March 27, 2015
Forgive me readers for I have sinned. It's been four days since my last blog. When last I wrote we were celebrating Christo's birthday. That was Monday and I was still having some major foot issues.
My bruised heels were doing nicely but the blister on my left foot was still a problem. So I spent all of Tuesday playing footsie with myself. I had out the self heating, vibrating foot bath and sat with my feet soaking until they were shrivelled and pruned! The lovely Lisa has a Pumis stone that's so rough it removes the skin from your heels in layers. After 5 minutes of scraping, I had enough skin to build a small child.
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| Chinese Lantern Plant gone to seed, cool huh? |
I went to visit Mama Lee and see how things were going with getting her a new wheelchair. The progression of her Parkinsons requires that her new chair has neck supports and that the seat is adjustable. It's all going to happen on Thursday. It was a beautiful day and Mama Lee wanted to go for a walk at the lake but I was wearing my crocs and they are not conducive to pushing a wheelchair. I did however do two laps with the Rat dogs and my feet held up well.
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| Lot's of people fishing |
By the time I got my Ho warning from the lovely Lisa at 18:30 my feet were actually feeling pretty good. I was working security on Wednesday and Thursday this week and I didn't want to do that on sore feet. The blister on the inside of my heel has healed quite nicely but the blister on the outside of my heel is taking longer.
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| View from the Magnolia tree. |
By the time the lovely Lisa was home she has less than 8 hours before she had to go back to work. The lovely Lisa and I had a dinner of leftover movie food that Chef Boy R Lisa brought home. A peck on the cheek and she was in bed. The lovely Lisa is being the kiss Nazi! No kisses until my mouth heals. It worked out pretty well, the lovely Lisa was in bed before the Canucks game started.
The Canucks won the game. I had a shave and a shower and was in bed before 11:00 with the alarm set for 07:00. I always shave for work the night before. If I shave in the morning, I look like I came from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I've been shaving for 45 years and still can't do it right!
Genesis the company I work for was dropping off a shirt for me to wear on the job. It hadn't arrived by the time I went to bed but I had left instructions where they should leave the shirt. When I got up in the morning the shirt wasn't there. Having worked for these people for a little while now
I realised that the alcove by the front door sounds an awful lot like the carport! And voila, there it was. The shirt fit really well, right up to the part where it had no buttons in the middle. I put a staple in it, called Genesis to bring me another shirt and went to work in Mission.
I was doing security for the Mission Ministry of Social Services or whatever they call themselves these days. In the vernacular of the common man, it was Welfare Wednesday. It was the first time I had worked at the Ministry and I had no idea what to expect. The office manager Lisa showed me around the lunch room and bathroom. That doesn't sound right. She showed me where they were.
They gave me the keycard so I could come between the front of the house and the back of the house.
The workers sit behind a desk that raises and lowers. They can be raised all the way to the ceiling turning the office into a bunker. I guess there can be issues. I didn't have any issues.
They were lined up about 100 deep when the doors open at 9:00. My instructions were to let in only 10 people at a time. Mission is a small town. The people who are on assistance there seemed to all know each other. It was like a party in that line up. Everyone that came through those doors was as respectful to me as I was to them.
At 10:30 another SP named Sammy arrived to do a four hour shift with me. Sammy was a small, brown, 60 something man from Fiji. He told me he had been there the day before and had taken quite a bit of verbal abuse. I worked with him for the two days I was there. He was a very nice man who has led a very interesting life. I managed to put over 11,000 steps on my pedometer each day. That's pretty good since the room is only fifty feet long. At the end of the day there were still people trying to get in for their checks. The second day it was not nearly as busy. The office was never empty but there was seldom a line up. All in all I enjoyed it. I think I do well in any situation where there are people to interact with. People are people. Last week the people at TED had money and means this week the people had nothing. Still just people.
I'm finished work at 16:15 so I was just ahead of the traffic. I was home in 25 minutes. The lovely Lisa is working an extra day these last two weeks of season four . Next Thursday is her last day as Chef Boy R Lisa for three months. The lovely Lisa got home about 19:30 and told me that her brother Dr Dan was in town for meetings and she was meeting him down town at 20:30. I stayed home and watched the Canucks suck long, hard and steady. The lovely Lisa was home at 22:30 as I was getting ready for bed, Papa Squatch Dayscare starts at 07:30 Friday.
