Training Log Archive: Yukon King

BENCHMARK - first humira injection. altho there is a cute lil log they give you, I'll put it in here too. Overall, I'd say things are pretty good ache-wise - feet & knees are not misbehaving too bad (altho w the reduction in centralized pain in R foot, I can feel the erosion assoc. w big toe joint.) I do wake up several times each night w Lotsa groany pain - I'm imagining I am sleeping deeply & not wiggling, so I "freeze up". I have terribly low energy tho, hope this improves. Having some trouble with socks. R knee gait problem resolving now I am attending to it.
Today was relaxing, made a ricotta-blueberry thing to use up ricotta which was pretty tasty, for brunchyness. Then I finished 05 back-taxes for Gord, & celebrated by doing about 2 hours of gardening - bathed violets, potted a geranium & a tomato, re-vamped the patio plantings & cleaned up the bamboo sheddings, transplanted a mikey-plant into one of the shade boxes, potted the jerusalem artichoke forward one pot size...very satisfying. D is reviewing his sailing book in prep for his refresher in two weeks.
Then G & I went for a walk down the woodland paths along the creek, & back up, not very far, but pretty, played w Duri & Diesel, two dogs we never met before. (yeah, seems like energy is coming back, thats the only reason I actually did the humira, hope it keeps coming back is the main point, heheheh)

well, this bizarre warm weather has just pooped us right out! Met Wilbur, Sibyl, Marco, and Lady, as well as Shane the park-guy. kinda overcast but muggy & the warmest its been all year. Down thru the woods & around Ledgestone, over to Taylor to play w Marco for a few seconds, then home up the hill dragging our butts. Changed evening meal to couscous salad, goat cheese & corn crackers, & chilled strawberries, as it is a cooler meal & less work. Still feeling a bit unwell, just wait & see...

urk. Now THIS Skanky Week is basically over insofar as estate meeting is complete, new kitchen floor is installed (I love my new tile floor so much that I could spend a day or two just laying on it and kissing it, but I wont. I'll never admit it, but it probably looks like nice linoleum, in MY mind however, it is a visual reference to ancient italian patios paved with antique travertine cobbles, makes me feel like a barefoot Mediterranean maiden wizarding up great meals, yah!) and monster medical training is successfully completed. Now I am just limp jelly even after 9.5 hours of rather good sleep. And I have a wicked headache, how does that work?! The fridge is still stumpily residing in the livingroom but I'm fine with that. Perhaps I'll do some nice restorative tax prep the rest of this morning...
szechuan tofu for dinner. well, depending on what's in the fridge, I've kinda forgotten over the last few days of eating out as the various tile-goo's cured...

spitting rain along w blue sky & wind; up to corner groc, down the outside of Cortina, sat in the park & read for a bit, around the base of Taylor, home up the hill. Found the inside of a roll of duct tape and played with that, watched the window-washer guy for a while, plus goggled at a trio of border collies for a while. Thats alotta border collies... felt pretty good actually, energy coming back? headache gone. lotsa mopping/wet-dusting to p/u all the reno dust.

felt nasty in the afternoon so laid on the bed, then decided I might as well do some feeble yoga/RoM - ankles, fingers, knees, locust, feeble bridge & twist...lotta breathing, some remedial strength on my arms. felt better after. yay!

train stn for training at St Paul's for home infusion w Dennis - he was so awesome that we graduated the program after our second session & we are now one of 18 patients able to perform this procedure in BC, my husband rocks!!
Then I did the afternoon walk over to Taylor along the country walk behind Cortina, sat in the red adirondack chair sculptures in the sun, & home along the Via Dolorosa, better known as the Path of Tugging Small Grumpy Dogs That Don't Want to Go Home.

short walk over to the ravine so we could come back and let the tile guy out of the apt. Kitchen floor looks pretty cool!

evening walk w Su-Jane & Shelly, it was Big Fun!! we stayed out till it got dark, and while we arent Finland, thats still pretty late!

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quick trip DT on the train to bank after the kitchen tiles got pried/jack-hammered up.
sunny! over to the shady bikepath, ran into Shelly & Fred, walked around with them to the park and back.
spicey thai tofu w basil & cashews....icey cold juicey canteloupe.

little grocery trip up to Highgate via the train station. Then over to Taylor to sit in the sun, read, & watch the picnic'ers w G-dog for two hours.
Went down to a new place called the Wok Box for sunday dinner-date - neat idea of design yer own mixNmatch asian meals, but I was not crazy about how they do the tofu, incredibly tough, ie deep-fried to make it more like meat, for westerners. Also prices were high. After we went for ice-cream - vanilla w raspberries, yum...