Friday: I had a snow day and decided to sleep in and not do much of anything.

Saturday: dad took me down to the lake to get more hours in on driving (there was a cop at the end of the road just sitting there that scared me.. long story) and then after me, mom, and dad went to watch star wars while my brother hung out with his girlfriend.

And Sunday/tonight: one of my friends had a party at the cherry fork gym, I was walking across the stage and one of the boards (dad said was an old stage light) flipped and my foot fell in and got twisted and pinched and started to swell my dad and a few other people told me to keep an eye on it and if it hurt when we got home we’d go to UC we ended up going to the uc and all they did was flip it around a bit, take an x-ray and tell me all I did was bruise it and to keep it elevated, so here I am sitting in bed with a fluffy purple pillow under my foot feeling like a hooligan because I’m so clumsy.

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