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It's Winter, there's a lot to celebrate
Dec. 8th, 2022 10:15 pmI don't have anything against Christmas- in fact I actively participate in it both as a minor religious celebration as well as a capitalist spendathon holiday. I resent the fact that it spans well over a month, approaching two months at this point, although it ends abruptly for most people in the USA on the 26th at latest. Three Kings who? I don't know them.
But I'm reluctant to decorate my office with Christmas stuff because... why? It is, again, a very minor holiday in comparison to Easter, and I also don't feel it important to display the trappings of religion. But there's peer pressure, you know? There's always peer pressure, and also the lurking fear that someone might "be helpful" and put decorations up FOR you.
Which I also hate.
I was going to pick up some glittery paper snowflakes at the dollar store after work today but due to a miscommunication I got to the train station ahead of Nesko. I crossed the street to the grocery store (which had no glittery paper snowflakes) and got some stuff for dinner instead.
I've been having some (shriekingly awful, movement limiting) back pain in a weird area that I realized is most likely the result of me not consistently doing physical therapy for me... knee. You see, when your little stabilizing muscles get too stressed out they pack up and quit, or at least go on vacation, and then your big movement muscles take over and holy GOD they are not used to all this work. So then you get deep deep muscle pain that's like... muscles beneath muscles. So I've started doing my knee exercises again and that's been helping and also I walked around the grocery store a bunch today and... now my thighs hurt! Because I'm out of shape and anemic and haven't been taking care of my injured knees! Well, I've sure learned my lesson (and will promptly forget about it as soon as my knees et al start feeling better)!
Our office moved locations from a very convenient one to a less convenient one that involves me taking different, more expensive public transit. It also involves me NOT getting off the train a block away from a gym that also has a swimming pool (although the swimming pool ladder has rungs too far apart for my to climb! I can't lift my short legs/bend my knee that much!! It's an issue!!!) so I fell off THAT wagon pretty quickly and it's been about a year since I was really working out regularly. And I keep saying "Oh, I don't NEED a gym, I can do SUCH AND SUCH and THIS AND THAT at home!" and then I don't do it.
If I get to work early tomorrow I can spend 15 minutes doing exercises in the stair well which is basically the opposite of exciting but also is stuff I need to get done, and after that 15 minutes I can be more or less sedentary for 7 1/2 hours until it's time to go home.
Hopefully I can pick up some Winter Celebratory Glitter Snowflakes after work.
But I'm reluctant to decorate my office with Christmas stuff because... why? It is, again, a very minor holiday in comparison to Easter, and I also don't feel it important to display the trappings of religion. But there's peer pressure, you know? There's always peer pressure, and also the lurking fear that someone might "be helpful" and put decorations up FOR you.
Which I also hate.
I was going to pick up some glittery paper snowflakes at the dollar store after work today but due to a miscommunication I got to the train station ahead of Nesko. I crossed the street to the grocery store (which had no glittery paper snowflakes) and got some stuff for dinner instead.
I've been having some (shriekingly awful, movement limiting) back pain in a weird area that I realized is most likely the result of me not consistently doing physical therapy for me... knee. You see, when your little stabilizing muscles get too stressed out they pack up and quit, or at least go on vacation, and then your big movement muscles take over and holy GOD they are not used to all this work. So then you get deep deep muscle pain that's like... muscles beneath muscles. So I've started doing my knee exercises again and that's been helping and also I walked around the grocery store a bunch today and... now my thighs hurt! Because I'm out of shape and anemic and haven't been taking care of my injured knees! Well, I've sure learned my lesson (and will promptly forget about it as soon as my knees et al start feeling better)!
Our office moved locations from a very convenient one to a less convenient one that involves me taking different, more expensive public transit. It also involves me NOT getting off the train a block away from a gym that also has a swimming pool (although the swimming pool ladder has rungs too far apart for my to climb! I can't lift my short legs/bend my knee that much!! It's an issue!!!) so I fell off THAT wagon pretty quickly and it's been about a year since I was really working out regularly. And I keep saying "Oh, I don't NEED a gym, I can do SUCH AND SUCH and THIS AND THAT at home!" and then I don't do it.
If I get to work early tomorrow I can spend 15 minutes doing exercises in the stair well which is basically the opposite of exciting but also is stuff I need to get done, and after that 15 minutes I can be more or less sedentary for 7 1/2 hours until it's time to go home.
Hopefully I can pick up some Winter Celebratory Glitter Snowflakes after work.
