Pokey

Well after my last post, we had our very first homeowner crisis. I was cleaning and kept hearing a surge of water, and thought "wow our dishwasher is really loud." Eventually I decided to shut the dishwasher off and go down into the basement. I quickly realized that water was shooting out of a pipe. Sweet. So I played the old damsel in distress and ran over to a neighbor that was shoveling and asked him to help me find the water shut off. Well alls well that ends well. The plumbers came out, had a good chuckle and our pipes are now insulated. Maybe it was all that stress, but I managed to throw my back out again. Saturday I woke up and was in agony. Brian was on the phone all morning trying to locate an acupuncturist in the area. Finally the lovely people at Plum Blossom told us to come right in. I have to say I am a total believer now. They stuck me in the hand, and put balls in my ears, and I instantly felt a release of pressure. I have been holding my own today but still playing it safe. I have set up 6 more times, so that I can hopefully have some pain free days and not have to worry about being sidelined like I was in August. Hopefully I will be back to training soon enough. I am going to take it easy and keep up with the swimming and biking, but it may take me a while to feel comfortable running. Good thing it is school vacation week!!! I was planning on turning the heat way up and having some dirty monkeys and pretend like I was back in Mexico like last year's vacation. But then we were told that we are heating the unit above us, so that is out. Oh and the acupuncturist told me no alcohol or caffeine, so that plan is out.