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[laurastuff]

Cleaning is overrated

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[plant_and_root]

I've pulled many a muscle doing chores. I'm a pretty intense kind of cleaner though. High-impact. :-)

[laurastuff]

This makes sense. I am NOT an intense cleaner. I am pretty slack about it usually. I guess I was just too into it today. That'll teach me!

[cattnip]

I have pulled my neck reaching for things that were really out of my reach several times.

The first time it happened I felt so betrayed by my body. It used to let me do crazy things like reach into the backseat of a car while keeping my eyes on the road that I was barreling down at 80 miles per hour with no problem.

But not anymore.

In my experience this tends to happen when I'm stressed out and carrying a lot of that stress in my shoulders/neck. They are already tense and then I do the wrong thing and it's pain for days.

[laurastuff]

"But not anymore."

Dan's first comment when I told him about this was that I was "obviously getting old."

Sad.

[cattnip]

Yeah, I was trying to think of a tactful way to say getting older. I went with "but not anymore". :)

[laurastuff]

Apparently, Dan is less tactful than you are :-)

[fearless777]

My aunt broke her hip weeding her garden.

[laurastuff]

That sounds terrible! That's much worse than a strained neck.

[vanessa_mac]

Once when cleaning a paintbrush with paint thinner, the paint thinner took multiple layers of skin off my hands, so they were very sensitive to the touch for about a week. Does that count?

[sensedatum]

That'll teach you to be ruthless with your house - it was just getting you back.

[laurastuff]

You are so right!