Cramps, boo hiss. Practice didn't mess up my back too badly last night, though. When it hurt, I stopped, and I avoided things I knew would really make me hurt. If I dig my thumbs into the small of my back, on the left side I can feel squishy-firm muscle over bone, the normal things one feels in a reasonably-muscled as well as fatty lower back. On the right side, there's the squishy-firm bits, but right in the middle there's a much more firm, unyielding ridge of... something. It's like a knot, or a seam. It doesn't feel quite right, and it's a bit sore to mess with. I am going to assume that is some sort of disruption in the muscle tissue, and treat it gently.
I was tired and sore last night, so took ibuprofen, and took more ibuprofen this morning, and have felt fine until the last dose wore off and I realized that oogy feeling was cramps. (Whoops.) So I'll probably go back on the ibuprofin later, but I'm sort of hoping to go to Open Skate tonight and get a few miles on those wheels, just to catch up a little. So maybe I'll wait to take anything until after-- I don't want to numb myself, then cause damage I don't feel until it's too late.
I feel horribly guilty for having accomplished nothing on Monday, but then I thought about it, and you know, I haven't had a weekend in months, and hadn't had a day off for a week before that, and honestly, I think I'm OK to have sat around and not immediately gone grocery shopping. I went today instead. It was an ordeal. It was made better by having an iPhone and listening to Metallica throughout. I forgot stuff and was starting to get crampy and wretched by the end, so I can't really say it went well, but whatever. Why do both Z and I have to hate grocery shopping? I didn't used to. Boo.
My legs are cramping up too, which is not entirely out of the ordinary, but makes me not want to go skate. There's a 90% chance that skating will help immensely, and a 10% chance that it will make it so infinitely worse I'll wish I'd never left the house. Who wants to put money on it?
At least dinner is in the oven, though I am lacking enthusiasm over the project and don't know if it will be any good, and think it's probably inappropriate to today's weather. Z is surly and uncommunicative-- he completed a project yesterday, after working frantically to meet deadline, and today is getting bug reports, so he's in Laser-Eyes mode. I don't know if he'll knock off today at all. (I suppose he was premature in being pleased he'd come in under on the time spent; he'll put in a 12-hour day today easily, and didn't even take a lunch break.
Woop, the iPhone's timer is going off. Best go check on dinner; I'm cooking it in the downstairs oven, because I can-- I don't want to heat up the house, and it's nice to dehumidify the basement by heating it up a bit once in a while. If dinner turns out well I'll post the recipe.
Unrelated, sort of: I want to re-do my personal website, and don't remember how. Isn't that sad?
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