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Good morning, it's Friday and thanks to sensible, restful day yesterday--lolled around and power read and finished one of my Christmas books--I am feeling much better today. That deep soreness in my left (unoperated) hip is gone and I had a solid night's sleep without any wake-up calls due to aching hips. Yes, @Going4fun, you are correct that until I was forcibly reminded of this yesterday morning, I was viewing recovery as a fairly binary process and clearly thought I was in the fully recovered zone which should have, to my way of thinking, permitted a full day of unremitting, strenuous activity. Wrong! Thanks for the reminder that I'm still a work in progress, and even after full recovery of the right hip, I will need to be mindful of the fact that the left, arthritic hip is clearly going to give me problems going forward if I'm not careful. My goal is to recover fully from right hip surgery and then to put off left hip replacement as long as possible. Engaging in the sort of thing I did on Wednesday is not furthering those goals! Lesson learned. I hope your knee is feeling better with the icing you've been doing. I hope the setback didn't discourage you, and that you'll be back to the gym when it reopens, although a bit more cautious this time.
Despite overdoing it, it did feel really great, @Layla, to have the house back to its pre-Christmas tidiness and calm. And as I mentioned, the reason it didn't wait until the weekend is that my husband is leaving so I was able to push him into doing the take-down/clean-up earlier than normal. I do agree with you, however--I wish, like Dorothy and her red shoes, I could simply click my heels together three times and it would all get done in an instant without any effort at all. But that isn't happening and clean-up ALWAYS takes so much longer, and is so much less fun, than putting out the holiday displays and decorating the tree at the beginning of December!
@Alitm, I hope your power is more consistently up and running by now, I can appreciate that this would be irritating at best to have it on and off and then on again. I can see why you'd throw your hands up at one point and just chuck all activities like the internet, phone calls and Skyping. I understand you are going to get some colder weather rolling in this weekend--it will hit the northern part of Washington, but not further south where I am. I don't know how you feel about snow but I am not a fan. With your recovering hips you definitely need to be careful, especially if/when you go outside. Snowy, icy conditions are definitely unsafe. Let's hope the cold weather comes and goes quickly with no snow or only a slight dusting which will disappear rapidly.
I am feeling well enough this morning that I think I'll hit the gym with my neighbor workout buddy. I will be sensible, and make sure I don't push it too hard. After that we'll be going to lunch at a favorite place near our gym, and we'll be discussing the possibility of a "Dry January". I suggested this to her as she'd like to start the year off with a diet to help her shed a few pounds. I don't need to lose weight, so wouldn't necessarily be dieting, but I told her one thing might be to cut out all alcohol for 30 days and I'd be willing to do that with her as it's helpful to have a partner sometimes. It is remarkable how many empty calories are contained in alcoholic beverages! So, we'll see what she says when I lay out a plan. Other than the gym, a slow day ahead, I think. It's Friday night, so date night with my hubby, and if it's really going to be a dry January, I'll definitely be having a cocktail!
Despite overdoing it, it did feel really great, @Layla, to have the house back to its pre-Christmas tidiness and calm. And as I mentioned, the reason it didn't wait until the weekend is that my husband is leaving so I was able to push him into doing the take-down/clean-up earlier than normal. I do agree with you, however--I wish, like Dorothy and her red shoes, I could simply click my heels together three times and it would all get done in an instant without any effort at all. But that isn't happening and clean-up ALWAYS takes so much longer, and is so much less fun, than putting out the holiday displays and decorating the tree at the beginning of December!
@Alitm, I hope your power is more consistently up and running by now, I can appreciate that this would be irritating at best to have it on and off and then on again. I can see why you'd throw your hands up at one point and just chuck all activities like the internet, phone calls and Skyping. I understand you are going to get some colder weather rolling in this weekend--it will hit the northern part of Washington, but not further south where I am. I don't know how you feel about snow but I am not a fan. With your recovering hips you definitely need to be careful, especially if/when you go outside. Snowy, icy conditions are definitely unsafe. Let's hope the cold weather comes and goes quickly with no snow or only a slight dusting which will disappear rapidly.
I am feeling well enough this morning that I think I'll hit the gym with my neighbor workout buddy. I will be sensible, and make sure I don't push it too hard. After that we'll be going to lunch at a favorite place near our gym, and we'll be discussing the possibility of a "Dry January". I suggested this to her as she'd like to start the year off with a diet to help her shed a few pounds. I don't need to lose weight, so wouldn't necessarily be dieting, but I told her one thing might be to cut out all alcohol for 30 days and I'd be willing to do that with her as it's helpful to have a partner sometimes. It is remarkable how many empty calories are contained in alcoholic beverages! So, we'll see what she says when I lay out a plan. Other than the gym, a slow day ahead, I think. It's Friday night, so date night with my hubby, and if it's really going to be a dry January, I'll definitely be having a cocktail!
. It will be such a great support to your lunch partner 
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