it’s friday…i’m in love
So the moral of the story is that my back still hurts, and I don’t really feel like talking about it other than we’ve moved from the idea that it’s a bulging disc and are now thinking it’s a muscle sprain. A muscle sprain is better than a disc problem, but at the same time…it’s been three months, and theoretically should have healed by now. Especially with the past few weeks of minimal activity. Gahhh.
Yesterday I wanted to throw my running shoes out the window. Today I tried acupuncture for the first time. I’ll keep you posted.
In attempts to lift my spirits back up, I’m not going to talk about my back anymore and instead present you with this week’s version of, “it’s friday, i’m in love.” Because it’s Friday, and it’s better to talk about happy things rather than the fact that my back still hurts. (Even though I just did…nevermind that.) Away we go.
post-work mimosas
What’s the big deal, you say? Drinks after work, isn’t that normal? Well, drinks at 9am on a Thursday aren’t quite the most accepted practice…unless you work night shift and that’s your version of happy hour. A few nurses went out for breakfast after work on Wednesday night (therefore making it Thursday morning…), and the mimosas will knock you off your feet…especially after being up all night. It’s totally acceptable, okay?
sleeping at night
It’s a beautiful thing. I’ve been having a hard time switching back to a normal schedule on my nights off…staying up until 4am is boring and then makes me sleep until noon or later. Oops. However, last night I was asleep by 1am and got up at 8:45 this morning. VICTORY. Also, seven more night shifts until I’m on day shift for two months. Please be my friend again, thanks!
“you don’t look like someone who would like beer…”
That’s what my physical therapist told me yesterday when I was discussing what I did last weekend. (Beer at the Blind Tiger in the West Village…so good!) He told me I don’t look like someone who would drink beer…mainly because I’m lacking the beer gut. I guess that’s what I get for running fifty miles per week (er…used to) and being somewhat healthy. Pour me another, please.
This is also a plus because I kind of feel like a whale.
salad bars
I love salad bars. You can pick what you want to eat. Load up with cucumbers (so good…), a little beans, maybe some tuna, avocado…as much or as little as you like. It’s a beautiful thing. I may or may not be eating a salad from one right now.
bin candy
On the same note as salad bars, bin candy is fabulous. I don’t necessarily know where to get this in NYC (Dylan’s Candy Bar? The M&M Store? Talk about $$$), but the Wegman’s where I used to live in Pennsylvania had bin candy, and I loved it. Again, you can have six Reese’s Pieces, seven gummy airplanes, and three peach rings. Sure, people probably reach their gross hands in the bins instead of using the tongs…but whatever. Immune system of steel.
coffee
Coffee is delicious and brings me up to baseline. Don’t judge.
Please tell me how much you love bin candy. Or whatever else you might love today. Ready, go!
Candy bins are the best, they eliminate the need to choose one kind of candy. Why choose when you can mix them all?
Ohhh I miss the Blind Tiger in NYC – although Chicago has some pretty great beer spots too
salad bars and candy bins are also a little slice of heaven, happy friday!
We have a bin candy store down the street from our apartment in jersey city and i loooove it! thankfully, i don’t pass by it usually since it’s on a side street, so it’s just an every once in a while thing. or a drunken swing by after the beer garden! haha
I love bin candy but luckily I don’t buy it very often. Candy in my hands is kind of dangerous.
I *do* love bin candy and salad bars! There’s a new amazing bin candy place in terminal 2 at SFO (if you fly Virgin America out for the SF Marathon, you will see it!) and now my special treat every time I travel is a bag of, like, three of every sour candy that exists in the world.
The only bad thing about bin candy is that the prices are usually way jacked
Hope the back gets with the program.
Susan,
I too have been dealing with an injury (hip flexor) since February and unable to walk without a limp much less run my weekly 50 miles. To say it has been killing me is putting it gently so I totally understand how you feel. Reading your recent posts makes me feel so much better (as I, too, hate anyone who I see running or anyone who talks about running and was starting to feel like kinda a brat). Thank you so much! I hope you are on the mend soon!
Jenna
I LOVE candy bins!! When I travel for work I have this bad habit of buying candy from the candy store at the airport instead of buying real food. When I have to turn my expense report in they always make fun of me for having a candy store down as my lunch!
Ugh! Hoping the back pain resolves SOON! Has to be ultra frustrating for you.
I think they need trail mix bins for you too.
BEER ME. that’s all.
as a fellow night shifter, you just spoke right to my heart. i love post work mimosas! the other day i woke up at 3pm after my last of 3 in a row and had dinner with a friend and wine at 630…it wasnt until i was sitting alone in my apt at 230AM that i pretty much was drinking mid-morning according to my sleep schedule…whatever, nightshifters make it work
I hear you on the injury front as I am on week 5 of healing from a Grade 2 hamstring strain and I am not happy about it. Also I hear you on the nursing front. I have worked straight weekend day shift for 5 years now though, but in the beginning of my career 14 years ago I did nights and after a few years it killed me. LOL!! Hope your back heals soon. The joy of being a nurse. Are darn backs!!
OK yes it’s official that you need to come now. Salad bar at Jason’s Deli, or better yet, Qcumbers. Coffee at Dogwod. Mimosas in the IV drip. I mean…. at brunch. And of course we can swim or bike or elliptical, or not.
Work shmerk. Time for a vacation!
I love bin candy! haha. Dylan’s candy bar is like heaven, and I always walk around and eat from my bag of stuff for a while when I go there (totally not stealing?). Yayy for you being on day shift again soon!! that’s very exciting.
Mmm. I love all of these things. Except for not so much beer. A great place to get bin candy is Economy Candy on the Lower East Side. It’s way cheaper than Dylan’s Candy Bar and has far fewer tourists!
I hope that the acupuncture works!
I love candy bins! They used to have them in all the supermarkets and as a kid I’d always “taste” a piece or two. haha. They don’t have them everywhere anymore though and I miss them.
bin candy is perfect for people like me who cant decide on just one candy we want…
Thinking of you during this time, Susan. I know it is so frustrating to be injured.
I’m sorry you’re going through this right now.
And I kind of get freaked out over bin candy r/t germs. I’m weird like that. I get creeped out thinking about how many hands have touched whatever candy is in the bin. I’d much rather get a giant bag of m&ms.
I love bin candy (from Wegmans). If I bought regular bags of candy I’d definitely eat too much at once!
Glad you are trying accupuncture–hope it works.