im hot. very hot.

i set up my AC in my living room (actually, i recruited ricky) and to my dismay it dont work. well, it works in that it blows & it will raise my electric bill. and i guess it did lower the temperature to 82 degrees..but still.. so i set up my trainer and went to town with a very scaled down training plan. i had my arm in the sling, and i had to sit up striaght, which got very boring in about 4 minutes. but i worked my way up after a few days and did a couple of 1.5hr days. not great, but better than i though i would do. all in all, i did 6.5hrs this week. eh. my goal is to get about 3 or 4 weeks of "base" in before i get a new plan from johs

today was THE day. back to the ortho surgeon to check on my shoulder. every little pain convinces me that the plate came off, or a screw came loose, etc... so its been 8 weeks, and i was soo nervous to see if i have any healing yet. verdict? nope. nada. i was really bummed out about this, but the doc seems pretty optimistic. he said it was good that none of the hardware has moved, and im starting to get my motion back (which is actually quite pathetic at this point). anyways, he said if he were shown the Xray from today 2 months ago, and told this is what it would look like at this point, he would be very happy. i guess.

so i get to take the sling off on wednesday. i have had this damn thing on now for over 10 weeks. time for a change. oh, and i can officially ride my trainer now...but just dont put too much weight on my arm/shoulder. this is good, but its too hot in my living room to be excited about this.
here is my new view.

me & allie went hiking @ pawtuckaway...not so much hiking, as walking in the woods with an assload of horseflies. oh, and it was really hot.