I ran into a friend of mine today who I had not seen since I woke up from my Nap. He runs the Canadian Blood Services, so I told him I availed myself of his organization’s services several times while in the hospital. I have no memory of any of it, but when you get [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Donating blood
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blood donation, dogs, golden doodles, good deed, mitzvah on May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
fun with homework
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, homework, Kids on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Asher has a great deal of difficulty writing; it’s a learning disability, actually. He also has ADD, and works very hard in school to concentrate. By the time school is over he’s had it, and so frequently I ’scribe’ his homework. He bounces around the room dictating to me what he wants to write.
His class [...]
Running man
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged crazy, national capital race weekend, race, running on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My picture uploader works again. See:
This is Jasper, waiting for J to run by. J likes to demonstrate his insanity by running the 10K race every year. This past weekend was the National Capital Race weekend, where hordes of crazy people run in a variety of races, from a 5K to a marathon.
Like pretty much [...]
Standing up for the invisible guy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged disability, handicap, invisible on May 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Having an invisible disability is difficult. Of course, having a visible disability is difficult too, but for entirely different reasons. The problem with the invisible one is that as long as you look well everyone assumes you are.
This is not a new issue with me, as the pain of Fibromyalgia is also invisible. Post-coma has [...]
Stupid WordPress. Stupid plastic.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, environment, plastic, stupid, wordpress on May 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So yesterday, I hauled out all the plastic stuff we have to get rid of it, or at least take it out of circulation. Then, in a moment of blogginess, I then put it all on the counter and took a picture. I uploaded the picture onto the computer, then told wordpress to upload it [...]
Books
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yogamum tells me that the list of unread books came from Library Thing. (Which terrifies me with its appeal. I already spend too much time on the computer. Must. Stay. Away.)
I still don’t get why they didn’t just stop the list at the nice round number of 100, instead of adding 6 more.
The unread books on my [...]
Book Meme
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I got this meme from Yogamum. It is supposedly a list of the 106 most unread books on shelves. I don’t know how they figured that out, especially as there are some very readable books on the list (I have no argument with War and Peace or Atlas Shrugged, but Eats, Shoots and Leaves is [...]
In which I become infected by the mass plastic hysteria
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bpa, environment, plastic on May 20, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I’ve been resisting the hysterical reaction to plastic that has been building around me. We’ve continued to use straw cups and sippy cups and plastic storage containers for the kids’ lunches (using those used to be considered ecologically-friendly, given that the option was one-time-use packages).
I’ve given the kids straw cups of water with their lunches every [...]
weird coma fall-outs
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I have this big scar from my pubic bone to the top of my belly button. My belly button is beside the top of the scar. For the longest time, I thought the scar was creating an optical illusion. Because it looks like it is in the middle of my abdomen, it makes my [...]
in which I have one kind of bug, but not another
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
My sister-in-law called me yesterday to tell me she’d just discovered her kids have lice. Lotsa lice. Now, we hadn’t seen them a lot recently, but we did drop Jasper off with them on the way to Toronto and then pick him up again on the way back, during which time children did interact.
Talking to [...]
