Halloween 2015

I woke up around my normal time, after 0700 and surprisingly, I went back to sleep. My mother interrupted me once to tell me my niece would be upstairs so I could watch her. She just needs the TV in front of her to be watched. I kept an ear out just in case she veered from the TV to something else but didn’t hear anything. I went back to sleep. Some babysitter I am. I kept on telling myself to get up to make coffee but I just couldn’t move. My back still ached and anything involving movement of the hips hurt like crazy. So I just laid in bed most of the time. I turned my phone off so I wasn’t distracted by text messages or other phone related activity. When I got up, all three email accounts on my phone were lit up and of course text messages. My med app was going off, reminding me to take my blood pressure pill. UGH It was time for COFFEE. I read my text messages before doing anything and got upset. The starting quarterback for the OSU had been arrested and will be suspended for next week’s game. WTF. He was driving OVI, which in my Boston terms, can only mean driving under the influence. I can’t believe it. I am so upset right now. This guy is a really good quarterback and for him to fuck up, I am beyond words. I just hope he learned his lesson and doesn’t do it again. As far as I can tell, there is no OSU game today, which is probably why he is suspended next week and not this week.

Tomorrow is a big day. I have four birthdays. I thought it was five and it might be. I always forget someone. Birthday month begins! Not looking forward to it. My sister’s is next week and will be at my other sister’s house. I hope I can get my haircut by then. It’s grown out and doesn’t look right. It needs to be tamed with scissors or a buzzer, preferably a buzzer. I wanted to do so much today and got nothing done. I still haven’t bought my stinking donuts. Man, that is the one thing I am most looking forward to right now and I am being denied because of stinking back pain. I thought since the rain has passed, I would be okay, but that hasn’t been the case. I don’t know what is going on. Only thing I can think of is when I was carrying my laptop to the FedEx place, maybe I shifted something in my hip. That is where most of my pain is, though doesn’t account for me not being able to stand upright. I don’t know. I just have to wait it out and I am being impatient. I want to feel better now. Least I have meds to help me. I am getting better, but very slowly.

I have to take a shower sometime today, preferably without the munchkins ringing my doorbell every 10 minutes. My brother in law is the guy that likes to give out candy. I hate Halloween. I don’t mind it if I work it but when you don’t and your doorbell still rings even though every light in the house is off, it pisses me off. And it really gets me angry when they start pounding on the windows. I mean, really?? That is when no one gets candy. But my brother in law has done it the last few years and continues to do so.

I wish I could order my snacks via an app or something. I can’t walk to Walgreens. I tried that yesterday and only made it half way down the block before pain over took me. I know it is going to be like that today. I will try tomorrow. I haven’t left the house since Wednesday. I had my sister pick up my prescriptions. Those were more important than snacks.

I still have been feeling depressed since I hurt my back. It sucks not being about to do anything. I would try and load the drivers on my older laptop but I can’t stand long enough to do it. And I need to disable McAfee, which I haven’t been able to figure out yet. Used to be there was an option to disable but the new configuration, the option is not there. I might have to uninstall it. I had to do that on my newer laptop to get the drivers on. I felt like an idiot when I called tech support and he asked me if I disabled the virus protection. It was the only thing I didn’t try.

Just checked my stats. HOLY UK!! They are my biggest readers today. Top blog is my knackered. This makes me happy and sad. I like when people read this blog because they can relate so much to it. But it also makes me sad because to me it means that another person(s) has been possibly diagnosed with cauda equina syndrome. I only wish this on one of my enemy. Other than that, I wouldn’t wish this condition on anybody. The UK is so far ahead of the US that I don’t think they are going to catch up. Watching my stats is fun to me. It gives me ideas on what to write for my blog, least it used to before the search terms became “unknown”. I never understood this. But whatever. I have other data I can use. Most of my referrers today are from Facebook. At least 49 people came from that site. I sold two books this week. I am happy about this. I was afraid I wasn’t going to sell any. But I did and that is all that matters. I sold one paperback and one Kindle. Good enough for me!