What's on your agenda for today?

Went out yesterday to a riverside pub and had lunch. Today hubs is mowing the lawns and getting the cars washed because I can't yet due to my injuries...but tomorrow we're going to beautiful regents park for the day ..
 

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Kath, if you have dementia....then I do also. I had to ponder that post also. Because of the tense I kind of assumed it was Annie's husband's ex. I do not think we forget as much as as we grow "old" we have so much info in our heads that we unconsciously become selective about what we absorb and retain. At least this is what I try to convince my children of....even though at times my son calls me Alice (short for Alzheimer) This is my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Nona - I really like your take on how our heads are now so stuffed full of info that absorbing additional data would be brain-popping - so I vote for your story and I'll stick to it too.

Today's activities were pretty blah - walked Suki the dog, weeded a flower bed, did laundry, went to grocery store, and read quite a bit.
 
Well, I've been in London all day today, got home about 9pm ish...had a great day walking around Regents park ..then from the park to Camden Town where there's a huge street market, with loads of old style high street shops instead of Malls.. then onto to China Town where I had some delicious crystal Prawn dumplings in one restaurant ..yummmy..., then onto Leicester square and Piccadily circus..lots of tube trains (underground). to get from one place to another around the city..lots of walking ( got a blister on my heel , my fault for wearing boots).....and zillions of people around, height of the tourist season of course.....

almost 11.30pm, so pictures for anyone who might be interested ..tomorrow.. :D Hope everyone has had a good day
 

Holly - I'm excited to see your London pictures so I can live vicariously through them! I hope your blister gets better quickly - I can identify because I've got a heel blister too. I now have to wear orthotics for most walking but this causes a change in the height that my heel sits in a shoe so I get a blister where the back of the shoe touches a part of the foot that's not used to that shoe's new position. Is that description as unclear to you as it is to me? Oh well, sounds like a really fun day in spite of resulting blister.
 
I won't bother mentioning that Scotland is getting the worst summer, ever! I'm cold!

Very busy today. Went to the gym first, then to the health food store, card shop for birthday cards for granddaughter and step-grandson in Michigan, took them to the post office to post them as they have to be weighed and measured, grocery shopping, and to a shop to buy new headphones for my phone as mine was crackling during my workout.

Now having a well-deserved break and having lunch.
 
Kath my heel is sore, but it's nothing major, it'll be better in a day or so I'm sure, nothing as serious as yours..

As for my pictures before I put them on , I wasn't in the city as a tourist of course,so there are no typically tourist pictures ( don't want you to be too disappointed) :D...no Buckingham Palace, no Tower bridge no Houses of Parliament...just a day in the life or ordinary London on an August Sunday, in several different areas , from a peaceful pretty park, to the manic crowded popularity of one street market, and with a few shots of various places you will have heard about in between..

Annie We're not having the best summer here in the South this year...but we've had waaaay more than you up there in Scotland of course. yesterday was gloriously sunny, but the forecast was for rain mid-day..and so I wore T-shirt jeans and boots instead of shorts and sandals ...and guess what?...no ferkin' rain..instead we had 27 degree temps..I was hot as a hot thing...and the tube trains were stifling of course...but it was a lovely day anyway...all that walking really helped to ease the pain in my back albeit only temporarily..
 
hollydolly said:
Kath my heel is sore, but it's nothing major, it'll be better in a day or so I'm sure, nothing as serious as yours..

As for my pictures before I put them on , I wasn't in the city as a tourist of course,so there are no typically tourist pictures ( don't want you to be too disappointed) :D...no Buckingham Palace, no Tower bridge no Houses of Parliament...just a day in the life or ordinary London on an August Sunday, in several different areas , from a peaceful pretty park, to the manic crowded popularity of one street market, and with a few shots of various places you will have heard about in between..

