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Day 3,070: Wow

So, the Oscars were tonight. An Oscars, I think it’s safe to say, no one will ever forget.

I didn’t watch them, but I heard about what happened afterwards. Holy. Shit.

Day was otherwise…busy. I went out to Ventura to pick up an add-on to our Bose soundbar, a subwoofer. I plugged it in and tested it and…it works. It’s not broken, far as I can tell, but…it does not impress. It’s super quiet. Which is NOT what the reviews say. The reviews say it’s loud as fuck. Too loud, even. So, I’m wonderi...

Day 3,069: Bizzy!

Busy Saturday, even though I was tired af.

Worked on the project with Liz. Got the rest of the stuff I want to sell on eBay all scheduled and ready to go. Moved some stuff around the house. AND made tomato soup from scratch at the request of the Bear.

It was…truly a wonderful day.

Night night

Day 3,068: Antici…pation

Film School is back. It’s BACK baby! It was so nice, so sooooo nice to get back to recording. To talk story. To break shit down. React. Analyze. And most, just to see my best friend and work on a project together.

It was a good week this week. I’m busy at work again, which is stressful given that things are going to also be busy elsewhere…more on that soon…but I can do it. I’m excited to do it, in fact.

Night night.

Day 3,067: Prep

Two big new projects in the works. Little stressed since my plate is already so full, BUT…I will figure it out. I always do.

I had a good day today. Felt normal. Back to normal. Still not getting up on time quite yet, but working on that. I’m setting an alarm for the first time since the injury. I’m sure I’ll be tired as shit, but it will be a start.

Worked, too, on getting the eBay stuff ready. Have to edit all the photos so they’ll pop. Clearing out the stash of extra stuff. Looking forw...

Day 3,066: Don’t Make This One Intellectual

Okay. I think today might be the last day for neck updates. Cross your goddamn fingers, because I sure am.

It’s still sore. But, in a “normal” stiff neck/shoulders kind of way. It’s practically back to normal. Thank you BABY JESUS.

Worked. Worked on the “project” a bit. Tried to brain dump into my schedule/organization software about all the stuff I need to do that I haven’t done over the past week (and beyond). I have a bunch of stuff to post on eBay. I need to send off our taxes. And I n...

Day 3,065: A Corner?

Have I turned a corner with the neck??? I think so.

It was pretty dramatically better today. I still have shoulder tightness and pain, but the neck pain, the super sharp stabby stabby neck pain…was gone today. I could move freely. No more throbbing, or basically feeling like my neck was broken…this grinding feeling between my bones. Gone.

Whew.

I took it super easy. And, like I said, I definitely still have shoulder and neck muscle tightness and pain. But, like, in the normal way I feel...

Day 3,064: Snooze-o

Neck was rough today. Sigh.

It’s a lesson in patience.

I had a nice therapy session tonight (therapist was out of town yesterday for our normal meeting time), and it was perfectly timed. This whole neck thing was 100% brought on by stress. Which means…reducing stress will go a very long way toward helping it heal.

So! That’s the goal. I don’t know exactly what that means. Maybe I start reading a book tonight rather than doomscroll. That sounds nice, actually. I’m going to do that. And…h...

Day 3,063: An Up

An up day with the next today. I…hesitate to say it, because it’s been so up and down to this point…but I might have turned a corner with it today. That deep down sharp pain was ever so slightly better today.

The muscle pain still came and went. We did an audition for Liz the required sitting in front of a microphone for a while, and that make my neck and shoulders kind of freeze up…but the injury itself seemed better today.

I think.

We’ll see how it feels tomorrow. I hope it was a big ...

Day 3,062: Roller Coaster

The neck injury is a roller coaster.

I woke up feeling MUCH better this morning. The drugs were magic. I was turning a corner, and this thing was going to be in the rear view very soon.

But…then the day wore on. I could feel almost immediately after getting out of bed that the deepest pain point, the spot where it just doesn’t feel right or normal…that point was still there. That hadn’t changed. And the muscles slowly, steadily tightened and seized up over the course of the day, and it fee...

Day 3,061: Flare Up

Oof. Neck flared up BIG time today. Probably because I sat and worked for too long yesterday. Uuuggghhh. Balancing that has been really hard this past week.

Flare up was bad enough that I saw a doctor about it. “Saw” as in it was a telehealth visit on the phone. He quickly diagnosed it as a muscular injury, and that has irritated a nerve on my left side. And that’s…exactly what it feels like. I could even feel it radiating down that side of my back.

So! I’m on some prescription drugs now. ...