Thursday I had a really great birthday. I had an interview with a massage therapist who is used to massaging people in chairs and I’m really excited about that, she’s going to start next Thursday.
A bunch of us went to dinner at a restaurant down by the wharf that has a free dinner for everybody who’s birthday is that month on the last Thursday of the month, we had eight people and five of us has a birthday in June.
Last night started the free concerts on the boardwalk and I’m so excited, last year I only got to go to one and this year I’m going to everyone, the first concert this year is the Fixx. Last year when I went a lady surrounded herself by about eight magazines and told me that I couldn’t sit anywhere where there was a magazine because she was expecting friends, I thought that was really unfair. My uncle went down with me earlier with some blue tape to see if we can take off a place for me to sit and the security guard said that we could not do that because it was first-come got to sit there so I’m going to go down a couple of hours early and hope that I can get a place where we can see the band and not have to have anybody standing up in front of us.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Busy week...
I didn’t get to go to my nephews or my nieces graduation or graduation party, I wish they didn’t live so far away. It takes about three hours to get there and back and since the barbecue was about three hours long and started at 2 PM it would be impossible to get back here when my caregiver arrives at 5 PM. I really don’t like having to go to bed every night at 5 PM but I think at the time I didn’t think it would be fair to have the caregivers come in later because most of them have school in the morning. Luckily I’m getting to know them a lot better and they seem to be really good about coming in later on some evenings. I already decided that I’m not going to miss any more of the boardwalk free concert series and my Friday caregiver, Karen, said that she would not mind coming in later so I can go.
Janet and Corinne came down last Monday and just left a little while ago. On Tuesday the Girl Scouts had their last get-together at the Boardwalk so I went down to watch everybody have a really good time. On Tuesday Corinne and I met one of her friends at the Boardwalk and they played on all the rights while I cruised around. Yesterday we were supposed to go to the Monterey Bay aquarium but I was having a lot of pain in my neck and shoulders. I think I have a pinched nerve although I’m not a doctor but I look stuff up on the Internet. It certainly feels like something is being pinched behind my left shoulder, so bad sometimes that radiates down my arm and my hands go numb. A nice hot bath, a couple of muscle relaxers and a couple of days in bed and I’m hoping to be back on my chair.
Teresa met a massage therapist where she works and got her number, she has a friend who has experience massaging quadriplegics AND she will come to my house. I will meet her on Thursday and I’m so excited, I hope she can put me back to normal... whatever normal is for me.
I have a couple of days to myself before my mom and my aunt come back from their vacation on Sunday. I really do like having people around but I also like having time to myself and cruising around now that the weather is really nice.
Last Sunday Teresa and I met Heather and Linda at the Santa Cruz pride parade and the park afterwards. I was really glad I was there but I wasn’t feeling very well, my uncle and I have been eating really bad and I was paying for it on that day. We came back here and Heather barbecued, we dug out the barbecue and are going to be using it a lot. Heather loves to barbecue, I was so excited cheer about that. Heather and Linda came over on Monday and she barbecued a bunch of stuff... steak, blackened catfish, halibut, eggplant, zucchini, Portobello mushrooms, onions... it was awesome.
Next Sunday Teresa and I were invited to go to her boss/my doctor’s for a barbecue, I think I must have the coolest doctor in the world and she has a really great family and a crazy dog.
Janet and Corinne came down last Monday and just left a little while ago. On Tuesday the Girl Scouts had their last get-together at the Boardwalk so I went down to watch everybody have a really good time. On Tuesday Corinne and I met one of her friends at the Boardwalk and they played on all the rights while I cruised around. Yesterday we were supposed to go to the Monterey Bay aquarium but I was having a lot of pain in my neck and shoulders. I think I have a pinched nerve although I’m not a doctor but I look stuff up on the Internet. It certainly feels like something is being pinched behind my left shoulder, so bad sometimes that radiates down my arm and my hands go numb. A nice hot bath, a couple of muscle relaxers and a couple of days in bed and I’m hoping to be back on my chair.
Teresa met a massage therapist where she works and got her number, she has a friend who has experience massaging quadriplegics AND she will come to my house. I will meet her on Thursday and I’m so excited, I hope she can put me back to normal... whatever normal is for me.
I have a couple of days to myself before my mom and my aunt come back from their vacation on Sunday. I really do like having people around but I also like having time to myself and cruising around now that the weather is really nice.
Last Sunday Teresa and I met Heather and Linda at the Santa Cruz pride parade and the park afterwards. I was really glad I was there but I wasn’t feeling very well, my uncle and I have been eating really bad and I was paying for it on that day. We came back here and Heather barbecued, we dug out the barbecue and are going to be using it a lot. Heather loves to barbecue, I was so excited cheer about that. Heather and Linda came over on Monday and she barbecued a bunch of stuff... steak, blackened catfish, halibut, eggplant, zucchini, Portobello mushrooms, onions... it was awesome.
