Oh My Knee

I smashed up my knee over a week ago, and it became swollen, and I’m sitting here at work with ice on it.  It is apparently prepatellar bursitis (though nowhere near as scary as the photo on that Wikipedia entry).  It is sore, but I can walk on it without problem.  It just feels inflamed and sore most of the time.  I am not a fan of how it gets irritated when I wear jeans, because I was not in the mood for dress slacks this morning.

Gah.  I’m exhausted.  I have a few things going on in the evening this week, or else I would be tempted to go home and sleep tonight, even though I had fairly lengthy naps both days this weekend.  Both naps were the sort where the wake-up is disorienting, and you don’t fully recover from it for another few hours.  I hate that kind of thing.

But the weekend itself was pretty good, involving a lot of junk food and family and fun stuff, even if I didn’t clean the house properly for all of the above to happen at my house on Saturday night.  I could use another couple of days right now, just to catch up on sleep and find the bottom of the laundry pile and generally get a handle on life before the start of another week.  I need a weekend with a Productivity Sunday, a Sunday filled with Getting Things Done, which finds me, fresh from a shower, climbing into a clean bed with a clean house all around me.  I haven’t had one of those Sundays in a long time.  I love those, but I rarely make time for them.  And this weekend may be no exception, because I think I am taking a road trip.  But I will see how that all works itself out.

Last week, I spent quite a considerable amount of time making spreadsheets of all my spending since about September of 2009, complete with categorization and pie charts.  It was, weirdly enough, a lot of fun.  It was also way illuminating, just like counting calories a year ago was illuminating.  In both cases, I was worried about the big items (in terms of cash and in terms of calories), but it turned out that it was the little things added up that were my real issue.  I give myself guilt fits over the big stuff (the macaroni & cheese at Noodle & Company, the repair bill for my big camera), but it’s the shopping/eating when I’m bored that really causes me trouble ($25 at Etsy here, a bag of chips at 4pm there).  Honestly, my spending isn’t nearly as bad as my eating, if we’re going to compare.  I’m not in debt, but I can certainly be saving more money.  I think that if I keep track of my spending for the next few months in the way that I kept track of my eating for several months last year (at this time), I can probably get a much better handle on it.  That would be great!  And I get to make pie charts.  I LOVE pie charts.

Tonight I start a volunteering gig!  I hope that it works out.