Back to Frustration

This weather does nothing for me except add to frustration and complications.

On my regiment of core exercise 6/week. Started out fine, even road on Saturday but that was my mistake. I should have stayed warm, road a trainer maybe. The cold combined with a bad night sleep due to back pain should have kept me from getting out the door. If that wasn't enough Gina saying she wouldn't be riding outdoors should have. But, I really wanted to ride outside and fit in a real bike workout. By the time I was at Seward in knew I needed to turn around. Low level pain and the feeling that every pedal stroke was in my hardest gear let me know I shouldn't try to continue around the lake. Took it easy going home averaging about 16mph. Got home warmed up and went about doing my core workout. Should have all been fine. I woke up Sunday in a lot of pain radiating into my butt and leg, grrr! Now lets make this worse, headed out to REI I slip on my friggin slush covered steps and fall head first down them catching my self at the bottom with basically my thumb. Good thing I didn't go face down but I did manage to tweak my already unhappy back. I felt every stop in the car go through me and getting in and out of the car sucked. Nuff said, my back is a mess again.
Rested most of the day, beside a few unavoidable things like laundry, picking up dog poop, dishes, all of these activities I now have to moderate and think about before moving lifting etc. It makes each chore more arduous, simple things now have great impact on how I feel. To make things worse the backed up drain came back this time raw stinking sewage in the shower, Yuck. I am getting a bit grumpy and I am feeling like everything is going wrong, this is an attitude I very much like to avoid it leads to a downward spiral of health and happiness. Got to find something positive... OK, I found some old CD's of photos of my girls when they were babies. The three of us sat around the computer and laughed and reminisced about times together. How fast they have grown, how sweet the memories. :)