{"id":3295,"date":"2011-05-29T20:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T01:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2011-05-29T20:05:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T01:05:32","slug":"purchase-pupps-pain-procrastinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=3295","title":{"rendered":"Purchase, PUPPS, pain &#038; Procrastinating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we broke down and bought a new mower.\u00a0 It&#8217;s awesome.\u00a0 I&#8217;m <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">extremely<\/span> excited about it&#8211;which is funny.\u00a0 Why be so excited over a piece of machinery?\u00a0 I suppose because I honestly like mowing and I do most of the mowing so this is going to make my life a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lot<\/span> easier.\u00a0 We looked a few different models and finally settled on a craftsman small rear wheel mower (almost exactly like our old one: with a back bag attachment and side blowing or mulch capabilities) but this one has a more ergonomic handle and a special attachment area to hook up a hose so you can clean it out.\u00a0 Tim got it all set up after we got home last night and I mowed a small section of the lawn again (even though I just mowed on Friday!) just so I could try it out.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of it&#8211;already dirty after my first mowing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/new-lawn-mower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3301\" title=\"new lawn mower\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/new-lawn-mower-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/new-lawn-mower-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/new-lawn-mower-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PUPPS are slowly but surely staring to spread on my body.\u00a0 It seems to be increasingly worse with each passing day&#8211;but so far it&#8217;s not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nearly<\/span> as bad as it was before.\u00a0 Of course, I&#8217;ve only had it for a week and a half.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure over the course of time things will progress, but so far I&#8217;m finding it&#8217;s manageable with a few anti-itch creams.\u00a0 I have had to alter quite a bit of my wardrobe however, b\/c I can&#8217;t have anything pressing against my belly since it triggers the itching.\u00a0 I know, I know, this is probably more that you really wanted to know, but it&#8217;s on my mind a lot lately&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of more than you wanted to know&#8230; I&#8217;ve been in a lot of pain lately with my hips and low belly.\u00a0 The best way I can think of to describe it would be intense pressure&#8211;but pushing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">out<\/span> and not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">down<\/span>.\u00a0 And it seems to be directly linked to my left leg so walking hurts quite a bit.\u00a0 Almost like my left hip is out of socket.\u00a0 Today was especially bad, to the point where I couldn&#8217;t help with tear down at church.\u00a0 And on the way to the car I pretty much hobbled&#8211;I told Tim that I might need a cane soon!\u00a0 So, I decided after church to just take a nap so I would be lying down.\u00a0 And it seemed to work pretty well, b\/c after my nap it felt much better.\u00a0 I suppose I need to try and take it easy, but it&#8217;s so hard when my will to accomplish things and my ability to actually do them don&#8217;t match.\u00a0\u00a0 Only 47 days until my due date&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting here writing this post when I should really be working on recital programs.\u00a0 That&#8217;s where the procrastination comes in.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a daunting task to input everyone&#8217;s information\/song\/name\/composer and then pick a recital order for two separate recitals.\u00a0 But I really need to get it done today so I&#8217;m not scrambling by the end of the week.\u00a0 I know I&#8217;ll be incredibly thankful when I&#8217;m done.\u00a0 Only 5 more days of teaching until my summer schedule starts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we broke down and bought a new mower.\u00a0 It&#8217;s awesome.\u00a0 I&#8217;m extremely excited about it&#8211;which is funny.\u00a0 Why be so excited over a piece of machinery?\u00a0 I suppose because I honestly like mowing and I do most of the mowing so this is going to make my life a lot easier.\u00a0 We looked a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,40,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}