Back To The Popsicle Stand

Here we are Monday morning already heading back to work. The vacation days went by much faster than expected but I knew it would. The interesting thing was I heard someone else this morning on the radio talking about how they had a huge list of things they wanted to get done on their vacation and they ended up exactly like me. Meaning they did not get anything done until the very last day when they finally grabbed and started on the list. Even at that point they still only got a very small amount of the list done.

This is pretty much the exact same thing that happened with us. We had a decent size list and while we did honestly do fairly well on most things, the bigger things we fell short on. Partially and not to be a huge excuse but my back decided to go out on New Year's Eve morning when I bent down and extended my arms out in a manner I know better than to do.

Wham, zap and buzz is what I felt as the wind was knocked out of me. An all to familiar feeling that happens to me anywhere from 1 to 4 times or so per year. I am fairly confident that this was either due to the fact that I had poor posture while shoveling the driveway, clearing it of snow that morning before then deciding to go on a 32+ mile bike ride on the trainer.

While awesome and a great ride because I was pushing myself hard I think I over did it with the combo of the two things. It sucks because it usually takes up to a week or two before I feel better and back to normal. Then it's another week to a month before I have the confidence to trust that it won't go out again.

Photo: Completely random spam text that I received a few days back as did a few others I know on Facebook. My bet is all of our numbers were compromised somehow through someone else getting compromised and it going through their friend lists or possibly their contacts. What's more, because I never replied I never was flashed, uncool!