As the burning knot of pain in my back gradually subsided to the mild stiffness that continues to linger there today, my sinuses not so gradually filled up. It's head cold number two for me for this winter. I have to get on the ball with some vitamins or something.
One thing I miss about stepford? The christmas lights. People in stepford were decorators. Here in new town- not so much. One of my neighbors suggested that we lived in a non christmas celebrating part of town, but I'm not so sure. I think that the lack of decorating is due to houses being less on top of each other. Why decorate when no one can be jealous of enjoy it? Folks around here are big on fences of both the tree/bush kind and the fence kind. Though I did see broken colored light remnants in the tree bushes besides my own personal new town front porch so I assume the previous owners were decorators. I wish at least one of my neighbors was one of those all out crazy power sucking light up the night decorators. I'll have to start making them feel guilty about it for next year.
The weather has been somewhat unpredictable lately. It's in the mid 50's right now. Which is not what one would expect when there was enough snow in October to cancel Halloween.
I am bothered beyond any reasonable amount of being bothered by all the freakish plastic surgery on television these days. Especially the eyebrow thing when people get botox and their inner eyebrows look heavy and droopish. Also, the tight face/loose neck thing. It all makes em want to run screaming into the streets, especially when one LYING talk show host tells the side show faced guest of the day how great they look. I sit here talking trash the television. Don't get me started on it.
I need to get out of the house more.
But in addition to the cold, which I hope is only a cold and not something worse, like bronchitis or another dreaded sinus infection, I still think I'm a wee bit depressed. It's kind of a joke how easily I cry these days. My eyes misted up just writing that.
I told my neighbor that both Evan and Josh were homebirths the other day. I knew I'd freak her out so I just chatted right through it and kept on talking. I thought she was going to faint. I suspect she is the type who gave birth fully medicated and fully clothed. Because as soon as she pushed that baby out she went for a run or something. Speaking of running, I am a bit surprised how many new town mothers walk around in exercise clothes all day long. I feel like such a slob when I do that. But they mostly have the toned bodies of people who don't actually eat solid food and who train with a trainer five times a week between hot yoga classes, so I can't say that they look like total slobs. They look like athletes in exercise clothes. The slob thing is just how I feel. Which is bringing me down because since I threw my back out I've been living in exercise clothes. The thought of putting stiff jeans on and sitting down in them is unappealing right now.
I'm meeting with my photo teacher to put the finishing touches on my portfolio this weekend and hopefully I will be able to get that [email protected] application in before Matt comes home next week. That would be AWESOME. I'll coast through the kid's vacation without a worry at all. Sweet. I'm not going to let them sleep all day either. Nothing drives me crazier than waiting for them to wake up.
Cod liver oil! Nasty yes, immune building yes. It takes a few weeks for it to kick in but you won't be as sick in February if you take a spoonful every day starting now. Get the lemon flavor from a healthfood store.
Sorry your back is hurting, that sucks.
Posted by: Molly | December 16, 2011 at 08:33 AM