Had a massage therapy appointment today, as a result of my recent fall down the back stairs.
I've never had a professional massage before .... while it was painful, it was also pleasant, and I can't wait to go back for my next 45 minute massage on Nov 1st!
Now, hopefully Maxx will sleep fast today, and be up in a bit for us to be able to take the dogs out to Pet Smart and get outfits for Imp and Elf. The kyriin (pegasus with wings) outfit that I got for Angel some years back is just a bit too small for Imp, so I want to take a look at what's available, inexpensive, and cute!
Angel will be dressed up with her angel wings again for Samhain, and Hobgoblin will be wearing his wee devil outfit, so I was hoping I could find something along the same lines for Imp and Elf, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Now I need to go have something to eat!
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Whoopsie!
Managed to take a tumble down my back stairs on Sunday just after I got off from the morning half of my shift. It had stopped raining and my brain was equating no rain with dry stairs, apparently, so when I started carelessly down the stairs after Angel, to urge her out into the yard to go potty, my foot slipped out from underneath me, I smashed down sideways on the first step (butt, back, neck), then spun down the stairs and crashed to a landing on my hands and knees, smacking the crown of my head into the corner of the 4x4 post of my gate.
Blubbered like a baby!
Poor Maxx was out having a gaming day with friends, but I called him and when I managed to stop crying just enough to tell him what happened he came home to check me over. I have quite the colourful bruise on my butt (how can a part of the body so conveniently padded manage to fall directly centred onto the corner of the stair to smash me on the one non-padded part?!), and my poor right knee is very sore ... too sore to keep a bandaid on it, as the pressure from the bandaid when I have to bend my knee is very painful (as is the dogs jumping up on it, but that's harder to prevent!), and my neck is very sore.
Just got back from the doctor about the fall, as family members urged me I should really go and get checked out, and all is okay, I just need to keep on with some Ibuprofen and Robaxacet, and have a referral for some massage therapy .....
.............So .......... this means I get to go get some massages! Yay me! Especially since my benefits package at work gives me $500/year for massages.
I'll let you know how that goes, once I find a good one to go to!
Blubbered like a baby!
Poor Maxx was out having a gaming day with friends, but I called him and when I managed to stop crying just enough to tell him what happened he came home to check me over. I have quite the colourful bruise on my butt (how can a part of the body so conveniently padded manage to fall directly centred onto the corner of the stair to smash me on the one non-padded part?!), and my poor right knee is very sore ... too sore to keep a bandaid on it, as the pressure from the bandaid when I have to bend my knee is very painful (as is the dogs jumping up on it, but that's harder to prevent!), and my neck is very sore.
Just got back from the doctor about the fall, as family members urged me I should really go and get checked out, and all is okay, I just need to keep on with some Ibuprofen and Robaxacet, and have a referral for some massage therapy .....
.............So .......... this means I get to go get some massages! Yay me! Especially since my benefits package at work gives me $500/year for massages.
I'll let you know how that goes, once I find a good one to go to!
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Stat Day
Usually I'd be at work right now, but I ended up having today scheduled off as my stat day for Thanksgiving. While it would have been nice to be Tuesday, giving me a four-day weekend, having it today does mean that I'm not working when archery practice takes place from 5-9 up at the range. We're hoping to go .... it all depends on Maxx and whether he's awake at the time.
Thinking we should head out now and see if we can find any gloves or tabs for my string-hand, as pulling back the string and letting it go is quite painful on the fingers after a couple of sets of arrows! But even with the pain, archery is still fun.
Monday, 8 October 2012
Owie!
We got up to the Nanaimo Fish and Game Club today and the archery range was open ... yay!
So, we got the field tips on our arrows and a nice gentleman told us we should put arrow was on the first couple of inches of our arrows to make them come out of the butts easier, and since we just had string was he loaned us his stick of "arrow snot" to use on our arrows.
I actually managed to both string and unstring my bow myself! Yay!
We were shooting at the 17 metre butt, and I think we did pretty good for the first time out. I was going to take a picture of a grouping of my shots, but I should have taken the second-to-last group of arrows I shot, as by the time I did my last set of arrows my fingers on my right hand were hurting so that I didn't get a very good grouping (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!).
I think I'll need to get the little finger-covering things for the string hand, to make it more comfortable to draw and release. Being able to actually pull the string back in a full draw wasn't as hard as I was expecting, either, so I guess I'm stronger than I thought!
Hopefully it will be the same sort of nice weather (gorgeous blue skies and sunny) on Wednesday when the archery club meets. We're both off that day and plan on heading up for some more practice.
So, we got the field tips on our arrows and a nice gentleman told us we should put arrow was on the first couple of inches of our arrows to make them come out of the butts easier, and since we just had string was he loaned us his stick of "arrow snot" to use on our arrows.
