Here's What happened...

   I can't do a lot of writing today. My pulled arm muscle is giving me 'A TIME'!! But I still can tell you the story of what happened to get me in this predicament. Here goes...
    No! I did not slip on a banana peel while mopping the floor, that made me land on my arm...

    No! I was not out swimming in the ocean and got stung by a jelly-fish that made me hop around and land on my arm.

    No! I was not trying to put wood on the fire and got too close to the fireplace, jumped back, and twisted my arm in an acrobatic fall...{Although most of the time it does feel like it's on fire!}

    And No! I was not wandering around in the desert until I collapsed, only to wake up and find my arm in a crumpled mass underneath me! LOL
   I'm afraid the real story is pretty anti-climactic...I woke up....and went to reach for something...{a cup of tea, I think}...and WHAM! The pain hit me!!...*sigh!* How sad is that?!! My body is so bad off that it doesn't even want to reach for a cup of tea!! ^_^ And it's making me pay for trying to do it now too!!!
    Oh Well.....What am I doing about it?!

    I'm sitting in one spot, with pillows propped up all around my arm, letting my mind whirl around like the Holyoke Merry-Go-Round...trying to be patient...and stay in as little pain as possible.

    Thinking of quiet places that we've visited, like Maine, with ocean waves hitting the shore, and seagulls and calming sounds of coastal water.

   Thinking happy thoughts about Australia, because it's only a little while now until there will be TENNIS!! The Australian Open will begin on January 17th!! I can't wait!!!

   By then, for sure, it'll be "Hello Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer!!!...and Goodbye pulled muscle!!!"...Well...IT BETTER!!! 
    I'll still be sitting still, in front of the T.V., but I need to be able to swing an invisible rackett in the air when I get excited! LOL
    Okay, off to do some more RESTING!!!....I really miss crocheting. :-(


Ode To A Pulled Muscle

Go ahead and sting and burn;
Go ahead and cause sharp pain;
Go ahead and take control
and cause a throb in my forehead vein!

Go ahead and make me sit;
Go ahead and pull and ache;
Go ahead while you still can,
while I'm slow and half awake.

Pretty soon I'll see you go!
Pretty soon I'll move around;
Pretty soon I'll have every muscle
doing a boogie all over town!