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Show 12 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, June 26, 2008 Been There, Done That: A lesson learned Liz Elder The kitchen floor needed to be mopped and I was so afraid that if I didn't do it right away in the morning, it would never get done. I was supposed to meet someone some-one for lunch at the Olive Garden in Provo at 1:15 and I had some company in th morning that didn't leavt untill2:30. I called up my friend and, promised it would only take five minutes to clean the floor and that I might be a minute late, but no later than a minute. This couldn't .t. There was actually a v icky spot in front of the door that was driving me nuts. So I plopped down on ;all fours with a bucket and a rag and suddenly I heard this loud snap, crackle and pop, mostly snap, and, BOOM, I was in terrible pain. All ""'"'.' r - '-' i- f V V- 1 t c o r? o t n i vims Ur, Payments For 6 Months. Uc:it d Tims Offer! lid r.:snsy Ds;;n loans AvsllsEsIsI Quality Condos with All the EXTRAS - Even a Garage. 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I had been feeling like I needed to take a little time off to catch up after a fabulous string of family events: my daughter-in-law smashed her kneecap' (two . weeks babysitting in LA); my ex-husband's father died and their f amily very kindly asked me to come to Denver for the funeral (I love my ex-in-laws and especially my ex-father-in-law); then our grandson in California graduated grad-uated from high school so we went there the day after I got home from Denver. I was so tired of traveling and emotional situations. But I was equally glad to be home and eat my own food and clean my own kitchen floors. I really was not in the mood to be prompted to sit down and relax and do something stupid. But I kept feeling like I should. Just take a day and watch all the things I'd Tivo-ed over the last six months and never watched. Take a nap. Read the Sunday paper even thought's Wednesday. But nooooo, I just couldn't let go long enough to do those things. It all started because I let myself feel guilty about go-' ing to the movies by myself during the day. I also finished fin-ished all seven seasons of The Gilmore Girls which my neighbor Laurie Bradford lent me which had imprisoned impris-oned me for eight weeks while I force fed them to see what happened next. I had also decided I just couldn't deal with one more minute of those stupid Twilight novels where the girl falls in love with the vampire. I don't care if they are written writ-ten by "an active Mormon housewife," they're weird So basically I had come to this impasse where I decided decid-ed there would be no more junk food for me, intellectually intellectu-ally speaking. From now on it was going to be non-fiction or those important literary liter-ary fiction kinds of things like "The Gathering," which I bought but can't read because be-cause the cover is too depressing. de-pressing. I was never going to waste time ever again. Life is too important to be relaxing relax-ing and goofing off . So, as a result, I pulled a bunch of tendons and ligaments liga-ments in my shoulders and wound up going to the doctor doc-tor and having to wear a sling for what he says will be five to six weeks. I can't pick up anything heavier than a spoon and, okay, maybe I can wiggle out the ice cream carton s-l-o-w-l-y. (If you're a fat girl, or boy, really, you know how important these summer months are With the gardening garden-ing and sunlight and outside to give you extra energy to burn off those Christmas calories and get you through the fall months when all you can think of is baking cinnamon cinna-mon rolls and snuggling up with a good book. I count on being able to do a bunch of stuff during the summer to keep me out of the quadruple quadru-ple digits in clothing. You know, the XXXL flannel shirts and overalls at Sportsman's Sports-man's Wearhouse.) With no junk food for my mind, I began to be more responsible about things. I started washing all the mattress mat-tress covers and scrubbing spots on the floor. I glued back the living room table that had been broken for ten years. I just went crazy, in other words. I have now decided that perhaps it's too expensive to never relax. There's nothing noth-ing for me to do but slow down: I can't lift my elbows more than six inches away' from my sides. I'm a tragic reminder of someone who couldn't stop to smell the . roses. I feel like those people in the Bible who want Lazarus to go back and tell their f am: flies to be nicer. So I'm telling you, stop before you have to wear a sling around your neck all day and you can only wear pull up pants because you can't button buttons. And you can't put on deodorant because you can't lift your arms. 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