My back

Whoa!  I almost made it through the entire month of June without a post.  So far my plan to keep up with my blog is going about as well as my plan to start running again or floss ever.  Sigh.

At least presently I have an excuse for the lack of cardio, my back is effed up.  I am not even sure when it happened.  There was no moment that I thought, 'shit, that is really going to hurt later.'  Nope.  Just me and the whole getting older thing I guess.  Anyway, I came home on Sunday after my shift and felt fine (though tired.....it is hard to get used to doing 10s and pushing a cart all over the place as compared to working in the clinic where your brain is more taxed than your body is....hence the whole back thing).  Then I awoke at 3am with this horrible pain and didnt sleep thereafter.  Called out for my shift and made an apt for a massage thinking it was just a strain.

Massage was helpful, but the next day it felt like someone has spent the entire day punching up and down my spine.  I was hobbling around and it was painful to get up or down or to lift anything above my waist.  But, I thought there wasnt much I could really do and that the massage would ultimately help.

Come Thursday, I finally just went to the doc.  Pain was no radiating from the initial low back locale to my shoulder blades and my hips.  Thankfully, as I had guessed, it was just muscular and not bone related.  Also thankfully they gave me a muscle relaxer and some pain medication.  I had never been on a muscle relaxer before and I have to say they are FRIKKEN amazing!  Finally the pain abated and I could start feeling normalish again (the downside is they really do hammer you from an alertness perspective.  It felt like I was drunk).  So, hopefully this weekend shit starts to heal up.  I HATE using so much of my sick/vacation bank for actually being ill.

In other news, we are a week out from owning 2 properties.  Paperwork is signed and we take possession on the 25th.  Will be terrifying.  We dont move until the 3rd, so we will have a little time to clean, etc before jamming our stuff into the new place.  In the interim I thought/hoped to pull up the flooring and get new carpeting.  However, it turns out that new carpeting would be about 5K, so cleaning it is!  Then, once we are out of our current place, we need to get it staged and put on the market, hopefully around the middle of July.  After that it is just time to cross our fingers and hope we can sell it quickly (and full price or better would also be excellent!)  It is going to be a hell of a month for sure.

Quinn is almost 2 years old.  Crazy!  I cant believe it has been that long already.  He is really fun to be around now (well, 95% of the time anyway.........which is better than most people let alone toddler people) and is developing quite the sense of humor.  I am excited that the new place with allow us to have our super nanny, Gloria, downstairs and really hope that things work out well.

Back to packing.  Where did we get so much stuff from!