It’s been a while since I made an entry. I have spent the last three and a half weeks recovering from surgery. While I always thought it would be great to just have some time at home to do all those things on “the list” – this wasn’t that time. I wasn’t able to do anything really until last Thursday. Sitting up for any amount of time was uncomfortable. I was tired of lying down and the only real comfortable position was elongated (but not laying down). Now I feel guilty that all this time was wasted sleeping and watching tv. Well, I couldn’t do anything else! I thought I would be a hero and be strong and get over it quickly, but that didn’t happen.
So, here I am over a month later, thinking about going back to work tomorrow. It’s amazing to me how life just goes on. It doesn’t matter if I participate or not – it just goes on. Sometimes I wish it would just stop until I’m ready, then I won’t have to worry about wasted time!
Today is my last day of being able to sleep in before the 5:30 a.m. alarm starts blaring at me. So, this morning at 7am I was jolted awake by the loud sound of blaring music coming from across the street. Of course, we have to have a rock concert in the parking lot at that hour. With fifteen apartment buildings in the neighborhood it’s perfect. It’s the worst band I’ve ever heard, massacring songs I actually purport to have enjoyed at some point in my life. Of course, this is all because there is some run this morning. I don’t know who’s running, or where (I suspect it’s another Breast Cancer Run), but all the runners have run away! They’re not standing there listening to you play. I would have run really fast just to get away from the sound. I don’t get it. I don’t know why this has to happen weekend after weekend. Do we really need rockbands at 7am??? Really? All it does is make me want to support the cause even less.
Sigh. I’m cranky in my sleep deprived state. I can’t even watch tv with this noise in the background – when is it going to end? Obviously no city official lives within earshot or they never would have allowed it!