ACTUALLY I HAVE BEEN BUSY

 Being busy isn't usual in my household.  But there have been things planned and slowly being implemented.

Once again we are switching Monte's room...I type so easily.  And I am heading ahead with the house purge.  Our next tackle is the laundry room then the deck.  I have made this pretty simple, at least in my head.  If there isn't a logical place to put something it gets tossed, either into the garbage or a garbage bag for the diabetes peeps to pick up. Simple right?  Well I have tried this before and it never is a straight shot into two spots!

I have decided to hire a couple guys with a truck to haul junk and help move huge awkward stuff.  Monte can only do so much.  Other than large ticket items, I shan't be trying market place.  Deciding to actually use market place is a huge deterrent to getting down and getting dirty.  I always end up left with half my stuff and hating people.  Not worth the five bucks I might end up with after buying whatever it is for 250 bucks two years ago.  Not worth it at all.

Well now I can talk about something I haven't been able to in case April read this.  Her bachelorette shindig is happening as I speak.  Sixteen girls started the planning almost a year ago.  I purchased the decor and that is the sole extent of my involvement.  I chose not to go.  I am still recovering from the retreat.  Actually I am fine, it's my ears that are recovering.

  All kinds of crazy things are happening after much planning!  I am privy to the chat that all the girls are on and pictures are being put on it already.  April is just beaming!!!!  And lots of music and dancing and blindfold pinning the *ahem on the handsome  giant picture of a naked dude, drunk yoga and I do believe last nights gastric adventure was a massive involved charcuterie!!!  One picture was girls in a semi circle on chairs and couch...it was April and her four cousins!  All laughing and happy.

The Bach is in an amazing high end seven bed seven bath mansion on the island.  Aryn was bringing April.  Monte and I drove the hour and half to a fantastic, quite famous, British pub on their way to surprise April.  And she was surprised!!!!  It was so awesome to see her before her big weekend.  We had a wonderful couple of hours in that amazing pub.  The food, the decor, the location..all beautiful and worth the trip to get there.  And it was packed.  Monte and I got there first and got our names in and it was still over a half hour wait.  The only negative were the seats.  Grossly uncomfortable.  I had an oyster hot pot...delicious.

When I get myself collected later I will load some pics onto lappy and put them in the next post.  And probably some pics of the shenanigans going on at the moment!!!!

I now need to get my giant stinky dog up (he sleeps with me now on my rather small twin bed, fortunately for him I only use the top half of the bed as I sit back so there is room) and get him outside for morning ablutions.  Have a good between post and I will try to post sooner with pics.  TFL and TTYL

HOKEY DINAH!!!!

 Oh Lordy be!!!  Have you ever had a chat on messenger that involves over fourteen thirty somethings getting ready for a huge bachelorette party?  It is borderline crazy and astounding!!!

I have a generally very unbusy phone.  Once in a blue moon there is a non-spam phone call and even less are dings for texts.  There may be other stuff but the rest is silent.

But my fb messenger is going nuts.  We are getting closer to the date of the party and the messages are getting more frantic and fine tuned.  Eithne, bless her, kind of took over the overseer job and created a fantastic spreadsheet people could add to and somehow, in spite of having a two yr old and a not well husband and a full time job, keeps track of it all.  Crazy!!!!  All I can say, because April occasionally reads my blog, is they are going to have an absolute blast!  The things they have planned are stuff I have never heard of!!!  Just since I started typing this there have been five dings on messenger!!!  I love it!!  Some of it is soooo funny!!!

The last three days have been laundry days.  Holy Toledo!!!  One nice thing about having enough clothes to clothe every bum in Port (and that is saying something!!), not to mention, other than unmentionables, I wear the same thing for a week,  I rarely have to do laundry. 

 Have you ever been to the assisted living senior homes?  At meal times they have these massive giant baby type bibs they velcro around their necks. They hang down to the waist.  The minute I saw those suckers I knew I had to have them.  What a fantastic way to keep the front of your shirts clean, something I have never been able to do.  I happened to go to old people's handy aids section on an Asian website and voila! there they were!  And boy do they work!!!  My only complaint is the velcro at the back of the neck.  Jeez Louise...that stuff rips hair out of your head better than a set of clippers.  But the front of my shirts have never been so clean!

But now I have four massive loads of clothes, towels, duvets,  bibs and rugs and mats to wash.  And to top it off my laundry room is disgraceful.  It is so loaded with stuff I could throw up.  A great deal of it is Monte's. 

 I was amalgamating two of his boxes into one,   rapidly transferring all the stuff in one to the other.  I grabbed something soft, stopped and looked at it as I hauled it out of the box.  It was one of Smooch's discarded snake skins.  EEEEWWWWWW!!!  I love her but I do not want to handle her skin.  Creepy to the power of infinity.  (shovel list)

So there you go folks...another mundane post.  I need to start going out so crap can happen and I am either in the middle of it or at the very least, seeing it!  I did go to Nanaimo last week with Monte.  He and I had a fabulous time but for reasons I can't go into I had to come straight home.  For some of you the term sugar cane will explain a lot.  Sigh.

