Can You Hear Me Now?

Oh my God, it’s been a month!! I didn’t realize it had been that long. Most days just seem to meld into the next, especially when you CAN’T GET A DECENT NIGHT’S SLEEP.

So, let’s see… first things first. The Bachelor.

When I wrote my last entry, only the first show had aired. Now he’s down to the final three! My girl Jillian is still there. Except for the fact that every other word out of her mouth is “like”, which is, like, really annoying, I like her. I don’t think she will be the “one”, but who knows. So far I have been right on the money when guessing who will go home each week, but now I’m stuck. All three of these ladies are just lovely. I have no clue who he will choose. DeAnna should be back next week, maybe it will be her? And they’re going to New Zealand, so you must watch, because that is the most beautiful place on earth. Apparently, this season ends with a HUGE bomb drop, unlike “anything we’ve seen before in Bachelor history”. Maybe that means when he is talking to the final woman and we think he’s going to propose, he tells her “I really did meet the person I want to spend the rest of my life with during this process…” then turns to the cameraman and proposes.

This past month has been busy but because I take so long between entries I just can’t write about everything. Hopefully that will change soon, because I’m getting myself a LAPTOP, and will be able to update my blog from the comfort of my chair in the living room. Sitting at this desk kills me and it takes me hours and days of coming back and forth to write an entry. Soon I will be able to do everything in comfort, and only need to be at my desk to work. Because I still need my desk area to work at. Damn receipts.

On the sleep front, I’m still trying new things. I was at the MS Clinic last week and told my neurologist about my sleep problems; he prescribed a medication that should help the stiffness and spasms in my legs in case it’s restless leg syndrome waking me up. This is a different medication than the one my regular doctor prescribed for the same thing because it is also supposed to help me sleep and should only be taken at night. The stiffness in my legs is absolutely crippling, none of these meds seem to work. I do stretches as well, but it’s just another one of those symptoms we live with. Anyway, so far my new meds combined with a sleeping pill or two are helping me get through the night. I’m using my Litebook during the day and eye masks at night. The regular use of my Chi machine along with a couple visits to my chiropractor has helped the hip pain, so that is no longer an issue when lying in bed. My doctor is referring me to a sleep specialist but says it will be about a year before I can get in. I hope the Litebook helps; they say it takes about a month to feel a difference. I have to admit the past few nights I have been sleeping better, which I’m sure is a combination of everything. I really want to get off the sleeping pills, though!

I went looking for the sleep eye masks the other day. I went to a couple pharmacies that were sold out, then tried San Francisco gifts, and they only had ones with boobs. The Body Shop only had the kind you wear over your eyes to relax in the tub. The woman there suggested I try Ardene’s, which is pretty much heaven for a 12 year old girl. I said “oh, sure, I’ll get a mask with glitter and feathers…” and sure enough, they had a huge bin of them, 5 for $10. Of course I had to get a pink one with feathers that says “Princess”. The other four are about the tamest they had, with words like “Superstar!” and bright colours and glitter. They’ll do.

The weekend of January 30/31 was unlike anything I have experienced for quite some time. On Friday, Jeremy Fisher (and again, you can’t deny that is an AWESOME song when you click that link!!) was here! And on Saturday, The Polyjesters played at the Ironwood! I am THRILLED I finally got out to see some awesome live music again; I just wish they had been spaced out a week apart because two nights in a row was too much for me and I couldn’t make it to the end on Saturday

My friend Kelsey picked me up on Friday and after a yummy dinner at the Olive Garden, we went to the venue to see Jeremy. It was a sold out show, and the venue was The Gateway at SAIT, which is pretty big. Jeremy is moving on up! After his amazing show he wandered out to talk to some fans… I rolled on up to him and when he turned to me he said “hi, Donna, how are you?”and leaned in to hug me. To which my response was something cool and casual while inside I was freaking out that he’d actually remembered me. We are Facebook friends, after all. Hehe. Yeah, he wrote on my wall a couple days later and I flipped out because he doesn’t write on walls, he just accepts friend requests and updates his status. ANYWAY, I finally got all my CDs autographed. Kelsey, the sweetie that she is, actually bought me Back Porch Spirituals that night because I didn’t have it yet. Kelsey is awesome. It was the first time I had spent any time with her outside of something Polyjester related. It was well after midnight by the time I got home.

Because I get Home Care in the mornings I’m not always able to stay in bed for as long as I want/need. And I tried to nap during the day, but no luck. So I pretty much knew I wouldn’t last the night on Saturday. My friend Kim and her husband, daughter and a friend came to get me and take me over to the Ironwood. They helped me settle in at the big section the PolyFamily had reserved for close friends I was able to hang out there with Sheldon and Jason a bit, but the room packed up pretty fast and since they knew most of the people there, they were busy mingling. When PolyDad Barry arrived he tripped over my wheelchair wheel and went FLYING SMASH BANG BOOM to the floor. I was scared shitless (because in my life, falls are a pretty big deal) but he got up with no struggle and apologized to ME for being such a klutz and Jason yelled “get that drunk guy outta here!” from across the room. Oh, to be a healthy and vibrant 60+ year old man!

Anyway, it was so good to see everyone I hadn’t seen in so long (Sander even flew in from Ottawa for the show!) and I’m definitely having dinner at the Ironwood again soon. Their new menu is even better than their last one and the food was amazing. My friend Shawna arrived during their second set, and since she had a headache and I was dead tired, her and Kim helped me out of there just as the set was ending and Shawna took me home. So I missed the encore(s) and being able to hug and say good night to everyone, but I know they understand.

You can see photos from that weekend on my Facebook page if you’re my Friend, or the public album is right here. Also, check out the boys stepping outside their “zone” and doing a little Metallica:

On Monday my friend Pam came over and we went to the mall for some lunch and shopping. I decided to buy the supplies I need to grow a bunch of cat grass… Pepper loves the stuff, and the Chia grass I got for Christmas is dead and gone. So I bought some seeds and a couple small pots and a big bag of soil. Then we passed San Francisco gifts where they had a display of battery operated puppies barking away… and I caved. It would have been like walking past suffering puppies in a puppy mill and not taking one home. Only not. Ah, it was 8 bucks, gimme a break. He doesn’t bark though… he plays music and says “hello? Hello? Hellooo?” and my cats are scared of him. Pam had taken a Reiki course the day before, so she practiced on me later and gave me a really good treatment. I have trouble ‘receiving’ those treatments though - as proven during the many Quantum Release Therapy sessions I had a couple years ago and my mom also giving me Reiki - because I have a lot of blockages. A LOT. I don’t know when the break through will happen, but I hope it is soon.

Anyway, aside from all that, my life has been its now-normal quiet self. I should have my laptop (Macbook!! When I’m going to add to my credit card debt, I do it right!) very soon and then I hope to write witty observations on a very regular basis. In fact, I plan to write a book because somehow I have to buy a house in Russell, Bay of Islands, New Zealand and hire my own caregivers and stuff. I have no clue what it will be about, but I need to do it and make a shitload of cash like a certain stay-at-home mom who woke up from a dream and wrote Twilight.

“I would like to audition for the next ‘Twilight’ movie, please”