Sore bum

Well, I've learned that there is indeed a price to be paid for exercise. Recently I managed to get an injury while exercising (yes, my beloved Jazzercise!) which is quite literally a pain in the a@#! Unfortunately it means that not only am I unable to workout for now, but I'm on light-duty at work as well. Quite ironically I'm back to sitting on the sorest part of my body for basically 40 hrs. a week. The Dr. has me on a prescription anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxants (which I can only take when I'm not working or driving). Oh well. I would however like to say that no matter what, I'm always going to advocate exercise. The health benefits are numerous (keeps my blood pressure in check, helps to maintain a healthy body-weight, and has increased my bone density by 24% in just the last year since I started Jazzercising) and definitely out-weigh the cost of injury that's for sure. So, hopefully in short-order you'll find me back at my exercise routine (albeit carefully to start) and back in the swing of working in the Explore Collection (I miss Groovelily terribly!). For now though, you'll find me sitting on a heating-pad at my desk for most of the day.

End of vacation blues...

Well, today marks the end of my vacationing from work. **sigh** Tomorrow I'll be back at the old grind. Don't get me wrong. I have a good job and consider myself very fortunate to have it, but somehow it's always a little sad to have vacation time end. I spent the last 5 days in Oregon visiting family and friends. It's always a fine mix of emotions when I go down there. My parents are getting on in years and I know that I don't have that many more years left with them.

At any rate it's been an interesting summer in more ways than one. I spent a weekend at the beginning of the month doing a big garage sale with a couple of friends. It's a lot more fun to put together one of these with a few gal-pals I've discovered over the years. And once again I learned that people are strange. No matter that you've priced items at beyond low, there will always be people who just aren't willing to part with even the smallest amount of money for what would normally be a pretty expensive item. Case in point - All three of us ladies had gone through our purse collections and brought a whole slew of purses to sell. We'd spent all day Friday and half of Saturday selling our various purses for $2.00 each. Granted at one point I'd had a lady ask if I'd take a dollar for one and I agreed. One of my friends had brought 2 very nice real leather purses on Sat. morning to add to the sale. Later that afternoon we had a lady grab one, walk over to my other friend and in a very snotty way said "How much are the purses? 50 cents?" To which my friend said "Nope. 2 dollars." The snotty lady in a huff, marched over and put that very nice leather purse back where she'd found it. Well, I guess she showed us didn't she? We all agreed that had that same lady asked us in a much nicer way if we'd take less than $2, then we definitely would have been more than willing. As I had done with the previous lady. The old saying really is true. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.