Today was good. I spent the night at B’s again and really enjoyed that. It’s such a wonderful thing to just hold someone all night long, wake up next to them and just be. I’m really grateful to have gotten that experience these last few days. Hopefully there will be many more to come.

This evening was also really great. I met up with K in the city and we went to a reiki clinic on the Upper West Side. Many of our fellow classmates from early January showed up. I really enjoyed getting to catch up with them and say hi for a minute. The clinic itself was wonderful. I haven’t practiced much on other people and I’ve never practiced on a stranger. It was nice to get that experience. There was also a guy at the clinic who does massage. I’m hoping to schedule one with him sometime next week. I’m definitely one of those people who really benefits from massage. Unfortunately, I don’t have the money to do it often right now. In the future I plan to.

My knees hurt. It makes me sad. They are definitely better since I had the screws removed, but I was hoping for more improvement by this point. It’s frustrating because all I’ve really done is use the eliptical machine. Granted I beat the hell out of myself on the eliptical – as I always do. I’m sure if I just give it time and don’t totally overdo it things will get better. It might take another couple months, but really that’s not a significant amount of time longer given that the past year has been devoted to fixing my knees. And I’m also sure that in those couple months I’ll be able to start doing more and more. Really it won’t be so bad.

Gratitude list:
Reiki
B and being able to wrap my arms around him
K and getting together with her in the city