Curse You, Neck.

Yesterday I woke up with a bit of pain in my neck and shoulder. I took some Advil, had H. massage the knots out of the affected areas, and thought it felt much better. Last night, I woke up and stayed awake for a long time while I tried to find a spot I could lay my head without a neck twinge. It was the middle of the night, and I was seriously considering taking a half a TylenolPM just to get past the almost-asleep stage. Thankfully, I finally went back to sleep. This morning, my neck feels like there's a pinched nerve somewhere, and while I can move around I'm having trouble doing so. (I should mention that I haven't actually ever had a pinched nerve, but I imagine this is some form of it. All I know is that this doesn't feel muscular.) So for today I'll be taking more Advil, some magnesium, and I might take a nap if I can really get to sleep.

H. took me to see Transformers - Dark Side of the Moon in 3D yesterday. (SPOILERS)  As most sequel-to-the-sequel movies are, it was pretty good, but the story was a little disjointed at times. The graphics and fight scenes were really well done, though, so that was nice. The particular 3D theater room we were in insisted on being superbly loud for the entire movie. I don't know what it is about 3D movies that want to blow your eardrums out, but they all do.

H. and I had a little tiff about something Ranger related over the weekend. You know the guy (Shannon Stone) that unfortunately passed away at the Thursday game? Well, this is probably going to sound callous, but I just feel like the media is talking about his death too much. I understand that it was a tragedy, that it was an accidental death, and that not only is his family in mourning but his son had to watch him fall, but I just don't get why they are talking about it so much. H. says that there might be a lawsuit coming against the Rangers, so that's adding a little to the headlines, but really? Compared to the number of soldiers that die each week/month/year, why is this one guy getting so much air time? H. says that I'm just cold-hearted, but I honestly don't understand what makes this one person so much more important than anyone else who has died recently.

But anyways. It's been actually kind of warm and not hot here over the weekend. What the Monsoon Season actually translates to is cloudy skies with an honest to goodness chance of rain. It hasn't rained on us in particular since the last time I posted, but it's been falling on other parts of the area, which brings down the temperature a good deal. It'll be 91 degrees today, and we only get up to 101 later in the week. Actually, scratch that. Looking at the ten-day forecast, it'll be back to 107 next Monday. Although, a little reprieve from the scalding sun is nothing to be sad over.

Neck willing, I am going to try and paint some more today. Laundry and paint. And a nap. And some morphine. But first I've got to return the Netflix movie we watched on Saturday - Braveheart. H. says it's one of the best movies of all time. I will concede that it was a really good movie, but my all time favorites are still locked in place.

I'm wondering what to do for dinner, which reminds me that H. has put a ban on slow cooker pot roasts for the time being. In the six weeks since purchasing the cooker we (cough, I) have made four roasts - Costco had some decent prices on 3 lb. roasts. What I would really like to do is finally get our own Costco cards so that I could just walk in and purchase stuff without bringing H. along every single time. Specifically, I want to make chicken enchiladas tonight, but can't because I don't have access to the rotisserie chickens. And after trying the Fry's brand rotisserie, there really is no comparison. I would also like to be able to pick up a couch every now and again.

I think we'll have either teriyaki chicken or teriyaki beef tonight, seeing as how we have a jumbo-sized teriyaki  sauce jar thing that we bought a while back at Costco. It will most likely be beef, since H. is a little bit of a chicken snob (read: will only eat chicken breast, will definitely not eat chicken tenderloin strips). Maybe we can also use some of the twenty pounds of jasmine rice we bought the first day we moved in. Literally, twenty pounds of rice. "We'll definitely use this within a year." <-- actual quote from day of purchase.

And with that, I am off to mail the Netflix. Yous guyses enjoy your hundred degree weathers!