Annie We're not having the best summer here in the South this year...but we've had waaaay more than you up there in Scotland of course. yesterday was gloriously sunny, but the forecast was for rain mid-day..and so I wore T-shirt jeans and boots instead of shorts and sandals ...and guess what?...no ferkin' rain..instead we had 27 degree temps..I was hot as a hot thing...and the tube trains were stifling of course...but it was a lovely day anyway...all that walking really helped to ease the pain in my back albeit only temporarily..
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Your summer is much, much better than ours! I think we've hit 21 once, although when it's sunny and 15 it feels very nice.
 
LOL Annie but our Summers are always much better than yours....in fact much better here in the South then the whole of the UK... :cool: let's hope you get an Indian summer before Autumn arrives..
 
We've been having more humidity here than usual but today is pretty nice, about 75 degrees and sunny. I'm joining several of my neighbors for lunch to celebrate the birthday of one of them. We call ourselves "The Ladies of the 'Hood".
 
hollydolly said:
LOL Annie but our Summers are always much better than yours....in fact much better here in the South then the whole of the UK... :cool: let's hope you get an Indian summer before Autumn arrives..
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Usually better, aye. But I'd rather live right where I am. Anyway, I'll be getting a summer as I'm going to the US in 3 weeks and it will either be hot or warm and definitely mostly sunny.
 
Glinda said:
We've been having more humidity here than usual but today is pretty nice, about 75 degrees and sunny. I'm joining several of my neighbors for lunch to celebrate the birthday of one of them. We call ourselves "The Ladies of the 'Hood".
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yep we've had about the same temps here Glinda...just enough to be pleasant without being too uncomfortable. Ladies of the Hood...love that!! :D
 
Hope all goes well for you today at the Vampire Clinic Davey..

Glorious sunny morning here..not a cloud in the sky, and 72 degrees already..In a little while I have to go to the surgery to see the GP about fast tracking me (hopefully) back to see the orthopedic surgeon who carried out the work on my torn lumbar discs in March. Long story but basically I've had to be at home for the last 2 weeks after falling from the top of a ladder onto a metal stand at work and stress fractured the base of my spine . I'm still in a lot of pain, and all the signs appear that the repaired disc has ruptured again...but I'm desperate to go back to work, I'm not a masochist but being at home is driving me insane and sitting around most of the time is even worse for my back..so I've been doing everything I can to try and help my recovery..from exercises and walking.., to pain relief . I'm hoping that the GP will say I can go back..even if it's only for a day or 2 a week for now..altho' tbh with you I don't know if I'll manage it but I'd like to try!!
 
Flying to Boston at 11:00 a.m. Leave to return home at 6:00 p.m. Boss has a 'short' meeting and no dinner tonight. (No wonder I'm so thin.) Maybe I'll grab a burger at the airport.
 
Holly, what were you doing up a ladder with your back issues?! Don't do that again! Hope you get it sorted very soon and the pain is quickly eased.
 
Went to the gym even though it's not a gym day. Need to get at least a wee bit closer to my goal before US trip. I'm going through cycling withdrawal and need a sunny day for another long trip. :(
 
hollydolly said:
Hope all goes well for you today at the Vampire Clinic Davey..

Glorious sunny morning here..not a cloud in the sky, and 72 degrees already..In a little while I have to go to the surgery to see the GP about fast tracking me (hopefully) back to see the orthopedic surgeon who carried out the work on my torn lumbar discs in March. Long story but basically I've had to be at home for the last 2 weeks after falling from the top of a ladder onto a metal stand at work and stress fractured the base of my spine . I'm still in a lot of pain, and all the signs appear that the repaired disc has ruptured again...but I'm desperate to go back to work, I'm not a masochist but being at home is driving me insane and sitting around most of the time is even worse for my back..so I've been doing everything I can to try and help my recovery..from exercises and walking.., to pain relief . I'm hoping that the GP will say I can go back..even if it's only for a day or 2 a week for now..altho' tbh with you I don't know if I'll manage it but I'd like to try!!
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Wishing you a speedy recovery Holly! .... hurts just reading about your accident .. Sorry to hear that.

