On the Day After

My new scale? Yes! Not only does it seem accurate, it also seems that giving up the oatmeal put me back where I was a few days ago. I like this scale.

 

New pedometer? Cute. At the moment, I'm wearing two, the old one and the new one, to see if they're calibrated the same.

 

New game? Also cute. I didn't play much last night, just enough to set it up and try it out. I had to name my little avatar, which looks like a punk-skateboarder kid, so I named her Norell, after the character in the book I'm reading.

 

My real discovery of the day? Icy-hot. I had tried some topical pain relievers before and got no results, but something I read yesterday made me want to try this, and dang if it doesn't do something. Some pain, still, but much less, and I can now actually bend over from the waist with some small degree of flexibility. Astonishing! Of course, my eyes are watering all morning, and this really just makes the hot/cold thing I'm doing all the time anyway jump right off the charts. When I get home later, I'm going to smear it all over my neck and shoulders and see what that does. And perhaps some eyedrops to go along with that.

 

As crazy as it is to be keeping track of every little detail, as I do when I'm in this mode, it really is nice to feel like I'm taking care of myself and doing good things for myself and it's working. Speaking of which, I'm going to do my neck stretches now. More in a bit.

 

Later. It's the first lunch period now, and the library has been closed all day. (They're giving some sort of make-up state test to about six kids.) So I'm in the computer lab, hanging out with whatever kids wanted to come here during their lunch period. At least it's not as noisy as it is every day in the main room of the library at this time. But booriiing. OMG. There's no work to do in here, and it's too hot (as opposed to the freezing library today), and I'm getting so sleepy. And hungry. Lunch in ten minutes. Time to post.