Old Lady Talk and a Breakthrough in Everyday Ramblings

Hmmm. The new (expertly installed, ha, so says Diego) modem is faster but it is not as stable as the old one. I just had a minor apoplectic moment where I thought I was going to need to go into the office and work this morning but all is resolved and I get to stay home in my polartec and sweats.

I took this picture yesterday evening. I was luxuriating in the longer daylight hours and the astonishing lack of rain on a walk after work and a trip to the grocery.

My physical therapist called in sick yesterday so I get no new exercises this week. I was kind of disappointed, as you all know I like a challenge. I am continuing to do my exercises. The most challenging part?

Not crossing my legs! Or sitting on one. I have been doing this since I was a kid so we are talking a lifetime of habitual movement in this pattern. Just like carrying anything heavy in my right hand I am conditioned to either tuck a leg under me or cross my legs when I sit in a chair. It feels awkward and uncomfortable and annoyingly effortful to not do it.

But learning this new way is better than hurting. During this last week I have had an occasional sense of heaviness and tightness in the affected areas but no spasms! I am thrilled.

Something else I am thrilled about is that I had my dental impressions done on Tuesday as well as a second filling in the one tooth I can currently chew with to see if we could address cold and sweet sensitivity. And it worked! Not my idea of a good time. He numbed me so deeply I could not eat anything and barely could sip water for the rest of the night. I took a bath and went to bed.

If things go well at the lab I get my crowns placed in 10 days and then for the first time in 14 months I will be able to chew on both sides of my mouth! Celery, oh be still my heart, fresh carrots, come on down, dare I even consider a handful of tortilla chips and maybe some almonds???

My niece, (Miss E’s mother) is having her 50th birthday in a few weeks. She, they, originally had planned a trip to New York to see the museums and a Broadway show (Miss E. is major into stage management these days) but they had to reconsider because of their finances.

My niece has a new love interest she wants us to meet! We are happy she has someone supportive and who cares for her deeply enough to want to meet her family. They are driving down from Seattle to have a celebratory dinner with us in a few weeks. Miss E. is not coming because she has a performance that night.

I will be able to actually fully partake in the dinner because after the crowns are in I have 9 weeks before we start work on the other side of my mouth.

They were forecasting snow this morning but so far none has materialized down here near the river.

Yesterday at work I was able to build a preliminary version of a report I have needed for eight years! Eight years, and I have finally been given the tools I need.

Of course my joy in that was tempered by the now public news that the six best-paid executives in my organization took huge bonuses to compensate for how much better we did actually getting paid for services we rendered because of the Affordable Care Act. And I haven’t had a raise in four of those aforementioned eight years.

And the women executives? They got at least a third less in bonuses.

We have some work to do in this area, us humans. Oh yeah.

Last updated February 24, 2017