Back when I worked in a lumber yard, I had a simple work plan. If something needed moved...I moved it. Did not really matter how big, how heavy...I just moved it.
That was almost a decade ago.
I can't do that anymore...but sometimes I forget.
Take today, for example. I was rearranging some storm doors. About 5 of them needed to be moved. So I did what I used to do...with one hand I leaned them, with the other I pulled out the 2 doors I wanted.
That would have been easy money in the past. Of course, I used to be in shape in the past. Now?
Disaster.
Back spasms. Painful, brutal back spasms. I was having trouble breathing. I was thinking my new job duties might have ended already. I was bummed because I am loving the new duties.
But I was literally standing there trying not to move, trying to breathe without it sending shooting pains through me back and chest.
Fortunately, by taking it easier I was able to gut it out, finish the day, and except for my readers, nobody knows it happened. Nor will they. I love what I am doing now and am not going to let it be taken away.
Particularly in light of some other news we got today.
Our third biggest customer closed their doors. Not in one or two stores...all of them.
That is scary. Nerve-racking. It is getting real close.
Doesn't help that our own stock is under .50 cents. Just a couple weeks ago it was 2.50.
And speaking of close...when I got home tonight, there was a street closed off by several cop cars. Are the murders getting closer?
Scary times. On the bright side...the Blazers have won 5 straight.
1 comment:
Hang in there! And finish that teaching degree!
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