Oh the Pain

Sometime today I strained my lower back. I don’t know when exactly, and I don’t know how. I only remember being in my car this afternoon and realizing that it hurt. It hasn’t gotten better all day. It didn’t help that this evening while I was working on changing my brakes on Bruno, I was doing some strenuous labor which furthered the strain. It also spasm-ed pretty good one time while I was under the car. Before heading home tonight, I stopped by Walmart and picked up a heat pad. I’m laying in bed with it on “high” and it feels sooooooo good.

This past Wednesday, I discovered my right rear brake pads were shot. My method for finding this out was the grinding noise it started to make when I would stop. I recognized from the noise what the problem was. I was going to try and make it till Saturday before changing the pads and rotors, but I decided to just try and get it done Friday evening. My friend, Charles, and I got it knocked out pretty quick (and it would’ve been a lot faster if we had realized the parking brake was on when trying to remove the rotors).

Tomorrow (actually I guess it will be today), I have to change the oil on Bruno in the morning. Then, I have a flag football game at 1:30pm. If we win that game, we play in the semi-finals at 4pm. If we win the semi-finals, we play in the championship at 8pm. If we end up playing all three games, I will be exhausted–but it will be so much fun.

Now I’m off to finish enjoying my heat pad, and watch an episode or two of 24 (season before falling asleep.