Mid-week catching up

Another mid-week, a third of the way through June already. My days are a blur. My life is a blur!

Someone at work, not in our office, commented to me yesterday about how busy I am and that things must be stressful. I laughed and asked, "Why, does it show?" She replied that yes, it does. 

Yikes. Apparently I need to do a better job of plastering a smile on my (exhausted) face.

Anyway, I had a nice walk down along one of our waterfront parks on Sunday. I had assumed, heading down, that all the midge flies would be gone, but ugh, no, they still were swarming. I kept my mouth closed, took some pics, and didn't linger. Took off my cardigan once I got out of the park and shook it out, shook everything out. ::Shudder:: 

Snapped with the little Elph, so pic quality not good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had my MRI yesterday (lower back). That was fun. Several of my co-workers have had at least one, so I knew what to expect, kept my eyes closed from the get-go. Still, it was...unnerving. Very loud, even with the scratchy, crappy music playing via the headphones. (And the tech forgot to turn the music back on after the first set of pics, when she paused to ask if I was okay. I had to "buzz" her after the second set and ask for the music to be turned on again.)

I could feel myself becoming anxious, even though there was no reason. Maybe because I couldn't move at all for the 15 minutes and that's a hard thing to do, to keep still. It was a long 15 minutes.

I found, though, that when I was done, my vision was very blurry. As in not able to drive, if I had a car. I asked the young woman at the front desk if that was normal and she'd not heard of anyone having blurry vision afterward. I think it must have been the vibrations from the pounding noise. I walked (carefully) over to the bus transfer point and caught a bus to work, and by the time I got to the office, about 40 or so minutes afterward, my vision was back to my normal.

Results generally take a week, though I suppose if it's urgent I'll hear from the doctor's office sooner. I proactively called them and made an appointment with my family doctor (i.e. the resident of the month) for Friday the 19th, rather than wait till next week for the receptionist to call me, then yet another week for an appointment.

Then this morning I had a dental cleaning, another "fun" appointment. LOL. The week's been so entertaining!  :-)

I have the pet sitter coming again today after work, to give Nicki his Flovent for a second time. Once more with me home next week, then she'll be coming in alone on the 22nd and 23rd, while I'm at the conference we're hosting.

Finally, on the Halifax front, Mom's looking into private places for Harry, with the help of the social worker. She checked out one home yesterday, and while it was "well-appointed", she said it was more suited to elderly ladies and that there wasn't anything there to engage Harry's interest, something he does need. So the hunt still is on. I don't imagine she's going to have much choice in the matter, in the end. No place will score 100% and I think she knows that.

So that's my past several days. 

Oh, this is today's quote on simplerminders.com. Very appropriate for me/us, particularly regarding work right now!

 Peace.