Lost the box

 Today was expecting a chef's plate delivery and apparently they lost the box. So no dinner. Instead I made gingerbread. Not exactly the same.

This morning when I did my hip exercises I was frustrated because there did not seem to be improvement. But when I did the exercises in the evening there was significant improvement in the flexibility so that was encouraging.

There was a lot of freezing rain so James' college team pulled out of the games they were supposed to play in London tomorrow. In fact, the college closed at 1:30pm, which annoyed him as he had an 8:30am class! Queen's remained open.

snowbank sucker

 Last night the snowbank sucker machine went through the neighbourhood. This may be why I woke up at 5am but I am not sure. I did my hip exercises and it seemed better than last night. Washed dishes, got ready, sent James off to class. Went to work. At lunch I took in the Rustle deposit and picked up a rice bowl from freshii for lunch. After I walked home I did the hip exercises again and while I thought things would be better as I had just walked and things should be warmed up, this was not the case, things seemed much tighter. Will try again tomorrow morning! 

Sarah's healing hands

 Sarah saw me limping because of the pain in my butt and thought it was a knot and so she applied pressure to it for about 30 seconds and apparently de-knotted it and then I was free from that pain! But the hip is still sore so I found some exercises online to do to hopefully improve that situation.

Went to Rustle in the morning and the Bishop was there and spoke about how it is important to do faith life in community (James 5)

Picked up some ground beef at Metro for tacos. Watched Elevation. Made pasta for dinner #2.

Read "How to work with (almost) anyone" by Stanier. He talks about "dysfunction, disappointment and frustration are part and parcel of human relationships" and conversations to try to improve the relationships.

"Hard change involves saying no to some of what has worked so far for Present You"

pain in the rear

 

Thanks to the snow shoveling I seem to have pulled a muscle in my glute which I think is causing me to wake in the night as if I move in the wrong way it can give some jarring pain. It seems to be a bit better today, we'll see how the night goes.

James was in Brockville today playing for St. Lawrence.

3am

 I woke up today at 3am after 3 hours of sleep. This isn't great but for some reason I felt like it was 5am so I thought I had an acceptable amount of sleep. So I got up, only to find I had not achieved an acceptable level of sleep and tried to go back to bed. I did eventually get back to sleep but needed to get up early. 

Went to the dry cleaners a block away to bring in James' pants, brought James breakfast, cleared the new ridge left by the snowplow, dropped off a book to a girl and then went to work. Worked 8 hours, ran 2 training sessions. No lunch or break but made it through a lot of emails. Walked home in the dark, made dinner and will leave soon for a meeting at sarah's. Looking forward to more sleep tonight!

more shoveling

 

I was going to head to Rustle but the sidewalks were bad and flurries were occurring. Instead a spent an hour shoveling. Then watched Elevation. Have to shovel again in the afternoon. Waiting for James to return from Toronto, I was working in the basement. When I heard the sound of the snowplow. So I run out to shovel again as James was due back any minute. I managed to get it cleared just in time as he returned!

First snow shoveling- 7am

 Not a plow in sight!

First real snowfall

 Today is the first snowfall of 2024. First real snowfall of the season as I hadn't got my snow shovel out yet.

This past week was all about getting grades out and getting reading for this upcoming week. We aren't quite ready yet so I'll need to go into work today. Hosting at Rustle first, then off to work.

James has to leave at noon for the invista so I'll shovel a bit before I go and then see how he does.

Day 1 2024

 I actually had a good sleep last night. Not woken by fireworks. Got up in time to see the sunrise. Did some cleaning in the morning. Loaded grades in the afternoon. James is not happy as he seems to have a cold and wasn't feeling well. Tomorrow the real work begins!