COVID VACCINE #5

This morning I went to my physical therapy appointment and I had coordinated it very carefully so that I could leave 5 minutes early and go to my covid vaccine appointment. Course I got to my covid vaccine appointment and ended up standing around for almost half an hour waiting for them to get their act together. This annoyed me a little bit because I could have finished up my physical therapy appointment and still would have been on time for the vaccine appointment. But I got my covid vaccine number five.

While I was gone I had a delivery of my end table. If you remember last week on my vacation I sent the broken end table back. At midnight last night I got a notification from the end table company stating that the delivery was going to happen today. When I woke up this morning I quickly texted my neighbor to ask if I could put a note on my door asking UPS to deliver it to his house instead of my house during the two hours I was going to be gone. Luckily my neighbor was agreeable because the box was delivered 45 minutes after I left for my physical therapy appointment.

I am now in bed resting as I have been all afternoon and about to go to sleep. I have already had chills I have a sore arm and I've taken a nap. I'm sure I'll feel much better tomorrow.

Until tomorrow...

NO-BAKE CHOCOLATE SALTED CARAMEL COOKIE DOUGH

I hadn't heard from the end table company after returning the broken end table so today I contacted them and found out that they were sending the replacement end table and it's going to arrive tomorrow. Since I will be in physical therapy and getting my covid shot I'm going to have to see if one of my neighbors can accept the package if it comes while I am at these activities. But I am excited to get a replacement table since I've been missing it so much.

Today I took Lucky vet's office for some lab work. She was so excited to get in the car and then we went to the vet's office. I'll have to treat her this weekend. The vet wanted to check her labs to see how she's doing on this new medicine. Of course today she seems much better than she was 3 days ago. Doesn't that always happen? We get the results in a couple of days.

I made a fun quick little dessert when we got home. It is a no-bake chocolate salted caramel cookie dough. It is really delicious. I ate a two big chunk. I'll have to eat smaller pieces in the future.

Until tomorrow...

FOOT DOCTOR

Yes, I know it is a podiatrist but foot doctor sounds so much better. I went to the foot doctor today and he was so nice and funny. I really liked him a lot. I wish he was a primary doctor since mine is retiring. He was a great listener and he had more than one solution. He understood that I am not always easy to diagnose or solve. I could tell he was a bit surprised how bad my situation got. 

The diagnosis is that I injured my left Achilles and to try to make it better I stretched it incorrectly which made it worse. Then when it got worse, I began resting it. Then it tightened up which made it worse again. Then because I spent months resting it, my other Achilles got tight and it started to hurt. Now I have two feet that I can't walk on too much. 

He gave me a quick solution right away that involves a towel and stretching first thing in the morning. It is specific stretching.  Then I have to go to more physical therapy. It is complicated (as usual) because I have Raynaud's and I can't ice. Hopefully the therapy will help. I don't think this will be an easy fix for two reasons. 1. The PT is open ended. 2. He wants me to come back in six weeks. 

While waiting for the doctor, I got a text from the landscaper asking if his worker guy ever called me back. I told him no. He asked me if I was still interested and I said yes. He is going to organize a meeting. I think there may have been a phone issue. 

I also called the vet. This morning Lucky was very lethargic for the fourth day in a row. She didn't want to eat yesterday and this morning I made her favorite food, rice and chicken, and she didn't want to eat it. I finally coaxed her to eat some so I could give her the medicine. On top of that she has been sneak peeing. This can be a sign of a urinary tract infection. The vet is going to run the labs again to check and make sure she has not had anything go wrong. It may have been the pain meds I was giving her that made her feel bad so I stopped them. 

Until tomorrow...

