What a pain in the...

Dave was gone all this past week to Pennsylvania, for work.

It was weird to be here alone all week. To go to the gym alone. To eat dinner alone. To go to bed and wake up alone.

It was very, very familiar, since I have spent the greater portion of my adult life alone....but at the same time, because I am still not totally at home in this place, it was unfamiliar. Dave was not 10 minutes away at the hospital this time...he was a very, very long way away.

My feeling out of place here is getting better, though.

This past week, my chili recipe was voted in as the chili cook-off contender for my department at work. So that was kinda cool, and it made me feel "included."

Team Paula chili didn't win, though, and I made it the best batch ever...oh well. It has veggies in it. Okies are not familiar with veggies, so it seems.

Dave came back from his trip with a horrible cold. I keep telling him he'd better not give it to me. The last thing I need right now is to get sick.

I've been having horrendous neck pain for a week now. Saw the chiropractor on Thursday, but it didn't really help.

Went shopping today for a new pillow, but the only one I could find that was different from the one I already have was literally a hundred dollars.

Yes. A hundred dollars for a freakin' contoured, neck support pillow. SO, I did not replace my pillow.

When Dave and I were doing errands last weekend, out in the 40 mile per hour (this is typical) wind, I flipped my head to get my hair OUT of my face so I could see traffic in a parking lot.
I usually put my hair in a pony tail when we go out because of the constant wind, but I didn't have it pulled back at that moment.

Anyway, when I flipped my head, something snapped, and that was when the pain started. So a new pillow probably would not have helped anyway...but I was desperate.

I've been taking lots of ibuprofin, doing lots of self massage, and, since Dave got home, he's been helping too.

I think another visit to the chiropractor may have to happen this week...Groan.