Personal day

[desperance]

I have a looming feeling that I might just not work today.

Checking back, the last day on which I might have done no work is Feb 5th, so - while we do not do entitlement in this house, neither do we do justification - I might not feel too bad about a day off.

And my shoulder aches, has been aching for weeks, in a Really Bad Way. Dunno what I did to it, but something has gone wrong internally, and it thinks I should take it to the physio. My trouble with this plan is that the physio costs money; and this is the shoulder attached to the arm attached to the hand that cost me two years' worth of physio a few years back, and I'm scared of that. So maybe I'll just leave it for now and let it get worse for a bit. That would be typical, I find. But worrying about shoulders and related dosh is conducive to not working, I find that also, which is why I mention it here.

Also, I did happen to notice that "The Man Who Would Be King" is on TV this afternoon, and I do love that movie. Sean Connery and Michael Caine, but mostly Christopher Plummer! As Rudyard Kipling! What's not to love? Actually, in truth I think I love the framing device far more than the true story of the movie: Kipling! Doing his whole Kipling thing, with the printing and the Masons and it all! There should be more movies about Kipling. If they could all be Christopher Plummer, that would help too.

(I was going to add that also it was quite a nice day out there so maybe I'd do some set-up work in the garden, break open a bit of concrete and see what lies beneath: but now I glance out of the window and it has gone grey and cloudy. We'll see.)

But I might not work. At any rate, I am going downstairs now, all unworked, nothing begun. I am going to drink coffee and read book, consider shopping, see how I feel.

Oh, and I want to make onion bhajis. That too.

Comments

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

My parents took me to see that film when I was a kid. I remember the 'soccer ball' and I remember the song. I can still sing the song.

And please get your shoulder fixed. An ounce of prevention etc etc etc. Nip it in the bud. You know you have to. And yes,take a day off!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

And please get your shoulder fixed. An ounce of prevention etc etc etc. Nip it in the bud.

As my right hand is only half working due to the RSI I'd been ignoring for the last 3 months, I heartily concur.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

What they said. It will take less time and money to fix now if you go in than it will if you wait for it to keep getting worse, which it will almost certainly do.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Is breaking open a bit of concrete the wisest plan for someone with a really sore shoulder? Physio needs to be consulted, I reckon.

Um, and if you do make the bhajis can we have a recipe? Or just a method? Cos the last time I tried I got more "thick dry gram flour cakes with onions poking out", which wasn't tasty :(

[desperance.livejournal.com]

But it's the other shoulder, honest: I hammer right-handed, and I ache to the left... (And I have now given up anyway, on account of insufficient hammer. While it is true that a bad workman always blames his tools, it is also true that even the best workman - which I am not - cannot do a decent job with inadequate tools. *nods*)

Bhaji recipe: absolutely, if nice. Dry gram flour cakes? Not nice. But this is all new to me, so I am dependent on other people's instructions.