Back To Work This Time

So it's officially back to work today for me today. Yesterday was nice, staying home and trying to take care of my back. I should have probably taken some more prescription medications to help ease the inflammation from the dumb twist, reach or move that I did to make it happen in the first place but I chose not to. I was able to get a little bit of extra rest and relaxation but tried to stay active so it would not stiffen up on me and make today more difficult.

So far today it does not feel terrible, just achy all day and worries me that it may pop out or zap me again at some point if I am not careful with it. I should probably skip the gym but seeing that it has been over a week since I was last down there I am going to go ahead and go. Worst case I will simply to 30 to 45 minutes on the elliptical and if I do any strength training it will have to be low weight and high repetition to play it safe.

I guess this is a sign that I really need to work on my back and core even more than I already do. I am confident that the pain and initial tweak-age was not from my 101.8 mile bike ride on Saturday, that actually loosens me up quite a lot. It's more that the dam little move that I did to reach over and grab the fuzzy kid a potty treat while breathing in and making a funny voice while talking to him. Sounds crazy I know, but that is when it happens 9 times out of 10. When doing something totally unrelated like brushing my teeth or whatever.

Cycling

So I was not able to go ride yesterday and today I may or may not depending on how I feel once I get home from work. I don't want to end up tweaking it more by pushing myself but I think if anything it will end up helping it more than hurting it. I tend to loosen up when riding and get my muscles going and warm which is great. Plus I have managed to miss 2 days in a row now riding and that is 2 too many for me lately with the lack of summer months left.

Otherwise

I think that will have to be it for today. Lot's going on here at the studio and we have our studio BBQ and picnic this Friday which will be fun. Normally its just before a 3 day weekend I thought but not this time. Well honestly I did think that Monday was a holiday, not sure why - but its not for a couple more weeks. I guess that is a good thing - I can use up some more of my DTO and enjoy a little more time off at home with the fuzzy kid if Cicely goes to work and takes Zoey to daycare.

So with that, and until tomorrow - I hope your Tuesday is treating you great, if not better than your Monday did. As I always say - if not just hang in there, one of the days is bound to be better and if not you always have the weekend at the end to make the week what you wanted it to be!

Photo: Did not really have anything to take a photo of today so I ended up using one of the books that we read Zoey. She really enjoys us reading to her. Sometimes she enjoys grabbing the books and shoving them in her mouth the most, but the reading part is pretty cool in her mind as well.