Fucked up ribs and movies...

So here's the scoop. I've had a pretty shitty cold/flu/swine-ish thing now for the last 19 days or so, since getting back from America. Friends have pissed around telling me I have swine flu but I figure it's just a bad cold. I'm a man after all and in my book, there is NO SUCH THING as Man-Flu. Well, at least not for this Englishman.

I have had this nasty cough now for about 7 days and it has, unfortunately, taken it's toll, on my ribs no less. You see, a few years ago I was hurtling down a local mountain biking trail with my friend Andre when we had somewhat of a misadventure. Some of you would call it a really nasty crash but for me it was actually quite fun, painful but fun.

We were rocketing down a trail, probably going about 15-20mph, lined with trees, when Andre decides he is going to be a fancy pants and start pulling off neat little tricks on the small double jumps. He was doing quite well until he landed wrong, veered off the trail, hit a tree head on, his bike swung out into the trail directly in front of me, I hit it, went over the handle bars, broke 2 ribs, fractured 3 and broke my shoulder.....Oh, and hit the ground SO hard on my head that my helmet split.....this is leading somewhere, honest!

Ever since that slight mishap I have the occasional trouble with the ribs on my left side, especially if I catch myself a cough of some sort. The constant coughing and strain puts pressure on the damaged bone and can, at times cause some discomfort as the muscle contracts around it. It can get pretty painful but it is, generally, bare-able.

Needless to say, I have been in some discomfort for the last 2 days, well, that was at least until today when the discomfort actually became PAIN. While coughing rather hard there was this rather painful............TWANG! and pop, the ribs goes...Y'OUCH!

So guess who is going to the doctors tomorrow to get some lovely pain killers? ME!! damn it! Not sure that my boss will be too pleased but he seemed alright when I left work early this afternoon.

OK, now that sob story is over you can give me a bunch of sympathy...

Now on to the movies part.

With not much to do today other than just try to lay still, I decided that I was going to watch the Hugh Jackman movie Australia well all I can say is.....GO WATCH IT!! It's brilliant, brilliant I say.

Now I know it's supposed to be mainly aimed toward you women out there that have romantic hearts and crave adventure, well, us guys have that too and it was just great. It's just full of everything a good movie should have, love, adventure, danger, suspense, drama....and bad guys!

Past life...

I got this from D's Tumblr page. It is supposed to tell you who you were in a past life. It give's nothing too specific just vague comments that I guess anyone could associate with their lives.

Although....the last section titled "The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation" is actually quite close...

Your past life diagnosis:

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I don't know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Yugoslavia around the year 1800. Your profession was that of a dramatist, director, musician or bard.

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Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
You were a sane, practical person, a materialist with no spiritual consciousness. Your simple wisdom helped the weaker and the poor.

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The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
Your lesson is to conquer jealousy and anger in yourself and then in those who will select you as their guide. You should understand that these weaknesses are caused by fear and self-regret.

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Go check it out and see who you were!