a fun day
well I am sitting here in the dark, with a meowing cat. The daughter has gone to visit friends for a few days and the son has just gone to bed. We had a nice evening watching tv together. He is moving out soon, so I cherish these quiet moments together. The husband is out doing who knows what. I expected him home sooner as we have to figure out who is doing what tommorrow.
Things are busy around here, as usual. Working all week, then a wedding on SAturday, son moving on Sunday and on Monday I fly to MN to a puppeteering conference. Yay me. I will be gone a week and taking some holidays after that. The oldest daughter is coming home for a couple weeks starting when I get back, so it's all good. My big plan is to have the kids help clean up the mounds of stuff that have accumulated in the past few years. Everyone from my inlaws to my husband say this will not happen. I feel quite determined to make it happen. wish me luck.
I have had some winners of days lately, took a fall two weeks ago, had to stay off my foot for a couple days, managed to pull together things at work in time. Our puppet show was just a few days later and I had to be mobile for that week. It was extremely hot here that week and we had so much stuff to cart around, it was abosolutely the sweatiest I want to get at work!
Yesterday, coming down the stairs at work, I misjudged the stairs, guess I was in a hurry to get down and thought I was down when I was, in fact, still two steps or so up. Fell hard on my knees on the tile floor. My knees and several other body parts were already sore from the day before, B and I spent the weekend cleaning the boat. On Sunday we were scrubbing the deck of the boat, which has little diamond indentations in it, which are hard on the knees and then now this. But I did manage to not swell up or be too bruised. I guess the bin I was carrying must have helped break the fall. My wrist is hurting after today, but it has hurt for at least a week. That is what i get for so much computer work and lugging stuff and scrubbing stuff. I have what I call carpal tunnel moments. This is longer than a moment. however I think it will be fine when I am resting it next week at the conference.
Anyway I have a right to feel like I am falling apart at the seams lately. Have not had any time or inclination to exercise. This is usually when I do acquacizes but have just been too beat. I don't know how people function working all day and then trying to find energy to exercise afterwards. I do better exercising in the a.m.
Today feels quite triumphant to me. I got downtown by 9 a.m., picked up 7 laptops and appropriate hardware, the "mobile computer lab", ran to Costco and got gel pens, as mine were all dried up I discovered yesterday. Went to the place where I was setting up my program, managed to get all set up by 12:30 p.m. It was not as hard as I had anticipated. Really quite easy, makes me proud. Esp as I don't own a laptop myself and don't do any of that stuff at home. Got my xeroxing done (our machine at work was down yesterday, it really was one of those "cursed" days at work yesterday, after I fell there was a tornado warning for home, here, so I called the daughter to tell her to stay away from windows and go downstairs. As it turned out, I don't even think it rained here. There have been extra nasty storms this year, and every time there is a warning, we have been on an edge and gotten missed, but they have had huge hail all around. Knock on wood, B always says I should never tempt fate by saying anything. Now I suppose we will get it tommorrow.)
Anyway got everything ready on time, got my whole lunch break, managed to gobble up at great salad at Wendy's, chicken BLT, for lunch, with milk (trying to be healthy after eating a completely deep fried meal in a bar last night imbetween work and a meeting that we were late getting to, went to wrong place, and missed most of it...yesterday really was one of those days)
Managed to get some shopping done at lunchtime, did my program, went well, got the computers all loaded up and back to their home 3 min before quitting time. Went and sat outside and waited for my son to be done work, and enjoyed the weather. Nice and coolish but sunny. My kind of weather.
I haven't posted in ages, have had a lot of things going on, the cruise with the daughter ( I loved it, she said it was "weird" to spend time with me. It occurred to me that we haven't spent time alone together since she was a preschooler......sigh. We still had fun together. At least I had fun. I learned a lot and would go again in a heartbeat. I would like to take Dad on an Alaskan cruise. I have had two neighbours tell me about them and today a co-worker told me she's going in Sept. So that would be my next great adventure, if I had some money. I am hoping B gets to go somewhere through work and maybe I could come too for a couple days. He spent two weeks in Ottawa and was gone when I got back, so we didn't see each other for about three weeks. That is a strange thing, been a long long time since we were apart that long.
