Quartet of homers can’t secure Game 1

That’s the headline on the Astros webpage tonight.

I have been having similar troubles lately. I have been depressed, but also sometimes getting good things done anyway.

The main problem, if I have to diagnose myself lies here: I hurt my knee while jogging on Aug 31. I have felt so injured since then that sometimes I can barely walk, but mainly I have NOT aerobically exercised since then.

When I don’t exercise, I get more depressed, and I also gain weight, due to bad habits that creep in besides the depression. I finally went to the doctor, well, TWO, actually. I went to the orthopedic surgeon, who x-rayed me and told me that it was NOT all in my head (as I feared it might be… hey, I know how crazy I can be…) And I went to my general doctor. But I found myself embarrassed to complete my list of written questions regarding my ailments, and therefore, I am still suffering but not sure whether it is an emergency or just my negligence in doing my prescribed stretches and exercises that the 2 guys gave me.

Meanwhile, I am delving into home improvement again; not because I got inspired, but because that did become an emergency. So I am being forced to clean up and redecorate a part of our upstairs that needed it very badly. You know me and home decorating… I dread it, I hate it, but it is also kind of exciting and it sure as heck gives me something to do. I mean besides all of the things I am not doing that I should be like cleaning and cooking and clearing out piles and putting photos in albums (I kind of DO want to get on that project) and exercising and reading and looking for some kind of part time job that I could actually live with (or even full time if I could just take off on vacation with Hubby all the time…).

Oh, and the positive side (besides the paint color decisions) of my life is (as usual) planning and looking forward to my next chance to escape this living hell of a Stepford life: I am getting to go to Indianapolis again to watch my son’s high school’s marching band competition. I did this 2 years ago (my son’s school only does this expensive trip every other year) and LOVED seeing the hard work and artistry of this part of my son’s life. But this year will be even more fun for several reasons: Hubby is taking off of work and joining me, our best new friends from the Jazz cruise last January live in Detroit and are actually driving to Indy to spend time with us, and our best old friends (ex-neighbors from a town neither of us lives in anymore) live in a nearby town in Ohio and are also joining us for an afternoon on Sunday after the band stuff is all over. Mine and Hubby’s flights don’t leave Indy until 6:30 pm because I am saving money — but now we have 4 FABULOUS friends to share the extra day with!

And in 1½ weeks we are spending a weekend visiting our daughter at college (our first time to see her since the start of the semester) with a Saturday night appearance at our college reunion. It is an anniversary year for my class, but Hubby is only one year off, so he knows these guys as much as I do.

Oh, and I am still immensely enjoying both my weekly Thursday morning Bible study and my monthly Monday evening book club.

Slogging forward,
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