Next Sunday Teresa and I were invited to go to her boss/my doctor’s for a barbecue, I think I must have the coolest doctor in the world and she has a really great family and a crazy dog.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
New bed...
Jerry, my neighbor from San Jose, came by Saturday and we had a really nice visit. I was just getting ready to go to bed so he just went in the living room and watched basketball until I was ready. We didn’t get to visit very long but he’s going to try to come back soon, I really miss him and his girl Liz.
When I went to buy this house about two years ago it said on my credit report that I cosigned for a van so I almost did not get this place. My caregiver that had worked for me for eight years introduced me to her sister who worked for me for about a year. Her sister called me up one day and asked me if I would do a verification of employment and of course I said I would, I found out later that I had cosigned for her new van and her sister, who had worked for me all those years, signed for me. I put her on my accounts so she could help me do the payroll checks.
Before I moved to Santa Cruz I had a Roomba irobot, one of those little round vacuum cleaners that maneuvers around the floor picking up dirt and dog hair. For some reason when I moved over here it quit working and nobody wanted to fix it so I ended up getting rid of it and getting a new one. I got it all set up in the first day that we tried it it went missing. I noticed that the front door was open, somebody accidentally hit the automatic door opener, so my first thought was that it went outside and was cruising around the neighborhood... I don’t think that it could get too far from the dock but you never know. After searching the neighborhood we found it in the spare bedroom bathroom, apparently it went into the bathroom and close the door on itself.
I found a new hospital bed on Craig’s list and the guy delivered it yesterday. I know that I’m really going to like it but I always have a problem with new equipment, as uncomfortable as my old bed is I found myself missing it a little bit last night. It’s a lot narrower, my new bed is 84” x 35” and my old bed is the same length but about twice the width. Now I just need to find a couple of big guys to get my old bed out of my room, it will make my room look a lot smaller and it has a bunch of cool features.
Next Sunday my mum and my aunt are going to take off for their trip, they will be gone for approximately 2 weeks. They are going to visit their aunts and get them together for a little family reunion. They’re really nervous about taking off but I know that they will have a really good time and for all we know it might be the last time everybody can get together so I’m sure that it will be bittersweet.
When I went to buy this house about two years ago it said on my credit report that I cosigned for a van so I almost did not get this place. My caregiver that had worked for me for eight years introduced me to her sister who worked for me for about a year. Her sister called me up one day and asked me if I would do a verification of employment and of course I said I would, I found out later that I had cosigned for her new van and her sister, who had worked for me all those years, signed for me. I put her on my accounts so she could help me do the payroll checks.
Before I moved to Santa Cruz I had a Roomba irobot, one of those little round vacuum cleaners that maneuvers around the floor picking up dirt and dog hair. For some reason when I moved over here it quit working and nobody wanted to fix it so I ended up getting rid of it and getting a new one. I got it all set up in the first day that we tried it it went missing. I noticed that the front door was open, somebody accidentally hit the automatic door opener, so my first thought was that it went outside and was cruising around the neighborhood... I don’t think that it could get too far from the dock but you never know. After searching the neighborhood we found it in the spare bedroom bathroom, apparently it went into the bathroom and close the door on itself.
I found a new hospital bed on Craig’s list and the guy delivered it yesterday. I know that I’m really going to like it but I always have a problem with new equipment, as uncomfortable as my old bed is I found myself missing it a little bit last night. It’s a lot narrower, my new bed is 84” x 35” and my old bed is the same length but about twice the width. Now I just need to find a couple of big guys to get my old bed out of my room, it will make my room look a lot smaller and it has a bunch of cool features.
Next Sunday my mum and my aunt are going to take off for their trip, they will be gone for approximately 2 weeks. They are going to visit their aunts and get them together for a little family reunion. They’re really nervous about taking off but I know that they will have a really good time and for all we know it might be the last time everybody can get together so I’m sure that it will be bittersweet.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
A beautiful day for a cruise through the lagoon...
Whenever I see something on TV that happened a while back I always wonder if I could pick a year and go back, and know what I know now, what year when I go back to. Most of the time I think that it would be before my injury but not all the time. I really do have a great life right now and I’m not sure that I would have if I hadn’t broken my neck and my ex didn’t ask me to leave.
Last Wednesday I went to go pick up my brace from Dominican. I told him all I wanted was a modest brace to help me set up in my chair straight... apparently he wasn’t listening. I came back home with this big plastic dome on either side of my body that restricted me from doing EVERYTHING. I’m supposed to go back next Friday to cut some of it away so it’s more comfortable and he’s going to look at my leg braces and see if he can come up with something better for that, my braces are about six years old and I’m sure that they have something new and improved.
