November 21 2014
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| Zombie Mums still Undead. |
The lovely Lisa has been making a habit out of getting out of bed before me lately. I can't say that I have a problem with that.
By the time I get out of bed, the drippy Joe is already cooking and all I have to do is drink it. It's kind of a role reversal. The lovely Lisa was up at 8:30. She was in bed at 10:00 last night. That's a solid ten hours.
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| Winter in Coquitlam |
I got up about 9:00 to a day that was grey, cloudy, wet and stormy. I was certainly glad I got the yard work done yesterday.
After a couple of cups of drippy Joe, I headed down to the Green Room for my workout.
I do in order ten Belly Crunches,
Ten Side Lifts in the prone position
Ten Front Lifts in the prone position
and finish with ten No Stairs Stretches
I do all four exercises ten times.
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| What the hell? |
I think the lifts are really helping with the range of motion in my shoulders. I've had issues for years. This is about the best they have felt in a long time. I moved out into the stairwell, where I was going to do my One Stair Steps.
I did 200 steps while holding the two pound weights 25 at a time on each lead leg. It was just after 11:00 when I finished this part of my workout. Then I rode the Iron Maiden for 47 minutes. I know it was 47 minutes because that's how much time was left on the episode of Sherlock that I didn't finish last time I rode the Iron Maiden. A quick shower and lunch.
I was going over to Mama Lee's to play guitar today so I was in and out of the shower in a hurry.
I grabbed my guitar and an apple and was out the door at about 12:20. I usually play from 12:30 to 1:30 then they bowl or play bingo. Mama Lee's is only five minutes from our house. By 12:30 everybody has finished their lunch and they gather around. They get pretty close. It can be a little unnerving. It usually takes about half an hour for all of them to show up. Today, the room was filled after five minutes. I was barely through your Cheatin Heart when I was surrounded. I get it. Pretty much all of them have hearing issues and I'm not amplified. They need to be close enough to hear what I'm singing.
I sing all the old songs for them. Hank Williams, Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and of course Elvis.
That gets their old toes tapping. I was eight or nine songs in when Jessica, the event coordinator/ social director, came over and told me that they had another guitar player coming in at 1:00.
it was now 1:00. He joined me and we finished off with Mull of Kintyre. That's the song that the lovely Lisa walked down the aisle to when we got married.
Whenever I play it I can't help but think of that day.
The guy who was scheduled to come in and play the guitar, John, is actually a music therapist. I sit there and play guitar and sing. He moves through the crowd and gets the people involved. Clapping their hands and getting them to sing along. He plays a lot of those kind of nursery rhyme songs like the Hokey Pokey and songs like that. Participation songs. Keep them old bones moving.
I packed up my gear, kissed Mama Lee goodbye and headed home. I was going to do a little rant on how horrible the rain has been the last day and a half. Then I turned on the TV and saw Buffalo New York. Bring on the rain baby! Bring on the rain!!
They said on the news that they never had snow like this before. But I remember when I was a teenager living in Toronto, Buffalo getting snowed in something fierce 1972 or 1973. I remember seeing pictures of people shovelling snow off of roofs that was over the shovellers heads! I guess weather channel memory doesn't go back forty years.
At any rate, I love the rain. It's way better than snow! I think they said of the eighteen people who have died, eleven of them died of heart attacks while shovelling the snow. In all of recorded history there is not one case of a Fat Bastard dying of a heart attack while shovelling rain! I rest my case.
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| With Next Door Gord playing in the snow, 2010 |
I spent the rest of the afternoon fooling around on the computer and playing with my guitar. We usually go out on Friday nights but the lovely Lisa is still dealing with this throat thing I gave her. So at about 5:30 I went out and did a quick shop for dinner. I was on my way to cheap thrills (No Frills) It's the closest market. Shoppers Drug Mart is right beside it and they sell the pork rinds that I like.
I bought the last five bags they had.
There are few things that we always buy at cheap thrills, one of those things is drippy Joe. That's no name medium ground coffee.
It was on sale for 5.69 for 900 grams. I bought two. We now have six tins of it in the pantry. The lovely Lisa saw on the news that coffee prices could double due to coffee rust in Brazil. The lovely Lisa's a caterer. She never runs out of anything. For dinner I bought a package of pork shoulder steaks. I trimmed the meat off the bone and removed the excess fat and then I shake and bake them.
With what's left of yesterday's Squatch salad, that's a meal.
After dinner we watched four episodes of Family Feud. I can't help it we just like the show.
The lovely Lisa went to bed just after 10:00 and I watched an episode of The Mentalist and wrote this blog during the commercials. I don't know if it's easier or harder to write this way.
I do know I have to go back and check on what I've written previously numerous times.
If I start repeating myself, please let me know.
That's all I've got
Till next time
Peace out Y'all
©2014 Dave Squatch Ward
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