- Signed: Matthew Hartman
- Filed under health , relationships , sports .
I'm not sure what to blame it on... My age, my lack of being in shape... Whichever it is, I haven't ever felt the pain I am in late this evening.
We had our scheduled game of softball this afternoon near University Park again. I was really looking forward to playing today. I was anxious at work all day to get out, swing the bat, and play some ball.
Apparently, my legs had other plans.
After my first at-bat, I felt what I thought was just some minor cramping in my upper legs and seemed to overcome most of it in the field. My second at-bat, didn't fare so well. I came immediately out of the Batter's Box with excruciating pain in the upper portion of my right leg and nearly collapsed by the time I got to 1st base. I knew something was wrong almost immediately cause I had never in my life felt anything this bad. After slowly returning to the bench and consorting with my fellow teammates, the general consensus was that it was something with my right quad.
I'm not sure what exactly happened, but from what I explained and what some of the other guys concurred with was that it was likely a strained quad and later this evening Shaw tried to scare the bejesus out of me and mentioned it could be a minor tear. I sure hope it isn't, because if that's indeed the case, I'll likely be in some pain for several days.
I've pulled muscles, sprained ankles and even injured a knee and this is still the worst pain I've felt in any sort of muscle injury.
I took a couple of Advil PM and have an ice pack on it right now and I'm hoping this will help heal things somewhat over the next few days.
Otherwise, life has been going fairly well, I guess. There are aspects that could be much better, but I'm leaving one of these, in particular open right now. If you know anything about me, you probably know exactly what I'm referring to.
The relationship front, of course... KF and I finally agreed to be just friends the other day and I think finally, this will stick. I think I wanted things to work out between us but we were both realizing that the chemistry just wasn't there. We were both a little naive, I think, in overlooking the signs that kept pointing us in different directions.
It works out in way, because I have had a few options that I have wanted to keep open lately. I'm not sure where either of these are going to go, but the one seems to be interested in me, so we'll have to let things happen naturally and see where it goes.
I'll certainly keep everyone updated on how things proceed. It's very early in the "process," so to speak, so it's really hard to tell right now.
Anyhow, hope everyone is doing well and hopefully your legs are still under yourselves, unlike me! :)
Later gator!
We had our scheduled game of softball this afternoon near University Park again. I was really looking forward to playing today. I was anxious at work all day to get out, swing the bat, and play some ball.
Apparently, my legs had other plans.
After my first at-bat, I felt what I thought was just some minor cramping in my upper legs and seemed to overcome most of it in the field. My second at-bat, didn't fare so well. I came immediately out of the Batter's Box with excruciating pain in the upper portion of my right leg and nearly collapsed by the time I got to 1st base. I knew something was wrong almost immediately cause I had never in my life felt anything this bad. After slowly returning to the bench and consorting with my fellow teammates, the general consensus was that it was something with my right quad.
I'm not sure what exactly happened, but from what I explained and what some of the other guys concurred with was that it was likely a strained quad and later this evening Shaw tried to scare the bejesus out of me and mentioned it could be a minor tear. I sure hope it isn't, because if that's indeed the case, I'll likely be in some pain for several days.
I've pulled muscles, sprained ankles and even injured a knee and this is still the worst pain I've felt in any sort of muscle injury.
I took a couple of Advil PM and have an ice pack on it right now and I'm hoping this will help heal things somewhat over the next few days.
Otherwise, life has been going fairly well, I guess. There are aspects that could be much better, but I'm leaving one of these, in particular open right now. If you know anything about me, you probably know exactly what I'm referring to.
The relationship front, of course... KF and I finally agreed to be just friends the other day and I think finally, this will stick. I think I wanted things to work out between us but we were both realizing that the chemistry just wasn't there. We were both a little naive, I think, in overlooking the signs that kept pointing us in different directions.
It works out in way, because I have had a few options that I have wanted to keep open lately. I'm not sure where either of these are going to go, but the one seems to be interested in me, so we'll have to let things happen naturally and see where it goes.
I'll certainly keep everyone updated on how things proceed. It's very early in the "process," so to speak, so it's really hard to tell right now.
Anyhow, hope everyone is doing well and hopefully your legs are still under yourselves, unlike me! :)
Later gator!
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- Signed: Matthew Hartman
- Filed under activities , health , lifestyles , storm chasing , work .
So, I contracted a cold like 3 weeks ago... I take my typical "prescription" of NyQuil and a good 7 or 8 hours of sleep and viola, the cold is gone. But, here it is three weeks later - and I'm still hacking away. It's definitely not the way I'd like to be enjoying my days in late June or early July.
So, what have you all been up to? It's been a while, I know... While I've been fairly active over in the WeatherBlog over the past several weeks, my activity here in L.C.C. has suffered some. I apologize.
Random thoughts still swirl around in my head, believe me. I just haven't been motivated to write them out and explain them further. I may just decide to do just this, this weekend.
