did anyone feel a shift Friday into Saturday? [View all]

[magical thyme]

Several things shifted overnight, all at once, for me:

1. I strained my right elbow several weeks ago while preparing an overgrown area of my garden for planting. I've been babying the elbow for weeks, but planting, weeding, mowing, lifting, everything aggravated it and kept it from fully healing. And somehow anytime I bumped into anything or anyone bumped into me, that elbow got whacked.

I postponed finishing off the garden as long as I could, but finally broke down on Friday and got the last of the soil prepared for planting. And while getting heavier stuff out of the cart at the supermarket cart, I managed to twist it. So by Friday afternoon, it was really painful. I napped in the sun, hoping to bake some of the tendonitis and joint pain out of it, before running around mowing before the next round of monsoons.

By Friday night it was really, really hurting.

2. A couple months ago, my brake lights came on, plus a couple other things came up with my car. All that was fixed, until 10 days ago when my brake lights came on again. My appointment was for Friday afternoon.

3. I wrote in here how it looked like I was done at work, with everybody scheduled for training on the info system upgrade except 3 of us.

Well, Friday afternoon, I took my car in. Turns out there was just an air bubble in the line left over from when they fixed the brakes. 5 MINUTES: NO CHARGE!

Then I went food shopping. There I saw the wonderful young woman who is so nice and who has sent me in one direction or another at critical junctures. I think she may be an angel, seriously. She had told me before about a relative of hers who sold her house last year, without even putting a sign in the yard. She couldn't remember the name of the realtor or last name of the relative. I haven't seen her there in so long I began to wonder if she still worked there. She does. She remembered the realtor, and told me they're still hiring at the supermarket. People will always need food, she said. A WAY FORWARD. HUGE RELIEF.

Saturday, I woke up for the first time in many, many weeks feeling rested. And then I realized, my elbow doesn't hurt any more! I expected after Friday's re-injuries and severe pain to have it stiff and achy. Instead, other than a bruise where I had banged it again..OVERNIGHT, PAIN GONE!

And then I went to work on Saturday afternoon. Asked a non-descript question about the info system training. It turns out that half or more of the names I thought were listed for training were actually listed for days off. Suddenly, I just DON'T CARE ANY MORE.