Pain Pain GO AWAY!!

The big pile of snow we received this week has given me a pain in the neck!! (and shoulder and back!)  I had to use a broom to reach the top of Dougie and had to put a lot of energy into it as there was a good inch or two of frozen rain under the snow. I could my muscles pulling but figured it would be fine once I was finished. Wrong.  It's like when you get up in the morning and feel you must have slept all wrong - hurts to turn my head or do neck rolls etc. It's in the same area as when I had that pinched nerve in my right shoulder a couple years ago. The only thing that helped then was acupuncture so I'll make an app't on Monday to get needled :)

Projects are lying all over the house.  I bought new yarn for Kazi's infinity scarf as black yarn is really hard to work with - can't see the stitches!! Shoulda listened to my seester...right seester?? My sculpture is half way finished and is calling out to me. I did some rug spooling for a couple of nights but that repetitive motion was painful. I haven't hiked (due to weather) but have ridden my bike and am doing yoga.

Grrrrrr....pain makes me mad!

I will leave you with Foto Friday's fotos since I didn't post yesterday: oh, what a surprise!! One year ago today I took more kitten photos! Some bunny wants a belly rub! Oh, it's Lily, with her pink tongue hanging out in anticipation!

 Whatcha waiting for??

  My tummy is right here!!

 Sigh...

 Oh, and I completed my first sculpture in a number of years!! And have been busy in the workshop ever since :)  

Pay Day and Sleep Deprivation

So I ended up depositing $$ from my formerly Sealed Pot to cover some forgotten expenses (against your advice as it turns out) but hope to replace it soon :(   Yes, woe is me. But I'd rather owe ME money than one of these guys...)

But it is kind of disheartening to take out in one fell swoop money that I'd been socking away over the past two months. But the bills must be paid.

I got into a bad habit while I was nursing my pinched nerve in January - I purchased quite a few books for my Kindle. Reading was basically all I could do while I was recovering (recovering at 90% of my usual paycheque I might add). So.......EARNING LESS - SPENDING MORE = NOT ENOUGH MONEY IN THE CHEQUING ACCOUNT WHEN THE PIPER NEEDS TO BE PAID!!

Lesson learned....I hope.  I should know better. I DO know better but I was feeling sorry for myself. Now I feel even sorrier.

Happily today was payday and included one week at 90% and one week at 100% pay. I have a whopping $257 (after bills are paid and $$ put into savings) for gas and groceries til Feb. 28th. Michael and Kazi will also contribute to these two categories so as long as nothing Murphyish happens (there I go just inviting disaster to happen!) we should be OK. Sigh.

The other piece of good news is that Monday is Family Day here in Ontario so we have a long weekend. Just what the doctor ordered. I have developed another bad habit - one that I can't seem to fix. Every morning I wake up around 4:30am after about 4-5 hours of sleep. I toss and turn til the clock reads 5am and then get up. I am arriving at school at 6am! I am so bloody exhausted! Today I came home from school around 3pm and took a nap til 6:45pm - and I am not a napper ordinarily. I take calcium before bedtime, drink a glass of warm milk, take melatonin to regulate my sleep patterns but to no avail. My alarm is set for 5:30am but it never  wakes me up - my whacky inner clock gets me up long before that. I have no problem falling asleep but I just can't STAY asleep.

Any advice?