Things you simply can't do while walking bent-over with a cane:
Go Teach a class. Class canceled.
Things you can do sitting on the couch:
Taxes. Check. (Aside: I love TurboTax. I used to do our taxes by hand, and I didn't really mind because I kind of like organized paperwork (we're not complicated --married, house, kid, all in one State, same jobs forever, etc.), but TurboTax just makes it happen so fast.)
Grading. Check
Transferring labs to the online software. Umm . . . getting there.
Read books. Check
Eat Valentines chocolates. Check
Things you can't do sitting on the couch, but still need to be done:
Drive Emma to school, stop by one bank drive-up window to collect paperwork, drive to the second bank drive-up window to drop it off. Check
Empty the dishwasher. Fill the dishwasher. Check
Fill the water container for the cat's water fountain (yeah, she's old and picky). Hmmm . . . . this one requires serious back use. Not checked.
Take a shower (it's been 48 hours). Check. Almost died.
Drive Emma to Kempo, sit in the car reading, drive her home. . Still to come, as long as I can heave myself up from the couch again after that shower.
Oh, yeah, this is the LIFE!
Milk it, girlfriend! Enjoy life in your seated and upright position;)
ReplyDeleteI almost died when I read "Take a shower (it's been 48 hours). Almost died."
ReplyDeleteDespite the mirth it gives me, I do hope you start feeling better soon (say, around May?), and that you don't die in the shower.
I'm so sorry you are hurting!
ReplyDeleteDo you have one of those cheap resin deck chairs? Mine is still in the shower, where it has been since the end of November. I can take a short shower without it, but if I want to shave my legs, I have to sit down.
My husband has been Turbo Tax-ing today, too.
Have some more chocolate. It's good for you!
I'm thinking the dishwasher chore needs to be relegated to someone else.
ReplyDeleteYou have pain meds, right?