It has been a rather strange week for me. It was already going to be a short work week with the Labour Day weekend. But then on Wednesday I woke up with a bad headache. I didn’t think too much of it but by noon…well, let’s just say I knew it was more than just a bad headache and I was headed home. (By the way, anyone heading east or west on Highway 2 just past Three Bridges around 1 p.m…sorry if the results of my stomach churning made your stomach churn.) This was one of the worst migraines I’ve had in a long time. Usually they are gone by nightfall but this one just kept hanging around and I ended up staying home on Thursday. The headache was largely gone this morning but I still had a touch of a queasy stomach, but I’m 99% healed up now.
Which is good because tomorrow my Mom and I are headed to ReuseApalooZaha in Embro. I have collected up some books, some T-shirts (yes, shockingly I am getting rid of several of my NASCAR t-shirts) and some other odds-and-ends to donate to the event.
One other weird thing that happened is that I saw a former co-worker of mine on my way home on Tuesday night. Thankfully she didn’t see me. (I literally had to do the whole “putting my hand up by my face to shield her from seeing me” thing.) It’s always weird when you see people you haven’t seen in years like that.
While this week was kinda weird, it was mostly quiet otherwise. With the three-day weekend last weekend, however, I actually got a fair amount of my “To Do” list. I don’t know what it was but I went into the long weekend with a lot of energy and ambition and it transformed into me stroking a lot of the small items off my To Do list. Some of the items were things my Mom wanted to help her get done (like print photos from our recent trip to Little Hobby Hill Farm.
I mean, I still have a number of larger items that I need to stop procrastinating about and get done. Still, I felt pretty good about my progress. (I think it was a matter where I told myself “I have three days off, I’m getting something done!” )
Now, I felt good mentally but there was a point over the weekend where, for a few minutes, I wasn’t feeling too good physically. My Mom had two plastic garbage pails that she wanted to rid of. I suggested she take them to ReuseApalooZaha but she said they were in too rough a shape. Instead, she wanted to break them down and take them to the dump. She was stomping away on one so I had the bright idea to run and jump on it. Sure enough, I cracked the darn thing. One down, one to go.
After breaking the first pail, I remember thinking “That could have turned out real bad. I could have slipped and fallen.” However, that thinking did not prevent me from taking another run at breaking down the second garbage pail.
Well, the second pail must have been made of sturdier material because it didn’t give. Instead, I ended up flat on my back (and on the cement as well). My Mom said I looked kinda mad when I landed (did she expect me to be happy?) but once I landed, I started laughing because I realized how ridiculous I must have looked. (Sadly, my Mom was not filming it so no video exists.) I was afraid I was going to get a bad headache at that point but other than my hand hurting for a bit and my arm hurting when I stretched it for a couple of days, I really got off easy, all told.
And yes, I realize what a stupid thing it was to do!
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