My Latest Excuse for Not Practicing: 3 Tons of Frozen Corn

I tried to practice tonight but was thwarted by the blisters on my thumbs from helping to package 3 tons of frozen ears of corn on the cob. Our office volunteers once a year at the local food bank, and instead of sorting food this time, our job was to package up frozen corn. It was quite the assembly line, with people packaging 6 ears into a plastic bag, passing it to a set of us who were sealing the bags (squeeze all of the air out of the bag above the corn, twist the bag shut, push the bag through little sealing machine, throw to end of table, avoid getting hit by very hard bags of ears of corn flying by), which were then placed into boxes weighing ~ 25 pounds. I forgot my nice warm gloves and with only latex-free gloves on, my hands got very cold very quickly. I didn't feel the blisters until after we were done; I suppose that was one benefit of very cold hands. Nor did I warm up until much later today. I remember doing the corn thing a few years ago, but that time I was putting ears into bags and remembered my gloves. Tonight when I started to practice my fingers hurt so much that I decided not to push it and let my hands heal for tomorrow's lesson and Saturday's concert. I do hate to miss a chance to practice, since traveling and work eat up so much of most of my weeks (but I did get to stay home this week!!!!)