Missing You Already

This afternoon I went across the road and had a glass of wine at the "Boss" there's party as she was retiring today.

I had to say "I was really surprised to hear you were retiring, you look much too young for that. Then it occurred to me, you must be entitled to an early retirement after the stress of working somewhere like this". She said "Awww" in response

Erm...

Friday

(noisy)

Crisis

And I suddenly realised that when I was tidying up the index page for my website last night that about 40 links had disappeared. They all still worked, so for once I was glad that they all had a standard name (N.T~Hxxx.html) so I just had to put one page up and change the xxx to the next number, save the page, then I had to rewrite all the links.

Ed

And luckily Ed is coming here for 6 hours today and we have no plan as such, because when I was getting dried after my shower last night I knocked the shower gel down onto the floor and the top broke in half. Sounds like no problem but it is a strange upside down jar that won't sit any other way up except lid downwards so shopping will use up some of our hours

Double good lord, we did the stuff I needed to s'morning, then came back here for lunch then pottered about in Carmarthen. Good lord but it has changed, we explored the new shopping center etc. Then we went opposite Ferryside and just pottered for a while, had an ice cream etc. When we were in town I got to use my key for a Disabled Loo that I have had for some time but have never been able to use yet

And we found Mynydd Cerrig where I used to live, they have changed all the roads leading to it

And gosh that right up seems too brief, we had a good, very important day oddling about

"For Odin's Sake"

Well I went to bed about half past midnight last night and fell asleep about 2 minutes later, woke up again at 7.50. And when I was putting on my shoe|splint combo today I put the laces over it for the first 2 bits then for the final one I pulled the splint on top. It seems like a fair enough compromise and I could do it up myself s'morning and didn't need help

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