BACKLOG of entries in February

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3:44 PM 2/3/2008

     There ... I feel so much more enthused about this journal now ... with the new diary format.
     While I was making the entry, tho ... I smelled toasted cabbage; my stew simmering was running dry!   Oh, well ... that pot is cooling out in the snowbank; I've started a fresh pot.  Thank heavens that I hadn't put the meat in yet.  Not sure I like the toasted cabbage smell, tho.
    My back feels pretty good right now ... did that have anything to do with I did a few P.T. exercises this a.m.?  So ... that must be why I am feeling a bit more ambitious?

 

7:35 AM 2/4/2008

     What should I do today?  Oh ... a quick check of the calendar (on my cell-phone) tells me that I have a doctor's appointment (just a check-up) at 10:30. Recently, I changed to a new doctor; we're still getting acquainted. She seems quite intuitive; she's also experienced bad back problems & had some good advice.
    That about takes care of the first half of the day. Since snow is moving in late afternoon ... to last a day or more ... I'd better do some shopping while in town, too.

 

6:27 AM 2/8/2008

    The past few days, I've been trying to get things ready to take my crafts to a week-end show.  No heavy lifting ... just sustained periods of activity.
    Even my knee started bothering me; with being mostly cooped up in the house, the knee hasn't had much reason to start hurting.  My new doctor had instructed me to make an appointment with the specialist for another injection.  I had told her that I purposely am not overly active so as not to aggravate that knee.  Partly, the reason for not having made the appointment is that I am rationing the gas for my car.  My winter heating bills are getting behind and I'm on a budget.
     Yesterday ... even tho I did my craft work tipped back in my lounge chair, the heating pad on my back, many aspirins/ibuprophen, some gin, stretching exercises ... my back still was siezed up & really painful.  That kept me from sleeping well.
     I did some stretching/traction type exercises before finally getting up ... it helped some.  Now, I have the heating pad on the lounge chair ready for me to sit & get back at the craft project.  I could have finished it last evening, except for I had to retreat to my bed because my back hurt so much.
     I'm not looking forward to sitting all day for two days this weekend at the craft show ... my back will be just so ruined.

 

5:11 PM 2/19/2008

     Okay ... here I am, back to making a whining entry.  I've been taking ibuprophen, etc ... my back is really in agony.
     Because of the cold weather, snow, car problems ... I've been cancelling doctor appointments.  I missed two weeks of chiropractor ... my facets injections at the pain clinic ... etc. ... now, I'm suffering.

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FIRST "DAILY" ENTRY;

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2008

     Another chilly day ... tho the bright sun, blue sky with pretty white clouds ... made you think it wasn't really that cold.  At the time of this writing ... it is 19 degrees (F) below ZERO!

     Many times, at the end of the day, like this, it seems as tho I didn't do much today ... but, I WAS busy doing SOMETHING.  I tidied up the kitchen, putting stuff away that I'd had at the craft (gun) show.  The set of antlers that I thought I'd done such a good job of repairing is loose AGAIN!  Now, I have to take it apart again & figure out a procedure to REALLY fix it.  I thought I'd done that.

     I did some bookwork; found out that I probably cannot e-file my Energy Refund.  After many tries to get into the Michigan Tax Department, I gave up that route, too.  TOMORROW, I MUST MAIL IN THE FORM ... even tho I didn't get an answer to a question I have about filling it out.

     I don't know how long it will take to get that refund; it is not as much as I'd hoped.  It is based on what I used the past year; being economical with the thermostat thus worked against me.

     The only things that I did outside today were to bring some warm food & water up to the cats in the Gunta shed ... & feed the deer at the end of the afternoon.  After I got back into the house, I realized that I'd forgotten to get the mail ... but, I decided that wasn't important enough to go back out.

     Besides ... about that time, my back started hurting big-time.  Ibruprophen, etc. ... gin ... lounge chair didn't help.  I took a nap; that helped some.

     At the time of this entry ... now ... it's gone past midnite.

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