9-7-2025 MY WEEK: pain doesn't stop the party
it was a week of uncertainty. nothing super existential, just ohio weather during these transitional periods ... and lower back pain, creeping in each morning. some days, the nerves hurt so bad i lay in supine position, reading whatever is around me - teen magazine, croatian literature, the new yorker. sib and i still take our walks, and i try to do stretches in between. but seriously - at 26 to feel 60? so i just lay. stretch, walk, lay. try to do chores and cook until my legs feel numb, then back in my spot with a heating pad blasting both back and couch. is this it? the dreadful 'this is how it is when you're old' kind of pain? still, this weekend was all about sib. and her wishes and desires were met. for her birthday, we went out to the museum for another mix event - this month's theme was 90s homecoming. we continued the night in the flats where we boogied all night long (sib's request for her birthday: "getting drunk and dancing all night long, whil...