What a Weekend!

Yesterday started out pretty good; the weather was nice although not as sunny as t has been, in fact there were many clouds in the sky but still mostly sunny. While I was making breakfast I loaded the washer with a load of towels, then after putting my breakfast dishes into the dishwasher I put the towels into the dryer on my way outside.

When I first got outside I picked up apples and then mowed the back lawn. Still feeling pretty good I decided to do some weeding, only the place I needed to weed was in the sun, I weeded for as long as I could take it and then decided to eat some berries for a while.

The raspberries have slowed down and now I have to look harder for what berries are left. We will get another crop later but for now the berry production is not was it was for the last few weeks. The blueberries are still going strong so I collected a few handfuls and then headed inside.

I was about 1230 so I decided to make myself some lunch. I finished up the rest of the Trader Joe's chicken and some ride that was left over from the other night. After sitting down and going through the mail I decided to go into my office and see if I could straighten it up a little.

I started by putting everything on the desk into a box and then unplugging the wires from the CPU so that I could put it back on the floor. It has been on the desk for over a year and it makes it hard to work at the desk and hence keep it clean.

Once I had everything unplugged I put the CPU aside and then moved the desk about three feet toward the west. This will allow me to move my file cabinet to the east side of the desk so that I can fill things easier. I keep stacking things to file and by the time I get to file them I have three or four updates of the items. Hopefully now I will not have that excuse; that is when I get the stack filed in the first place.

To make a really long story short when I plugged the monitor back in the screen came up differently than it had when I disconnected everything. Kathleen had been helping me as I could not work under my desk due to my back and so she spent a lot of time working on it to try to get it working correctly...it still is not working as it should so I am doing this on the lap top.

While she was working on my computer I decided to take the garbage out and then dispose of an old watermelon. Just as I was picking it up Kathleen called me into the room; well rather than put the watermelon down I carried it into my room. On the way to the computer, I tripped on something and not wanting to drop the watermelon I went crashing to the floor.

I held onto the watermelon until my elbow hit the floor and that jarred it out of my hand and all over the place. When I tried to get up my left side was really aching, from my shoulder on down. I finally made it up and then went into the living room to sit down for a while.

The longer I sat the more I hurt; I could feel my insides starting to not feel too good and my head was really pounding, so I took some extra Tylenol and sat some more. The towels had been dry for quite a while so I took them out of the dryer, folded and put them away.

Finally around 1900 I asked Kathleen if she were going to make some dinner; she heated up some of the left over meatballs and potatoes and rice from another meal. By the time I was done eating I was too worn out both mentally and physically.

Since my computer was still not working correctly I just kind of vegetated in front of the TV until around 2000 when I decided to take a shower before going to bed. I thought that a hot shower might help my aching body, and it did a little.

That was yesterday, last night every time that I move, my body would hurt and I would wake up for a while. This morning Kathleen's sleep machine was noisy so I got up a little earlier than I normally would because I knew that I would not be getting back to sleep anyway.

I still was pretty sore and I did not know for sure if I were going to make it to church or not. Finally after moving around for a while I started to feel less sore so I went upstairs and changed my clothes. Kathleen had gotten up to see how I was but she was still tired so she went back to bed.

I got really sore from sitting so long at church and Sunday School and was really stiff again for a while. By the time I got home I was pretty sore again so I took some more Tylenol and changed my clothes. Instead of resting and reading the paper I decided to work on my office again for a while.

In the last two days I have moved every piece of furniture except the large bookcase. It was a good thing that Kathleen was upstairs the whole time because I had "stuff" in the living room, the dinning room and the hall way, just so that I could move things around in my office.

I still have a lot of sorting to do, but at least now I have some open space in which to do it in. I have been trying to group things in boxes that are similar, i.e. computer cables in one box so that I can sort through the box and get rid or what we do not need any longer. The same for my Palm, Garmin and iTouch. This will hopefully make it easier to find things and get rid of what is not needed.

By the time I had move everything around and got the boxes back into the room it was 1500 so I heated up some left over chicken and rice for lunch. When Kathleen had come down I showed her what I had been working on and what I had gotten rid of already. Kathleen worked on my computer some more and so I went into the living room and read the paper.

Finally around 1730 I asked her what she thought about having for dinner and she did not know so I suggested heating up a shepherd pie that we had gotten at Trader Joe's so she did. She does not like them so I had half for dinner tonight and probably will have the other half tomorrow for lunch.

Kathleen wants me to see the doctor about my back tomorrow, I told her that I will see how I feel tomorrow but I am afraid that I will have to do something sooner than later. Well I am still really tired, I did not get a nap today and I did not sleep all that well last night so I think that I will just post this and call it a day.