random thoughts - Day 2,021 (Sunday) - dance, pain, crow

Sundays are starting to settle into a routine. There is coffee, accompanied by the weekly job search certification with the unemployment office. There is the reading of emails. Then I move next door, cup of coffee in hand, for a short visit with Mom and StepDad before returning home briefly before dance group. 

In two weeks, we perform at the first of two Halloween events and we ran through our program today which is completely different from the program we did yesterday at the festival. 

Costume parts arrived this afternoon from Amazon, but according to past costume planning and the laws of probability and statistics, the idea will probably be change 100 times in the next couple weeks. The end result has as much of a chance of being completely different from the original idea as it does of going through several iterations and circling back to exactly the original idea. Time will tell.

The shoulder pain has expanded around the upper arm, into the bicep, and today's new development included the armpit. It's past the time for professional help on this one. Ice, tennis balls, and Tylenol just can't keep up. Driving was miserable and the Jeep seat and headrest felt like a torture device. This morning's drive included an icepack balanced on my shoulder. Weirdly, it didn't hurt while we were stretching and dancing but it was tragically temporary. When I sat in the car to go home it hurt all over again.

Crow in the yard.

There was a crow in the tree in the front yard today, perched on a delicate branch that looked nowhere near strong enough to hold it. It sat there calling and looking around and a couple times seemed to be looking into the living room window where I sat on the couch. Then it walked on the grass and pecked at some things before a couple more crows flew in and they all headed off on an adventure. 

After watching my crow friend, I headed to the kitchen for some slicing, chopping, layering, and baking of another vegetable, tomato sauce, and cheese masterpiece. This seems to be the food theme this week, made possible by multiple quick trips to the conveniently located grocery stores.