Pruning, and hoping for better today
So yesterday, a majority of the owners in my building (including me) got together to do a little gardening. Our overgrown front hedge suffered major damage in the snows during the week before Christmas and, while it's never been beautiful, looked really bad. We resolved to start addressing the issue. Our plan was to prune the hedge down to the height of the wooden fence behind it. What we discovered is that some of the damage is worse than we thought--including damage to said fence. We pruned back two of the shrubs to fence-height, but there's so much work to do that we need to do another spate of pruning in the next couple of weeks to finish the job. My gardening gloves got a work-out the likes of which they've never had before. Despite the gloves, I still got stuck by the shrubs' vicious thorns and my thumbs are both a little sore.
Despite my feeling better during the week, I seem to have suffered a relapse after three hours of pruning, clipping, and bagging yard waste, because I spent the rest of the day on the couch trying to continue breathing. (Allergies? Who the hell knows?) It was a lost day, pretty much. I got nothing done that I'd hoped to. I spent most of it on the couch either sleeping or watching TV because I had no energy. I suppose I did accomplish one thing: I pay-per-viewed "Changeling," and can now see why Angelina Jolie was nominated for Best Actress. She's quite remarkable.
I'm hoping for better today. I've already done the basics: breakfast, shower, medicated and fed the kitties, and checked e-mail and LJ. Dishes have been washed. A first load of laundry is running. I need to do some job hunting this morning. I'm to attend a baby shower this afternoon and have been invited to an Oscar party later--attendance to the latter depends upon my survival of the former. I'm looking forward to both; I'm just wondering how much energy I'll have, feeling the way I do. We'll see, I guess.
Despite my feeling better during the week, I seem to have suffered a relapse after three hours of pruning, clipping, and bagging yard waste, because I spent the rest of the day on the couch trying to continue breathing. (Allergies? Who the hell knows?) It was a lost day, pretty much. I got nothing done that I'd hoped to. I spent most of it on the couch either sleeping or watching TV because I had no energy. I suppose I did accomplish one thing: I pay-per-viewed "Changeling," and can now see why Angelina Jolie was nominated for Best Actress. She's quite remarkable.
I'm hoping for better today. I've already done the basics: breakfast, shower, medicated and fed the kitties, and checked e-mail and LJ. Dishes have been washed. A first load of laundry is running. I need to do some job hunting this morning. I'm to attend a baby shower this afternoon and have been invited to an Oscar party later--attendance to the latter depends upon my survival of the former. I'm looking forward to both; I'm just wondering how much energy I'll have, feeling the way I do. We'll see, I guess.