WandaVision and other updates

I got my second COVID shot on January 15. It was...an experience. The lymph node in my armpit swelled to the size of a tennis ball, I felt like crap for two days, and then I developed a rash all down my arm. If "waking up from abdominal surgery to find demerol doesn't work for me and promptly passing out" was a 10 on the pain scale, the post-shot arm/shoulder pain was a 6 for several days. But presumably all of that means it worked really well, my immune system is even more amped up than usual, and I'm free from COVID risk for at least a year!

I went back to the rink for the first time in just under a year two weeks after that, and quickly discovered that those hip/butt exercises I'd left by the wayside as we worked very overtime on writing the renewal of the grant that employs me and 300 of my closest friends were vital to skating. As in, I couldn't do much, and what I could do caused searing back pain.

I took myself off the ice for three weeks for intensive rehab. Then we had a massive ice/snow storm and I was off another week. (Thankfully, Nashville gets electricity from the Tennessee Valley Authority rather than a bunch of profit-mongers who refuse to winterize their equipment like Texas, so I had heat all the way through said storm.) I'm hoping to try again early next week. I don't expect miracles, but hopefully the exercises fixed up my gluteus mediae enough that getting on an outside edge isn't such a struggle, and I just have to deal with the reactivation of my lizard brain's response to standing on one foot and leaning away from my center of mass. (To wit: "ARE YOU CRAZY? STOP THIS RIGHT NOW!")

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I forgot to cancel my Disney+ subscription after getting it for a month to watch Hamilton, so I watched WandaVision this weekend. ( Possible spoilers through the most recent episode )