Wow!!

So, Ms. Nice over here was going to bow out of the Arabic speech competition because time is running out and I'm not even ready...until the professor said I was the only one from our class who responded at all over the weekend.  And well, if there aren't many people, I might as well just try to win it!!  HaHaHa!!  Actually, she looked so dejected that I felt too bad to tell her I didn't think I could pull it off.  She said not to let my perfectionistic part worry me and to just write anything up and it would be great - and she wanted us all to have fun with it.  Not sure if I am going to show the dance or not - people didn't seem to want to do that part, either. 
But, no, that's not the Wow!!  The wow is that while I was thinking about how I opened myself up one little bit to re-entering life and more than the little bit ended up happening - I started getting more motivated to find a part-time job and to advertise for a new session of dance classes - and boom, this lady that I used to teach drove up to my house this evening and asked if I was still teaching because she wants to start again and has three other women wanting to start too!!  With the other three girls that wanted to start from FB, I almost have a full class without evening posting the ad!!  So...wow!!!  I walked the full 2 miles to and from class today, starting to get my wind back that I lost with depression and knee injuries.  I am going to have to see how my knee holds up.  If the exercise and stretching therapy doesn't help and it doesn't regain stability, I am looking at a future surgery :(  I am never a good patient and not that patient!!!  At least things are looking up, so I won't worry about that unless it looks like I have to worry about that!