Can You Hear Me Now?

Wooooo busy day! I spent the morning installing/uninstalling/ installing/uninstalling/rebooting to try and get this external DVD drive going, to no avail. I finally gave up and shoved the damn thing in a drawer to battle with another day. Life is too damn short

Well, how ’bout that. My dad walked in last night after I typed that sentence and whisked my netbook away to a shop and I just got it back. Now the DVD drive works, all the updates that were making me go crazy are completed, and they removed a bunch of crap I don’t need so it processes a little faster. Yes, my name is Donna and I am a princess.

Yesterday I got a fabulous surprise when 4 ladies from my elementary/junior high school days (one of whom I’ve always been in touch with a bit, the others I reconnected with on Facebook) all showed up! It was soooooo nice. And WHAT did they bring me? Oh, cookies and chocolate. I think it’s safe to say I have ENOUGH now. At least for awhile. I know the visits will slow down and the foody gifts will stop so I’m going to savour them.

It was so great to see Nancy, Lisa, Carolyn and Michelle. Lisa organized the group visit, I was only expecting her to show up! We chatted it up until physio interrupted to take me to the MOTOmed. Lisa and Michelle came and watched while the other two left to get their kids and stuff. I love the MOTOmed and when I win that lottery, I shall buy myself one.

After all the gals left, my mom and Bob arrived. WITH my power chair! Woo hoo! I got wheels. Bob took off to shop while mom and I went for dinner. Pot roast and parsley potatoes. It’s much better when you get it yourself in the cafeteria downstairs. Fresh and hot and larger portions. And as a resident, I eat free, and my mom got a big plate of food and a salad for six bucks. Good deal. Come join me for supper one day!

Today after lunch my dad picked me up and took me HOOOOOME! That is really hard to do now so it’s greatly appreciated. I got to cuddle my kitties and I cried and cried. I don’t know why, I know I’m going to see them every week or so most likely, and I know I’m going to live wih them again someday, but it’s still so hard. They have beem my most constant source of companionship, especially this past year that I’ve been more home bound than usual. So I cried when I was alone with them (dad went to get the computer), I cried when I left my apartment, and I cried as we drove away. We have to go back on the weekend anyway because I wasn’t able to finish the work I have to do, so I don’t know why I’m blubbering so much. I just know it’s another night without Pita curled up on my side/belly while I sleep and Pepper purring on the pillow next to my head. And that is hard to take.

As we were heading back here, I realized it was past the supper time so we were going to grab Vietnamese food, but everything is closed on Christmas Eve! So we drove towards here, thinking we would stop at Peter’s Drive In for a good burger and shake, but that was closed too. The closest place open was A&W, so we went to the drive thru and had Teen burgers, onion rings and root beer for Christmas Eve supper. Works for me! When we got back here there was a lady in a wheelchair on the phone with her daughter, crying hysterically. I guess Access was so overbooked with Handi-bus trips they couldn’t accommodate everybody and this lady’s trip was cancelled, so she couldn’t get home for Christmas. So sad. My parents are coming here tomorrow for the turkey feast here at lunch, and then we’ll figure out what we’re doing. They may be taking me out somewhere, but I don’t know the plan yet!