Baby Steps & Old Man Aches

Allow me a moment to bitch about my old man injuries.  As you know, I have a sore butt now from my dare devil life jumping off the ground in a ballet.  As of today, I also have an aching hand because I pulled something in it while unloading wood flooring from my car yesterday.  Compound those two things with my chronic elbow and shoulder pain as well as my knee that likes to give out randomly and my bad back and you have the makings of a pathetic loser.

I know that other guys my age have aches and pains but man, I feel like mine are worse and I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.  Maybe I need to exercise more or have daily stretch sessions.  I probably should drink more fluids.  Or maybe I just shouldn’t do as much... but that’s not who I am.

Anyway, speaking of doing things, I really only accomplished one thing on my to-do list yesterday which was “Pick up flooring”.  I’m giving myself partial credit for cleaning out the pool but the girls got home before I could finish and also, I think there may be something wrong with the electrical breaker that drives the pool pump so I need to take a look at that.   In fact, I think there may be something wrong with at least 2 of my breakers.  Seriously, the whole damned box needs to be replaced.

Anyway, after diner it was off to Rodeo practice and then home and off to bed.  Had a shot to help me get to sleep last night (got to stop that) but stayed within my calorie tolerance and lost weight for the second straight day in a row.  I got excited about it at first because I thought it was the least I’d weighed so far in 2019 but actually on January 9^th I was 0.2 pounds lighter (and yes, that makes a difference to me).

Tonight, I don’t expect to accomplish much and I will probably blow my diet.  This is the day that Dana and I have our standing date night for beer and pizza at Whole Foods and, since we haven’t been able to go so far this year, I’m looking forward to it.  I think if I don’t bring any beer home with me (there’s actually no reason to) I may be okay but we will see.

Baby steps.