Good Aches vs. Bad Aches

I was on my legs in the kitchen for hours today as well as up and down the back steps a gazillion times. My legs and knees are yelling at me but I don't need to take anything for them. It's been almost two years since I last took a Tylenol Arthritis, and over three years since my last Vicodin. The aches go away eventually and do not keep me from doing daily routines. I like that.

These are good aches. Good aches are those that when we look back at what caused them, we accomplished something. And they are those that we know will go away with a good night's rest.

Bad aches are the recurring ones that no amount of rest helps - they just are there.

Kitchen-wise, I had been to the store in the morning and found, yet again, whole pineapples at Walmart for just $1 each. A tip I saw online once makes it very easy for me to lop off the top, core, and skin. I got two of them. I was going to let them wait until tomorrow to cut them into inch-size chunks to put into the blender into sort of pineapple slush - I love it that way nowadays. But they were already very sweet to the smell and that meant ripe so I did them both today. I'll process them tomorrow.

I also finally got my overnight-chili project going. Lightly sautéed the pound chub of ground turkey, chopped the onion and bell pepper, and got everything in that pot a short while ago. It will cook during the night.

Along the way, a neighboring couple leaves mid-week for their journey to MI where they stay for the summer. She cleared perishables and I went over and picked those up. Ended up with frozen pound of ground beef and two frozen chicken breasts among other things but it meant I needed to rearrange stuff in the upright freezer to make room.

So the back steps kept my legs going, what with bringing in the store stuff (several trips), the pickup at neighbor's, a quick stop at a friend's porch to drop something off there, over for the mail, and later to a friend because I didn't have enough chili powder and needed to borrow some.

But I'm done now for a while - tomorrow I'll relax the legs except to empty crock pot and put into containers. I'll concentrate on some crocheting and some paperwork... pay bills, as well.

Rolling along...