Pain Train Cometh

This past week was one of the more PAINFUL weeks I've experienced for quite some time. If my memory serves it all began on Tuesday. I don't know exactly what I did to my neck/back that day, but I think it happened in the gym while doing shoulder exercises. At any rate by 8:00pm or so that night I had a horrible crank in the neck and had a difficult time sleeping comfortably that night. The next morning I took some Ibuprofen and felt pretty good by about halfway through the day. By then end of that evening I didn't even remember having neck pains and I went to the gym like usual.

I got into maybe the third or so rep on my very first bicep exercise and felt and heard a 'pop' in my neck/shoulders; and everything suddenly became very TIGHT. I set the weights down and tried to relax my neck and stretch it out. I then tried to continue with the work out but couldn't make myself do it through the pain. The rest of that night and most of the next morning were spent in alot of pain, everyone at work was calling me lurch since I would turn my entire body to look in different directions. We got off work early that day and by 3:00 I was feeling alot better (albiet with ALOT of pain killers) and I went ahead and picked up the cement bags from Home Depot for the chicken coop project.

Later that night we rocked out on some DnD, this was as fun as it always is. I'm retarded proud of John and the rest of us for keeping this going, I really need to get a working computer again (Harry) so I can get caught up on Dwarf Fortress and my own DnD campaign. NBA basketball is slowing down so I should have time for these projects now. Anyway I ended up asleep on their couch until like 3:00AM, I'm not real sure how I got there, but I guess I was very sleepy.

Friday morning I woke up with the usual neck pain (only much less terrible then the days before) and took a fist full of ibuprofen to battle that as I do every morning (and continue to do). After waiting an hour or so for that to kick in I started on the cement post pouring project. This went mostly smooth considering I was alone and had some really irritating bumble bee's hanging out. The posts came out looking a little sloppy at the base since I was trying to get maximum height there was some spill out plus I started the posts really high up. But other then fighting with that I don't really remember anything out of the ordinary but yet when I came inside I found I had a new friend in my right boot sock. Welcome to earth my dear friend FRANKEN-TOE! (at this point I would startle you with a horrifying picture, but as I don't have a new phone yet, no picture)

I'm not sure what happened out in that backyard but somehow I managed to break (I think) my pinkie toe and when I took my boot + sock off it was a purple and bruised, swollen, hellish sight. I've been self medicating with either Ibuprofen or alcohol more or less nonstop since that happened. But luckily it's just a useless little toe so I don't have to do anything special besides wait for it to stop hurting, and when I get to be shoeless or rock sandals it doesn't really hurt much at all. Friday evening was spent hanging out with various miscreants, mostly John and the lovely miss Jyesika. Eventually we saw KT for like an hour, went to a bar, and then immediately after paying a $3 each cover was informed it was time to go home by the previously mentioned lovely lady.

Now we come to Saturday and an event that will live on in song and story for many years to come... Michael 'The Day sleeper' Harry actually showed up to my house at 10:20AM, you read that right, it said AM! for a trip out to Worlds of Fun/Oceans of Fun. I was completely un prepared for his quick arrival, we still got out the door by 10:35ish, but I was flabbergasted to say the least. I think Jess actually gets about 99.9999% of the credit for an awake an on time Mike, but impressive all the same. We then headed out to Wof/OoF wonderland. We shared some alc beverages in the parking lot, rode a couple rides, ate some grub then headed to Oceans of Fun.

I ran into a few coworkers I actually enjoy running into and I got a chance to see Sam, which is always nice. I'm not sure why I was forced to walk people over to Oceans of fun in more or less a forced march because in my opinion Oceans of Fun is hands down a better time then WoF. The lines are shorter and more fun to stand around in since yur wet and have water all over the place. Plus most of what you do there doesn't even have lines (wave pool, lazy river, adult area, kid land!). And the single funnest thing to do in ether park exists in OoF, the fantastically fun Lilly Pads! Mark and I were forced to watch Mike cheat his way across and MrDer walk across it like he's walking to get the mail. Mark, John myself and the rest of the gang gave it all it wanted though, we slowly, horribly made our way maaaybe halfway before crashing into pits of laughing joy. There is just nothing more fun then the 'make your own fun' type of situations. I also did the usual fight for your life swim in the wave pool. Much water was swallowed.

WoF was it's usual self, which is good cause I'm not knocking it by saying OoF is better, I like them both. The new ride is pretty great, it's a wooden coaster but as it's brand new the ride is a billion times smoother then old Timberwolf. And I felt like it was a pretty long coaster ride. The other wooden coaster is one haggard mess of a ride. We all took a trip down the pain train and came out bruised as though we talked back to our husbands. The best ride at the park is still Patriot and I rode it at least twice, maybe I even rode it three times, it's fan-fuggin-tastic. We eventually left WoF around 10:30 and decided to cancel paintball for the next day as we were all pretty worn to a nub; plus I had the toe to consider.

Sunday was spent at Home depot and working on a bathroom project at home. Jessica did probably 75% of the work on that, I helped for a while, got irritated and watched the NBA finals. Pretty lame Sunday but it was good for recuperation. Work this week has been AWFUL. My toe kills me all day in these boots and on this cement pavement. On top of that I seem to be coming down with some kind of cold/flu. But I'm hopeful this will all get cleared up before the float trip I go on this weekend.

In non Bob only news, my sister Mindy had her baby yesterday! I've got a brand new nephew "Jeffery Lee Hickey". Planing on seeing him tonight. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll feel better. Jessica's garden has been going really well, I'm super proud of her. She's done almost all of it all on her own, I only really help when it comes to hauling stuff around and not being mad at her for throwing whatever money is needed at it. Hmm, totally not going to proof read any of this. Welp there are other things going on like my computer getting windows 7, Dwarf Fortress needing played, etc. But I'm tired of typing, so...

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