After a very pleasant Christmas & New Years with my family and friends, and receiving all kinds of great & amusing gifts, I was looking forward to my birthday revels this weekend. Yup, I pack it all in to a small window every year.

Soooo, yesterday afternoon, at work in the library, I tripped and fell face-first into a metal bookcase. And smashed my knee going down.
The EMTs came. I got an ambulance ride to the ER. After X-rays and a head scan, they decided that nothing was actually broken. 

My face is really bruised and there still is blood leaking out around my eyes. My knee is in a brace and I"m on crutches. I got my sister to take my picture when she brought me home, but my face is so horrible-looking that I"m not going to post it.

The birthday plans were that my boss took me out to lunch today, my family would take me out to lunch tomorrow, and my co-workers would take me out to lunch Sunday. Looks like it's lunch Chez Mathilde! Hooray for takeout! 

The upside of this is that not only are my medical bills being  paid by Worker's Comp, so there are no co-pays, and that I have oodles of accrued sick leave, but also that I get to skip some really boring meetings  at work next week. 

Mmmm, Tylenol with codeine. 

Will post more later, because, really what else do I have to do? :-)