Hip Report and Diversions

First...thank you to all of you who have been sending positive vibes and energy toward me and my tricky-icky-hip. I really *heart* all my friends (blogging and non-blogging). I find it wondrous and amazing that I have this community of peeps who are really-fo-sho-real friends. I had lunch with my sister today and at several points found myself telling her stories that involved "this friend in South Dakota, or in Iowa, or in Minnesota, or in LA, or in Canada who...blah, blah, blah." She probably wonders how I know all these people around the world.

OK...gushiness aside. Today's hip report is about the same as yesterday's...that is--no change so far. I was beside myself with grief today when I woke up. Somehow I thought that I'd wake up and the hip-fairies would have come in the middle of the night and magically taken all my hip-pains away. Imagine my disappointment when I got out of bed this morning and my first step on my left foot was felt in my hip-joint...GAH!

I do have a picture of the bag-o-peas in my pants

OK...its a picture of me with a bulge on my hip. Really my hips are not quite that lumpy; that's what it looks like when you have a bag of peas stuck down your pants. What EXACTLY were you expecting?

So...I'm a little sad, but optimistic that the hip-fairies will come tonight. (I'm being Peter-Pan like and saying over and over, "I do believe in hip-fairies. I do believe in hip fairies"...maybe if you all say it with me, they'll arrive in the middle of the night and fix my hip...it could happen.)

Sooooo....since I needed diversions to keep my mind off of my hip, we went to the beach yesterday. We had some relatives from NoCal in town, and since it's 85º in January here...the beach is the place to be...now let me tell you the ocean water is cooooooooold, but kids don't care.

DramaGirl, Turbo, and friend playing on the beach. Nice surf yesterday.

Relaxing in the sun (Turbo, DramaGirl and N0Cal Girl)

In other diversions. The SDTC has some photos of the last two week's runs. Here's one of me yesterday, before the popping incident.

See...look how happily I'm running...GAH! Not a pain in the world.

BBJ and I had a good giggle after our run when we learned that when doing squats or lunges "if your butt's in the air, you're doing it right." Food for thought.

BBJ made a new running friend this week... I hear she told him LOTS of good stories...

Finally. Meet Scotty, the newest member of our running group

Scotty has a REALLY interesting way of making new friends. (Oh and thanks to BBJ for pointing out the photo to me. I'd completely missed it the first time through)

I'm hoping to hear from the sports therapist tomorrow...

Finally...a huge congrats to all who ran in today's PF Chang's 1/2 and full marathons. I'm looking forward to all the race reports.