Speaking of marriage, I went and got my rings cut off last week. I haven't had them off in over ten years and was starting to worry I would get fatter and they would be embedded and cause damage. As it is, I know my knuckle isn't going to get thinner, no matter what the rest of me does. Stupid middle age, although someone told me today, there is always someone worse off than you. I also had her companion tell me that I wasn't middle aged yet. I found out she is only about 6 yrs older than me. I had no idea how old she was. My partner at work is about 4 years younger than me, and I had another co-worker who is her age say this week, oh you aren't as old as she is, are you? ha! On the cruise, I had a lady think I was 28, but of course, she was ancient, so I suppose you forget what the second half of the forties is like when it was so long ago. No one could believe my daughter is as old as she is. Thought we were sisters. She is very young looking, I tell her she will be glad when she is forty. I have learned over the years that people don't look too carefully, hence people thinking my mother was a grandmother at the age of 35, broke her heart. She was shopping for a baby gift for her sister, not her daughter. And a few years later, I was mad when someone thought my 9 years older aunt was the one graduating, not me( she lived with us). When I was 12 I was taken for a 7 year old, that really burned me up. Particularly when I had to take a swimming class with a bunch of 7 year old siblings of my friends, who all managed to be in the same group, but no room for me. Yeah, you should never make assumptions. You can also add, making assumptions about sex as well as age.
I hear a lot of stories of girl babies being taken for boy babies, even when dressed in pink frilly dresses. (the one that got me was twins, and people asking if they were both boys or one of each. I mean, didn't the frilly dresses give it away???) The last time I made that mistake, I should have realized that the older children were all boys, and that a little girl can wear boy stuff. Actually my kids wore a lot of stuff that was red or green, rather than pink and blue. I tried to get things that both sexes could wear. That being said, my boy did wind up with some hand me downs that were slightly less masculine than they could have been. I even bought red and white bikes until the middle size. Then we had to buy a pink and purple one for the oldest daughter and a few years later, a black one for the boy. I think that is why they have bars on bikes, to make you buy more than one. just to save face. When I was a kid, my bike was green and had a removeable bar. Sensible.
okay definately off on a tangent when I should be getting ready for bed. What to be thankful for today? Having a smart son who can hold his own at work, doing a job that any adult I know would do, not just having to do jo boy work for his summer job. That is lucky. I am very proud. I am thankful that the older daughter seems to be happier this week, has joined a womans gym and is enjoying it. I am thankful that I bought a bus pass for the youngest one, which made her happy. Now she just goes off whenever she likes. Her work hours got cut this summer, so she was quite grouchy lately, but at least she can go off and enjoy herself for part of the summer. Before I know it, July will be over. Lots of work at work this past while. Makes you feel like your head will explode. So I am thankful for decompression time. Things starting to feel a bit under control. I wonder a bit about my headaches. Had nasty ones last week, nothing on the weekend, and then a nasty one again yesterday (on the plus side, after I fell down the stairs, I didn't notice my headache anymore!) Starting to make me wonder if they are work related. Stress related. I had terrible ones before I went on holiday, nothing while I was gone. I actually think part of it is the dryness here. When we were on hols a couple years ago, as soon as we got within a few hours of home, it was back. As soon as we hit our own climate.
And yet I would hate to live where it was humid. I am not a fan of it. I managed while I was visiting the daughter but it really was like stepping into a bathtub, whether it was daytime or middle of the night. It is weird how the sun is there, just goes down like you pulled a shade, thunk. It is not up early and does not stay up late. Not in March or June, I have discovered. I didn't realize that our spectacular sunsets and sunrises don't exist everywhere. I guess we really are the land of living skies.