MADE MY COVID VACCINE APPOINTMENT

I finally got an appointment on the day that I wanted to get my covid vaccine. It's been a little difficult to some of the places will only roll out covid vaccine dates one day at a time so you have to log in multiple times a day to see if the day you want has opened up any times. Today I looked at other locations and found one at the same location where I get my physical therapy and they had a time that's right at the same time that my physical therapy ends. So I'm going to ask my physical therapist if I can end 5 minutes early so I can run over and get my covid vaccine. Two birds one stone so they say. I'm pretty much expecting that this weekend I will be bedridden. I originally wanted to get the covid vaccine next weekend so I could have the long weekend to recover but beggars can't be choosers at this point.

Today was another day where I was on zoom meetings for about 4 hours straight. It is a little exhausting to be on zoom meetings for that many hours in a row. I did have a break after the first 2 hours and ran Lucky around the block. Then it was back to two more hours on zoom.

I made zucchini and chickpea Curry for dinner along with white rice. it ended up having a spicy as I like but it was very tasty. I made extra rice because look he's having a little bit of a tummy issue and she just loves rice especially when I put chicken baby food on it.

Until tomorrow...

BACK TO WORK

Today was my first day back at work after a week off. It was a jammed pack day of zoom meeting after meeting. I barely got up from my desk all day. It started at 8:30 am. Not my favorite time of the day. 

I did not have time to do much else except make a doctor's appointment. I have a foot doctor appointment this week since they had a cancellation. I can't wait. 

I made a fun dinner: Tofu and veggie Dumplings with fried rice.  It was so delicious. The dumplings were from the store but I cooked them. 

Until tomorrow...

DAY 9 OF STAYCATION

Today is the final day of my staycation. It went by too fast. I really tried to not work or do work things. I made a decision to take vacation days on the next month of Fridays. I think this is what is best for me. 

Today I finished watching the movie I started watching last night while cutting out the items for my vision board. Then I took Lucky for a walk. It is a sunny breezy day. There is a big festival going on so the neighborhood is empty. 

When I got home I decided this was a good time to move my office furniture. I really wanted to move my desk either in front of the window or away from the wall. Well, after moving the desk and other furniture around, it became clear it was not going to be an easy task. If I want to move my desk, I would have to reorganize everything due to modems and electric outlets and other things. It will be a much more time consuming task. I put my desk back to it's original spot.

I started working on pasting the items on my vision board. This task too a couple of hours but the board looks great. I have a section for travel, cooking/baking, photography, dogs, and misc. 

I photographed the Parmesan cheese that I made for the vegan cheese chapter. 

That's been my day! 

Until tomorrow...

DAY 8 OF STAYCATION

Today was a lovely day. The sun was shining and it was about 80° outside. Lucky and I took a walk and spoke to a neighbor. I brought that neighbor some of my homemade cheese to try with a warning that if you didn't like it it was okay to dump it in the trash. I would not take offense.

Then I started working on my vision board. This is the project I wanted to do for a long time and I'm finally getting around to working on it. I had a stack of magazines as high as my knee and I went through all of them to cut out pictures, sayings, etc. to put on the vision board. There were a few things I had a hard time finding that I wanted to put on the vision board. One was a picture of an airplane. Another was a picture of a camera. I find it interesting that magazines really don't have pictures of airplanes or cameras but I remembered I had this old catalog of expeditions that I looked at a long time ago and that has pictures of an airplane and a camera and some wonderful things for travel that I can cut out and use. 

Then I decided to set up the old outdoor furniture. It is going to be nice probably for the next week or so and instead of having just two chairs, I decided that it'd be smart to set up the table and chairs and my little coffee table. That way I can sit outside and enjoy myself. 

I've also decided I'm definitely going to take at least the next month of Fridays off to continue relaxing since I couldn't take a full 2 weeks for my staycation. A few three and four day weekends will be good. Then I can work a 5 day week and then I have another 3-day weekend because it is a holiday weekend. 

I ordered Thai food for dinner. Tofu with peanut sauce. So yummy! 

Now I am watching Jurassic Park World Domination. 

Until tomorrow...

