What a summer!It’s been one of those odd summers here. I swear July had to go down ad the coldest and wettest on record. It was definitley cooler and wetter than I ever remember it being. On the bright side, the Self Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) bill got signed by the Governor. It (SIAD) was actually in with a bunch of other days fo rhte bill and got passed by the state senate with les than 2 hours to go in the session. It then took about another month to get it signed. It’s signed though. That makes us the only state to have SIAD on the books.



At the end of May I sprained my ankle. I did it good this time. At the ER they weren’t sure if I broke it and ruled it out by asking if I’ve ever injured it before. My regular doc had it MRI’ed. I ended up in PT for it. Otherwise things have been going well.

3rd year in a row

So, came home from knitting and went to the mailbox. Next thing Robbyn knows I'm giving my excited yell. Why? There was a nice big brownish flat envelope from the Governor's office in our mailbox. We put a proclamation request in a couple weeks ago for Self Injury Awareness Day as we have done for the past few years, since 2006 to be exact. We have gotten it granted for the third year in a row. We didn't get it the first year.




So, we're good for the year. This gives us time for the bill to get through legislation. The differnece between the bill and the proclamation is that with the proclamation we have to ask for it yearly. With the bill (that's if it gets passed) it would be yearly automatically.