So yeah, today I am very grateful for the many sky shows I have seen in my life. Thanks Mother Nature! Now if only we saw the Northern Lights more often.
okay the starving cat is nagging and I have to get to bed. Ta Ta for now. D
Things are busy around here, as usual. Working all week, then a wedding on SAturday, son moving on Sunday and on Monday I fly to MN to a puppeteering conference. Yay me. I will be gone a week and taking some holidays after that. The oldest daughter is coming home for a couple weeks starting when I get back, so it's all good. My big plan is to have the kids help clean up the mounds of stuff that have accumulated in the past few years. Everyone from my inlaws to my husband say this will not happen. I feel quite determined to make it happen. wish me luck.
I have had some winners of days lately, took a fall two weeks ago, had to stay off my foot for a couple days, managed to pull together things at work in time. Our puppet show was just a few days later and I had to be mobile for that week. It was extremely hot here that week and we had so much stuff to cart around, it was abosolutely the sweatiest I want to get at work!
Yesterday, coming down the stairs at work, I misjudged the stairs, guess I was in a hurry to get down and thought I was down when I was, in fact, still two steps or so up. Fell hard on my knees on the tile floor. My knees and several other body parts were already sore from the day before, B and I spent the weekend cleaning the boat. On Sunday we were scrubbing the deck of the boat, which has little diamond indentations in it, which are hard on the knees and then now this. But I did manage to not swell up or be too bruised. I guess the bin I was carrying must have helped break the fall. My wrist is hurting after today, but it has hurt for at least a week. That is what i get for so much computer work and lugging stuff and scrubbing stuff. I have what I call carpal tunnel moments. This is longer than a moment. however I think it will be fine when I am resting it next week at the conference.
Anyway I have a right to feel like I am falling apart at the seams lately. Have not had any time or inclination to exercise. This is usually when I do acquacizes but have just been too beat. I don't know how people function working all day and then trying to find energy to exercise afterwards. I do better exercising in the a.m.
Today feels quite triumphant to me. I got downtown by 9 a.m., picked up 7 laptops and appropriate hardware, the "mobile computer lab", ran to Costco and got gel pens, as mine were all dried up I discovered yesterday. Went to the place where I was setting up my program, managed to get all set up by 12:30 p.m. It was not as hard as I had anticipated. Really quite easy, makes me proud. Esp as I don't own a laptop myself and don't do any of that stuff at home. Got my xeroxing done (our machine at work was down yesterday, it really was one of those "cursed" days at work yesterday, after I fell there was a tornado warning for home, here, so I called the daughter to tell her to stay away from windows and go downstairs. As it turned out, I don't even think it rained here. There have been extra nasty storms this year, and every time there is a warning, we have been on an edge and gotten missed, but they have had huge hail all around. Knock on wood, B always says I should never tempt fate by saying anything. Now I suppose we will get it tommorrow.)
Anyway got everything ready on time, got my whole lunch break, managed to gobble up at great salad at Wendy's, chicken BLT, for lunch, with milk (trying to be healthy after eating a completely deep fried meal in a bar last night imbetween work and a meeting that we were late getting to, went to wrong place, and missed most of it...yesterday really was one of those days)
Managed to get some shopping done at lunchtime, did my program, went well, got the computers all loaded up and back to their home 3 min before quitting time. Went and sat outside and waited for my son to be done work, and enjoyed the weather. Nice and coolish but sunny. My kind of weather.
I haven't posted in ages, have had a lot of things going on, the cruise with the daughter ( I loved it, she said it was "weird" to spend time with me. It occurred to me that we haven't spent time alone together since she was a preschooler......sigh. We still had fun together. At least I had fun. I learned a lot and would go again in a heartbeat. I would like to take Dad on an Alaskan cruise. I have had two neighbours tell me about them and today a co-worker told me she's going in Sept. So that would be my next great adventure, if I had some money. I am hoping B gets to go somewhere through work and maybe I could come too for a couple days. He spent two weeks in Ottawa and was gone when I got back, so we didn't see each other for about three weeks. That is a strange thing, been a long long time since we were apart that long.
