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from the picket line (4) please send new legs & feet

Today's strike attire!

We're being told we have to wear the strike t-shirts they gave us. It's all white with green "On Strike" written on the back. Can you say BORING? I shall bring it with me tomorrow and wear it like a cape. I have more t-shirts to break out on this tour, yo!Last night I got a strange second wind and went on a 3KM walk with Shawn and the dogs before bed. That made over 10KM of walking for me. 1,186 calories burned. Thankfully my walk with the family wasn't all uphill. Today I could hardly stand. I made it up the hill back to our steep picket location but, by golly, if I don't feel like I could saw off my legs at the hips right now. I have already downed a bunch of advil and taken a hot, hot bath but I don't see a bright and shiny future for these appendages tomorrow morning.Things are getting... tense on the front lines. Mostly with each other. I have so little patience for people trying to bully us around right now. I'm tired, I am in PAIN and I don't want to be there. So if you're thinking you can convince me it's perfectly legal to block cars from getting by when it's not? I am so not taking that.Sort of hoping this doesn't go on much past next week. Sure I'm getting fresh air and getting in shape (no scale, but I know my size has changed from both this activity AND the Clean Eating thing I have been trying to stick to) but I am tired. Exhausted even. I can hardly stay upright from the bus to my house and then I get here, let out the dogs and just crash, fast asleep until Shawn calls around 5:30 to say he's on his way home. This means I am sleeping from 3:45 or 4:00 until 5:30. It's not normal. My feet hurt so much I can hardly stand. Thankfully the incline of our location is helping keep the back pain at bay.I know I am out of shape, but I have already been dealing with extreme fatigue with the "fibro" issues. (I quote it because I don't like the label). I get this fast, urgent, extreme needs to sleep RIGHT NOW and if I can't lie down I get vertigo and fall over. When I do lie down, I'm out dead to the world for 45 minutes to TWO HOURS. It makes me feel sick I get so tired.I have so many other things to write about - like my fancy supper dishes I have been making! And Sophie's potential pooping problem (I know you'll just be glued to your computer waiting for THAT post)! Right now this stupid strike is taking up all of my thoughts, even through the night. How irritating!