Tomorrow is the final day of our three day van excursion! I am beyond exhausted! I was able to order us dinner tonight from Sabina ’s so I had to buy beetsoup for my sister-in-law and me to try! Today, I am spent!!!
Author: Jen Rios
Incomplete Pass
So, today started my first adventure with my three day van rental. Today, it was an incomplete pass! Here’s what happened, I have procured the prescription for new compression socks that are much needed. My dental hygienist quit unexpectedly and the office was figuring out how they were going to squeeze both me and my Mom in at the same time like they have been doing for years. Like me and Sean used to. So it was a bunch of finagling but I figured it out like this and I laid out a game plan for my Mom:
Monday: compression sack fitting
Tuesday: teeth cleaning
Wednesday: Haircut and wax
So here’s what happened, Brian who we called before hand to make sure we had the correct directions sent us to the wrong place so we were out in Canton and my Mom was upset! I, however, what is unfazed. It was okay.
We passed a Jet‘s Pizza and we ordered a pie and cinnamon sticks. We ate in the car. I told my Mom that it was okay and tomorrow will just have a doubleheader. Well go get fitted for my socks before we go for our teeth cleaning. The dentist office was able to schedule us on Tuesday when we were supposed to go on Monday but they were able to get us in Tuesday. What can I say?!, it pays to have the same dentist for over 50 years for my Mom and over 35 years for me.
i’m not sure where all of these sports analogies are coming from but I did used to play double headers in high school when I was a catcher for the softball team. I’m a little nervous for tomorrow but it will get done. I’m just having a difficult time right now because I am in somewhat of a sugar coma/Carb overload right now… just call me Olaf!!!
I never got into the l craze because Sean is a boy but I feel that way about cinnamon sticks! They remind me of Elephant ears which are my favorite but difficult to eat as an adult but not when you’re a kid and don’t care that you get sugar all over your face!
Channeled
So, I am definitely NOT feeling well today and I drank my breakfast and lunch so for dinner, I just channeled my inner Olivia Pope!:
I did that have wine with the popcorn but rather, milk and one square of dove dark chocolate. I eat my popcorn one kernel at the time and it helps with hand eye coordination.
Rough Night
I hardly got any sleep last night. I’ll ‘splain ya tomorrow and it’s not even the last sleep tonight before new compression socks because they have to order them so I probably will get them Wednesday or Thursday.
Yesterday was a rough night and I just saw this meme a couple days ago which is completely the truth:
Notable Puzzlin’ Tune #15
I am in the middle of a puzzle but I heard this song that I have never heard before and I couldn’t even identify who was by so I stopped puzzling and listen to the words and it made me laugh because I actually did the same thing! But what I said was, “You’re right, I’m wrong.” Repeatedly. Then I was asked why I did not want to fight and I said because you are right and I am wrong. 😂😂😂
And the progress of the puzzle:
It’s only 58% done so far:
Notable Puzzlin’ Tune #14
How did I also miss this one, also?! This one definitely would have been one of my jams back when I lived in the land of the able-bodied. As I am transitioning to the land of the chronically ill, it’s quite difficult for me. This song makes me remember being in the land of the able-bodied:
AND, a side note: she’s redheaded!!!
I almost forgot, the puzzle:
But it’s another puzzle with the wrong piece?! So irritating!!!:
2 More Sleeps…
I reposted on both Facebook and Twitter at about 330 this morning that I understood or I remembered the feeling that I am experiencing in my legs right now. The post I reposted was from November 2013. I had gotten a really good stretch at Barwis and maybe it was just a little bit too much! It was in the very beginning of my training there and I cried in 2013 when I had this feeling in my legs but I didn’t cry this morning.
I am able to adjust my bed to ‘TV watching mode’ which I prefer to call ‘reading mode.’ I only found this out by accident because desperate times call for desperate measures and I was crawling out of my skin with the pain I was feeling in my legs so I set up in my bed and the pain dissipated a little bit. I probably sat that way for 20 minutes before I cat send it back to ‘zero gravity’ mode and I was able to sleep for a good chunk of time!
so now, I only have to sleep for two more nights with my socks that are too big and are hurting my legs and on Monday we will get new ones!
Escape
My feet hurt a lot today which is so strange because I have NOT felt my feet in over 20 years! My Mom is resting and my phone is about to die. I decided to listen to some music on my iPad in case my phone dies. I thought about all of my pay playlists on my Apple Music and I decided on my James Blunt, Back to Bedlam album because that allows me to escape back to my apartment living on I could still drive and just started teaching. I was so hopeful for the future…
3 More Sleeps…
I have been on the verge of tears all day so far! tears have been stinging my eyes and I wipe them away with my sleeve. I am completely sleep deprived! I was able to doze off a little bit before four in the morning and was wide awake at 7:30. That Suzanne Vega song was paying in my head and it was pure torture!!!:
Instead of being ripped from my sleep I couldn’t even fall asleep to begin with. I reposted earlier today a post from June 2021. That’s when I got the socks I am currently wearing. But the compression is no longer tight enough because my legs have gotten thinner. That is a whole ‘nother discussion for later but I could not fall asleep because my legs felt so terrible!
I was able to get a new prescription from my neurologist who I am seeing at the end of June and on Monday, we are going to get new socks! I don’t think they get smaller than a size one. And that’s a different discussion for a different day but I just need to handle three more sleeps until my legs feel better!
300 Puzzles
I completed my 300 puzzle early this morning as my Mom was tending my feet before I went to sleep. There was no music but I was thinking about something and then this showed up:
I was just thinking about the fact that I have done almost 300 puzzles And then when I chose my 300th one, The elephants showed up! I was just thinking about them! But now I know that any puzzle I do every the elephants is starting at number 300.