I have not felt older than I just did in the past ten minutes. I just scrubbed a small portion of my brother's kitchen floor.

I did it because there was a spill of soda that I had almost stepped in earlier and it still hadn't been wiped up. So I wiped that up. When I bent down to wipe it up....oof...did I feel like the fattest lumbering beast about.

Since I had already started, I decided to wipe up some of the other stickiness on the floor. Instantly my knees started to hurt and getting up and down was a serious chore. I don't know if it's my sore back (which is less sore) or what but I feel all beat up. I guess I'm not usually picking up toddlers and throwing them around - and that toddler might as well be a medicine ball for all the weight compacted into his little body.

On the other hand, today was a pretty good day. I slept for six or seven hours, got up, took a shower and went for a walk - all before noon! When I got back from the walk and looked at my watch and it was 11-something, I was like "What?!" It's confusing to be up and active before noon. (Or at least it seems like it. Maybe it was just that I didn't know what I was going to do with all the rest of my time.)

Later I went to the store and bought some stuff for me and some stuff for them. I got some cleaning supplies for the bathroom job and some razors (for me, but there's 12 and I'll leave them, so it's a good bet they might use them) as well as some groceries (which I'm steadily eating into). I could have tried to do some more cleaning but I was hampered by the fact that I'm still in my same eating mode, which means I eat too much and then go to sleep. I ate something at noon or one and then went to sleep until four - but then I took another walk!! (tippy-toe happy clap)* So that was a plus.

I communicated with my siblings briefly (because they had contacted me) and I sent some funny things to one of my brothers, which I hope he (and my sister) appreciated. I didn't really speak to them at the Christmas Day party at my cousin's and I haven't spoken to them since, so my track record isn't great. I would like to speak to them more (for all the negativity I've spewed about them recently) but I have to be in a positive, secure place to do so and I'm not there right now.

My phone reminders have been going off and I've just been ignoring them. If I'm not doing "work" work while here, the least I could do is work on my own projects in order to check some personal things off. But I've been skipping that, too (except for helping to upload some pictures to my sister-in-law's blog).

Anyway, I just wanted to express my feeling old (yet another reason I need to work out, I told myself) and about how I had a pretty decent day in terms of regular accomplishments (taking a shower can be a big deal sometimes), so that's what I came here to tell you. Now back to the TV.

:) Ciao!

*You know, like yuppie girls do in the movies.