Angela's Blog

Hi.

Not much to report. But I did finish my cognitive group at UW today. Yeah! It was really good but I'm glad it's over. And my psychotherapy group will be complete on Thursday. Little bits of progress. Little by little.

And I'm gearing up for my second week back at work starting tomorrow. Should be good. Even though it is work at least it is also a little step back to normalcy. And I got confirmation that I am getting moved into an office. My boss' old office, in fact. And I am surprisingly okay with it. It is just Amgen's way of trying to help me succeed. Can't possibly be upset about that. I've already started joking with some of my co-workers that when I get moved in I'll call them and say, "step into my office". Or I'll teach them a secret knock and nobody is getting in unless they know the secret knock. :)

And I did have a great weekend. It was the first official weekend I just got to hang out with my husband in I don't know how long. I can't even remember the last time we just got to hang out. And that isn't even because of my TBI. It's because he's been in school seemingly forever. But now he is officially done! Josh is now "Master Sweet" since he's done with his MBA and now has a Master's degree.

I also got to play "tag along" with Josh and one of our buddies and go shooting this weekend. I had to shoot one-handed so I limited myself to only shooting our 380 and .38 special. But it is confirmed, I still have my ability to shoot. What fun! It was kind of weird - in the lanes when people shot a 9mm or larger my left arm twitched. I wasn't surprised by the loud bang but my left arm jumped up a bit pretty much every time it happened. Like my arm was surprised by the sound. Weird.

And I got to visit the new puppies at Josh's folk's place. SO CUTE!!! They were just three weeks old and I even got to hold one. I tried to name him Lee but we'll see if it sticks.

One other success this weekend - got to go back to serving at church. Did check-in for the kids at the 11:15 on Sunday and it went really well. Hopefully I'll get signed up to serve every other week.

That's about all I've got.

Ang