I love cruising around Santa Cruz in the morning but I haven’t for a few days, I’m going to try to make up for it today. The weather is cooling down and even though the sun is out it’s still really windy and the wind seems to go right down to my bones.
Heather came by day before yesterday and set me up for a couple of days. She made chicken, she always gets dark meat because that is my favorite, with enchilada sauce and bell peppers, quinoa that she squirted orange into... one of my new favorites. She found his teriyaki marinaded skirt steak that is also one of my new favorites, it pretty much melts in your mouth. She also made some pasta with shrimp and Langastino scampi, another one of her awesome creations.
Today Heather, Linda and I took Yoda over to the lagoon and cruised around. I always get a little nervous when we go over the part of the boardwalk that is over the water because it’s on pontoons and it squeaks and wobbles a lot but it sure is a beautiful stroll and I got Heather to take some pictures for me. Hopefully we will do that more often.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Greek Festival in downtown Santa Cruz...
Yesterday my uncle was busy so I decided to take a trip down to natural Bridges Beach on Seacliff Drive. It's the first time that I have gone down that far and it was such a beautiful trip. I notice that a lot of people stop along the beach to stare at the view and smoke marijuana, I practically get a contact high just driving by.
I have been taking care of the neighbors dog while they're having their house remodeled. His name is Yoda and he is a golden lab. He is a very smart dog but I'm thinking that nobody worked with him a lot. Unfortunately when I go for a cruise I cannot take him with me because he freaks out when he sees the other animals, both him and I would LOVE to cruise around Santa Cruz together.
My sister-in-law and her son David are supposed to come by today to spend the night and enjoy the peace and quiet from their busy teenage home.
My cousin's wife has her family visiting from out of town so we are all going to get together and have dinner at my uncle's house, I have only met him once at the wedding will be really nice to see them again.
Today is the Greek Festival in downtown Santa Cruz and I was going to wait for somebody to show up but I think I'm just going to cruise down there before it gets too warm. There's an artichoke festival in Castroville and that is really where I would like to be, I LOVE artichokes.
I have been taking care of the neighbors dog while they're having their house remodeled. His name is Yoda and he is a golden lab. He is a very smart dog but I'm thinking that nobody worked with him a lot. Unfortunately when I go for a cruise I cannot take him with me because he freaks out when he sees the other animals, both him and I would LOVE to cruise around Santa Cruz together.
My sister-in-law and her son David are supposed to come by today to spend the night and enjoy the peace and quiet from their busy teenage home.
My cousin's wife has her family visiting from out of town so we are all going to get together and have dinner at my uncle's house, I have only met him once at the wedding will be really nice to see them again.
Today is the Greek Festival in downtown Santa Cruz and I was going to wait for somebody to show up but I think I'm just going to cruise down there before it gets too warm. There's an artichoke festival in Castroville and that is really where I would like to be, I LOVE artichokes.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Cruising around the wharf...
My uncle and I have been cruising, him on his bike and me in my chair, to the wharf and yesterday we stopped at Gildas for some clam chowder. I had an appointment with Claudia to get my hair cut, manicure, pedicure and wax. After that I cruised down to the wharf again to check out all of the new baby seals, there must have been about 50 of them all cuddled up on the dock below the wharf. I heard the waitress at Gildas tell one of the tourists and I didn't have time to check it out before my appointment.
Today I cruised around the boardwalk and then the wharf. My uncle had an appointment and I'm always afraid if I get out of the routine I will stop going, it is such a beautiful ride I could never get tired of it.
Today I cruised around the boardwalk and then the wharf. My uncle had an appointment and I'm always afraid if I get out of the routine I will stop going, it is such a beautiful ride I could never get tired of it.
Monday, May 11, 2009
It's been a while...
It has been such a long time since I have written anything I don't even know where to start. it has been really busy around here with baby showers, birthday parties, Easter, Mother's Day... it is so cool to have my new house and friends and family visiting a lot. A couple of weekends ago was my nephews 18th birthday so he wanted to bring about eight of his friends here to hang out in Santa Cruz and everybody had such a good time.
Last night Heather made eggplant, zucchini and artichoke heart Parmesan, it was awesome. She also made chicken enchiladas with her homemade enchilada sauce. Tonight she made some kind of Hawaiian fish with a coconut cream sauce, I did not want to stop eating it. Her cooking just seems to get better all the time.
My cousin Rich had his new baby and she is gorgeous. They named her Melia Kathryn after his mom. I got to go over and see their baby on the way home, everybody looked exhausted.
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