www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-niu-gunman_webfeb15,0,1760508.story

You always hear of these shootings but it hit too close to home today. My friend’s son attends NIU and his best friend/roomate was in the lecture hall that the shooter was in. When the story first aired on the news earlier this afternoon panic gripped me for a moment, then I said a silent prayer for Nick’s angels to protect him and then I went to call my friend. Before I could get to the phone my other friend called me to see if I was watching the news and then Nick’s mom called to say she had heard from him and that he was safe after not being able to get in contact with him for over an hour. Can you imagine the fear that she was feeling? I wanted to break down and cry when I heard they both were safe.

Thank you Heavenly Father for continually watching over and keeping our loved ones safe while they are away from us.

Of course classes have been cancelled indefinetely and Nick and his roomate are more than likely on their way home. I haven’t spoken to my friend G for about 4 hours now. She probably gassed up the Camry and went to get them.

I don’t know why these type of things have to happen and it seems as if they are occuring more and more as time goes on.

So what is the answer?

What do we do?

How can we stop the violence?

These questions are rhetorical I suppose but really do you have a clue cause I sure don’t.

Yesterday I had a very good appointment with the surgeon. He took me off the W.oun.d Vac machine and now I only have to have a small 4 x 4 piece of gauze placed inside the wound and he cleared me to drive again!!! Whoo hoo I haven’t driven since December 11th, the day I went in to have surgery. I missed my baby E!! It felt hella strange behind the wheel, like I was in a boat LOL!! Anyways I drove home from the appointment and sang all the way home. I felt soooo good and I don’t have to go back to the docs for two weeks. Can somebody say HELL YEAH!!! I’ve been going every Friday for the last 7 weeks so this is a welcomed and much needed break.

I also went out today by myself and did a wee bit of shopping. Nothing big just some necessities in the antibacterial goods family!! Yeah I still have to be super careful of germs and trust I do not want any bad bacteria creeping up on me again. Infection be damned!! Get thee gone cause I’m gonna spray, wipe and spray again til all you smell is bleachy freshness!!!

So that’s about all with me, just taking it little by little. Still trying to learn how to bend my left knee when I walk. Now that is funny. You should see me because I literally have to focus on bending and if I don’t I’m dragging it. The therapist says it’s all in the hips. Oh hell you mean I gotta be switchin’ up in here? Now you know that shole ain’t me but you gotta do what ya gotta do to get better right?

*Picture Bunny switchin’ down the Bunny patch instead of hopping!!*

Stay warm this weekend. Tomorrow the high here in Chicago is going to be 4 degrees, yeah I said a high of 4 degrees. Now you know that is just plain wrong on so many levels but hey it’s Chicago and we get the most craziest weather here ever!!

Keep your fingers crossed for me regarding some financial good news!! I’ll give details when it happens.