Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
Wordless Wednesday
Oh the poor thing!
This poor little puppy is so ugly it’s actually kind of cute. Funny how that works isn’t it?
I don’t know if that some skin problem around the right eye and forehead of if the photo was taken badly and the colour bled in that area. Either way it makes the dog look even more pathetic and in need of some lovin’ doesn’t it?
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Early this morning I’m going to the hospital. I have to be there at 6:45 am. Yuck, why do I have to go so early?
I’m going there so that I can swallow a pill and get hooked up to some kind of transmitter.
The pill that I’m going to swallow is a Camera pill. The test is a camera pill endoscopy. The pill will travel through my system taking pictures every few seconds as it travels through my stomach, small intestines and large intestines.
I’m hoping that it doesn’t take photos of anything too serious, but it’s the only way to really have a good look at the small bowel, which is where my Crohn’s is. Perhaps once they fully know what they’re dealing with they will put me on some meds that will finally begin to work and make me feel better.
I have two concerns:
1. Did someone else swallow the same pill? Maybe last week? If they did that means I’ll be swallowing a pill that someone recently pooped out! Gross eh? Yeah, yeah I know it will have been sterilized. It’s just the thought. Wish me luck on not gagging as I try to get it down with that thought in my head!
2. I’m also hoping that the pill doesn’t get stuck anywhere. I know my insides are swollen and inflamed which means the passages are likely narrower than they should be. It’s quite possible that the pill could get stuck and if it does I’ll probably have to have it removed surgically.
So that’s what I’m doing today. What’s your plans?
I have no idea how long the pill will take to get through my system. Judging from how my body seems to work it could be anywhere from only a couple of hours to at least a full 24 hours.
When I return the pill and equipment I’m going to ask if I can have a copy of the pictures. Maybe you’ll get to see my insides!
Oh boy!
Yesterday, while I was still sleeping Chris was up and about. He decided to get some errands done.
I don’t know which order he did these in, but it doesn’t matter, I wasn’t all that thrilled when I found out about them.
One of his errands was to go to our hair dresser to get his haircut. He didn’t need a haircut, and without me there to tell her not to do it she gave him a BEAN SHAVE. Ok it’s not that bad, but it’s short, short, short. I’m not enthused. Plus, we usually go together. Yeah we’re one of those couples that do most everything together.
So now, when I need to get my hair cut he won’t need a cut.
He put us out of sync!
Chris also went and got his nails done. Yes you heard me right. I said he got his nails done.
The nail thing began last April.
You see he’s a guitar player and he’s quite serious about his music. Many of the top guitar players either coat their nails to make them stronger or wear fake nails and use them when they are picking. They holding up better than real unaltered nails in most cases.
My husband actually envies my nails. They grow fast and they are rock hard. I have to be careful that I don’t accidentally tap someone with my nail or hit them as I’m walking by as it really hurts.
So … last April he finally decide to get fake nails, but only on his right hand. You can read about my reaction to his fake nails if you’d like.
I think he’s had his nails done at least four times now. I’m slowly getting used to it but I still think it looks weird. I also don’t really like it when he touches me with those nails. It just feels weird. Do guys feel that way when they are touched by a womans fake nails?
Chris is funny. Over the past year he’s been very fixated on his nails and has been trying to get them in better shape. He’s got a few little bottles of nail conditioners and clear nail polish too! Plus he’s always filing the nails to shape them (files them wrong in my opinion, maybe that’s why they feel so darn weird), or filing callus’ off his hands.
I don’t mind nice smooth hands but the nails stuff is making me crazy.
I guess I just have to face the fact that I married an odd guy. At least he keeps me amused.
Here’s an interesting site for my Asian visitors. I just visited an Asian Entertainment site, and by all appearances it looks to be very much like a celebrity site, similar to my own Celebrity Scoop except that it’s all about famous Asian celebrities.
The site is called Asia entertainment news, and it features news about Asian celebrities and socialites from China, HK, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The site keeps up with news of these celebrities whether they are in their home Countries or abroad in Europe or North America. It’s also written in English.
It’s an interesting read even for non Asians as I’ve recognized some of the stars who’ve been written about on the site as having made a name in film or music here in North America.
The site has a nice, easy to read format and it’s filled with photos of the stars. Visit the site if you are interested in Asian celebrities.
Yesterday Chris had the day off and we decided to go out and run some errands. He’d already run some errands of his own, see my next post!
I had some cheques that I hadn’t gotten around to depositing in the bank – ones from Google, Text Links Ads, Amazon, and we wanted to transfer some money from a new bank account that we’d started just for our paypal money into our regular accounts. So one of the errands was to do our banking.
It felt good putting that money in the bank and moving the Paypal money around. We’ve both been earning money with Payperp0st but we really haven’t used it for anything yet. Well, now it’s moved into the bank accounts that we pay our bills and our mortgage with, so I can finally say that P is paying my mortgage! Yeah! Believe me, that’s a nice feeling!
After that we wanted to just get a few things in the grocery store and maybe go to Walmart to get one or two things that we needed.
Well, we went to the closest Walmart and found it in CHAOS! You see, this store is closing down and moving to a new superstore Walmart just down the street on Wednesday.
We managed to get some great deals!
I spotted a 25 piece ratchet set (I think that’s what it is). Chris has always wanted one of those, and I remember helping him change our car battery last January in the freezing cold with tools that just didn’t fit right, so I had no problem with him wanting to get a set. The set was regularly $49.95 or something to that effect, but they marked it down to $25 for us.
Then I spotted one of those exercise BalanceBall kits. It too had normally been priced at $49.95 but the sign above it said $29.95. I thought that was fair. I’ve wanted one of these exercise balls for well over a year. The assistant manager was in the area marking down prices on each item. Apparently they had to be tagged before you brought them to the cashier. When I showed her my find she marked it at $15. DEAL! However, when I got to the cash they only charged me $5! Bonus!
We found a few other things that we could use that were also marked down quite a bit, but I’d say that getting the ratchet set and the balanceball which normally would have cost over $100 for only $30 was the best deal of all.
Oh I almost forgot. We got one other deal. When I got to the cashier I noticed that they had a number of potted flowering bulbs for sale. I think all of them were daffodils, and they were already flowering so they really weren’t worth purchasing.
Then I spotted one lone Orchid among the daffodils. Orchids are very nice, very exotic flowers. I already have three of them here at home but they are sooooo nice.
I held on to it and when we got to the cashier I asked her how much it was. She had to call for a price check and the manager had to come and help over-ride the prices on our other great deals anyway. It turns out that the orchid, which I know from seeing them at many other stores that sell plants are normally about $30 each, was just $5.00! A final bonus!
The orchid is now sitting on my kitchen table, blooming it’s pretty little head off. I love it.
Maybe this weekend we’ll go to the new superstore Walmart and see if they have any great grand opening deals.