Monday, 14 November 2022

Winter Is Coming

 


I'll probably be complaining about this in another month or two, so a positive post now seems like good karma.

I got a glimpse of the weather report this morning and after what's been an amazingly long, warm Fall, it looks like Winter is finally coming to Ottawa this week, with a prediction of flurries by tomorrow night and outright snow on Wednesday.

Snow tires are on our car, Summer clothes are finally (and sadly) being put away for another year, and for the first time in almost three whole years, I'm psyching myself up early for the eventual moment I'll have to go into work in the white stuff. Thankfully, I'm only in the office once a week! 

Cheers

Monday, 7 November 2022

Needles and Netflix

 


A very poke-y few days, this weekend.

Not since pre-pandemic times has my right arm encountered so many needles in such a short amount of time.

It all started early Friday morning with some bloodwork I'd been meaning to get around to. Things were going smoothly until my veins decided to play hide and seek. It took several minutes, two technicians, and two needles in two different parts of my arm to get the desired results. All the while, I'm in a chair, arms flexed and adrenaline pumping, freaking out over everything from poor circulation, to cold hands, to the drop of blood poking out of the first entry site. Too early in the morning, maybe? Everything ended up fine though, and I swung by McDonald's for some breakfast too.

The next morning was flu shots scheduled for my Dad and I. The practice our family doctor works out of holds an excellent clinic (very strange thing to say...) and adapted it well for the pandemic. Anticipating icky feelings over the weekend, I cued up a couple new releases on Netflix to watch while I convalesced. 

Fortunately, I had no ill side affects, but chose to have a lazy weekend at home anyway. Three days, one bag of Doritos, eight episodes of season one of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, nine of  season four of The Dragon Prince (both recommended), and a blast of nice, warm, Summery weather too!

Cheers