Heathen Deity

So as I needed a heathen deity instead of saying "In The Name Of God" so I had a Google and it turned up a Find Your Heathen Deity page. So I can now say "In The Name Of Odin"

Ow

And I had a shower tonight. As I was coming out of the bathroom I tapped my right foot against the door frame. Now if it had been my other foot I wouldn't have thought about it any more, what's done is done but as it was on the RHS of my body, the side that's f*c*ed, it hurt loads, I nearly cried.

Ruth

And I am going off in a bit to buy that (lovely) Ruth a (hopefully) nice lunch

And yes, it was both lovely, and the pancakes we had for pudding too. Mmmmm. AND as well as us Megan, Ruth's daughter came in to say hello, I managed to persuade her to let me buy her lunch too.... But she is 17 now, looking for work etc, that means she was only 9 when I had my crash

But I just had a fizzy water now as I have some Sloe Gin for tonight, stay sensible (ish)

And I was panicing a bit, thinking I can't have that much food for lunch then a big dinner, but I went to the fridge and checked the best before fate on the chopped up veg that I was gonna cook tonight but it's best before tomorrow. Guess what I am having for tea tomorrow?

Splint

As I had got my splint on a tight as a very tight think s'morning, like it's supposed to be, I couldn't do it up, so had to call a MOS a4 about 8.20, when I had just got up, and ask her to help

Broadband

And about a half hour after I should have been in bed the Broadband connection stopped working so I spent the next hour and a half checking bits etc. No joy. Although it did say that it could tell that all wires were connected to my PC so I wasn't panicking as much as perhaps I would have been. So in the end I gave up and went to bed. I was forced to get back up because I was worrying about summat else (No need as it turned out) and as I was about to go back to bed I glanced at my PC (OK at my Broadband provider hub, the magic box that sits next to my PC) and all the lights had gone blue again, it was working again and I was supposed to be asleep

Coming

And today someone said to me "You coming" and I had to fight with the urge to reply "No, I'm just standing here" which was bad enough but when someone else asked me the same later I again had to bite my lips and not say "So's Brad"

(noisy link)

Visitor

Then my daughter came over today. I really don't know how to handle her ATM but she is my daughter, I do love her very much. She announced that Moishe and her tribe are moving into a caravan outside their house now..... then Moishe came to take her to Guides...

While she was here she felt the need to practice on my guitar, I am a smidge jealous

Scary Cutting

I went to make lunch today. I had no defrosted bread but some bread rolls that I bought yesterday. So I took out the enormous bread knife from my kitchen drawer. I havent used this knife (or one like it) for nearly 8 years. Firstly I held the bread in my right hand and the knife in my left ~ it just felt wrong, no way was I gonna try. So bread roll in left hand, knife in right. Breath deeply a few times first.
Then I cut the roll, good lord, that was easy!!!

Walkies

And today I tried the up and back with no stick again. Today I managed it all for the first time

Morning

So at about 7 this morning I woke up and needed a pee. Got up and did one, then thought "Ah, because I am getting better I no longer wake at 5 to do this, but it is harder to go back to sleep now".

Then I dropped off and it was nearly 9 when I woke back up

Strange

And it felt so much better, going out & about to do stuff today rather than being "stuck" in front of my PC, a bit pointless that is, "Oh, I can read Ixion Hoo-flippin'-ray" etc

Oh G*d....

Well today is gonna be the first day when Ed takes me shopping etc. For a start I haven't had to order a taxi but I am just curious about how he is gonna react to shopping with me, and as I can't see both sides of the aisle so I need to go dead slowly and turn back and forth etc

And Good Lord but it went reasonably well, Ed let me shop, went after me, carried the bags out to his car etc. I had a shopping list which I thought had 2 items on which we wouldn't get from the supermarket but Ed seems to have better "Looking for obscure stuff" skills than me, we didn't need to look anywhere else afterwards. We came back, had lunch then went into Carmarthen for a drive round which still felt good for me, reminding me

And it felt reasonably good not needing a pee when we were out, but on Thursday I must remember to take my "I'm a cripple" parking badge with me

Washed Tonight

And this evening I had a shower, got clean, put my sandals (1) on instead of my boots as I thought "No socks for an hour" and tried and tried, in the end I had to give up and call a MOS and ask him "Can you do up my right sandal, please"

(1) Which are a lot harder to stand up/walk in, those 2/3cm that the right heel of my boots is lifted up makes such a big difference

Yes

Well....

Better To Ixies

And I am really trying now to make my posts to Ixion less, and the few that there are will be a bit more interesting to read etc. Time will tell but hopefully my new effort will pay off

Gardening

And I got to sit and watch a chap cut my grass today, he couldn't quite finish, the strimmer ran out of charged battery but that will be recharged by tomorrow when he is gonna finish

Hmmm

What fun we have on weekends...

Showered

So I had a shower tonight, when I got out I thought "No point putting socks on for an hour" so I went and got my sandals out of the corner. And good lord, it is much harder to stand up in 'even up and down' shoes. My normal right boot is 3 or 4 cm up in the heel and it is much harder to stand up without that

Diaries/Calendar

Well as most of my diary functions are in my blog and web pages this is unaffected. Calendar is what is gonna happen, I got a bit peed off with not being able to put stuff in every week etc so I gave up and restarted and updated my Google calendar again

Showering

It occurred to me s'morning, as I felt too rough to have a shower last night that for most people it's relatively easy but for me walking a bit with no splint, washing my back etc then getting dried and dressed makes it into a tiring stressful event