Stormy Weather

Knowing that today would be windy as fuck (gusts up to 60 mph—yeah, there’ll be NO walkies in this shit), I made a solid effort to get over my lorazepam hangover. Ya know, get up,  get outta bed, shower and go for a walk while it was nice and calm outside. I managed to rise from bed, pick out adorbs walking togs, shower and…well, that’s it. Post rain room I put jammies back on and returned to the rack to read.

I was able to dispense with my ever present you’re not doing enough rehabbing (!!!) guilt too. Okay…mostly. It’s important for me to remember that I don’t have to do a full-ass workout seven out of seven days a week. I’d surely like to but rest is a good thing too. Plus, taking a day or two off each week means that I don’t burn myself out (which I’ve done more often than I’ll ever admit).

So, today and tomorrow while the winds are high enough to send me sailing over the seawall, I’ll elliptical, climb the stairs a dozen times, walk laps of the first floor with a cane/no walker and do some balance shit (like standing up whilst folding laundry). It’s easy to forget that there’s much that I can do indoors.

Hold tight
Wait 'til the party's over
Hold tight
We're in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house

~ Talking Heads, Burning Down the House 

 

Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy Weather
Since my gal and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time
Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy Weather

~ Composed by Harold Arlen and lyricist Ted Koehler, performed by Ethel Waters

 

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
Want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?

~ Eurythmics, Here Comes the Rain Again