Thursday at PMH

I had PFTs, I saw Dr. C, I had bloodwork and I saw Dr. L.

I have about 10% less lung function - gee I guess that explains the shortness of breath that I have been experiencing lately. So, I'm now taking a two week course of antibiotics because Dr. C and I both agreed that the continual PND isn't helping by filling up my lungs with all sorts of crap. So I have residual sinustis infection. He also prescribed Singulair - so on top of Advair and Spiriva I have that as well. I really really really hope it works. It sucks being short of breath - not to mention I don't even want to think about playing flute - which needs some maintenance before I can even go there as well.

I think the antibiotics just may be kicking in. I seem to have less PND and crusties in the morning. No huge chunks of goo going down the back of my throat the last couple of days either - knock on wood. (sorry for the extreme graphic description) As for lung capacity, that remains to be seen. TM is back at work and we resume our noon walkies so that should help. Not sure I'm ready to go back outside though because any hint of cool/cold air my lungs seize up even more.

On to the blood work and Dr. L. Apparently my haemoglobin is low as well as my iron and B12. Dr. L wants me back in a month (as does Dr. C) to check up on that. I guess if they are still low I will have to add B12 shots to my regimen. Gosh I hope not. It's hard enough as it is right now justifying my time at the doctors to work. Corp is definitely not as accomodating as little ole subsidiary is. Go figure. Backwoods country cousins are more progressive then big city sophisticated corporation!

We bought a Wii console last week. Man those are hard to come by. I started looking on the Friday. Must have called a dozen stores as well as different locations for each of those stores. I called many Circuit Cities, Future Shop, Best Buy - looked online at Amazon, Best Buy, Future Shop, Tigerdirect.ca (which for future reference is computers and parts only), Canada Computes etc etc. Then Saturday we went to local stores because I had called mostly Toronto stores with the exception of Circuit City where I called both Toronto and Hamilton. We went to Future Shop, Best Buy, EB Games, Zellers.... it was the same story everywhere. "We can't keep them in stock and we only get a few consoles at a time. Basically it was call before you come and if you're lucky and we have gotten some they might still be in stock when you arrive to buy. And no, we can't put them on hold. So I was "whining" about this to my manager who said did you try the store up the street (from where we work). It's called Gamerama. I thought to myself, well, not likely but what the heck. What's one more phone call?

Lo and behold, they not only had one Wii console they had two! It cost a little extra - console was $20 more, plus they "insist" you buy extra stuff to make up for the fact that they were able to have one in stock (huh? what?). I was going to buy extra remotes anyway. I bought a second numchuk, a second Wii remote which came with nine games (which by the way are entirely lame and I don't recommend them unless you like the idea of games that train you on each action of the Wii remote and numchuk. Although, the game where you ride a cow at scarecrows to knock them down and also have to jump fences was mildly entertaining - and I bought Zelda. Woo, can't get past the first bit in that game so far. I want to get to the sword-fighting where you actually get to physically move around! The Wii sports games the console comes with are a lot of fun. S and her daughter S and S (mother)'s new boyfriend C came over Saturday, and daughter S was thrilled with the Wii. She's 7 so usually gets bored really quickly!

Anyway, our excuse for splurging on the Wii was that I need to do something that gets me moving around and there's not a lot of motivation to use the treadmill (ugh another expensive purchase that I darn well better start using once I get a little more a) stamina and b) lung power. Let me tell you, no fooling, the Wii is a great workout! I think the most strenuous workout comes from the boxing - yikes! I was sweating! Good cardio too. And apparently Wii is coming out with a balance board. You can surf, skateboard, do yoga and a bunch of other things.

Then there is the dance mat - must get. Can't get right now - too much money spent on Wii console!!!!

My arms are really really sore. Some of it's from the raking I did in the yard yesterday, but most of it's from the Wii. Best of all, p will actually play with me. He generally hates games: especially cards, board games and so on. It's like pulling teeth to try and get h im to play. But he likes the Wii, because it is active.

Anyway, off to do some work.

She's a he!

About a month ago, Jessica, our second rabbit who we inherited from my former manager (he needed to find a home for her and had been trying for 6 months because his wife after becoming pregnant developed severe allergies and he didn't want to keep her in the garage - he would go home every day and play with her for an hour or so in the garage) had to go to the vet because she was drooling due to molar spurs on her teeth. She was having difficulty eating and was obviously a little uncomfortable.