I have this weekend off work and really, it couldn't have come at a better time. If any of you have followed along, at all, over on the WeatherBlog, you've noticed that the last couple of weeks have been very active on the chase-front. So, as a result, I've been doing a lot of driving and traveling lately. I certainly don't mind (I always enjoy a good road trip, especially if it involves storm chasing), but it can burn out a brother, you know! :) Especially when you've done it 3 out of the last 5 days and five times over the course of the first eleven days of July!
Case in point, we were chasing Thursday out in central portions of North Dakota and had to bust ass to get back Grand Forks by midnight because I had to work the 12 to 8am shift! For the record, I was ten minutes late, I'll confess, but it didn't really affect my work for the rest of the shift. I then woke up Friday afternoon, only to head East - this time, to chase storms into Western areas of Minnesota. Needless to say, it's been a long past 24-48 hours for your's truly. I'm going to get some much needed rest tonight and plan on heading down to the Farmer's Market downtown to check out the local fare with Mr. Shaw during the afternoon. I'm hoping there will be some kind of selection of vegetables or maybe some fruit. The produce will probably be slightly limited given the time of year, but we'll see.
Tomorrow night - the only plans I have set involve myself, my couch, my television, a few DVD's and a gallon of ice cream. ;)
Sunday, I need to head down to Fargo to pick up my Debit Card that has been sitting at Thai Orchid. We went for Thai food a few nights ago and I left the card sitting on the table. I called the place and they were nice enough to seal the thing up in an envelope for me and told me they would hold it for me for as long as I needed. Which was great, since I didn't particularly want to drive all that way just to pick up a stinking credit/debit card. It will give me an opportunity to maybe get more Thai food and a reason to drop by the Asian Market. I'd love to get that Vietnamese Soup I used to get from my mom all the time. It's the only place I know of around here that stocks the stuff, so I really want to get some. Shaw wants to come along, as well, to check out the place and since he may come, I may as well invite Lawson and Heather, since they love the Thai.
It should be a good day - Thai food and Vietnamese soup. Two of my favorite foods, ever! Until then, though... I'll be working on post-processing and uploading of photos. I have four chase-days worth of photos I need to go through and get uploaded to my photo gallery. So, the weekend off will give me an opportunity to get that done...
Stay healthy, everyone else... And stay tuned...
So, what have you all been up to? It's been a while, I know... While I've been fairly active over in the WeatherBlog over the past several weeks, my activity here in L.C.C. has suffered some. I apologize.
Random thoughts still swirl around in my head, believe me. I just haven't been motivated to write them out and explain them further. I may just decide to do just this, this weekend.
I have this weekend off work and really, it couldn't have come at a better time. If any of you have followed along, at all, over on the WeatherBlog, you've noticed that the last couple of weeks have been very active on the chase-front. So, as a result, I've been doing a lot of driving and traveling lately. I certainly don't mind (I always enjoy a good road trip, especially if it involves storm chasing), but it can burn out a brother, you know! :) Especially when you've done it 3 out of the last 5 days and five times over the course of the first eleven days of July!
Case in point, we were chasing Thursday out in central portions of North Dakota and had to bust ass to get back Grand Forks by midnight because I had to work the 12 to 8am shift! For the record, I was ten minutes late, I'll confess, but it didn't really affect my work for the rest of the shift. I then woke up Friday afternoon, only to head East - this time, to chase storms into Western areas of Minnesota. Needless to say, it's been a long past 24-48 hours for your's truly. I'm going to get some much needed rest tonight and plan on heading down to the Farmer's Market downtown to check out the local fare with Mr. Shaw during the afternoon. I'm hoping there will be some kind of selection of vegetables or maybe some fruit. The produce will probably be slightly limited given the time of year, but we'll see.
Tomorrow night - the only plans I have set involve myself, my couch, my television, a few DVD's and a gallon of ice cream. ;)
Sunday, I need to head down to Fargo to pick up my Debit Card that has been sitting at Thai Orchid. We went for Thai food a few nights ago and I left the card sitting on the table. I called the place and they were nice enough to seal the thing up in an envelope for me and told me they would hold it for me for as long as I needed. Which was great, since I didn't particularly want to drive all that way just to pick up a stinking credit/debit card. It will give me an opportunity to maybe get more Thai food and a reason to drop by the Asian Market. I'd love to get that Vietnamese Soup I used to get from my mom all the time. It's the only place I know of around here that stocks the stuff, so I really want to get some. Shaw wants to come along, as well, to check out the place and since he may come, I may as well invite Lawson and Heather, since they love the Thai.
It should be a good day - Thai food and Vietnamese soup. Two of my favorite foods, ever! Until then, though... I'll be working on post-processing and uploading of photos. I have four chase-days worth of photos I need to go through and get uploaded to my photo gallery. So, the weekend off will give me an opportunity to get that done...
Stay healthy, everyone else... And stay tuned...
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