Ribs/back are still in pain. It's my fault, and I'm hoping it was the right decision - after about 10 days, I went to the chiro to see if anything was really out of place. He gave me a couple adjustments, and yeah, I was out. Unfortunately, the first adjustment was so rough (comparatively speaking) that I think it might have re-injured my ribs. The 2nd & 3rd were to my lower cervical spine, and felt really good. My thought was to get things back in place, and then heal up over the next week. I guess we'll see how that decision pans out...
A little over a week to go, then I'm off for two; don't think I'll be going anywhere though, because of the cost for the doors. My exterior doors (front & side). Two doors, and 1 (possibly 2) storm doors, installed, is going to run me about $1k (which I think I mentioned?), which is about the same amount I figured it would be for one of the trips I was considering (*waves at lust-). I'm thinking maybe I need to plan out my vacations a bit better - like one year, do nothing, the next year, actually schedule them and do a bunch!? There are five trips I can think of, top of my head (three of which are international, four of which are people from DL). I don't know, I guess I was broke for so long that it's hard to want to spend money like that, especially when there are still things that need to be done around here. Feels wasteful/irresponsible. On the other hand, if I don't "live" now, I may be dead before I get a chance to do so! Then I think about finding another house, saving enough of a down-payment, and then having to deal with being tied to another house payment for a few/several years, etc. Ugh. Ok, enough of that - time to think of something else...
The day after my latest "woe is me" post (or as dangerspouse put it, my "14 y.o. emo-girl" mode) ;-) I actually got quite a bit accomplished. Laundry, dishes, cleaned out the rain gutters, cut the grass/leaves, did some grocery shopping, assembled the new rack in the basement and got the swivel seat placed on it (no easy feat with strained ribs), and also built a box for deficit deadlifts out of some scrap wood I had. The box needs a minor mod, as one of the boards is warped, but overall, a productive day. Tomorrow, I've got to go out & buy an engine hoist so I'm ready to unload the trailer when the engine gets here on Saturday. Hopefully, I'm healed enough to be able to get the engine installed, with WJC's help. Depending on how that goes, (I'm not sure about this) but we might even be able to fire it up once, as it should be fairly self-contained, and the exhaust pipes are still in place. As long as I get it sitting in place though, I'll be satisfied enough.
Speaking of grocery shopping, I've been "cooking" this week, trying to get my diet in order. I figure since I can't work out at all yet, maybe this is a good opportunity to get my food-life in order! I'm not as worried about how healthy things are yet, as my first goal is to minimize my dependence on dining out. I think I've got dinners down (grilled enough burgers, steak and boneless pork chops on Saturday to last the week for dinners), and I think for now, I'm going to take the easy path with lunch & buy frozen "voila" meals, as I really enjoy them and they're not that unhealthy. The next thing I have to get in line is breakfast, and I'm debating whether to try to eat at home, or pre-make things that I can take to work with me. I need to make this a habit, which will be difficult now that grilling season is almost over, and pan-fired burgers/steaks are nowhere near as good to me. Maybe I'll break down & buy a "foreman" grill or something?
Thanks for your notes guys. It's nice to know that somewhere out there, I actually do have friends.
7:04 p.m. - 2015-11-04
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