Pain

And plenty of it. First it was my elbow...almost 3 months ago now. Now it's my knee. Isn't getting old and having your body fall apart great? It's not all bad though. I should be getting the referral to the orthopedist tomorrow...and actually seeing the orthopedist soon. I also found out today that when the orthopedist says I need to get MRIs on my elbow and knee (which I'm guessing he/she will) that my insurance company will cover the cost. So I've got that going for me, which is nice. The nerd part of me, which is an admittedly large part, is also looking forward to what the MRI images will look like. I'm "cool" like that. :) Besides, I'll take significant physical pain over significant emotional pain 10 times out of 10. It heals faster. I'm also finally getting over my cold too, so I'm feeling the best I've felt in a week. Yay me!!

It's super frustrating to have two major hurty body parts right now, but as always, God knows what he's doing. When my elbow started hurting, I had to stop lifting with my arms and focus more on my legs when I was working out. Now that my knee's hurting I can't work out at all. That does free up a good chunk of 2 nights and Saturday morning each week for getting the Studiophile stuff done...and it needs to get done. I'm actually typing this post right now while I'm waiting for some stuff to print so I can get more work done. It gets stressful and it gets tiring, but seeing where we're going with things motivates me, and I'm sure that this will all be more than worth it in the future.

There have been more times than I can count (okay, so I could probably count them if I could remember them all, but I wasn't taking notes at the time) along the way already where I have seen how things have gone and had to step back and say "That's God doing this. Things don't work this way." and I can't help but get excited about where things are going. This, like so many other phases of my life so far, isn't all sunshine, lollipops and puppy dogs along the way, but I just know when I get to the other side of it and look back on how things unfolded I won't have a choice but to praise God. I've rambled enough, and my printouts are almost done, so as the kids say, I'll catch you on the flipside. Okay, so the kids aren't actually saying that, but nobody's probably reading this anyway...