I actually managed to both string and unstring my bow myself! Yay!
We were shooting at the 17 metre butt, and I think we did pretty good for the first time out. I was going to take a picture of a grouping of my shots, but I should have taken the second-to-last group of arrows I shot, as by the time I did my last set of arrows my fingers on my right hand were hurting so that I didn't get a very good grouping (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!).
I think I'll need to get the little finger-covering things for the string hand, to make it more comfortable to draw and release. Being able to actually pull the string back in a full draw wasn't as hard as I was expecting, either, so I guess I'm stronger than I thought!
Hopefully it will be the same sort of nice weather (gorgeous blue skies and sunny) on Wednesday when the archery club meets. We're both off that day and plan on heading up for some more practice.
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Thanksgiving
Maxx and I popped up to VIU this morning to do a little bunny-watching and to watch the sunrise. There was one rabbit-hole with a bunch of wee baby bunnies poking their noses out of it. Unfortunately, we were there while I raven swooped down and snatched a wee bunny just before it made it back to the safety of the burrow, so the little fellow was killed and eaten before our eyes.
Makes me grateful that when I have the dogs out in the yard at home, I'm wise enough to be out in the yard with them, as a deterrent to large predatory birds. After all, Maxx was out there once when a seagull ended up down on the grass with Angel looking at her as though she would make a nice bite of lunch. That's a downside to having micro-dogs, the fear that a predator will just swoop down and carry them off. I know it can happen with quite a larger dog, too, but it's just that much less likely.
Maxx is asleep right now, and I'll be waking him up at 5pm, so he can go pick up a friend who is coming over for dinner, then we're going to cook up our spiral cut ham, with roasted apples, potatoes, carrots, and onions, and some stuffing (I cheat and use the boxed stuff, but I like it!), with home-made applesauce for dessert, or perhaps plum-nectarine sauce on vanilla ice cream.
Makes me grateful that when I have the dogs out in the yard at home, I'm wise enough to be out in the yard with them, as a deterrent to large predatory birds. After all, Maxx was out there once when a seagull ended up down on the grass with Angel looking at her as though she would make a nice bite of lunch. That's a downside to having micro-dogs, the fear that a predator will just swoop down and carry them off. I know it can happen with quite a larger dog, too, but it's just that much less likely.
Maxx is asleep right now, and I'll be waking him up at 5pm, so he can go pick up a friend who is coming over for dinner, then we're going to cook up our spiral cut ham, with roasted apples, potatoes, carrots, and onions, and some stuffing (I cheat and use the boxed stuff, but I like it!), with home-made applesauce for dessert, or perhaps plum-nectarine sauce on vanilla ice cream.
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Appointment Time
Yesterday we were in the south end of town and Maxx had to make an appointment to renew his prescriptions for his inhalers, and I actually remembered to make an appointment regarding this bump I've had in my mouth since either this March or last March (I honestly can't remember which, but either way it's a long time), to see if we can find out what it is and perhaps get rid of it.
Wish me luck!
Wish me luck!
Monday, 1 October 2012
Argh!
We couldn't go up to the archery range yesterday, as Sunday they have skeet shooting and the archery range is closed. So, today when we got up we headed up to the range to see if we could get in our first practice, we were downhearted to see that both the archery range and the archery trail were both closed. We went for brunch, then when we got home checked the website and couldn't find a reason why they were both closed. Hopefully we'll have better luck next time!
Anyhow, when we got home, Maxx showed me how to store the bow-string on the bow (unstrung), and how to use the stringer to string and unstring the bow. Unfortunately, I'm not yet strong enough to string or unstring the bow by myself, as I can't let go of the bow with one hand to reach the string and either put it on or pull it off, or I lose the tension on the bow and the slack in the string to change it. However, with lots of effort I can just draw the bow (almost fully), so if we ever get a chance to get up and get some practice in, that will help me build up more strength to be able to string and unstring by myself.
We decided if we keep having bad luck with our free time and the archery range being closed, we would invest in a target from the sports store and take it up into the hills to practice on our own, on the cleared land under the power lines. We don't think there would be any issue with us practicing there, at least!
Anyhow, when we got home, Maxx showed me how to store the bow-string on the bow (unstrung), and how to use the stringer to string and unstring the bow. Unfortunately, I'm not yet strong enough to string or unstring the bow by myself, as I can't let go of the bow with one hand to reach the string and either put it on or pull it off, or I lose the tension on the bow and the slack in the string to change it. However, with lots of effort I can just draw the bow (almost fully), so if we ever get a chance to get up and get some practice in, that will help me build up more strength to be able to string and unstring by myself.
We decided if we keep having bad luck with our free time and the archery range being closed, we would invest in a target from the sports store and take it up into the hills to practice on our own, on the cleared land under the power lines. We don't think there would be any issue with us practicing there, at least!
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