Sunday, February 19, 2006

I broke myself again. I was being industrius and sorting, and tidying a whole bunch of crap that has been piling up for a while, and I told myself I would do over reading week. So it was going good and I was pretty pleased with myself. There was a humoungous pile of papers for recycling and a lovely absence of huge piles of papers, I just had some sorted piles I had to put away. So I opened up the first drawer of my file cabinet, and nothing more would fit. I opened up the 2nd drawer to see what was in it (leaving the 1st drawer open, bc I have some clothes hung up on the handle of the 1st drawer and I can't open the lower drawers without having it open first). Discovering that someone else had appropriated what little space was left in it, I then opened the 3rd drawer, and just had enough time to jump back out of the way as my entire 4 cabinet file cabinet came crashing down. It made a very loud, very bad noise...it's a pretty good sized sucker. Of course though it wasn't just the cabinet that was crashed over, drawers laying crookedly open, my TV had also fallen off the top of it, knocking a good sized gouge out of my bookshelf, as I was to discover. It also knocked some trinkets on my bookshelf around, and broke the edge of one of my favourite candle holders. As I kept checking for damage I discovered it had also knocked down my curio cabinet off the wall as it smashed down. I was horrifed, I have a lot of little things I value in it, and it has a glass front, and if they haad all broke I think that would have upset me most of anything. Well, f the tv/file cabinet did knock the display (curio) case off the wall, but fortunately as it did it ripped a piece of wood off the edge, releasing the glass front so that it hadn't shattered. The case is missing a chunk, but the glass and almost all the things inside are ok. only one unicorn broke his leg :( And my TV is now a little worse for the wear, having left some black marks on my bookcase, but it's apparently tougher than it looks because we plugged it back in and it still works fine! However, 2 of my file cabinet drawers are now whacked out, they don't fit properly anymore; my dad is away for the week end and I am hoping once he gets back he will be able to fix them. This is what I get for trying to tidy things I guess huh...well, despite the bad things that happened, they could have been a lot worse, so I am glad they weren't. I'm really tensed up now though, it was startling and jarring to the nerves. As well, I mentioned I am broken again. I don't know whether I hurt myself jumping back out of the way of the falling obstacles, or when I lifted that huge HEAVY bugger back up (even with the help of my mum), or from a combination of both, but I am injured. Right after we got the cabinet back up I ould feel I had strained my back a little. But I think my left side is out, because my left ankle and knee feel very poorly, as does my left wrist, and they are tingling like when your foot goes to sleep...which means there's a nerve pressing somewhere obviously. Why is it I always have to hurt myself on the weekend when there is no where open to fix me? They don't have emergency chiropractors unfortunately, nor emergency massage therapists, and I can tell I need to go to both. This day was going so well and now it's turned to crap. I hate being broken and it always happens on the weekend...

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