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Injury report: Carmen (MIL)
Last Sunday, Carmen called Rick and asked him to come over to bring her coffee in the morning, because she couldn't get out of bed, because she couldn't lift her arm. Background info so this makes sense: She has rheumatoid arthritis; her legs are not strong and she uses a walker in her house as well as outside of it. Additionally, she uses both ( Read more... ) -
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Color me completely unsurprised, but I am not in the mood to go to bed. It could have to do with the iced almond milk shaken espresso with two shots that I had as I commuted home from Surrey at 5:30 PM. It could have to do with voicing some of my sadness and again finding that there was no ground for compromise, or word of acknowledgement. I ( Read more... ) -
Bad food days suck (yesterday).
My diabetes means that even when my A1C (long-term measurement of blood sugars) is pretty good, my daily situation can still be not good and screw me up. Today is much better thank yesterday. I had snack, and lunch will be soon, and also reasonable.
Today was the last day of the Ladner farmer's market. I really like it: there's a great mix of ( Read more... ) -
Really long day.
I am too aware of the day. I don't like it. I don't know ho to process "it's been 20 years." I also did not anticipate how an activity from 12-3, which was really until 3:30, would be run so poorly, such that I ate a reasonable breakfast at 9, skipped snack because lunch was going to be at 12, but then did not eat lunch until 2:20. Now my ( Read more... ) -
Second firsts.
Today was Benito's first day of grade 2. Technically, his school year started on Tuesday, but it was Rosh Hashanah and he was at synagogue. Also, the first day for grade 2 is one hour. Come on now. Anyway, he missed that day, and Wednesday, so today was his first day, and he was pretty psyched for it. He missed his friend Henson, he wanted to ( Read more... ) -
Very busy day.
Today was possibly the busiest day of my summer.
I actually woke up with my alarm and stayed up. I got out of bed maybe 5 minutes later, and left the house no more than 10 minutes after that. I went to Benito's school's garden and harvested Swiss chard, leeks, and scallions, then drove them over to shul to donate them. They've been getting the ( Read more... ) -
Vacation Thursday: Outdoors 2
I would call Thursday the highlight of my vacation week. I'd been chatting with a work friend last week, and she mentioned that she'd be out this week, and so was I! She had a plan to celebrate her mom's birthday, and aside from that she wanted to go kayaking at some point. Hey, I would LOVE to go kayaking! It's been on my list for a long time ( Read more... ) -
Vacation Wednesday: Outdoors I
Wednesday I bought myself entry to the UBC Botanical Garden and Greenwalk. My time was the morning slot, 10-1. That means I needed to leave my house about 9:25, 9:20 to be on the safe side. I went to the gym, then home for normal morning stuff, and I took off into a lovely day.
All was well, until I got to my destination. That is, until I got to ( Read more... ) -
Vacation Tuesday: Benito's day.
Tuesday was the day I accidentally chose to be Benito's vacation day with me. I booked us tickets to the Richmond Country Farm Sunflower Festival. I had intended for it to be Monday, but for an unknowable reason, their ticket booking website had their calendar on a week that went Monday-Sunday, so when I chose the second day of the week, it turns ( Read more... ) -
So far, so good!
I have done this staycation correctly!
Monday: Richmond day. I had a 1:30 meeting at shul to go over Yom Kippur services, and Rick asked me to run an errand, so it was easiest to spend the day around town. First, though, I finished the book I was reading. *smile* That was awesome, helping them get out the door and then sitting for another ( Read more... )