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Ya know, I really really need to stop and realize a few things:

1. I’m not 19 anymore.

2. I’m not 19 anymore.

3. I’m not 19 anymore.

Okay, now that we’ve established that, I don’t think of myself as old, but I’m starting to realize that when I over-do things physically, it really hurts. And it’s either because of my age, or because I sit on my ass too much.

The weekend before Christmas, with the threat of Immeninet Doom in the Form of Rain to go ontop of the two feet of White Death we received over the past three weeks, I was helping my father to clear the snow in the yard, driveway and the roof of the house. He did the roof detail and I helped with running the snowblower, clearing the snow that came down from the roof. Apparently I was subconciously fighting with the snowblower (and it won) as on Sunday I was a hurtin’ puppy. I pulled a muscle in the upper thigh of my right leg.

Man, lemme tell ya, you don’t realize how important a muscle in your body is until it hurts and you discover what important function it does. In this case, this muscle is the one that allows me to actually lift my whole leg. It’s a good thing I’m not a dog, where lifting a leg allows for answering nature’s call. Sorry Nature, you’ll have to leave a message.

Of course, in true Coltrane fashion I proceed to aggrevate my leg further on Monday, trying to step over a patch of ice in the driveway. Remember that Imminent Doom in the Form of Rain I spoke of? We didn’t get a lot of it. It rained yes, but they had predicted it would be a lot of rain and there was concern that with all the snow on roofs, and then the added weight of the rain would spell disaster.

The only disaster was me nearly landing on my tush on a patch of ice not even two feet wide. I didn’t go down but I did pull the muscle in the same leg.

Then Tuesday was Christmas and…I can’t sit around and do nothing! There’s presents to open! Turkey to cook! Food to stuff in my face! A DVD player to hook up! C’mon!

So I aggrevated it even more. So much so that when I went back to work on Wednesday, I hurt. I could hardly walk.

I’m mostly recovered from it now, although still a little tender, but there’s an important lesson here: If you pull a muscle, don’t pull it two or three times again after initialy pulling it! It really hurts! Trust me, I’m now an expert on this.

Which means you can forgo setting up the DVD player for a day or two.