I didn't do so well with avoiding getting online, but in my defense, I did just visit two websites. One, I have to, as my email is where I get my notices for monthly bills. It also is where I get notices from facespace, apparently, and it said I had 15 notifications in the last week. I hesitated, but broke down & logged on. 15 notices, and not one was specifically to me, mostly just bands sending out invitations to their shows. Yeah, I know it's only been a week, but I was hoping to hear from someone/anyone. *shrugs* Oh well. Oh, and I also ended up having to go out for dinner Saturday. I went to the pub so I could at least avoid the music venues. Yesterday, I decided to head out for a random ride. Ended up riding maybe 150 miles, ended up at a new (to me) brew-pub about 1.5 hrs from me. Was a pretty cool place, had one beer & a sandwich which, after including a tip, cost $20. It was good, no doubt, but I don't know if it was *that* good. One more reason I shouldn't be going out, I guess. I figured something out about my cycle too - my highway pegs aren't forward far enough, and it's cramping my knees/hips, making long trips rough. I'm going to have to remove/modify my floorboards to add adjustable foot pegs. I wish they made some I could just buy, but that would be too easy.
On an entirely positive note, I finally got the drain pipe in the basement sealed up, and I spent most of the morning on Sunday checking for leaks/getting the dishwasher running. Kitchen is now functionally done, all I have left to do is install my cabinet racks for my pots/pans, etc. then I can finish installing/painting the trim, and once I season my new pans, I can start cooking finally! This should improve both my diet (and my health) and improve my finances, and hopefully, my mood as well.
I've been taking kava kava (gods, what a stupid name!) as an herbal muscle relaxer, and the chiro has noticed that he's able to adjust my spine much more easily because of it. Back still isn't great, but it's getting progressively better. Unfortunately my shoulder hasn't made much improvement at all. I'm hoping that by the time my spine is good again, the shoulder will fix itself, but chiro said that if it doesn't get better by then, he'll send me in for an MRI. I hope it doesn't come to that, and that it's nothing serious if it does. I tried to work out again, but all of my upper body work hurts my shoulder. I'm thinking of just running (and maybe doing deadlifts, if it doesn't affect my spine) until things get better.I've got to do something - I want to be in better shape than I am now, by the time I go to Europe this fall. Besides, if I can get my running up to speed (ha!) I might try to join a running group around town, see if I can meet some new people. Oh yeah, my work has put together a small "end of summer" golf league, which I've joined with a co-worker. Starts the 20th, so I need to get out to the driving range & get my swing together.
Slow progress on most fronts, but it's a bitch trying to learn to deal with the isolation. I see people at work, then I'm either home alone all night, or head out to ride the cycle. It takes a lot of willpower to ride past all of these social scenes I know without stopping in, but so far, so good. At this point though, I'm not sure I ever want to get used to being alone. How sad a life would it be to never want/need social contact? If a man lives his life alone in the woods & nobody's around to hear/see him, did he ever really live?
12:35 p.m. - 2013-08-12
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