Thursday afternoon I pulled a thigh muscle. It was a good thing there was no dojo on Saturday, since that leg wasn’t very happy until Sunday.
On Saturday, we went to check out a martial arts supply place people in the dojo had been talking about. It turned out to be in a far rougher neighborhood than I was comfortable with, especially with a nasty pulled muscle and a weak ankle. Snagged some bath salts at my new favorite soap shop, hoping they would help it heal faster, which they did. Unfortunately, Old Town Pasadena is not a place I should visit shortly after rains. I got quite poisoned by it.
Much of my week since has been taken up by recovering from that, and continuing to recover from ceasing to drink caffeine. I finally hit Taurine crash on Tuesday, nearly a week and a half after I stopped drinking the stuff. This may have been related to running out of vitamins on Monday. Unfortunately, the vitaminist hasn’t been getting shipments, and I don’t have an alternate source for the liquid multis, so I’ve been doing without. Not as well as I’d like, but… A combination of dark salads and chicken handles the Taurine issue. More salads, citrus, and throwing berries in my cereal seems to hold for the vitamins for now. Hopefully I can acquire more soon.
Something hasn’t been holding quite well enough. Either that or I’ve finally hit the headaches. I’m spending about half the day in ‘debilitated wreck’ condition, but I want to see what will happen if I just trudge through this for a few days. With luck it may be simple caffeine headaches and go away quickly. That would be nice. I don’t mind the pain, so much as I mind the lack of endurance and balance.
Garden is growing nicely, I still haven’t remembered to harvest my carrots. I always think of it at the least convenient times. Did get around to fertilizing everything though. The kitchen had an ant invasion today, so I pushed myself a bit to take care of the necessary cleaning. It will be good when these headaches are gone.
Also, some kind LJer appears to have set up a feed. So if you want to read this journal on your LJ friends page, you can friend this feed.
I set up the RSS feed, though significantly for my own personal convenience. [grin] I missed reading your entries. What’s in the bath salts that work for you? Hope you get through all the doom and feel better.
Aww. I thought it might have been you. I’m not sure leaving LJ was a good move, really. I lost so much community in doing so.
They’re just epsom salts with peppermint and eucalyptus oils, but they do help a lot. It’s nice to be out of pain for a few hours. Especially after a very tension inducing day – that area on Saturday was bad enough to thoroughly creep me out.
The doom will pass. The doom will pass faster if people stop doing things that tick me off. I need to figure out how to remind my vitaminist that lecturing me about caffeine is not the right response to me admitting that I finally stopped drinking it.