I woke up early this morning, and due to the weather changing, my arthritic-like condition is acting up. It is actually quite bad; that means I'm in a lot of pain—crippling pain in fact. It took me over half an hour this morning of shifting back and forth in efforts to do little stretches before I could actually take my first step. And now that I have been up and around a bit . . . to coffee and my parents' house, it is still bad but I can sort of hobble. I have decided that today I will finally get a cane. That will help so much. My parents have been against the idea of me getting a cane for some reason, but I think I really need one so I'm going to. It makes no sense not to when I need one. I'll be the only twenty-seven year old I know that needs a cane, but that doesn't bother me at all. If it helps me become more mobile, then I'm for it. If you want to read more about my arthritic-like condition, I think I wrote about it previously in an entry that I think I called, "The skinny on being fat."