I just wanna dance.

I'm pretty much completely over this injury thing. My "good" ankle is achey and sore from holding 95% of my weight all the time, and my currently injured ankle was feeling better so i wore it wrapped and in a sneaker today, but when i got in the shower tonight it was killing me. I tried to wrap it post-shower and the pressure on it created even more pain. so i iced it. now heating it. gonna ice it again, and then do some basic flexion exercises to try and loosen it up or something.

Rehearsals for Xanadu are going well, except for the fact that I can't do most of the stuff we're staging right now. We choreographed "All Over The World" today, and it is fantastic, but I can't do any of it really at all because so much of the movement requires stronger ankles. I'm keeping copious notes, and marking everything from my seat, but I just want to be up moving and having just as much fun as everyone else. Frustrating, to say the very least.

Topping it off is the weird downward funk I've been settled in for the last week or so. This is nothing new, I tend to cycle through good and bad months/weeks emotions-wise, but I'm definitely at a low point currently. That isnt helping my frustration.

BUT- Positively: I sang at Cabaret this weekend. I decided to sing "Lying There" because I knew Michell had played it for me before, and Its kindof my go-to piece. but then Michell didn't make it to play, so Maddie pulled her copy of the song out, which was two and a half steps higher, and with a completely different arrangement. We went for it, and I think I pulled it off. Had to act off some of the higher notes that wouldnt belt the way I wanted them too. But I was able to belt myself some pretty sweet music, stuff even 3 weeks ago I never would've considered possible. So that was fun.

Me running through the song with the new accompaniment,
and a tea-light. :)

I'm trying to remain positive.
Remind myself that healing takes time.
The more I wait it out now, the faster I'll get better.

I'm improving leaps and bounds everywhere else.
So just be patient, Maggie. Just be patient.