The Here and Now

I just awoke from a nice, long nap and feel pleasantly lackadaisical about doing anything else tonight (it's 8:30pm). I'm going to city centre to meet a friend for coffee tomorrow, and I have the photoshoot on Sunday (yikes, still need to pick the destination!) but otherwise there isn't a whole lot of activity planned for this weekend.

Today I awoke to the alarm, set on purpose for 8am because I needed to get up to eat & drink before 9am as I was required to fast from then on until my scan at the hospital at 3pm. I threw the couch blanket and some towels into the wash, then ate a turkey sandwich and drank a large and liberally laced coffee, before hanging the blanket outside to dry. Since I had to go out to the backyard I decided it was beyond time to take out the trash as well. I dug out the packing tape I had brought home from the office, and finished wrapping up the broken glass from the coffee table. That and two large sacks of accumulated garbage plus two sacks of recycling. How, oh how, did I let this much stuff stack up in my house?

I wiped the clothesline off and threw the blanket over and then went back into the flat to open all the windows. It was blessedly cooler this morning and I was hoping for a good breeze to help air the place out. I faffed about on the computer and then set to working on the task of attaching eye-hooks to the frames I've had sitting in the cupboard for months now because I'd decided today was the day to get those sorted and up on the wall.

I posted an entry on 43Things asking for suggestions of what to put in the frames:

Now that my room has been painted and the furniture is all back in place, I’d like to finish it off by hanging some stuff on the walls. I have one large mirror above the radiator, but the rest of the wall(s) are blank. I purchased 7 small frames from Au Naturale, and these will go in a line above my bed. I am in process of converting them for hanging by attaching eye-hooks and wire, but I’m at a loss for what I want to put inside the frames.

The frames are wood, then clear glass, and then silver metal with a 3”x3” square for a picture. Considering the location, it won’t look right to have actual photos in there so I’d thought about putting plain, coloured squares. My friend Caroline suggested textured squares, and I’d even thought of putting in swatches from my curtain material and nightstand swag to sort of tie it all in. Or maybe cutting up an old map? Ideas, anyone?

Abs suggested wallpaper, and that set me to sorting thru my keepsake box where I keep sentimental swatches of paper from gifts, etc and I found a couple really good ones. Once finished I lined them up on the top of my headboard and then zip bam boom had them nailed and hung. The photo is a bit blurry and the bed is unmade and from the pic I see I need to straighten a couple, but I’m quite pleased with the result.That task complete, I dashed outside to retrieve my blanket from the rain drops and then jumped into the shower to get ready for my appointment. Could have saved myself the trouble, really, because it was raining so hard that even with my giant brolly I was quite soaked by the time I reached the subway just two blocks away. It is a weird feeling to have water soak upwards on your legs, thankfully stopping just at the knees.

I reached the lab and waited less than 1/2 an hour to be seen, and as I walked into the Ultrasound lab I saw the previous patient had obviously been there for a prenatal appointment and was going to have (from my untrained eye) a rather large baby boy. I turned to the nurse and said, "I'm just here for my gallbladder - if you find something like that we've got a problem."

Basically they did the abdomen, and the tech said she didn't find any gallstones but that the doctor should have my results in two weeks. Huh, not the gallbladder, so maybe the doc was right and it is a bacteria infection. Back at home I phoned the doc to find out the results of my blood work I had done on the 18th. Nurse checked it over and said according to the notes all was good and the doctor was happy with the results. So now I'm completely stumped as to what in the hell is wrong with me. Unless there is something else wrong that showed up in the scan?

Feh.

I went to Job Centre yesterday and got the unemployment & housing benefits claim going, and I have an appointment with the disability advisor on the 14th. They are also going to get me an appointment with regards to possible retraining. I’m taking anything they throw at me right now, hoping to maintain a positive momentum. There were a couple of jobs I applied for, but I'm too aware of how much I really need to tweak my CV. Ah, well, another task for Monday.

Last night I selected 20 photos for MaryAnn to print & mount (or mat, whichever side of the pond you're on) and she'll bring those across with her. I want to take some new shots into the cafe and if the old ones haven't sold, then swap them out. If I can get it together before mid-week, I would like to choose several to be printed as greeting card sets that can be sold as well. So many projects, it is hard to organize it all in my mind.

I'm giving myself permission to take the weekend off from worry...