Another of Murphy's Laws

The more people involved in any undertaking, the less gets
accomplished. It takes so long to make group decisions and everyone
has diffent agendas they need to fulfill.

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À coeur vaillant rien d'impossible."I don't want to face my fears, I am
afraid of them!" Spongebob

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Mary

Crossing the steppes of central Ontario

5:14 PM December 30

Fog lays over the snow and fades the darkening trees as the three of us in our over-heated cocoon hurtle through the steppes of central Ontario.  Keith says that our average speed over the last two hours is maybe 40 mph-- we're not making good time.  We had a very long wait at the border.  Then, the 402 was closed due to a bad accident and fire and we had a slow detour through the countryside.  Keith was hoping to make as much progress as possible before it got dark, because darkness alone will slow us down, but darkness is rapidly falling and we are only just into Canada.  Disappointing, for a number of reasons, one of which is that we'll get in late and we're both tired (Graham is sleeping now).  Another is that I have't walked yet today, and the later itnis when I get in, the less likely I am to want to walk.  And if I don't walk, I often feel worse.  Ah well.

Keith says, "well, I was hoping to hot London before it got dark.". It's about dark now.

We pass lovely vistas of prairie covered with snow layered with fog layered with the blue of nearly nightfall.  The highway is a stream of headlights on one side and taillights on the other.

I view the pictures in photo techniques magazine, but it is too dark to read the articles.

Sent from my iPad

Packing

My husband suggested he take my car to work and I pack his car for our
trip. He hands me a small duffle, not even full, with his clothes and
a book or two for the four-day trip. I on the other hand, have a
LARGE duffle of clothes (pjs) and my CPAP and my bran and rice milk
and my Psion and my iPad and maybe a computer and a manuscript and art
supplies and bags of food for the trip there and back and wate
thirties (water bottles [stupid iPad] and camera gear and . . . No
wonder he wanted ME to pack!!

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À coeur vaillant rien d'impossible."I don't want to face my fears, I am
afraid of them!" Spongebob

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Mary

Palpating the trash

My hand cream disappeared off my nightstand, and I had just collected
the trash. I was afraid it had fallen into the trash basket under the
nightstand, so I ran down to where I was collecting the trash and
palpated it, but couldn't feel the dispenser in there. :-(

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À coeur vaillant rien d'impossible."I don't want to face my fears, I am
afraid of them!" Spongebob

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Mary

diet :-(

I gained 13 1/2 pounds on the trip!  I went off my diet (obviously--since I'm forbidden to eat out and forbidden to have desserts or anything containing sugar or white flour.

I've lost three of them, as of this morning, but am still 10 pounds above what I was.

If I go off my diet, the following things happen:

1. my fibro gets worse\ sometimes MUCH worse
2. my insomnia gets MUCH worse
3. I get crankier and more depressed.
4. I gain VAST amounts of weight VERY QUICKLY
5. and worst of all, it is VERY HARD to get back on the diet--VERY HARD!  Very very hard.  I do OK with it once I'm on it.  Usually.

Evening

It was weirdly hot and stuffy-feeling OUTSIDE last night, humid, heavy and ICKY!  (at our house).

I had a TERRIBLE NIGHT, really bad insomnia less than 3.5 hours of sleep.

Self=portrait at 3 AM

Here's a new drawing of mine called Self-portrait at 3 AM:

Insomnia

I did this on Panther Studios Colorpad in my iPad, then fooled with it on photoshop a little.

Last day on the heart monitor

Today is the last day, tonight the last night, and tomorrow morning the last morning on the heart monitor, and I will return it Monday.

foot report

I went to the doctor yesterday and she sent me to have my foot X-rayed, but since it was the end of the day Friday, she says I probably I won't get the results until Monday.  She's on call and will call me if they call her and if it's broken.  I got a copy of one of the X-rays and I can see no break.  

Last night my foot was so bad that I got in the night to soak it, took an extra strength (prescription) motrin, wrapped it in in an ace bandage and went back to bed.  This morning it is significantly improved (not as swollen or painful), but it tends to get worse throughout the day.  

In any case, it happened Monday and got worse every day until Thursday, and yesterday (friday) was slightly better than Thursday (except at bedtime), and today is slightly better than yesterday, so if it is not broken, it may be slowly on the mend.  I hope so, because I haven't been able to walk for several days.

Not only that, but I have to soak my butt in hot water several times a day, and my foot in cold water, pretty soon someone will tell me to soak my head!

(my fibro is much improved and my arthritis isn't too bad.)