I work for the University of California and Wednesday and Thursday were campus closure days: mandatory time off without pay for employees. Today is a holiday. I was so happy to have time off!!! It was really really nice not to have to commute 2.5 - 3 hours and sit in an office without windows. I love my job, but I also love the sunshine and had some cabin fever! There are a lot of things we need to do in the yard to get ready for summer.
Yesterday I prepared our garden shed for painting by removing the hose reel, scraping loose paint, and cutting back some small invasive trees that grew around it. I used those large tree clipper thingies. The branch was too large, but I was able to fanagle it. I also pulled a bunch of weeds in the front yard. We have a little circular driveway with a big half circle of flowers in the middle. The road workers (15 years ago) bulldozed road base up into our property. Now that area is like soft cement in the rain and crumbly hard cement when it is dry. I have been trying for years to find something that will grow in it. Foxtails and dandelions do great! I craweled around on my hands and knees and got half of the weeds pulled and filled up a huge wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow has flat tires, so it is hard to push - but I didn't realize til it was full!
Then our wonderful new grandbaby (4 weeks old) came over. I am the designated poopy diaper changer and bath giver because no one wants to change poopy diapers and it gives me chance to be with baby. She hates it, so I tell everyone I must hold and comfort her after so she doesn't associate me with only mean things! I held her a lot because everyone else was busy. I usually don't get to hold her cuz everyone else wants to.
Today I am in so much pain, I am in tears. But I try not to cry because it makes it worse. I took a half a percodet at 7:30 and put ice on my neck and rested til 10:30, but that didn't help. So now I got up and drank coffee and ate something and took another percocet. I think this is the myofascial pain which, if not managed well, becomes a horrible migraine. I want to pull the other half of the weeds, but I probably cannot do it.
These are times that makes me so mad. I even paced myself yesterday and came inside and rested a few times. Hubby prayed for me and said, "you just don't learn; it is not fair" he wants me to be able to do the things I love, like pulling weeds. (I know I am a dork. I coulda named myself weed geek if statgeek was not taken!). I called him and asked him to pray again. I am now going to go out and pull a few weeds to maybe get the kinks out.
Family is coming tomorrow to see baby. So I have to be better. Hopefully, maybe.
Sue (aka weed and stat geek)