So...um....that didn't happen

Apparently, this whole blogging thing just isn't happening anymore. I had the best intentions to catch up on the backlog of posts and actually blog everyday but ....no. I think it would have been more likely to happen if I wasn't working overnights and therefore didn't sleep my days away. This post is going to go over something more interesting things that I have happened in the last couple of months that I was going to write about but never did.

• I bought a Wii at the end of August which has greatly aided my never getting anything done habit. Colette bought me a second remote and a new game (Wii Play) about a week later. Man, riding cows is amusing.
• At the beginning of September, Colette and I went to an exhibit at the National Gallery on the Art of Papal Rome. I ended up winning a book on the art that was in the exhibit which was pretty cool.
• The Guild Season 3 started. Yay!
• True Blood Season 2 ended. Sadly, it won't be back on for another year.
• Neil Patrick Harris hosted the Emmys ---which led to Dr Horrible's interruption of the broadcast

• I went to Best Buy one night to look for some TV DVDs. I ended up buying Season 5 of the Office and Season Two of the Big Bang Theory. I also bought the DVDs for the Young Riders (a show from 20 years ago) because they were only $7.99. I thought that was pretty awesome.
• I found a book in a new series by one the authors (JR Ward) I like. It's related to the other series that I like by her but only tangentially.
• I found a new AJ Jacobs book that is quite amusing called the Guinea Pig Experiment. He does a bunch experiments with his life like Outsourcing his life to India (including reading his son a story and arguing with his wife), being completely honest with everyone and catering to his wife's every whim. He wrote two other books that I really enjoyed "The Know it all" (He read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica) and "A Year of Living Biblically" (Taking the Bible as literally as possible).
• I started watching "Glee". Hilarious! Dark humour abounds. Plus cool musical numbers.
• I also recently started watching "The Vampire Diaries". I actually started watching at episode six so I had to go back and catch up from the beginning. Yet another reason my sister thinks I am obsessed with vampires. I enjoy the fact that there is an actual evil vampire that kills people and that that vampire mocks "Twilight" in one of the episodes.
• Jim and Pam got married!
• I went to a bellydance show on October 9th. It was really good. Rachel Brice and Rosanna McGuire were guest performers. On the 10th, I participated in the workshop by Rachel Brice on finger cymbals (I ended up forgetting mine at home, but I was able to borrow some). On the 11th, I took part in a workshop by Rosanna where I learned some of the flapper stuff she does (like the Charleston). It was a great weekend.
• On the 10th, Colette and I went on the Haunted Walk of Ottawa. It was okay but I was disappointed that we didn't go in any of the places that were discuss on the walk.
• Girl Guide Cookies are being sold. To be specific, the minty ones which I love. Colette has a couple cases of the ones she is selling for Sparks in the front hall. I think I have eaten about 4 of the boxes almost completely on my own. It's terrible (but sooo good!).
• I've started getting allergy shots. I go once a week to get a shot in each arm. Hopefully it will help cure me of the allergies.
• In other news, I went to the dermatologist and got a cream that is actually helping to get rid of the excema (in the sense the I am scratching less and less and my arms no longer look icky). He also diagnosed me with "Atopic Dermatitis". I don't know if I had ever known the name for it before.

I am sure other stuff happened but at the moment it is not coming to me. Another reason why, I haven't been updating as much as I should have been. It's been so long that I don't know what's happened. I want to say that I'll be better about updating, but we all know how that turned out last time.

Aargh.....

Tonight, I had a doctor's appointment. I left in plenty of time and got to the general area in lots of time but they were doing construction in that area and there were no parking spots anywhere. Well, there were spots but pretty much every potential parking spot had a no parking sign next to it. It was really annoying. I ended up being late to the appointment because of the parking issue. I pretty much decided enough was enough and parked right beside the building I needed to go in. When I got in there, there was no one there. I got in to the room where the doctor would see me right away. And then I waited...and waited....and waited.....and waited. The entire time I was waiting I kept worrying that I was going to get a ticket or get towed or something. When I got in to the room, I had hoped that it would be a quick visit and I could go (it was a quick visit once the doctor actually arrived). I contemplated leaving a couple times but decided against. When I got out of the appointment, I found out that the car was still there, unticketed, and that I had been waiting 30-40 minutes for the doctor. So today's favourite thing is not getting towed or ticketed when you think you will be.

