Here i am, at the same old table, in the same old White Spot on Ackroyd at 3 Road, after a doctor`s appointment with the same old doctor, on a lovely summer/early fall day where it is sunny but not too hot.
All fairly typical for my so called life. Except for one thing ~ I am only three blocks from home.
Man, I love living in this neighborhood. There is so much great stuff right on our doorstep. I have got to start wandering the neighborhood more. There are treasures all around us.
I thought of going back to Bob`s Sandwich Shop for lunch. I like the place and lunch would have been around half the price.
But going to White Spot, eating there, and blogging from there is somewhat of a tradition with me. I like sitting in my high backed comfy chair, hunched over my itty bitty keyboard, typing in between bites of my chicken caesar wrap, watching the world go by.
Plus, doing my blogging here means I can write this meal off as a business expense. Ha ha, just kidding. I have no taxable income.
LOL. The table near me is occupied by an Indian woman and her daughter. Just now, she offered to get her daughter a booster seat, and the daughter said, voice full of indignation, “No. I am seven. I do not need a booster seat. ”
The mother just rolled her eyes. In my mind, I imagined her doing the Marge Simpson mother growl.
My mother had her own version of that, a deep and very meaning-laden hmph.
The doctor says my ears look fine, all healthy and pink inside. So we are going to try to tackle these FUCKING earaches from the sinus angle. I have a sinus spray (ick, spray) I will be trying, and hopefully sans sinus pressure, the earaches will disappear.
If that doesn`t work, it will be time for the dentist. This could all be the product of some kind of dental abcess or other abnormality deformity that is pushng up on the ear canal and making it that much harder for the sinal fluid to escape, so it build up in there and bam, earache.
That certainly fits with both my history of sinus headaches and the way the earaches build up over time.
So it could be that this sinus stuff will do the trick, and probably help with a few other issues as well.
But there will still be the underlying cause to deal with, and that is most likely a dental issue. So there might be some hardcore dentistry in my future.
I am way too young to have this many things wrong with me and to have so many doctors involved in my life.
Obesity sucks so bad.
The little girl is watching some sort of cartoon on a portable DVD player (what a boon to parents everywhere THOSE must be) and it sounds utterly deligthful. Very British, in that the kid characters seem to be having very whimiscal and fanciful adventures which combine aspects of everyday life with a certain amount of child wish fulfillment, but with absolutely no danger.
Plus, I am almost positive that one of the voices is Patrick Stewart, and that makes anything three degrees of magnitude better.
Well, I am done eating, so I guess it is time to go. I thought about doing dessert, but they don`t have anything I particularly like here and given my high a1c1 readings, I really do not have the wiggle room for that anyhow.
Should be 7. It`s eleven. Yowch.
As per custom, I will finish this blog entry after I get home. At least the short walk will help burn off some of these fries.
I really need to break the iron grip of carbs.
I will see you people when I get home.
Aaaand I am back home. The walk home was uneventful. It is definitely turning to fall, though. I was downright chilly in parts of my little trip. I actually found myself wishing I had brought a coat.
Of course, the problem is, I have a coat, but it’s fairly heavy, at least for this climate. So it is not much good for times when it’s only sort of cold. I would roast in it on a day like today.
Doesn’t help that it is black.
I stopped by the Medicine Shoppe to get my prescriptions filled. That’s the pharmacy a block away from here. The pharmacist there seems super dedicated and nice, and they have comfortable chairs to sit on and a big screen TV to watch while you wait, so I am quite happy to make them my new pharmacy.
Shopper’s Drug Mart never had anything like that!
While I was there, I watched around fifteen minutes of the latest Spider-Man movie, the post-Toby McGuire one, and I have to admit, I was enjoying it. The actor playing Spidey seems right for the role. He has the right combination of attitude and sass mixed with humility and just plain being an awkward teenager to be ol’ Webhead, and they seemed to be going out of their way to show him doing small but awesome acts of heroism, like scaring off a kid’s bullies then walking him home, or helping stop a bodega robbery (without wrecking the joint, I might add).
So if and when I ever get Netflix working again, I will have to see if they have the flick. I am intrigued. And as you all know by now, Spider is my dude, and I am therefore not the easiest person to please with anything Spider-Man related.
I never really bought the Sam Raimi?Tobey McGuire Spider-Man. It looked good on paper, but McGuire just did not have the right kind of smartass, more brave that smart attitude that, to me, is the quintessence of the Spider.
Well, that’s it for me for today, folks. I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.
Stay tuned for today’s vid!