For the past week I've had what I can best describe as corked lower-back muscles.

Sunday - Wednesday were utterly horrible; practically unable to walk, sitting in anything other than our lounge was excruciating, using the loo and getting dressed, it has all been incredibly frustrating.

Thursday onwards I've been doing a series of lower-back muscle stretches/exercises, followed by at least 5mins of walking (Which I swear I looked as retarded as I felt); it hasn't helped that the strain has been playing on my Sciatic Nerve either, leading to a "flare-up" at about 5:00am on Friday morning that had me doubling over in pain whilst trying to get out of bed to use the dunny.

Up until last night, I've had to take Ibuprofen to relax the muscles and somewhat mask the pain just to be able to get to sleep!

This past week has felt so incredibly unproductive as I've not been able to get anything done that I really wanted to, the only plus being that I've caught up on 12 seasons of South Park... Which desn't feel as good to say as I'd like it to.


This whole getting older thing is thoroughly overrated!