Self-Aware

I fell down the stairs the other night.

I was carrying Sam and wearing socks and I guess I slipped because the next thing I know, I was on the floor with no cat, and I couldn't breathe or move.

When you haven't had the wind knocked out of you in a really long time, it is really scary.
Actually, it's really scary any time it happens.

Mike came rushing to the scene, of course. Thankfully, I was able to start breathing again and get up with no spinal injuries. My back was sore for two days, and now it's fine, but my butt...

Oh, my poor butt.

I bruised it so bad that the bruise didn't even want to show up for a day and a half.
And then it got black. And then it got yellow. And now it's kind of green but also purple and more tender than 4-piece chicken nuggets.

Remember when you used to be able to get 5 chicken nuggets for $1?
And then they went up to like $1.19 but they still had spicy chicken nuggets for $1?
But now they don't have either.
They have like 10 chicken nuggets plus a drink for like $5.99 (ridonkey donk) and 4 chicken nuggets for a $1.

And the bruise on my butt is more tender than any of them.

But I'm a workin' man! I can't just take a day off because I fell down some stairs!
Come on, now, kid; let's get up and go do some HIIT running!!!!!

So I went to go do said running.
Because of good genes and the 30+ squats I do every day, I have some junk in my trunk.
Some boom boom in my bass.
Some maximus on my gluteus.

And I did not realize how bouncy I was until I went running with that bruise because every step, every jog, every wiggle, every waggle...

I felt it.

I felt the gravitational pull of the earth dragging my bruised butt down with it and then popping it back up when I hopped to the other foot.

At first, it startled and surprised me. Like that time I figured out that "Big K" cola comes from Kroger and not K-Mart.

But then the events of the night before came flooding into my memory.

I still did the HIIT, though, because I felt badass even when my ass felt bad.

The quiet things that no one ever knows,
TWS

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