Waiting to Hatch

The Cast System: Not Just a Social Scale

Since it's the day after Christmas, you might be expecting some meaningful blog about Christmas, it's meanings (haha, imagine that! a meaningful blog about Christmas's meanings!), or some type of theological/polictical debate with witty comments along the way (since I'm a Cox). Sorry, but it's none of those. It really has nothing to do with Christmas at all. If you would like something like that, I'm sure you can probably go to my siblings' blogs (Taylor, Christopher, and EA are all insightful people with good things to say about Christmas).
Instead this one's about my cast. No, I haven't moved to India, I'm talking about my cast from my surgery this summer. See, this morning I wasn't in a good mood and I felt really sick (and no breakfast + really hot shower = light headedness) so now I'm laying on my bed and resting. Still in the bad mood, I was trying to think of something to cheer me up. I thought of writing in my journal, but I didn't feel like writing. I looked around and saw my two casts from my surgery. I hadn't really read or looked at them since they came off my leg. So I picked them up and started to read. The purple one is really hard to read, because well, it's dark purple. But that's ok, I like the white one better anyway (after people have signed a cast once they don't feel like writing much on the second one). It made me smile and laugh so much. It completely cheered me up!
It's a perfect display of some of my closest friends. It has Steven claiming to be my favorite and then Mollie's protest of course. Kat's lovely clever poem, "You are cool, You're ankle was a fool, But it isn't anymore, Now keep it and your body off the floor." Mellissa and Jason's beautiful drawings. (Mellissa's of a sun and jason's of a Superman "S" for Super Shari of course) Mom and Ea's loving messages that mean so much because they are two people that I will always believe when they say they love me. Kelli's very important "Note to ankle: Stop hurting!! Note to Shari: I love you!!" Christopher's message that shows he knows what's important: " Get better soon so you can drive soon." Funny brubba! Lawton's Simple and unique Lawtony message. Kevin's reminder that he can walk and I can't. (His surgery recovery was a lot faster than mine.) All of this cluttered with my colorful results of boredom and the gift of mini sharpees for my birthday (love those things!). It was a great reminder that I'm loved. I really am. I know God will always love, and I pray that I don't take advantage of that, but I have friends that really do care about me. I didn't think that they didn't love me, but I guess I'd just forgotten in all the recent craziness. I hope that someone today has told you that they love you. And if not, I love you. (I love you even if you someone has told you that today, by the way). And I'm not just saying that, I know pretty much everyone that reads this thing, I and I truly do love y'all. I hope everyone has a fantastic post-Christmas.

P.S.- I checked on the siblings' blogs. Christopher and Taylor have a meaningful Christmas thing, but EA doesn't. But she hasn't updated it in 11 days, so that's ok. I still love her. Hehe

P.S.S. - For all of those who are feeling the need to correct me, I know that the "cast" system used in India has an "e" on the end of "cast." Using cast instead of caste was a play on words. You know, a pun. A (supposed to be) humorous substitution. Ok, you get the point.

posted by Shari @ 8:56 AM