Arms like overcooked spaghetti
Eighteen inches of snow later, I spent most of yesterday afternoon in the driveway clearing the snow. Really, I didn't finish until this morning when I got the rest of the van dug out so Bonnie and the kids could take off for an activity.
My arms hurt. Even though I have an electric Toro "Power Shovel," which spins the snow out of the way through an impeller not unlike a snow blower, it still requires a lot of lugging around. Plus, towards the end of the driveway, it was all ice and slush from the plows, which needed to be manually broken up and shoveled away.
So when I got back in the house last night, my arms and my back both hurt a bit. I popped some Tylenol.
Then about 11pm I popped some more, because they were hurting again.
Then at four in the morning I woke up, and I really, really ached. So I took some more Tylenol.
When I woke up this morning at about 8:30 I was so sore I could barely move. That's when I realized that I'd used up all the Tylenol.
Snow sucks.
Comments
Snow is a wonderful thing...when pristine and viewed from a picture window. :-)
Posted by: suellen | December 29, 2004 12:12 AM
The snow should have been spread out more. The big Midwest blizzard that made the news last week missed St. Louis completely, passing SOUTH of us. Instead, we had overnight lows of 4 degrees.
Today, it's 57 degrees, and could reach 64 tomorrow. The meteorologist around here have to work hard for a living.
Posted by: Alphax | December 29, 2004 01:58 PM