January 1, 2009 started off with a broken toe.Heading towards the stove/kettle/coffee, I stepped over Oscar, and somehow interacted with the knee wall in my kitchen in a way that caused my toe to come out a loser. (I wasn't drunk or hungover either!)
In February, I hurt my right knee working out to Billy Blanks; that took about six months to feel better.
In March, I got an ear infection in my right ear and couldn't hear on that side for about a month.
In October, I caught a cold that lasted for about a month.
On December 25, I came down with swollen glands and a temp of 102.
And yesterday, December 30, my friend John died. He was one of the few people who could call me Kimmy and get away with it. We'd known each other since May 1992, and I spent many an hour at his house with his beautiful wife Laura and their two children, Vincent and Jennifer. They always welcomed me for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. John and I worked on several projects together and yes, we butted heads occasionally, but our friendship was stronger afterward.
Ironically, he had just been given the good news of being cancer free after battling Hodkin's Lymphoma for the past year. An errant blood clot traveled to his big, passionate heart and stopped it.
Good riddance 2009.
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