It was a pretty busy week.
Tuesday - Beginner Band First Lesson night. Spent 45 minutes at home between work and coming back to school. Good news, though - I have more beginners this year! After First Lesson Night, it was off to "Crawlers" - a bible study with some friends (but not before stopping at Tops (semi-local) for some snacks, seeing as dinner was quick). Home by 11. Fell asleep in a chair, then stumbled into bed.
Wednesday - First Day of Band and lessons for my 5th Graders (or, in the Harry Potter universe, "Second Years"). Went well, but busy day. Felt my voice getting hoarse, and my back started to ache a little. After school, I had coffee with a good friend, and we chatted about my decision to NOT do a marathon this year, and about lives, and wives, and everything in between! It's nice to have a man-friend that I can open up to. Thanks, BK.
Thursday - "normal" day at school except for my voice got a little better, but my back started hurting more. Stopped at Sav-A-Lot on the way home for some little things.
Friday - My back is starting to hurt more by now. Like, hard to bend over kind of pain. I had intended to run a few times this week, but life, and back pain, and rain (was that Thursday?) got in the way. Also meant to mow the lawn, but put it off as I started to feel worse.
Saturday - Saturday morning I was feeling okay - the back pain had abated a little, so I decided to join the half-marathon crew of Run For God for a 7 mile run. I took it easy (as in, 10-minute-ish average pace.). Then we were off to Adam's first Tae Kwan Do class of the season. By this time, my back actually felt pretty good, but I knew it was going to hurt later. So I scheduled a massage with my LMT Darlene, and she tore my muscles off! It definitely did not feel better right away, and by the time bedtime rolled around, the pain was worse. But in between, we took off to Wegmans for organic goods, dinner (freshfreshfresh), and stopped at goodwill to both explore (we'd never been in there) and to find Adam a pink shirt for school. When we got home, and everybody was settled, I fell asleep in the chair, and stayed there, cause it was less pain than getting up!
Sunday - Woke up sore, but kind of limber. Took it easy with the standing and sitting at church. But while praying, I realized that I could pray for my own healing, so I did. Flat out asked God to heal me, my back, and to forgive me for my selfishness over the last few months. Within an hour, I felt like I could move 10 times better than the previous day. By the time lunch was over, I was ready to get out and mow the lawn (Which I had put off since who knows when...), and do some chores, and play wii with adam, and put laundry away and...well, you get the picture!
GOD IS SO GOOD. I know that I can chalk a lot of my healing to Darlene, but God (and Lisa) were telling to me to go to her. God puts people in our lives to guide us, but it is still our choice to follow through or not.
So, I felt good enough to take the family out and do some "shopping" we had been meaning to do since before school was back in. We went to Kirby's farm market, and Rockin R Ranch, an brought home some great local produce and meat. For dinner, we had BLT's, and mine really was a true BLT. Just bacon (from Wegmans) lettuce (from Sav-A-Lot) and orange tomatoes (from Kirby's)! Oh, and a little mayo, too! What an awesome meal.
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| My REAL B-L-T... |
By the way - stuff we got today:
Kirby's (total of approx $20)
2 Onions
2 Green Peppers
1 Half-Gallon Cider
3 Hot peppers
1 Italian Frying Pepper
1 Hungarian Pepper
1 HUGE head of fresh cauliflower (want a recipe? Just ask...)
A Chrysanthemum
2 Orange Tomatoes
Rockin R Ranch (about $80 - that seems high, but this is natural, organic, and HIGH quality, and not that much fdifference price wise from what you would pay for premium cuts in a WM).
2 pkgs delmonico steaks (2 in each)
2 medium size roasts
5.5 pounds ground beef (which, BTW, all their beef is Black Angus)
2 pkgs Pork Chops (2 in each)
There is nothing like buying local - you know where it's coming from. I trust the people I buy from, and they can tell me about where their food comes from, if not from them. I firmly believe that we can head off, slow down, and fight back against, most of the common afflictions if we just cut the junk out of our diets.
So, thanks for joining me for No Wal-Mart month, or at least reading about it!
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