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How I Spent My Weekend
Oct. 30th, 2006 10:19 amIt was a Sometimes My Brain Really Confuses Me moment. Friday morning, I woke up with a song running through my head. Not an unusual occurrence, since ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rackham wakes up to a radio (though I've never figured out how... the volume is turned so low I can barely hear it when I'm awake!) and whatever song is playing on the 80s station will occasionally get embedded in my brain. Not the case this time. Nope. I woke up with a camping song I haven't heard or thought about in at least 20 years, front and center in my head: ( 'Oh, I had a little chicken and it wouldn't lay an egg.' )
And no, I have absolutely no clue where that came from.
Friday was also the day I took Polly back to the kitty ophthalmologist to get her follow-up blood pressure check. The medication is definitely working! A week earlier, her systolic pressure was 230... as of Friday, it was down to 190. Normal in a cat is about 170 and below. No wonder she's been acting like she feels better!! Her appetite has even improved (which was something I was getting a bit worried about).
One thing we really liked about the hotels in England was that they all had a tea service in the room rather than a coffee maker. Okay, if you like brewed coffee in the morning, that kinda sucks, but for the rest of us it's wonderful! We could heat water and make whatever tea we wanted... or even instant cocoa! Fantastic!! I found I was eyeing the electric kettles in the stores there and kept having to remind myself they wouldn't work back home (but they were so inexpensive!! I guess that's the difference in having a large population that's going to be buying them). So, whenrackham got a coupon for 25% off our total purchase at Linens-N-Things, he printed it out and Saturday we picked up an electric kettle (cordless! With a base that plugs in and a pitcher for the boiled water that can just be lifted off) and a bed skirt for the guest bed. Yeah, we live the wild life!
Sunday, Rackham wasn't feeling well and my shoulder was killing me, so we ended up staying home from church. I popped Advil all day, while he slept. The weather really took a turn for the Autumn... in fact, we had the odd experience of the warmest point of the day being at 3:00am the night before. And then the cold front moved in. It was overcast and blustery and really felt like Fall for the first time... with a serious bite in the air. Which means we were fairly prescient in what we bought the day before to fix for dinner... some nice crusty bread and all the fixings for One Can Plus Five soup (though we usually just have that stuff on the shelf, which is one of the beauties of the recipe) -- perfect cold blustery weather food.
We also did something we swear we're going to do every year and never get around to: We carved a Jack-o-lantern!!! We always buy a pumpkin, intending to do it... but somehow the pumpkin just ends up sitting forlornly on the porch, uncarved, until we have to get rid of it sometime in November. Not this year! If we can get some decent photos, I'll have to see about posting a few.
Woke up this morning to all the trees covered in frost for the first time this season. It's so beautiful, looking out over the park when everything is all frozen and sparkly. And sometime over the weekend, the leaves all started to change color in earnest (and not just a smattering here and there). They've also started to fall off... so the wind is swirling them all over the place, making it look a bit like a brown/gold/red ticker-tape parade.
And now I'm off to physical therapy... and hopefully they can make my shoulder stop hurting!! (I'm pretty sure the rib is out again and it's pulling everything all out of whack -- making my shoulder pop every time I move. Ow.)
rackham wakes up to a radio (though I've never figured out how... the volume is turned so low I can barely hear it when I'm awake!) and whatever song is playing on the 80s station will occasionally get embedded in my brain. Not the case this time. Nope. I woke up with a camping song I haven't heard or thought about in at least 20 years, front and center in my head: ( 'Oh, I had a little chicken and it wouldn't lay an egg.' )And no, I have absolutely no clue where that came from.
Friday was also the day I took Polly back to the kitty ophthalmologist to get her follow-up blood pressure check. The medication is definitely working! A week earlier, her systolic pressure was 230... as of Friday, it was down to 190. Normal in a cat is about 170 and below. No wonder she's been acting like she feels better!! Her appetite has even improved (which was something I was getting a bit worried about).
One thing we really liked about the hotels in England was that they all had a tea service in the room rather than a coffee maker. Okay, if you like brewed coffee in the morning, that kinda sucks, but for the rest of us it's wonderful! We could heat water and make whatever tea we wanted... or even instant cocoa! Fantastic!! I found I was eyeing the electric kettles in the stores there and kept having to remind myself they wouldn't work back home (but they were so inexpensive!! I guess that's the difference in having a large population that's going to be buying them). So, when
rackham got a coupon for 25% off our total purchase at Linens-N-Things, he printed it out and Saturday we picked up an electric kettle (cordless! With a base that plugs in and a pitcher for the boiled water that can just be lifted off) and a bed skirt for the guest bed. Yeah, we live the wild life!Sunday, Rackham wasn't feeling well and my shoulder was killing me, so we ended up staying home from church. I popped Advil all day, while he slept. The weather really took a turn for the Autumn... in fact, we had the odd experience of the warmest point of the day being at 3:00am the night before. And then the cold front moved in. It was overcast and blustery and really felt like Fall for the first time... with a serious bite in the air. Which means we were fairly prescient in what we bought the day before to fix for dinner... some nice crusty bread and all the fixings for One Can Plus Five soup (though we usually just have that stuff on the shelf, which is one of the beauties of the recipe) -- perfect cold blustery weather food.
We also did something we swear we're going to do every year and never get around to: We carved a Jack-o-lantern!!! We always buy a pumpkin, intending to do it... but somehow the pumpkin just ends up sitting forlornly on the porch, uncarved, until we have to get rid of it sometime in November. Not this year! If we can get some decent photos, I'll have to see about posting a few.
Woke up this morning to all the trees covered in frost for the first time this season. It's so beautiful, looking out over the park when everything is all frozen and sparkly. And sometime over the weekend, the leaves all started to change color in earnest (and not just a smattering here and there). They've also started to fall off... so the wind is swirling them all over the place, making it look a bit like a brown/gold/red ticker-tape parade.
And now I'm off to physical therapy... and hopefully they can make my shoulder stop hurting!! (I'm pretty sure the rib is out again and it's pulling everything all out of whack -- making my shoulder pop every time I move. Ow.)