Sooner is better

I think I mentioned a few weeks ago that I have a bump on my wrist. It's rather odd but I finally had an xray done for it. I only recently realized that I also need an ultrasound done for it as well. The place I went to for my xray was booking now for ultrasounds in February. That seemed like a rather long wait so I called other places to see if I could get in sooner. Three phone calls later, I found one that could see me August 6 (The first place didn't seem to want to take my call and the second one didn't do ultrasounds on wrists). That is a huge improvement - 6 months earlier, to be exact. So today's favourite thing is finding a place that will see me six months earlier.

Despite any evidence to the contrary, I am not in fact crazy.

I have mentioned before that I was not exactly impressed with one of my former doctors when he didn't even take off my tensor to look at my ankle when I sprained it a few years ago. Today, I went to the doctor to get the ankle checked out again, as well as ask him what's up with my knees being all gross and grinding all the time. The doctor actually looked at my ankle and told me what may actually be the problem. Apparently it's too loose or something and I need to strengthen it. As for my knees, he suggested strengthening my quads. For both, he suggested physio because it would be partially covered by OHIP (Ontario Health....yadda yadda yadda). So, I went to the place he recommended and apparently OHIP only covers part of the cost of the therapy if you are under 19 or over 65. So if anyone has any suggestions to strengthen the ankles, please let me know. I think that my BodyPump class is good enough right now for my quads/knees.
I was worried about going to the doctor today because when I asked for the referral to that doctor, my knee and ankle were somewhat hurting, while today they weren't. I had asked a previous doctor about my knee when it wasn't actually hurting, and he told me to come back when it was. I wasn't impressed. So today's favourite thing is doctors that recognize a problem even when you are not in actual pain.
Tomorrow, I am going to get an XRAY done of my wrist, because the doctor thinks I may have a ganglion cyst on it or something. I think I have been to more doctors in the last two months than I have been to in the last 5 years. You'd think I was falling apart.

Maybe my judgement bar is pretty low, but I am impressed....

Today, I went to the doctor. Ever since I started my new job, my hands have gotten even drier than usual - they were pretty dry before, but they are absolutely terrible now. I haven't actually found a specific family physician since I moved to Ottawa but the last time I went to the doctor here, I went to a clinic that is part of an actual chain of clinics. I was leary at first but now that it's the second time I've been there I really like it. I went to a different location this time because the wait time was like two hours shorter and didn't want to spend the whole day in the doctors office. Even though I went to a different location, they had all the relevant information and the results of a test I had done the last time I was there so it was really nice.
I also really liked the doctor that saw me. He seemed very proactive regarding my health issues and referred me to the appropriate specialists without me even having to point the way. He even made arrangements for me to get a physical - which I tend not do unless I have to. I have been to doctors in the past where they just "treated" the condition I presented them with - some of them doing it from across the room. When I sprained my ankle, I had my ankle wrapped up in a tensor and the doctor didn't even take the tensor off when he was looking at it. Anyway, I was really impressed with the doctor I had today.
Anyway, today's favourite thing is doctors that take an active interest in your ongoing health.

It's freeeeeeeeeeeee!

Today I went to the doctor for the first time in forever. I needed a new prescription so off I went. I went to the clinic where once you're in their computer system, all you do is swipe your Ontario healthcare card to sign in. I actually had to register at the desk because I had never been to that chain of clinics before. What was also interesting was that the doctor wrote everything down on a computer and then hooked it up to the printer to print out the prescription from, etc. It was pretty cool. But the point of this post was that going to the doctor was free. So that was cool. I tried going to one of those clinics before Christmas, but my Ontario healthcare card was not in effect yet so I would have had to pay $68. It wasn't urgent so I just left it. When I was living in the states, the thought of going to the doctor made me nervous because of the whole insurance thing. I knew I was insured through the school but I hadn't received one of the insurance cards so I wasn't sure how it worked. Also, the school clinic was closed during the summer so I would have had to go somewhere else. I definitely like living somewhere that you are pretty much automatically covered for basic medical needs through the province or whatever. It makes life less worrisome. So today's favourite thing is free medical care.