It feels like I've been in a train wreck...

... but not quite that bad.

This pretty much sums up the soreness after my first workout since last September. I have pretty much spent the last two days curled up all fetal-like in bed whenever I can. Saying "ouch" every once in a while. Buddy's getting pretty sick of me.

My trainer chose to focus mostly on my upper body on Thursday. God knows why. Maybe he just wanted to make sure I would still be able to walk out of the gym. I told Franz yesterday that it would be better if I were the Venus de Milo... that way everyone would understand why my arms don't work.

Today was the Rose Parade... Grand Floral Rose Parade... whatever it is called. It was pretty cool because it went by about two blocks from my condo. I could hear the bands as they went by. I didn't even have to go downstairs. Way cool.

Walking Buddy on the other hand... not so much. With so many people thronging around downtown, he was in heaven with all the new smells, and food dropped on the ground. Which meant he was temporarily deaf to commands like, "No" "Leave that alone" "Don't eat that" "Sit" "Stay". None of it.

But, seriously, it wasn't that bad. He pulled me around a little bit, but most of the time he was fantastic. Especially when a little girl about 6 inches taller than Buddy came running up to him. She had temporary deafness, too. Her Mom was yelling, "No" "You ask first" "Be careful". She was hearing none of it.

Thankfully, Buddy was a champ. (Yaaaa!!) He let her pet him, hug him and the worst he did was slurp her arm. That was enough to send her back to her Mom saying, "That doggie licked me!" Her Mom and I both were thinking the same thing... "You are lucky that's all he did, honey."

And reason #101 to be proud of myself today... I fixed my old vacuum cleaner all by myself. I didn't have to take it to the repair place. All I really needed was a coat hanger and a pair of pliers. I just finished vacuuming the whole condo. YYYYAAAAAA MMEEEE!!!

That's all for today!

Love to all,

Sherry