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Ode to 4:30

At different times in my life my friends and I would make up various "Ode's" as the situation warranted. Let's see, there was "Ode to Roller Hockey", and "Ode to Scott", and even an "Ode to a Bad Day". We created said "Ode's" in honor of the specific subject that we loved, wanted, or were genuinely frustrated at. It makes perfect sense, then, that I should add to the list of "Ode's" with this one here. Dim the lights please. I am about to take the stage.

Ode to 4:30

Darkness abounds as you beckon my name
Bringing me quickly out of my sleep.
You don't want to fight, argue, wrestle, or play
But instead from my rest, you do keep.

I stumble and stagger and crawl from my bed
Groping the wall on my way
I somehow impossibly get to the couch
Where the next few hours I stay.

My stomach churns, my head spins around
And pain is all I feel.
When will we stop meeting like this?
I need some time to heal.

Oh, dear 4:30 you call much too much
And our friendship has started to wane.
I wouldn't be sad if you left me alone
And never called me again.

Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate the applause. Why, yes, I have dabbled a bit in poetry before, thanks for asking. :) Anyway, I really would be happy if 4:30 would leave me alone for a while. In fact, it's safe to say that I would not be offended if 4:30 never wanted to speak to me again. My feelings would not be hurt in the least bit. One can only hope, I suppose. Until then, I'm afraid 4:30 and I are going to get close. Ugh!

"My arm keeps on twitching, twitching, twitching...into the future!"

It's been about two weeks and things have slowly gotten better. I am feeling better, my muscles are gaining their strength back and the barrage of medicine I am on every day is actually making me feel more like my old self. It's so great. I love that moment when you can actually breathe a sigh of relief because things are getting back to normal and you are feeling better. You can smile and feel truly happy because you feel good and don't have to struggle through the day trying to just get by. It's nice...real nice.

So you might be wondering about the title to this post and how it came about. Well, for the past hour and a half my upper arm has been twitching vigorously and nothing seems to settle it down. It's annoying now, but at first I thought it was funny. I just thought it would be an eye-catching title for a post.

James and I bought a new chest freezer this past weekend when Lowe's was having its appliance sale. It will provide some much needed freezer storage space for us to be able to stock up on vegetables, fruits, meat, and other items that rarely (if ever) fit into our little freezer in the top part of our fridge. James is so excited about it. There is so much room! Chest freezers are totally overlooked and completely under appreciated. We got ours at a very reasonable price and there is just so much room in there. It will be nice to have the space to store our items in there and have room to spare.

That's about it. I hope everyone is doing well in their own lives and is happy or at least trying to be. :)

*Update: I failed to include a picture of the freezer when I first published this post. My apologies. Here is a picture of the freezer that we purchased.