Those darn ladders get so many of us in trouble. I'm always doing things that I shouldn't be doing up on my stepladder at home and in the yard. .. every time I attack a job requiring getting up on a ladder, I tell myself no more! ... then I do it again a few days later... hopeless.
 
Holly, has your doctor mentioned a Tens Machine for pain? Regarding what's on my agenda today…I'm babying my iPhone because I dropped it in the pool yesterday. I've been told to put it in rice. I can see moisture bubbles in the tiny camera lens but the phone is working (though some random issues and oddities with it now).
 
I'm sorry about your nippy weather over there, Annie. We could switch houses if you think you could tolerate 90 degrees and nasty humidity. Actually today was a bit less humid than usual but that was due to a huge thunderstorm last night.

I visited with a neighbor this morning - she has kidney failure and is on dialysis every day. She and her hubby travel quite a bit in spite of her illness and he helps her with her dialysis. They're such a caring couple and I'll miss them as they are moving soon to Hilton Head, South Carolina which is a an extremely nice seashore haven.

Then I drove with the dog up to the pharmacy to get meds and since then I've been rearranging my dresser drawers. I realized how seedy my dresser looks - it's over 30 years old and we've moved quite a lot so it looks rather scruffy. I thought about getting it refinished but my daughter thinks I should paint it a beachy color, like sand or aqua. I shudder at the thought of painting over cherry wood but I'll think about it. Every time my dearest daughter goes to the beach, she leaves some parts of her identity there. Our last beach trip was so fun, though, that we may go back again in early Fall. Maybe by then my sore heel will be lots better (fingers, toes, and eyes crossed)!
 
So sorry to hear about your fall Holly. So hope they can bump up your appt and the lumbar disc procedures are not compromised. Back problems are so not fun.
OldMan enjoy Boston. You will not be able to order any delivery food in Boston? Just thinking of the food there makes me homesick.
May you be lucky with the rice successfully drying out your iphone, Lara.
I was trying to walk too fast and hit my arm on the wall corner. Sizable skin tear with a huge hematoma. So angry with myself...thinking about what I was going to do vs what I was doing.
 
Thanks Nona. That's a shame about your arm. Those take a long time to heal…take care. Phone isn't working at all now. It will take two weeks in the rice if it works at all. A guy gave me a hot tip though and told me that you can get a "Nokia Lumina 360" for $75 that's a lot like an iPhone at the Microsoft store (he was an AT&T employee and had this microsoft phone haha…an honest guy)
 
Thanks Bonnie, Annie and Lora, and Nona for your concern . It happened 2 weeks ago today and I've been in a lot of pain since, but I didn't want to make a big mention of it on the forum. I saw the GP again yesterday and although almost all the bruising has gone the damage is still very evident internally, so he's signed me off work even tho' I was telling him how I'd like to try and get back he said NO...and signed me for another week *sigh* ( altho' I can work from home it's not not enough to keep the boredom away and involves too much sitting which makes the back seize more)...so he's fast tracking me back to see the Surgeon to have the lumbar disc surgery all over again....of course fast tracking on the NHS can still often mean months..but let's hope in this case it doesn't!!

yes Nona, I have tried Tens machines in the past, they do nothing to help with the pain at all unfortunately, but I am on a raft of painkillers..which I hate. :(

Anyway enough with my moaning... Nona..oooooh ouch chica sounds like you reallly hurt your arm badly.. :(


Lara .hope your phone has dried out , Rice is a good way usually. I got in the shower the other day wearing one of my watches which is not waterproof..( gold bracelet)...and it's now ruined..it wouldn't dry out so it's beyond repair.

Today has started off very overcast think there might be rain on the way quite warm tho' low 70's ..not looked at the forecast yet.

Daughter is in Scotland on business for the last few days.. and it's raining and only 61 degrees there ..she's come from 40 degrees in Spain, and is absolutely freezing ..bless :D
 

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