Merkaba Sunday

So last night while Holly and I were sitting in the dark for Earth Hour, Greg was in the garage making a merkaba (as he is wont to do from time to time). Today Holly and I painted it and generally hung around outside enjoying the sunshine.

Not enough time

I'm suffering from a severe lack of time. I would have thought that after having 5 days off last weekend I would have been happy to go back to work. No. I was kind of grumpy most of the week - and it was only 4 days! Now I'm supposed to go back to 5 day weeks!?

I've been to physio twice, not sure that it's helping. And the appointments are an hour long - I don't have time to stay there for an hour! I've got 2 more appointments this week, 8:00 Tuesday morning and 8:30 Thursday. I'm going to have to change the Thursday one - I've got a meeting at 9:30 and would not get there in time. Plus $220 for a week's worth of physio seems like money I could be doing something else with (like buying gas?)

We've been having meetings at work about statistics lately. Of course this was something that was brought up at the last reference librarians' meeting (last October) but nothing happened till the week before last and then we're all panicking 'cause it's to be done before the next meeting (this Thursday). Didn't we have 6 months to do this? So it's been a crash course in chart-making with Microsoft Excel for a couple of us.

On the bright side, I see the temperature is forecast to be 15 on Thursday! This is very exciting. Maybe spring is really coming after all. We did sit outside in the backyard yesterday for awhile which was nice. As long as I was in the sun it was quite lovely.

And we did it again today!

Tagged, Footloose & Fancy-free

Well I was tagged a couple of times in the last week or two, guess I'd better get on that!

1. If your doctor told you today that you were pregnant, what would you say? Medically impossible in so many ways!
2. When was the last time you flew in a plane? January 25/08
3. What did the last text message you sent say? Probably something like "How r u getting home? we can't pick u up"
4. What features do you find most attractive in the opposite sex? Sense of humour, nice hands & nails, happiness.
5. What is a goal you would like to accomplish in the near future? Be able to walk normally!
6. Shoe size? 11
7. Been to Mexico? Yup
8. When is the last time you had a massage? Long time ago...
9. What was the last TV show you watched? Enterprise
10. What are your plans for the weekend? WW, maybe shopping, and Easter dinner on Monday at the MIL's.
11. If your significant other asked you to marry them today what would you say? ummm let me get back to you on that.
12. What is in the back seat of your car right now? Crutches and doggie towels.
13. What were you doing at 8 am this morning? Getting dressed.
14. If you could marry any celebrity today who would it be? George Clooney
15. Have you ever been to a strip club? If I have it was a really long time ago.
16. What is the best ice cream flavor? I'm so boring - vanilla!.
17. What is the last sporting event you watched? You mean live? The Whitecaps back in the 80's
18. Ever go camping? Once again, many years ago.
19. Last phone call? To physio.
20. Are you allergic to anything? Creamy cucumber salad dressing & certain brands of toothpaste.
21. What is one thing you have learned about life recently? I think I'm about as grown-up as I'm going to get.
22. What do you do at work? Librarian.
23. What is your mom's name? Ellen but commonly known as "Dot"
24. Ever cried for no reason? probably
25. Can you do the Crank Dat dance? Not likely
26. What is your favorite color to wear? There's so many!
27. What is the longest plane ride you have ever been on? Vancouver to Oslo.
28. What is the longest road trip you have ever taken? Ooh I'm bad, haven't really done any. through the Kootenays and to Lethbridge I guess
29. What are your turn-offs? Stupidity and rudeness, irresponsibility
30. What was your last alcoholic beverage? Wine
31. What are you craving right now? Nothing, I'm full! (but note how we all assume this means food).

In other news, no more roboboot!!! I took today off work and went back to the Ortho Clinic at the hospital this morning. The doctor said the fracture is healing fine & I don't need the roboboot anymore. As for physio he kind of left that up to me but I'm going to go for it. My first appointment isn't till next Thursday though. Afterwards Holly and I had appointments at the hair salon so it was great that I was able to drive there myself...although I did notice that my foot was a tiny bit weak when it came to braking so I had to watch myself.

Holly got her hair cut & coloured today - and I had my roots done. So it was an expensive visit but worth it; she LOVES her new 'do and I have to say it looks terrific - a bit darker than her own colour with a few reddish-purple foils in it. Barely visible in the picture.

And the other picture, I just had to take - my office door!

Anyway hope everyone has a wonderful Easter weekend!

Whiny

That's how I'm feeling this morning. But I'm also a little smarter at the same time as it appears feeling this way can be spelled either whiny or whiney.

Anyway I'm just unhappy with my foot. I figured that by now it wouldn't hurt at all, but it still does. Perhaps pain is too strong a word but it's certainly uncomfortable, even as soon as I wake up in the morning, which is why this morning I'm still lying in bed feeling sorry for myself. When I did hobble into the kitchen to make myself a chai latte I had a cramp all the way up my leg. But I go back to the specialist in less than 2 weeks and maybe by then it'll be much better. It's not the broken part that hurts - it's the rest of it!

I was out yesterday morning, to WW and then out for breakfast & shopping with my friend Georgia so I may have overdone it a bit. Bought a new pair of pants to replace the ones I'd bought last weekend which had split up the side when I bent over to put on my roboboot!

And now everyone knows that EGTB has handed in her resignation: she's moving across the country to head up another library. The staff are all quietly happy. Of course who knows who her replacement will be! Hopefully my predecessor will not be trying to come back. I think the staff in my department are all pretty happy right now and I'd like to keep it that way.

later...a side note. I just realized that today would have been my father's 103rd birthday! Talk about coming from old parents...

Not too broken to shop

Well my friend Kelly was in town and she and I spent yesterday together. We haven't seen each other for awhile - and because we're getting on, we can't remember how long it's been! But probably a couple of years. So we went out for breakfast and then shopping. We did most of our shopping at Suzanne's at the Capri Mall. Not like I'm getting a commission or anything, but the woman who manages that place is amazing. She just looks at you, knows what size you need in what brand, is constantly finding things for you to try on, AND remembers your name. That's excellent customer service. So between there and a couple of other stores, we did quite well for ourselves! And nearly everything was on sale. I'm very happy to have clothes to wear again.

We were going to get somebody to take our picture but forgot. Kelly is "buff" (to quote her!) and I'm down 17 pounds so we're very pleased with ourselves, not having looked so good for quite a few years. Once I get this thing off my foot I can start my quest to become buff myself.

And today Holly and I hope to go to the mall and do some shopping for her.

In other news, something very good is going to be happening at work soon but I can't say what it is Mark because then everybody will know and it's a secret still. But believe me, we will be very happy!