I was out only about 30 minutes, but my new knee started to ache. After coming back in that thing hurt for at least 2 hours.
Isn't it bizarre that being outside in the cold hurts, but icing when warm makes it feel better?
I'm definitely going to be looking into leggings.
We can knit leg warmers or just knee warmers and donate them to those of us in the colder climes!!! I haven't ever tried them, but I can start with a prototype that will be a grand experiment!
Brilliant business concept!!
Our family is all pretty far away. I'll pick up a few pre-cooked things at the store and we'll mostly ignore Thanksgiving this year.
I had a very off weekend. All my knitting went wrong. I didn't sleep well. September aches from too much light-hanging. I feel very out of sorts. I think because my year mark is coming up.
See, last year for my birthday, which is the 1st week in December, Beloved gave me his cold. Husbands are sharing like that. He got better. I got bronchitis. Which caused me to cough so much I developed a strangulated hernia. December 16 last year I had emergency hernia surgery in the middle of the night. A week in the hospital. In early January I was back in the hospital with a massive abscess, and then I got to stay longer to deal with the blood clot I got. 17 days in the hospital later I went home on IV antibiotics for a month. I had a plastic mesh used to repair the hernia and when those get infected, it's about like when a knee replacement gets infected. Very. Very. Bad. It was late March before I was released from the care of the infection specialist and my hernia surgeon. Then I took the advice of a lot of people I'd met through all that and found my OS and by April I had both knee surgeries scheduled and threw myself into preparations for them. Then July. Then September.
I think it's quite reasonable that my subconscious should be concerned about maybe having another crazy stressful year like that, even though it isn't really reasonable. I've had all the known issues fixed by now. Lizard brain is never interested in facts.
Beloved is also having a very stressful time on a work thing, and that adds to the stress in the household.
Thanks for listening to me whinge. I'm just having an off day. I feel particularly exhausted for no specific reason.
We have started "staging" all of Christmas decorations as DH has always had a propensity for multiple lights and a nativity scene and a huge star of Bethlehem!! Today we have a large wreath we are putting up on the outside of our entrance to our log home, which is about 5 ft in diameter....so I will have to help! I may be saying 'ow' this evening too!
I hope your light hanging went without incident and you are not on the OW list today! Our house in Colorado was particularly well configured for decorating and I always went all out. I do an adorable diorama with play-figures from Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and a tiny decorated Xmas tree. Our current home isn't so well laid out so I do a lot less, but the tree takes up a big part of the empty space in our main family room and it doesn't really need anything else. We will put our tree up next weekend. It's...I hate to say fake. Manufactured. That means it can go up as early as we like and not be a fire hazard!
The bright colored lights help me through this dark, low energy time of year.
3 weeks to Disney!!! I'm just waiting to get close enough to figure out what to pack.