Speaking of marriage, I went and got my rings cut off last week. I haven't had them off in over ten years and was starting to worry I would get fatter and they would be embedded and cause damage. As it is, I know my knuckle isn't going to get thinner, no matter what the rest of me does. Stupid middle age, although someone told me today, there is always someone worse off than you. I also had her companion tell me that I wasn't middle aged yet. I found out she is only about 6 yrs older than me. I had no idea how old she was. My partner at work is about 4 years younger than me, and I had another co-worker who is her age say this week, oh you aren't as old as she is, are you? ha! On the cruise, I had a lady think I was 28, but of course, she was ancient, so I suppose you forget what the second half of the forties is like when it was so long ago. No one could believe my daughter is as old as she is. Thought we were sisters. She is very young looking, I tell her she will be glad when she is forty. I have learned over the years that people don't look too carefully, hence people thinking my mother was a grandmother at the age of 35, broke her heart. She was shopping for a baby gift for her sister, not her daughter. And a few years later, I was mad when someone thought my 9 years older aunt was the one graduating, not me( she lived with us). When I was 12 I was taken for a 7 year old, that really burned me up. Particularly when I had to take a swimming class with a bunch of 7 year old siblings of my friends, who all managed to be in the same group, but no room for me. Yeah, you should never make assumptions. You can also add, making assumptions about sex as well as age.
I hear a lot of stories of girl babies being taken for boy babies, even when dressed in pink frilly dresses. (the one that got me was twins, and people asking if they were both boys or one of each. I mean, didn't the frilly dresses give it away???) The last time I made that mistake, I should have realized that the older children were all boys, and that a little girl can wear boy stuff. Actually my kids wore a lot of stuff that was red or green, rather than pink and blue. I tried to get things that both sexes could wear. That being said, my boy did wind up with some hand me downs that were slightly less masculine than they could have been. I even bought red and white bikes until the middle size. Then we had to buy a pink and purple one for the oldest daughter and a few years later, a black one for the boy. I think that is why they have bars on bikes, to make you buy more than one. just to save face. When I was a kid, my bike was green and had a removeable bar. Sensible.
okay definately off on a tangent when I should be getting ready for bed. What to be thankful for today? Having a smart son who can hold his own at work, doing a job that any adult I know would do, not just having to do jo boy work for his summer job. That is lucky. I am very proud. I am thankful that the older daughter seems to be happier this week, has joined a womans gym and is enjoying it. I am thankful that I bought a bus pass for the youngest one, which made her happy. Now she just goes off whenever she likes. Her work hours got cut this summer, so she was quite grouchy lately, but at least she can go off and enjoy herself for part of the summer. Before I know it, July will be over. Lots of work at work this past while. Makes you feel like your head will explode. So I am thankful for decompression time. Things starting to feel a bit under control. I wonder a bit about my headaches. Had nasty ones last week, nothing on the weekend, and then a nasty one again yesterday (on the plus side, after I fell down the stairs, I didn't notice my headache anymore!) Starting to make me wonder if they are work related. Stress related. I had terrible ones before I went on holiday, nothing while I was gone. I actually think part of it is the dryness here. When we were on hols a couple years ago, as soon as we got within a few hours of home, it was back. As soon as we hit our own climate.
And yet I would hate to live where it was humid. I am not a fan of it. I managed while I was visiting the daughter but it really was like stepping into a bathtub, whether it was daytime or middle of the night. It is weird how the sun is there, just goes down like you pulled a shade, thunk. It is not up early and does not stay up late. Not in March or June, I have discovered. I didn't realize that our spectacular sunsets and sunrises don't exist everywhere. I guess we really are the land of living skies.
So yeah, today I am very grateful for the many sky shows I have seen in my life. Thanks Mother Nature! Now if only we saw the Northern Lights more often.
okay the starving cat is nagging and I have to get to bed. Ta Ta for now. D
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