"They know that you're cut up..."
Well, no Obama for me...Blabs' in-laws planned to visit her & her hubby this evening, so she wasn't able to go, and while he was incredibly gracious to offer to go with me, Jay's been up since 3 or 3.30 this morning, and with the traffic that apparently surrounded the Sioux Falls Arena, I decided not to subject him or the bambino (who gets incredibly crabby if he's in his car seat for too long) to start-&-stop-for-who-knows-how-long traffic. I caught the last 20 minutes of his speech, which I desperately wanted to see in person...But in the end, I think it's best. We would more than likely still be on the road back to Brookings right now, and it would've thrown the bambino's sleep schedule out of whack. I have to work in the morning, and we've got yard work to do tomorrow, so I figured we'd just stay home. We haven't really done much or gone anywhere this week, but for some reason, it feels like this is the first evening we've been able to just relax.
At the moment, I'm trying to decide if I want to try and go grocery shopping before I go into work...I do like getting it out of the way first thing--Before everyone & their dog makes their weekly trek to the store. I don't even mind the crowd so much as it's the jackasses who like to stand in the middle of the aisles, just yakking away about Fido and So-and-so's daughter and blabbity blah blah blah, while all I want to do is grab a can of pumpkin or a box of granola bars! And it's not just the elderly, although they are among the worst offenders. We get these same folks at the bank, the other of the 2 places in town that virtually everyone patronizes.
If I do go shopping tomorrow, I should remind myself to pick up some glucosamine-chondroitin, as my right knee is throbbing like my lower leg is about to implode or explode. I stooped down to get my change from the vending machine at my morning break, felt a rather painful "Crack!" and since about 10.15, I've been having some difficulty navigating stairs, as well as getting up from seated positions. I'm hoping that a decent night's rest and a prescription-strength ibuprofen will at least get me through a few days, until I can get enough glucosamine-chondroitin stored in my system. I should be taking it anyway, because of the chronic back problems, but it's one of those things that gets put on the back-burner whenever I'm broke or the bambino needs things like diapers or formula!