Klutzy Katie

It's a widely known fact that pregnancy makes women clumsy. Makes sense, as the average woman gains 25 - 35 lbs; and in my case I'm well beyond that (hoping to not double it, but on the way there).

...and as I was on the way to work this morning, I fell. Not your usual stumble, but a walking-fast, in-the-middle-of-the-intersection, really-bit-it and hurt myself kind of fall. Skinned the right knee, twisted the left ankle somethin' good - and almost got run over by the cars roaring by me as the light changed @ 24th & Guerrero.

I guess it wouldn't have been so bad, except that no one helped - and as I limped back up to the sidewalk, I missed the light anyway.

Here's the damage:




I can't even remember the last time I fell down; let alone just by walking. I recall falling on a lacrosse field (still inelegant as an umpire, but somewhat more understandable)

In other news, we've gotten a nice used play structure for the back yard (similar to this one), and the seller even brought it to us, for $65 (I love Craigslist!)
It's the blue-thing on the right side (view is looking down from our window...now you see the distance, and you know why we didn't used to go down to the garden very often).


Deven has used it a little bit so far; but I suspect it will be invaluable next year when #2 comes along and I want to get outside...but can't be bothered to go too far.