Good Errand Girl

Well.. So my husband turned 27 on the 29th of April. We stayed up all night the 26th and sat outside on the porch in the near full moonlight and watched the clouds float by like something out of a sweet horror movie set.

It was pretty epic all in all. We are poor and happy, which may just be one of the best ways to be. Not many responsibilities, not much money, not many obligations, but happy. So finally we headed back inside to go to bed and my phone rings. At 4:30 in the morning I was a little surprised. It was my mother. " I'm dropping a load of paper goods, cups and things at a place in Springfield! Meet me here to unload it instead of making me pay the lumpers and I'll pay you instead." Well sure! Who's gunna turn down some cash and.. from the sounds of it.. easy cash.

Boxes of paper plates, foam cups, plastic containers, things for concessions stands and the like.. aren't very heavy. Typically, a truckload of them would be conveniently stacked by the code on the sides of their boxes easily inventoried and placed on pallets, taped and set aside. However, this load, was stacked floor to ceiling of her semi trailer and all the way back. It was a BIG load of paper goods.

So we get to work. The spanish speaking individual driving the electric pallet jack for us is rude to me. I'm not sure why, I'm working my buns off and he's still being rude, I'm polite and he's still rude. Whatever, I get my work done after all, I'm not working for him. I was working for my mother. It took us.. maybe 2-3 hours to finish palletizing and unloading this truck.

They acted like it took forever. Having been in the cab of the truck instead of the back, I knew for a fact.. this amount of time was fairly average for how long it took to unload our truck. All in all, I was tired, sore and a little angry by the time we were done. It was worth it though. Every minute was a work out! When you are trying to lose weight isn't that what's important? Well maybe sleep too, but I haven't been getting much of that.

To fill people in. I have been having pain in my right hip off and on since high school. My right shoulder is also kind of screwy. Having never given it much thought because it didn't hurt, my right shoulder would sometimes make a "slipping" or "sliding" feeling. I never really complained because it didn't hurt, it didn't affect how I worked or how well I lifted things and I am just not the type to complain. For probably the past 6 months now. It's been fairly painful. Certain motions hurt and it pops a lot. With those two things hurting, sleep is hard without some way way awesome pain killer. I'm loathe to take that much tylenol or Ibuprofen though.

For some reason all my busted parts are on the right side. My right knee, I tore the carelidge in high school. My right ankle pops when I wake up because apparently I lock it in place when I sleep. My right eye is worst than my left.. etc etc. Weird how these things happen huh? I've only ever had to have stitches on my right side. Twice in fact. In the car accident I was in back in 2004 it was my right knee and arm that took the brunt of the glass from my window on my right side. Just weird huh?