The Tao of Kellie...

Hi All,

So in 2006 my sister Carrie gave me the book The Tao of Willie Nelson for my birthday and it is a book that I think everyone should pick up and give it a read. I read each of Willie's Tao's and enjoyed them. It really made me start to think about life in a different perspective. So much that I even created one of my own. It was after a series of typical Kellie maneuvers, being clumsy, and getting more than one scrap, cut, or other serious injury that week that I created this Tao.

"Life is not worth living unless you have the scars to remember it by." 6-4-06

I love this and have thought of it often when I encounter yet another scar on my body. Well, last week I went to a concert, Johnny Lang, and everything went great...the show, the dinner we hand, the weather, it was just an awesome evening. And No injuries!!!

That all changed as I was walking in my front door that night. We have this glass door (like a screen door) and I was walking in and the front door was open and as I was walking through the glass door, I must have not had my hand on it and it came swinging in so fast and furious that it clipped me on my left heel. It sent so much pain through me I wanted to scream but I didn't, just banged my head against the door (That stops the pain right). Carrie asked if I was okay and I thought I was so I kept on my way to put some stuff in the kitchen. Once I got into the light I saw that I did break some skin and I was starting to bleed. Well, at that point I started gushing because I was walking so I could take care of it and then everyone was involved. So, we cleaned it out and made sure I didn't need stitches. At this point I think I almost wish I would have gone and had something done to it. It is what, two weeks later and still super deep and not healing at a rate that I wish it would. Oh well..."life is not worth living unless you have the scars to remember it by!"

But to add to it, I have not been able to put on a pair of sneakers since so the working out things has been dramatically less and consists mainly of walking in my flip flops :(

Well, I would not be Kellie if I didn't have at least one more scar to remember!!! So, I was at Carrie's the other night and we are sort of haphazardly building a small rock garden in her front flower bed. After realizing that some flowers are just not going to make it and that maybe we should move one of the rocks there, I see that there is another rock in the pile that looks like it would work. Me being the only one with shoes on, she says "go get that one and put it here". So like the good sister I am, I get the big rock and bring it over. As I am putting it down in the dirt, I over estimate the front cement stair and my foot slides down the side of the stair. And there it is, a new scar to remember right smack dab on the bone of my ankle. Oh yeah, did I mention it was on the same foot as my other accident and about only two inches apart. This one is bad too. Good thing I am going to Jamaica to sit at the pool and the beach in all banged up.

Get this too, I gave myself a huge bruise on my thigh last week. Then four days later I got a smaller one on the other thigh. I asked my mom if we could baby-proof the house and she said "why who is coming over" and I said, "nobody mom, it is for me"!!!!! Then she told me I would look tough with all my scars and bruises. Well, I just don't want to look tough in my swimsuit and cute new clothes I have. So, I just asked Carrie to place me in a bubble till we go!

Till I write again, take care!