Only In Canada, Eh...

Presented myself to an ER of a large metropolitan hospital one rainy night last week with symptoms of retinal detachment around 8:30 pm.

Was triaged by 9, check... made it into the actual ER by about 9:30, check, check... was given a reading test by about ten or so, check, check, check...

Watched the ER doc constantly shuffle my chart to the back of the list, listened as I was being discussed as the "eye patient" and watched as other people with lesser symptoms were treated and sent home.

Left the ER in disgust with no resolution by about 12:30 am, checkity check check...

I Am Alive

Yes truly, I am here and still kicking. I just don't feel much like blogging these days. This month my blog has been around for four years. I'm having a relapse of fybromyalgia and I feel like poop. I guess I've been lucky since it's been well over a year since I've felt this way. My foot is also giving me some grief and I'm kind of housebound. I did see my hip surgeon last week and he suggested that my hip could wait a couple of years. I suspect that it has something to do with our waiting lists.

In less than a month we will on the move again. I know I said I was tired of flying and I am but we are going to Calgary to spend Christmas with the offspring and family. Ideally if I had a choice I'd be heading to Cuba instead, somewhere warmer than Calgary in winter, but what the heck...it's family.

I don't know when I'll be back but assuredly I will be following all my favourite blogs and commenting...ciao

Time To Stay Put

I feel like I'm constantly on the move these days. Most of the summer was spent living out of suitcases while visiting various friends cottages and I haven't even finished unpacking from our two months in Greece. We've just come back from another four days at our friends cottage and I'm not packing to go anywhere for a while. I just want to stay home and sleep in my own bed for a while. I'm tired of traveling.

It was a picture perfect few days with bright blue skies, foggy nights and hoarfrost in the mornings. While my sweetie was plastering and tiling I was knitting and taking pictures. Oh yes, eating lots of good food and deserts provided by our hostess Liz.

Toronto Wins - For A Change

I woke from a nap to hear that Toronto won the right to host the Pan Am games on the first ballot. Finally a little good news for T-Dot. Let the party begin...

The other news around town didn't excite me very much. Prince Charles and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall have are visiting Canada and have spent a bit of time around the GTA. Sorry, I can't get very excited about a man who committed adultery. I also think it's time Canada severed it's ties with the Monarchy.

We've recovered from the trip, have a pretty busy social schedule this weekend and are heading out of town on Sunday for a few days at a friends cottage. A little R & R and knitting in the cards for me. For Steve, not so much. He's helping with some renovation...

The Berlin Wall - Twenty Years

One of the symbols of communism is the famous car of the day, the Trabant. A car that most people had to wait ten years to own and probably kept until death.

I saw one of these beauties on my trip to the former east Germany last year. A perfectly preserved "Trabi" as the nostalgic former East Germans liked to call it.

I think my cousin and his wife actually owned of these once. I think the top speed was around 60 km h. Big difference from the car he chauffeured me around in last year when we actually hit speeds of 200km on the autobahn.

For interested readers here is the history of the Berlin Wall that divided Germany for too many years.

A photo gallery of then and now can be found here.

Survived Halloween

It was the quietest Halloween ever around here. There were hardly any Goblins out in our neighbourhood. It gave me the time to sit and watch this movie last night. They used to put on this production live every Halloween eve in a small Toronto neighbourhood theater. I went once, it was a riot...