November 28 2014
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| From our Wedding |
Between 1:00 and 5:00 a.m. I must have went to the bathroom six times. How much pee can there be inside of one human being? Granted I have a little more mass and therefore slightly more volume. But really....six times!
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| Peace, always in style |
I managed to put together four straight hours of sleep when I got up just after nine. The sharp pain that I had been living with for two days was not there. If I hadn't passed the stone, at the very least it stopped moving.
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| Spent a Christmas in New York 2005 |
That's good because it doesn't hurt and that's bad because it will at some time move again. I still had the thumb stuck into my kidney pressure thing happening, but at least I didn't have the mind numbing jagged pain.
Since the lovely Lisa and I have been together we have bought a new ornament every year. Either with a date on it or from one of our travels. I will be inserting them randomly throughout the blog. Back to the story.
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| From the Opera House in Sydney Austrailia 2010 |
I took it pretty slow. I was moving at a pace that would allow me to check out each and every movement for the pain threshold.
I had a nice long shower and put pants on for the first time in two days.
I sat in the living room and played my guitar while the lovely Lisa continued decorating.
I started pulling together the outdoor lights. I keep them in a couple of Rubbermaid bins out in the shed.
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| Playoff run 2011 |
I was just getting organised. I wasn't going to actually start putting the lights up until the lovely Lisa left at 12 o'clock to take Mama Lee shopping. The last time the lovely Lisa tried to help me do the outside decorations, it nearly ended in the cancellation of Christmas.
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| Prague, Czech Republic |
I made myself some breakfast eggs and chicken curry again. Two days in a row and still loving it.
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| Mmmmmm |
After the lovely Lisa left to pick up Mama Lee for their shopping trip, I got right to work. I have about a thousand lights to put up and though not in pain, I'm not moving as fast as I usually do . I started on the front deck stapler in hand. I did the easy parts first. The stuff I could do while standing with both feet firmly on the deck inside of the railing. And a little bit where I had to go up two steps on the step ladder. I don't want to be up the big ladder and have a kidney stone attack.
I put a set of all blue lights on the tree by the door.
and some ugly stick things with really bright LEDs on them that look pretty good at night.
It was now after 3:00. I was meeting Gord, Penny and Duffy at River's Reach Pub at 4:00, for appetizers, prime rib and the Canucks game. We try to get together with Gord and Penny about once a week. Since Gord retired and they moved into a seniors residence they have become the King and Queen of Dunwoody place.
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| The lovely Lisa, Penny and Gord |
They've got something going on every night and more of the residents are coming out to do things all the time. It's good for them and it's really good for Gord. Active mind, active body keeps you young.
We shared chicken wings in the first period. Calamari in the second period. Then we ordered our entrée for the third period. Gord and I ordered the prime rib dinner.
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| Half a baked potato, woo hoo big night out! |
The lovely Lisa ordered sliders and mushroom caps and Penny had lettuce wraps and poutine.
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| Sliders and Mushroom Caps |
We left the rivers reach about 8 o'clock. The lovely Lisa and I were in separate vehicles. I took a lot of side streets home. Not because I was drunk but to check out the Christmas lights. I don't really care that much about the lights but the lovely Lisa loves them. When I Drive through a neighbourhood, that has a lot of houses decorated. I make a note of it and then I take the lovely Lisa there to see them.
The lovely Lisa went to bed about 10:30. Ten minutes later, she was back all excited. It had started snowing. We only had measurable snow last year on two days. Both days it happened overnight and was melted by lunch time.
It's almost 1 a.m. now and the snow has stopped. It dropped a couple of inches of snow on top of the fence.
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| Snow on the pumpkins. |
In all probability I won't even have to shovel the walk. Statistically more men die of heart attacks while shovelling snow than they do while having sex!
I don't know what that means but I do know that in a tribute to Family Feud, we asked 100 men how would you prefer to die. 97 men said while having sex. The number one answer! The other three got it wrong. The other three wanted to be eaten by their cats!
That's all I've got
Till next time
Peace out y'all
©2014 Dave Squatch Ward
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