Halfway Day!

It's finally 4 April - Halfway Day. The day I got my cast, once I had finished moping and lamenting not being able to wear skinny jeans, I broke out my trusty Macbook and set about flagging dates in iCal that would serve as milestones along the way to getting my cast off. Some were automatic - teacher training weekends, for instance, and my upcoming trip to Miami. In the middle of planning out what amounts to Christmas in May on the day the cast comes off (oh, it's going to be good), I realized marking the halfway point provided yet another opportunity to celebrate and indulge myself a bit, and planned out how to observe it. I wanted it to feel like my birthday did when I was a kid - big, but not quite as big as Christmas.

Part of this is food. I have just polished off a lovely celebratory lunch of half of a Mellow Mushroom roasted red pepper calzone with two garlic parmesan pretzels. Celebrations call for feasts. Dessert? Nutella s'mores. Another part is not studying one blessed thing other than participating in tonight's practice teaching session with a classmate. Not one school book will be cracked. Not one note will be taken. The flash cards are put away.

The really big part is ordering myself a nice little techie upgrade in the form of an adorable white iPhone 4s. I had wanted to actually go to my service provider's location and pick it up, and kept putting it off. On my way to training in Beaufort on 2 March, I made the decision to jot over that way first thing on the Tuesday morning after I got home. That was the weekend I broke my foot. So instead of merrily going to pick up my new precious, I was sitting in bed with my foot propped up. Then I decided to go pick it up after going to the doctor on Wednesday, you know, when I would have a nice boot or an Ace bandage to support my (ahem) sprained ankle. Go ahead and laugh.

So, rambling story short, when I sat down and marked all my milestones, I decided to give myself things to look forward to and put off getting the phone until today. I've been amped about Halfway Day for four weeks. Last night, I actually had trouble getting to sleep, and this morning as I was drinking my coffee, I ordered my new phone.

(Now - - how should I decorate the tree for the day I get my cast off? All I know is I'm using the pink one.)

Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday, and do yourself a favor and have Nutella s'mores.