I feel like I get major desi mom points today, because I voluntarily took Kavi shopping on Devon, and managed to find her a sari she loved (four sari shops, two hours), despite my not speaking any of the languages any of them spoke.
(I think mostly it was Hindi, but am not sure. Didn’t hear anything that sounded even vaguely like Tamil. Not that I can speak Tamil, but I can maybe muddle along a tiny bit, maybe enough to be useful.)
So a good day, EXCEPT that I woke up this morning with terrible lower back pain — it actually woke me up, and was very confusing — I couldn’t quite figure out where the pain was coming from, but once I got up, it was clearly my lower back.
And I’m guessing that I did this to myself, that the hour or so I spent up on a ladder tree-trimming yesterday is to blame, that I was reaching in unaccustomed directions, and my back just said no.
This is becoming something of a theme. I have to remember that if I’m going to exercise rarely-used muscles, I need to do it in small doses to start. Ibuprofen does seem to help, thankfully, but when it runs out, OW.