DAY 7 OF STAYCATION

Today was a beautiful sunny day. It got up to 80° today. I decided today was the day that I was going to work on my vision board. This is a project I've been wanting to work on for almost the entire pandemic. I had to wait until I had enough magazines stacked up to cut out items to put on my vision board. For those of you that don't know what a vision board is a piece of cardboard in my case that you put on pictures, sayings, words that you want to project out into the future, world of things that you want to happen. An example would be for me that I want to continue baking and cooking vegan food so I would put on maybe pictures of food, the words vegan food, and maybe a saying about cooking or baking. The reason the people make a vision board is to have something visual to help them to remember what they're working towards.

So I spent part of the day cutting out items for my vision board and then trimming those pictures and words. Then I had to go to my physical therapy appointment.

When I left for my physical therapy appointment I knew that the dog may come back before I did so I went and checked the entrance where the dog walker comes in and I couldn't get the door open. Since the cab was already here I had to tell the dog walker to delay bring the dog back until I returned from physical therapy. I ended up returning from physical therapy before the dog walker, tried the door a different way and it opened right up for me. I think somebody tried to jimmy the door again. I think I may have to get some sort of camera on that door because this is now the second time the door has been messed with. 

I ate leftover pizza for dinner. But I wanted to show you the cheese that I made the other day it is vegan smoked paprika cheese.

Until tomorrow...

DAY 6 OF STAYCATION

This morning I woke up to sunshine and zero rain. I had a list of things to accomplish today. The first thing on my list was to box up the end table from the living room. I haven't really talked much about this but I love the end table. It's exactly what I wanted. Unfortunately it was not exactly level and I asked my handyman to look at it. When he looked at it he pointed out that one of the legs was cracked. I contacted the manufacturer and they were going to send me a replacement piece but I couldn't figure out what was making the table not level so the company said just send the whole table back and I will send you a new one. Yesterday I took the table apart and thought it would fit in a box that I've been keeping from somebody else I bought because of course I got rid of the box for this end table a while ago. Well it didn't fit in the box that I had been keeping and I started to get frustrated. This morning I looked around my garage and I realized that I had not unboxed yet my power washer and thought maybe it would fit in that box. Sure enough it fit not perfectly but good enough to send a broken table back. So I boxed it all up with plenty of padding and took it down to the UPS pick up place. So it is on its way and I should be getting a new table in about a week.

I then put together a picnic lunch for both Lucky and myself. We got in the car and went to the park where we walked and had our picnic lunch. The park was not as populated as it was on Tuesday but it was much better weather.

When we got back we were both exhausted and we sat down and watched TV.

At around 6:00 I had my arthritis group meeting and I also ordered my dinner to be delivered. It wasn't supposed to come until 7:00 but it arrived at 6:30. I ordered a vegan pizza from a pizza place I had never ordered pizza from before. The pizza was delicious. I have plenty of leftover because I had to get a larger pizza that I wanted in order to get it delivered. But that's okay it won't go to waste in this house. 

Now I'm watching the new shows for the fall downstairs where it's cooler since it's pretty warm evening. I'm finally getting my nice warm weather.

Until tomorrow...

DAY 5 OF STAYCATION

We woke up to more rain. I know I am supposed to be super happy it is raining since we have been in a drought but did it have to pick this week to start raining? It stopped mid-morning and the sun came out after lunch. 

I guess it really didn't matter because I ended up working most of the morning. I attended a pre-planned webinar (okay, I was in the bathtub while I listened) and then I had to do some work for a client. I plan on taking another vacation day next week to make up for the two half days I ended up working. 

After working, I laid down and watched a movie, Luck. It was very cute and had a good message. 

I decided not to cook today and ordered food for dinner. I got fancy vegan Mexican food. I got a BLTA Wrap with a Cesar salad. That is coconut bacon, avocado, lettuce and pico de Gallo with aioli. It was good but too spicy for me. I ate half and saved the other half. 

Until tomorrow...