I had a million things to say yesterday and I was thinking: “wow if I post all this on my Facebook status people are going to get really annoyed” when I remembered I have a blog just for that reason lol
I know, it’s been forEVer since I made any blog entries. It’s not that I forgot about it, really, I’ve just been incredibly busy and every time I think of blogging I think “well maybe I can find some time next week”. Next week always seemed to be busier.
In any case, I don’t think I’ve updated since before my bro came to visit this summer… it was a great visit! Even though both of us were having health issues, and we were often too tired/sick to do much of anything, we had a great time just enjoying each other’s company.
I was sooo upset when he had to leave — I thought I’d almost had him convinced to stick around but he left anyway, then he missed a train connection in Chicago and almost did come back… I had a hard time processing it all and then dealing with being stuck here alone again. The next couple of weeks I don’t think I could have blogged if I’d wanted to. Then the holiday orders started early, and I’ve been working pretty much nonstop since then.
Holiday sales were great this year! My business took a huge hit a couple years back when I shut down for 9 months because of the uncertainty caused by the CPSIA toy laws. After I opened back up my sales were no where near what they had been, and I felt like I was building from the ground up again, so I was very pleasantly surprised to see sales pickup so early this year. And they kept up. I still have a couple of orders to fill, but I am proud to say I managed to get every holiday order out on time this year (the ones that came in before our cutoff dates anyway).
One of the main reasons I was able to keep up with holiday sales this year is becuase MY ARM IS BETTER!! My arm had been relatively okay while Fred was here, and then 2 days after he left it was screaming again. I knew it wasn’t psychosomatic so I started analyzing what could have caused the change… and tracked it back to my favorite ezchair. While my bro was here I spent most of my time on the couch beside him, instead of in my chair. It turns out my favorite chair has been exacerbating the nerve entrapment in my arm for YEARS. I feel completely stupid for not having figured this out before, but I had an old easy chair in the other room, so I had someone help me switch it out… and my arm’s been better ever since!
It’s not great. I still can’t do much with it without it having trouble, and I still have to load up on NSAIDs to keep it functional, but without the chair exacerbating it all the time it is SO much better. Before I switched the chairs it had gotten to the point where it was hurting and useless more often than not, and if I did too much with it it would be useless for days afterwards. Now it’s only hurting when I use it too much, and it’s more or less recovering over night. I cancelled the appointment I’d made for a cortizone shot, and hopefully won’t be needing it, at least for a while! For the first time in 2 years I’m actually holding out hope it may heal most of the way given some more time.
I have a lot more to share but I think I’ll end this post here for now, and pickup more tomorrow :)
