34 years

 Yesterday marked 34 years since our first date... an eternity… so we had a little meetup with Kirsten and her menage and then ate a bit of grilled meat. With the rain falling all day we had lots of time to reminisce about that day and the years that have followed.

It’s been on and off raining again today so I’ve been loitering on the sofa doing data things. I’ve now got a spreadsheet with a list of unique meals that we’ve had since the beginning of 2020. There are 164 entries and yet I have to wrack my brain to figure out next week’s supper plan. This list will take away some of the pain and since Carm’s got a copy he can pick out things he likes.

I have some sort of sick obsession with documentation that retirement never managed to shake.

Spike is doing great. Often he shows no limp at all although he still likes to have help getting up the stairs. I’ve removed the ramp to the bed until I’m confident that he can go up and down without issue, but other than that he’s almost back to normal. What has changed is that he gladly accepts our help and practically leaps into our arms when we bend down to pick him up.

“I was up for a few minutes before 6am this morning and the sky was a gorgeous blush pink”

“the salty creamy chunk of feta in my egg bite”

“yesterday: lying back in the tub with the sun flickering on the water - the trees cloaked with adolescent leaves were silhouetted against the intense blue sky”

first of may

 A flurry of panic just now… 2 documents were in my google drive that were definitely NOT something that I created. I quickly changed my password and removed the files. Carm looked it up and apparently there is a hole in Google Drive that might allow some nefarious person to hack in. Gosh!!! That is super scary.

Hurrah hurrah the first of May! It was cool but sunny today which was a nice change from yesterday’s rain which changed to snow - accumulation! This spring has been a wild ride with the weather.

I’m going to take a break from including quotes, instead I’ll write down an awesome/idle pleasure. It’s a good way to tune up mindfulness, and goodness knows, focusing on the positive these days is a good thingI challenge you to find at least one thing every day that brings joy.

“the fresh scent of coffee when I opened a new bag”

“importing a spreadsheet into my database - like the old days!”

need not return for six months

 I don’t know how I fell down that rabbit hole but did you know that Amazon sells colouring books with Jason Momoa… and one that lets you colour animals pooping. What colour would a sloth poop?

With a dentist appointment scheduled for noon, the morning was spent getting cleaned up with a bit of makeup - not something that has been happening with any frequency over the last year… imagine my surprise when Adia ran to her crate expecting a treat! She knew we were going out and was ready to load herself into her prison. She got an extra treat for that!

Spike has been improving in leaps and bounds (literally!). Since I upped the dose of CBD and went to a 3 times per day schedule he’s gotten a bit better every day. Today he got out of bed with no limp, he’s gone down the front steps a few times, and back up twice. He’s even gotten himself onto the futon. He’s not better yet, but we are more hopeful that he’ll make a full recovery. 😚 

We are three weeks vaccinated today.

I will admit to being a bit of a hypochondriac fueled by a slight fear about the AstraZeneca vaccine brought on by way too much time on Facebook… the other day when I got undressed for my bath there was a fist sized bruise (a wild exaggeration) at the top of my leg - what the bleepity bleep!!! I freaked out. Carm took a photo for me and I sent it to my Dr., then I got on the internet to review the list of symptoms for blood clots… I had none. Deep breaths... It took an evening for the panic to subside, but now I’m good. I did hear from the doctor and he said that I’ll be fine ;-)  

It’s a dreary day again today but that’s okay, we need the rain.

Shall I take up colouring as a hobby? 

Speaking of hobbies, I fired up my thinking cap and designed a little database app to calculate cbd dosage depending on the strength of the oil. Then I put together another little db app to track how THC intake affects me. What fields will I want to capture? Which values will come from lookup tables? I don’t have a full fledged Android database but the one I do have is good enough. It was a bit fun to play with skills I’ve long stopped using, a real dusting off of the brain.

“No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?  --Poirot”

~Agatha Christie