Back to civilization

I’ve been back in civilization for a few days now and I already have a cold sore, which I get when I am stressed, I’m not sure why I’m stressed, I’m not working and people are happy to see me. Maybe it is because now I have running water, that I can use to clean my clothes, body or tooth brush so easily and frequently or maybe its because I don’t have to plan where water is and then filter it, I can pretty much get to a clean water source within 10 yards from anywhere in my mom’s house. I doubt it is either of those, probably just the uncertainty and the drastic change from being in the woods to being at home. I am still waking up everyday at 7am, but since I don’t have anything to do, despite my mom offering to let me do chores at that time, I stay in bed until it gets to be a little bit later.

Now that I’m back, I was able to use a Q-tip for the first time in a while and I thought I had been keeping my ears cleaned. The Q-tip tells another story, and by Q-tip I mean LOTS and LOTS of them! It was pretty gross!

On Friday I went out with some friends to a Bar Crawl sponsored by a law firm to benefit Autism, 12 bars with a free drink at each for $20. It was an awesome deal and I had a lot of fun. I’m not sure what the law firm specializes in, but if they specialize in DUI cases, I think that was a great business strategy. There were cops everywhere around the bars, getting car after car after car.

I have an appointment for Monday afternoon with an orthopedic doctor to look at my knees and see if we can figure out what is wrong with them. I’m a little nervous about going because I don’t want to have it be something really complicated that cannot be fixed without surgery or lots of rehab, but on the other side I don’t want him to say “There’s nothing wrong, you are just a wimp”. I guess all I can do for now is wait and see.