first time this year

 

 

 For the first time this year I took a night off delivering the newspapers.  I distribute the Sunday Oregonian twice on the weekends; the First Edition on Saturday and the Final on Sunday.  Out of 52 weekends in the year, I have taken one half of one weekend off.

The Black Friday papers were BIG, for a weekday paper, and I had around 2000 of them to drop off.  I hurt my back that night – twisted wrong, or picked up something wrong, and my back has been hurting ever since.

I had to laugh yesterday; the papers were in bundles of 12s.  I dropped 8 off at one of my Starbucks (I have five on my route).  I set ’em down on the floor and tried to get up and WHAM!, my back went out and I nearly screamed like a little girl.  Well, swore like a sailor, more like it.  I was about 1/3rd of the way through my route, so I finished it, as careful as I could, and came home to rest and lie down.

I woke up from my nap and DID NOT roll out of bed like usual.  Ooooowwwww!  (Actually, I laughed.  It’s not funny but laughing feels like a better response than swearing a blue streak).  My cousin last week gave me some horse-pill sized Ibuprophens, and they help some, but when I woke up yesterday afternoon from my nap and couldn’t stand without swearing/laughing, I called the boss and told him I could really use the night off.

It was the first and only night off all year I’ve taken.

My back DID NOT magically loose it’s pain. I hate having to think about moving – will that hurt? Ooooowwwww!

I’m hoping it isn’t something like the pinched nerves I had in 08 – hadda have an operation to fix that – $12,000.  I don’t have no Health Insurance now.  Maybe it’s age (no.  I’m only 47.  That ain’t old).

Anyway. it was the first and only Saturday night I’ve taken off all year.

Last weekend of 2009

The next time I work, it’ll be 20 10.

 

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