Limp-with-style accessories

Hey! FutureKati here. Still hobbling about.

After a couple of days, the pain had receded but not vanished, and this led me to believe that I'm going to be dealing with this for awhile. Again. But there is a silver lining to this cloud. Since this is now officially a recurring injury, I've decided to get a cane. So, for Christmas (which will come as early as possible), Michael is getting me a dragon head cane. Because if you have to limp, you might as well limp in style! Oh, yeah.

I'm really excited about this, actually. We've been shopping about online and I found a lot of nice ones for around $60, plus $30 s/h. Some places won't ship to Hawaii for reasons unknown. Some places say that shipping is $10, until they find out you're in Hawaii, and then it becomes $30. One place has a nice dragon cane for $40, plus $unknown s/h and they're only open Monday-Friday, so I'll call for specs then. Many, many, many places have dragon head canes with swords hidden in the canes, and most of those places don't mention in any convenient location in the product description that it is illegal to carry about a sword in your cane. They are for display purposes (in your home) only. One place has a really groovy silver carved dragon head and fiberglass shaft, for the bargain price of $500. A lot of dragon canes (I assume because most people get them to look cool, rather than to assist with their walking) are 40" or more high, making them too high for me, because I'm short, and that comes up above my elbow, which would make it hard for me to support myself. Lot of strain to the wrist, I imagine.

Also, I'm lucky because I'm small. This means I have a wider variety of limp-with-style accessories available to me, because a lot of the pretty canes say they are not weight-bearing canes for people over 170lbs, 220lbs, or 250lbs. I weigh less than all of these put together... or something like that.

I hope to have a cane chosen and ordered on Monday. It should be here... sometime after that. Hopefully sooner, rather than not sooner.

Michael's kind of sick (hopefully not the flu). Came down with... whatever it is... yesterday. He's got papers to write and Chinese to study, so hopefully it's not too bad, and won't linger. We'll see soon enough, I guess. Stocked up on juice and healthy things.

I'm at... 33,700ish words right now, and I'm hoping to add another 3000 or so today. Final projects are coming along. Short films are nearly done. I'm playing games with some of the nanos this afternoon. My foot aches. I don't want to walk anymore. And I'm restless. I hate sitting still.

my love to the wife and kids,
kati