Less Pain

Today I had a bit less pain than yesterday, but I still stayed home from work. My hips are the major thing that is hurting now, and I didn't want to be stuck in an office chair sitting while they hurt. So I slept in, took it a bit easy today. I did exercise... I walked to the pool and swam a bit. It's low impact, so it didn't hurt my shin splints or my hips. I may go again tomorrow. It felt good. I think the pool is going to be colder tomorrow since we had a big storm tonight. The parking lot is -flooded-. There's 3-4 inches of water and it goes up the walkway to the apartment buildings. Then I noticed we have a leak in our roof somehow. We are on the first floor, the water has to be coming from the second floor, not from the roof. I don't think there is anyone living up there right now, so there's nobody to report it. I reported that our roof was leaking, but they said it wasn't an emergency and to call the office tomorrow first thing in the morning. So when I wake up, I'm going to call.
I'm trying to establish a routine for my days off. I want to wake up, eat breakfast, go on the computer for a while, go for my walk or other exercise, come home, take a nap and then go into my normal evening routine. That's pretty much what I did today. It felt so good to be in the pool, even though it wasn't that warm. I did have to walk to the other apartment complex to use the pool since ours is closed again, but it's only a block away. Geo helped his dad clean out his garage today, and he came home not in a lot of pain, which is a good thing. I thought he was going to come home and have to take Vicodin, but he didn't. He did see some dead rats, which must have been fun. I don't mind rats that much. I hate spiders and roaches, but I'm okay with rats.
I don't have much else to say about today... mood was okay, nothing special. I didn't get depressed or anything, and I did have a nice swim, so I'm going to say that I had a good day. I did cut my finger opening a box of fiber bars, but that's the only bad thing that happened today. Food was good, I was in my calorie range and all that. Sleep last night was good, at least I think so. I woke up around 11 feeling good, but wanted to catch a little more sleep before I went to work. Then I woke up at 12:30 and it was getting late for work and I was in pain. I ended up sleeping until 1:30 and deciding not to go into work today. I don't feel bad about it... I just wasn't feeling up to it.