It would figure too, that my best friend is going to my favorite amusment park this year AND someone is having a potluck with lessons on how to learn CIVIL WAR DANCING!!!  Bummed about both of those since now I can't do it.  =(  Well, I still have orchestra to look forward to.  It will be an exciting year too!  I start with the high school orchestra on August 24th playing cello and on September 9th I start in the Youth orchestra playing violin.  Sound awesome or what?!  I have an upcoming audition in October as well so I need to get practicing on that piece.  Oh, my cello teacher is helping me find some good music books for the quartet so if we start practicing in September we might be able to get a gig somewhere here soon.  =D =D =D  Haha, my life is so full of music right now.  Atleast a cast won't stop me from that!!  BWUAHAAHAHHAhAhAHA!  TAKE THAT CAST!!!  *continues demented laugh* 

I think I'll take off now...

ttfn,

Jill 

P.S. tomorrow I will post about the sleep over I had at my friend Sage's house!  Okay, maybe not *tomorrow* but sometime soon here!