And it's Friday

 Felt better still today, though after I'm on my feet for a while that leg does start to hurt. 

I kind of had to laugh - my MD/PhD colleague (who is perhaps 10 years my senior and is from China) tends to check up on what's going on with people's health and today when he saw me going to get up using the cane, he looked sternly at me and said "which hand are you using?" and I quickly transferred it to my left hand (you're supposed to use it on the opposite side to the injury). It's easy to forget because I'm right handed.

He did say that since it hurt when I first stood up, but got better upon walking, it was most likely muscular, so that's reassuring. 

When I got home I thought maybe I felt good enough to do some cleaning (put away books I had just thrown into a laundry basket to get them out of the way so I had clearer paths- they had fallen off a stack on a shelf and I didn't have the energy to replace them, and also put away all the clothes I washed the night before). And I did this in part to be able to change the sheets on the bed - I had changed them right before leaving for Christmas break, didn't change them when I got back, and then I got the injury, so they've been slept on for at least three weeks. (Normally I like to change them every week or every other week when it's not allergy season). So I washed my shark sheets and cleared allllllllll the stuffies off the bed (that's what I needed the empty laundry baskets for, to hold them).

In retrospect: that might have been a bit of exertion as I had to really fight with the mattress topper - it had slid over a bit to one side, which made sitting on the side of the bed feel insecure (like you might fall off) and getting the fitted sheet wrestled on was hard. And then of course all the pillows and stuffed critters had to go back, but I got it done.

Tomorrow I might try to do more clean up, but I'm pretty beat now. 

And one finished item I totally forgot about (and found again when sorting stuffed animals from my bed

This is Hibiscus. She's made from Rachel Borillo Carrol's "Nilla the Unicorn" pattern. I used (if I remember correctly) the JoAnn's house brand worsted-weight in a peach color, and the mane and tail are Lion Brand's "Ice Cream"in Parfait (which I think now is a discontinued color). The hooves and muzzle, and the horn were scraps that were on hand at my mom's house.

 I intentionally kept the face simple - just lock washer eyes - because the way the pattern was designed with the white muzzle, it reminded me of the much-coveted Japanese "Osharena" pony - Takara's interpretation of the original My Little Ponies. (Apparently "osharena" means "fashionable")

You can see some of them here

I like how she came out; she does remind me of those ponies. Perhaps some day I will make her one of those simple gathered-at-the-neck dresses like some of those pony figures wear