So that's it!  I will go out in the next day or two and hopefully see something worth telling you all about.  If nothing else I shall take some pics.  I don't have any good ones today to put here.  Have a good few days...TFL and TTYL 

 

REALLY LONG TIMES BETWEEN POSTS MEANS NOTHING HAS HAPPENED...NOTHING

 I am dead serious.  Nothing has happened.  It is one thirty in the night, I can't sleep, I am hungry, I am drinking an awesome double brew sugar free vanilla coffee from Mcd's that Monte brought back for me.  I am not sleepy yet (coffee doesn't affect me at all).  I have been thinking about anything whatsoever to write about and I can't think of nuttin'!.

One thing we did was finally, after months of talking about it we made Italian Wedding Soup.  It was very easy, time consuming, but easy.  I worked on the broth all day and it was delicious.  I put the ingredients into a bowl with the hamburger and made poor Ange mix it. Then using a melon baller she made tiny meatballs.  Meanwhile I had ordered the proper teeny pasta from Amazon CANADA, got out the big bag of spinach and voila! soup!!!  It was absolutely delicious but I can see it's really only as good as the broth ends up.

I have big fat chubalub arms, the kind one hides with long sleeves (like Oprah does...look next time you see her).  There is no way I can hide mine.  I hate long sleeves.  I can't function or think with long sleeves on.

The reason I mention this is I am really in need of getting an accurate blood pressure reading.  I can't use just any machine.  My giant upper arms preclude that.  I need the big boy cuffs that only doctors have.  I even asked at Life Labs the last time I was in there and they don't have them.  The regular ones add like twenty points to my numbers and severely cut the blood to my hands off.  And it super hurts.  The wrist ones are garbage.  They are totally unreliable.

Last time I saw the doctor, about last summer time, I found out my blood pressure had snuck up to one fifty over something.  Dammit!!! So she prescribed a weird drug that the tele dr. was upset I was taking.  I am already on three other ones to get my pressure down to one twenty over something. He said it would dehydrate me...no matter how much I drink. 

About a month after starting that pill, and I am not sure it has anything to do with this, I developed tinnitus in my left ear.  And it is loud!  And it is driving me crazy.  And my head pumps. I don't think it is caused by high pressure...it would be in both ears then I figure but I would like to get a doctor that knows what he/she is doing to get this under control.  But alas!  This is Canada.  That won't be happening anytime soon.  So if I have a stroke you will know why.

I haven't been eating really properly for the last while.  I was looking at the calendar and suddenly realized we are in the middle of March.  Crapadoodle!!!!  I need and planned to lose fifty pounds before the wedding May 24th!  Hokey Dinah!!!  I better get on it!!!  Twenty five pounds a month.  Hmmmmm....that is a lot of not eating.  I think I am too old and fat to shoot for that much.  Plus every pound you lose at my age adds another layer of crepey skin!!!

  Not that I really care.  I like, embrace, being older.  Some things have been a surprise though.  I don't age in my head.  Go figure. And I am not as sure on my feet, my voice won't let me sing anymore, my taste has changed drastically (probably because of all the meds I take...shovel list), I get very sleepy in the day but am wide awake at night, I packed my house to move, mostly by myself, seven years ago.  I could not do that now without a lot of sitting sessions. Things like that.  But overall I enjoy being older.  It is sure easier, socially, than when I was in my younger years.  I know EVERYTHING now and it makes convo with people a lot easier.  Lol!!!!

Well enough rambling.  Another goofy post.  My apologies.  Til next time...TFL & TTYL

'Age is an issue of mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.'  Mark Twain

this quote could be my life mantra!!!

THIS IS A BORING ONE...SORRY...AT LEAST IT AIN'T ABOUT TRUMP!!!

 Last night something extremely unimportant happened that got me thinking.  In my memory, which just happens to be super good still, lol, that something has happened only three times in my current memory.

I made a seafood chowder.  There are a million ways to make it and I have done quite a few times in my life.  But last night was different.  Most my chowders, don't panic I am not going to go into detail about how I make it, I did some things a little differently.  And when it was complete I grabbed a spoon for the final test taste.  And it stopped me dead in my tracks.  It was magnificent!!!  Like I mean noticeably crazy delicious.  Not normal delicious but insanely abnormally delicious.  I couldn't believe my tastebuds.

And later I got thinking about that moment of complete surprise.  And it has happened only two other times that I can remember.  One was in Parksville at a Vietnamese restaurant.  I had ordered pho of course and the first bite of the broth shocked me...and saddened me.  I knew I would never ever be able to duplicate that magical flavour in a million years of trying.  I have eaten a lot of pho in my time but that one was utterly amazing.

  And the other time was years ago in Bamfield. I had made my signature (hahaha) salmon burgers.  I had made them lots of times and I thought I had done exactly the same thing again.  But when I took that first bite I again stopped in dead chew!  It was beyond amazing and to this day I have no idea why it was different.  I just know it was.  It reminds me of taking pictures and when you are dumping them onto the computer, every now and then a certain picture will astound you, unexpectedly.  I love it!!!

Well now I am hungry.  I just reread the above...I wrote it yesterday.  So I am signing off and I am going to go heat up a cheesy smokie and stick it on a fork and gingerly eat it.  TFL and TTYL

A FEW DAYS AGO MONTE ORDERED A TAKEOUT MEAL FROM SMITTY'S.  PART OF THE ORDER WAS MINI DONUTS.  NOW JUDGING BY THE PICTURE YOU MIGHT THINK THEY ARE CHOCOLATE.  NO. THEY ARE NOT.  THEY ARE BURNT.  CAN YOU IMAGINE A CHEF PACKING UP THE DINNER AND ACTUALLY INCLUDING THESE?