Yare, yare. The day has hardly begun and I’m exhausted and ready to crawl back into bed and catch a few winks. My grandfather, unfortunately, suffers from arthritis and it has a bad habit of acting up when he least expects it. So I got called over to help load the truck with the barrels of trash, old lumber, and fallen limbs that he’s hauling to the landfill today. Aye, yai, yai. My arms are killing me.

I’ve been looking around the web and reading sites that have information for people with rheumatoid arthritis to try and better understand the treatments/medicine that can be taken for it since I’m pretty sure neglecting to mention it to your doctor and popping Bayer when it gets too bad isn’t the way the go. Yeah, that’s my grandfather. Stubborn old man. Gotta love him.

Gonna finish eating my cup ramen (spicy beef!) then go take a shower and get dressed. I had planned on going shopping today for a few things I need for my office. I wanted to get a new corkboard to go over my desk as well as another desk organizer to sit on my desk. See, since my desk is a flat-top one (no shelves) I wanted to ask my grandfather to build me something to accommodate my reference books and various pen holders that wouldn’t take up much surface space. I was thinking of a desktop organizer kinda like this, but smaller. I have one, of a sort, on my desk already. But it’s narrow and designed more to hold paperback novel width books. So while novels and the like fit on the bottom shelf and pen holders and nick nacks fit on top, not much else can. It’s not the full-length of the desk either. So I wanted something to fit on the unoccupied corner that could do the job. Tall order right? Well, my grandfather is awesome with wood working and carpentry and is the one who built my bookcases, trunks, jewelery boxes, and even my chest of drawers. But with his arthritis acting up so bad I don’t dare ask him to do it. Not only would it likely depress him if he has to say no (realizing he can’t do it under current circumstances) but the thought of him going anywhere near a table saw right now is frightening.

So yeah, off to hunt through Staples, Wal-Mart, Hobby Lobby, and various thrift stores in hopes of finding what I need. Wish me luck!

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