I was up with a cup of drippy Joe in hand when Christian dropped off the Grandkids . Jen is crazy busy with her new job and Christian starts work at 08:00. I had a crazy morning planned myself. At 08:40 we walked Bella to school with enough time for them to work out some energy in the playground before school. When the bell rings the kids all get in line and all the adults wander off as their kids enter the school. I had just enough time for another cup of drippy Joe before I took Christo to Preschool.
I always take him to school the same way. They are building an eight unit housing development right around the corner from us. There were once three houses on that property. Christo and I stop there for a minute or two every time we go by. We have watched it from the logging of the land, to the pouring of the foundations and now the first of the houses has the siding on and they're working on the inside.
I dropped Christo and headed to the Dr's office for a 09:40 appointment. I am doing so well with the new lifestyle I wanted to start the conversation about reducing the meds I'm on. We reduced one of the diabetes drugs. The results from my blood work on Monday were excellent. From my glucose levels to my cholesterol, everything was perfect. Next stop. The dentist.
If there is any consolation to going to the Dentist I guess it's that this one was a freebie. Sort of. The composite filling that was put into my mouth in February, fell out. Replaced no charge. I got free needles, a free dental dam crammed into my mouth and free drilling. Woo hoo, I gotta buy a lottery ticket. I paid for the coffee that was freely running from between my frozen lips on the drive home! I had just enough time to drive over to Preschool to pick up Christo.
At home I made Christo grilled cheese for lunch and then packed him up for a trip with the Rat dogs to visit Mama Lee and go to Como Lake. They screwed up Mama Lee's wheel chair. The front wheels were set up so poorly you couldn't turn the chair right or left without them hitting the frame. I spent forty minutes on the phone with the people from Regency who did the work the day before trying to explain the issue. I finally just said "send someone now, the chair isn't working!"
Then I packed the Rat dogs and Christo and we were off to the park for an hour. It was another beautiful day. A little overcast but not raining with little patches of blue sky peaking around the pale grey clouds.
It's been raining for a couple of days and the Left Coasters are feeling put upon. Perfect walking, stone throwing, rock climbing weather if you ask me and Christo.
We parked the truck, put the Ratdogs inside and hurried over to meet Bella when she got out of school. Today was the 100th day of the school year. This is how they spend our tax dollars.
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| Bella 100 days smarter. |
"100 Days Smarter"
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| Me too! |
Christian showed up just as we got back to the house. We talked for a few minutes but he was totally bagged and left pretty quick.
Dr Dan was on the 19:20 flight back to Prince George so we decided we would meet him for dinner then drive him back to the airport. We left for town just after 16:00 when Dr Dan texted us that the meeting was running late. That's okay the lovely Lisa had a gift certificate for Aveda in Gastown she wanted to use. I sat in the alleyway with the Ratdogs while the lovely Lisa went in to get what she wanted. As parking lot waits go this one was pretty quick. 15 minutes and she was back with $80 worth of moisturising creams.
We picked Dr Dan up on west Broadway and headed in the general area of the airport. We had about an hour before he needed to check in. We stopped at a Japanese Noodle House, Daimo around 70th and Granville for some soup before we dropped Dr Dan off at the airport. It was noodle in soup and was okay.
It was in a tomato broth that was tasty and the pork and Won tons were very nice. I left most of the noodle. We shared a salt and pepper squid that was nice too.
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| Dr Dan and the lovely Lisa |
As we were crossing New Westminster I gave Willy a call and he and Annie had just gotten a table at Rivers Reach. "Be right there" I said. A bowl of tomato soup wasn't enough for my dinner. I had the Halibut burger, bun and all, with a side salad and a coffee. The place was as always, jumping. I don't think there's a busier pub in Vancouver. We stopped by Willy and Annie's on the way home so the Ratdogs could ignore Lincoln and Mac. A pot of tea and an hour of National Geographic channel and we were on our way home. The lovely Lisa made her way to bed and I watched the Gonzaga basketball game I had recorded.
That's all I've got
Till Next time
Peace out Y'all
©2015 Dave Squatch Ward
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