Haley running out of our kitchen yesterday! JK, LOL :-)

The toes on my left foot are coming alive! This weekend I have been able to lift the toes on my left foot and dorsiflex and evert my foot. I think I'll name my left foot Rip Van Winkle - it has been asleep for "a long winter's nap". Don't know if it means anything, but it is encouraging. My pool therapist is sick today, so I have another day to work on completing continuing education for license renewal. Managed to finish four more hours this week and am starting a three hour independent study program today. This is the first renewal period that I have not been prepared for way in advance. I have been so busy with rehab that I lost focus with the big picture this past two years. Not sure why I am renewing my license since I cannot really practice now, but I worked too hard to become a nurse to let it lapse and feel too young to go inactive.

We had an interesting night yesterday. I found out that regular dish detergent does not work in the dishwasher! I was trying to finish cleaning the kitchen and did not have any more dishwasher detergent, so decided to see if dish detergent would work...well, it looked like it was snowing in the kitchen. Fortunately, I realized my "experiment" did not work, so began running the dishes through the rinse & hold cycle repeatedly until the "snow storm" stopped. Haley took phone pictures and she & I had a good laugh. Our dishes and the kitchen floor are both VERY clean!

I cannot resist adding the following sign after listening to Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention last night. She sounds like the veto queen. Too bad the VP doesn't have the power to veto!!! Did McCain's campaign organizers let her read the job description?

If McCain wins the election, I just hope he lives for his full term of office. I could not help but note that one of Sarah Palin's statements contrasting McCain and Obama actually spoke about Palin. Think carefully about the implications of this statement in relation to Palin's level of experience and expertise. If I was her, I would be saying "OUCH" for stepping on my own toes!!!:

"In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change." Sarah Palin, Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., 9/3/08