Back to School & Back problems!

Oh the IRONY!!!! I started massage therapy school on Thursday, and here I am on Sunday with my back completely out of whack!! It hurts so bad I can hardly breathe. Thanks goes to my husband for letting me use his laptop. (Mine got stepped on! ANd while usable, there is a big, dramatic hole in the screen, and some of the keys don't work!) I actually took those old people back pills (um....Doans I think?) and I am waiting for some relief. Damn 40's and the damn problems that come with them!! I haven't had my back bother me much since I was nursing Sam and hunched over him all of the time. ANYWAY....yeah, now I need a massage. Thankfully, my class is going to be totally hands-on. It is all women except the instructor. Sweet, soft-spoken, crunchy instructor. I liked him. He is slight, but you can tell he is very strong. He also looks quite a bit like my sister's boyfriend. There are 12 women in the class. I am actually not the oldest! There is a grandmother of 4 (who is only 47) who is from Kentucky, whose husband did something "bad" so she is starting her life all over again. She is so beautiful. I loved her smile. There is another grandmother who is an LPN as well. There are a couple of really crunchy, granola types. Cool hats, cool dresses, bad shoes. A couple of really hot young women. An Danish yoga instructor with a 14 year old daughter. And then there is plain old me. A lot of the class is taking the full load. This bums me out, because I want to take the full load as well. But I am paying for this class piecemeal as it is. Ugh! Irony again. Now I have the time to take all of the other classes, but I sure don't have the money. There are very few jobs in Hendersonville. I am worried to death about everything. I am interviewing at Sam's preschool for a substitute teacher position. But working at a preschool is the last thing I want to do. Anyhoo....look at me get off topic so fast! Back to the school.....It is so peaceful and pretty. It is in downtown Nashville at an old train station. I would like to spend a lot of my free time there. I love the location (Nashville is a pretty cool little city!) and I really like to explore. The school smells wonderful, all clean and fresh. Of course it's painted in lavenders and celedons (yep, I read my J Crew catalogs!!)...so it is very soothing. For the 4 hours I was there, I was relaxed, for the most part. Some things worry me, like my utter lack of experience. But I am not afraid to touch people. And I like to be touched too. I am going to try to talk about this with specific detail. I don't want to forget a moment of this experience. I feel so blessed to be getting a chance to start over. I want to savor this chance, and make the very most of it. So I made it through class number 1. Let's see how I do with class number 2, when we get physical.

I think my little green pills have kicked in. I'm gonna give my husband his laptop back. The little battery button is flashing at me! I write like I touch.......too much!! It's like his computer is telling me to shut up. Okay. More later.