A guy from staff carpet came to measure the basement floor. I was hoping to have that done before Ethan and Laura moved back, but in my inexperience with home renovations, I didn’t realize that carpet people are usually booked 6-8 weeks out for installation. So that’s not going to happen until the end of June at the soonest. I did go visit them sometime last week thinking maybe it could happen in 2-3 weeks. So that was an adjustment but I’m just glad to be on track for new carpet.

My hip has been hurting me for a couple of months. It had been intermittent but lately the past month or so it has been almost constant. It effects my sleep to where there is no position or side that I can lay on where I feel relief. I had googled this at one point and found a funny name with several therapy exercises involving your leg. For a while it went away. But now it is back so I googled it over again to try and find the funny name. 9 out of 10 cases can be relieved with wearing looser clothing around the waist and with weight loss.

I have had trouble with this hip for a long time, the earliest memory being the popping sound when we’d walk to the track for PE. Then it was the numb spot the size of a quarter that appeared on the side of my leg in my 20’s. It takes up most of the side of my leg now. I would have burning in that leg at times while standing at the med card, which is when I had started googling the first time. It’s one of those thing that’s forcing me to find something, to get moving again because I really need to now.

I was in bed this afternoon for three hours. I never did fall asleep because yesterday I started reading Matthew Perry’s memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. I could not put it down. It goes into extensive detail about his experience with pill addiction and alcoholism. I didn’t even watch Friends as a show but for some reason my Instagram algorithm started showing me reels of former episodes. On Mother’s Day I was in bed watching Friends reels for it seemed like two hours.

Somehow that led me to the memoir. But despite all that I’m happy to have a book that I’m excited about. It feels like a slight coming back to myself and I had just been thinking I really wanted to read a book all the way through.