We got the appointment and p took her in. The vet looked her over, checked out her teeth and said yup, she's got molar spurs got to saw them off. He finished doing a complete examination as he had never seen her before and after completing looked up at p and said - she's a he!!!

Go figure, we had her I mean him for two years and R had her for two before that. We never checked because we had Bunka fixed - cheaper to do a male then a female and we were sure he was a male if only from all the times he had chased p to a chair and then ran around the chair trying to get at him to grab his leg and .... (well you figure it out!) Picture p standing on a chair trying to talk to someone important (like a politician) and a rabbit running circles around the chair, humming and trying to get at him!!! Too funny!

Now we now why Jessica, I mean Jesse was constantly mounting Bunka - it wasn't because she/he was frustrated and trying to teach Bunka about the birds and the bees at all!! And we could have saved ourselves the neutering fee!.

Well, not really - it was worth it because Bunka stopped attacking p all the time and stopped spraying (which he would do when he was running wildly around p trying to mate with him!!)

Here they are the little rotters I mean sweetums

Horrendoscopes

Today's horrendscopes sent to me by p...

Funny Shiny Thing in Sky in Field of Funny Shiny Things (source)

Gemini (May 21 — June 21)
You've got your nose to the grindstone. So much so, that your energy and vitality is being consumed. Raise your head this week and look around. Opportunity is in the air.

Round Atlas and Postal (source)

Gemini (May 21 — June 21)
It's quite natural that you are anxious about a task of some kind but you must not let it get to you to such an extent that it paralyses your ability to think or to act. Others can panic if they wish but you must stay calm and make the best of a challenging situation. Great things are expected of you.

It's freaky how sometimes they are dead on. I hope they are.

Useless things I want to do

Like I have time or energy but here they are, not necessarily in order of importance or priority:

1. move over remainder of Amazon.com wishlist to Amazon.ca wishlist
2. catalogue our library of books
3. catalogue our library of music (CDs and vinyl)
4. organize house (guess that's not so useless)
5. organize attic in particular
6. move gingles (that would be the guinea pigs to you) to second floor in small bedroom which then necessitates rearranging the bedrooms (and attic)

There you have it.

Dreams

What's with the repeating dreams anyway? All my life I have had dreams that repeat over and over and over again.

There is the I'm back at school and don't know what day it is (my high school had a four day schedule) and can't find my time table not that would help. I'm running around trying to guess which classroom I should be in and hoping I can tell by who is in the class. Oh, and I've missed half the day already..
or

a variation on the above which includes the parts as describes as above: I'm in high school taking the courses I never took in grade 13 such as math (actually it is only ever math) and I'm failing miserably. However, I have already gone to university and obtained a masters degree. The rationale in being back in high school?? Something about taking courses I should have taken then and getting better marks... The weird thing is that my classmates are ones I actually did go to high school with

or

I desperately need to go to the bathroom and every single toilet has an issue. Either the water in it is right up to the edge of the seat so if I sit I'm in the water - or there is no door on the stall or the floor is digusting. Last night I dreamt I was working in a coffee shop and needed to go to the loo and the ones available in the mall were as above so my co-worker takes me across the street (surprisingly which is Yonge Street) into a music store (kind of Long and McQuade's style) and we go down the stairs to the second part of the store and she points to a door which leads down yet another set of stairs to the store's private bathroom. Somehow it's okay to use it. So I go down to discover the toilet is a hole in the ground (complete with a toilet seat).... oh and the other variation on the toilet too full, doesn't have door, floor is disgusting is that I'm naked.

or

I'm chewing bubblegum which I want to spit out and it won't go. So I'm pulling wads and wads and wads of bubblegum with both my hands out of my mouth and its neverending....

There are others but those seem to be the most common....

of course there was the one when I was in my early teens (and no longer living at that house) where I am being chased through our house on Mandarin Crescent by a huge snake. The dream always culminated in my standing on top of the kitchen table surrounded by thousands of snakes (or at least the big giant one that had been chasing me)

I came to a conclusion as to what that dream was about but perhaps I get into that in some other post.....

They are just a kind of mind numbingly mundane stressful dream that when you are in them you can't get out....