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In Search of Truth and a Decent Non-Murdery Place to Live: Eve's Grad Weekend Part 2

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I feel I should hasten to add that I did not have a fever in Hamilton. I got meds on board for the UTI quickly, and I did manage to sit through two plays and only pee at intermission, so I was thankful for that. The fever thing started after we got back. I have stupid tiny airways, which makes everything worse and longer-lasting.  On Saturday Matt and Eve went to the first of three apartment-viewing appointments she had booked, while I got some antibiotics for my UTI. We had a chill afternoon after our busy day Friday, and then we went to hang out with Matt's brother and his wife and our niece (Lydia) and nephew (Mitchell), which is always a good time. The kids were very into the hockey playoffs. Jeremy said every morning they would ask 1) did the Oilers win 2) did Connor McDavid score and 3) did a Jewish player score (my SIL is Jewish). Lydia supplied that the two Jewish players on the Edmonton Oilers are Jake Walman and Zach Hyman, but Zach Hyman now had a broken wrist, so he was...
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Time Keeps on Slippin' Slippin' Slippin': Grad Weekend Part 1

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I feel like I've lived many lifetimes since my last blog post. First, my dad is doing much better. His knee is a little sore still, but he's getting around as well as he was before (which is not great, but we'll take it). He came over this morning for his every-six-months nephrology appointment which was over Zoom today, thank fuck. He has idiopathic kidney disease, and has seen this doctor every six months for the last five years. Every year the doctor says much the same thing - kidney function is low but not dialysis-low, your kidneys will probably continue to be okay unless you get hit by a bus, in which case they will not do okay but many other things also would not. His last bloodwork actually showed a slight improvement in kidney function, so he doesn't have to see the doctor for a year. I like the nephrologist - he is genial and funny and watched Cougar Town. I especially like that there is no dialysis in our near future. Last Thursday we headed to Hamilton for a...
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Accidental Friday Randoms

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I sat down to blog yesterday and did multiple other things and didn't end up blogging.  I wrote this three days ago. It happened two more times.  Now it is Friday. Things are a bit weird. My dad fell last week trying to carry some rhubarb into the house - managed the steps up to the deck fine but stumbled getting in the sliding door. He banged up his shins and twisted one knee pretty badly and the next morning couldn't get out of bed. It was my long day at work, but thank living god Matt is in the country, so he went over and spent the day and helped my dad get upright and then went and got a two-wheel walker and some bathroom accessories. So then he could get up and get to the bathroom, but was stuck upstairs, which is less than ideal. Sunday we went over for dinner (Matt was going to barbecue), and we were unsure if we should take dinner upstairs or if Matt should try to help him down the stairs. While we were still debating this, my dad scared the crap out of us by jokingly...
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Bringing Eve Home Finale and Okay Then Where AM I?

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 Elisabeth and someone else that I can't remember both said I am not in their spam folder and yet I have ABSOLUTELY written comments on their recent posts and it looked like they posted and then they were not there so I am having an existential crisis in the most literal sense right now. I guess I'll save every comment to a document, because I feel like an idiot typing it all over again when it disappears.  We were hoping to be headed home by noon on Wednesday. This did not happen. I didn't really think it would. Of course, Matt also had told himself that we were going to get everything in the rented van. When we were finally ready to go, Matt said (as if he was making a big surprising confession) "I'm not sure how we would have gotten anything like close to all your stuff home if we hadn't gotten the storage locker" and Eve was like "GIRL WE KNOW".  So we drove around doing one last load and I was basically looking out the van window and sighing...
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Bringing Eve Home Part 2 and I Am Stuck in Everyone's Spam Folders

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 For some reason it seems like I'm having a harder time than usual commenting on people's blogs and having the comment disappear - the ether? The spam folder? Dunno. Just don't think I'm ignoring you, because like Julie , I might have six comment stuck in your spam folder. So Tuesday morning we drove down to Eve's place (we stay at a hotel on 'the mountain' (Hamilton escarpment) - when I was at Mac if we wanted to go to a mall or movie on The Mountain we had to take a bus and it took an hour and a half. Driving time from the hotel to Eve's house? 13 minutes). She had packed some stuff but her bed was covered with clothes and makeup and other things, so we loaded some bins and furniture into the van to drive to the storage place in Dundas, about twenty minutes away. The storage place lady was really nice. There were Skittles and Starburst candies in a tray on the counter, and Eve pretended to steal some even though they were free (she was having a very an...
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