Helenka, Queen of Outer Space

The good: sleeping all the way to 10:38.

The excellent: getting an eVite from Brian for a zoom get-together, set for 1:30. Eek. I had to hurry to get ready in time.

The excellent: finding out completely by accident - when I grabbed the iPad by the upper right corner = how and where certain control buttons were revealed.

Everything after that was a disaster as I headed to bed to try to sooth the pain. I also tried the long fanfic reading as a distraction and my usual TV shows. Now I'm just hanging on for midnight.

Gee, it's a good thing I didn't wait until tomorrow morning. Yes, LoL. So, I'd woken up really early but convinced myself to just stay in bed. When I finally got up, I was mostly devoid of pain. Aha, the little piggies of the universe finally got their acts together and also delivered on crisp, colourful vision. Yay.

Still, I took it easy in the morning, reading "Albatross" until I'd finished it. Terry Fallis once again left me with a smile on my face. He just exudes sunshine. After that, I had the rest of Brian's cookies for brekkie. Then, I got to work. I ended up just decorating one tree with two sets of lights (one clear, one multicolour, a long roll of translucent holiday ribbon, as well as a few other colourful items around the base.

I was unable to put up the sequinned wall hanging because I couldn't find the special hanger; OTOH, I thought my golden sleight was lost/misplaced, yet it was right in one of the storage boxes. Naturally, I blame the cats! I filled the sleigh with pine cones and set it on the fireplace and also hung my stocking. I still have to add a decorative bejewelled ribbon to the dining table and then I'm calling it done. Decorating while blind is always a challenge and I'm definitely avoiding wearing myself out - for a change.

So I need to climb in the shower now and hydrate. Tired little piggy.

Well, I've been throwing many towels around for the last two days. At least, I did manage two almost decent sleeps. But, yesterday, I sat down to get a whole pile of paper ready for recycling. I was in my office chair, bending over the pile on the bed, fumbling blindly with the staple remover. And it seemed that the staples weren't standard, either. Sigh. So, not only an aching back, but also a couple of shredded nails.

More torso/gastric pain didn't help either. I think I'm going to have to stop getting my entrees at least and just stick to soups and desserts that don't disagree with me. I guess that'll be a conversation for next week. It's not a good time to be feeling sick when I eat.

At least I had some determined distractive TV that included a tiny shocker on Young Sheldon and two inventive epis of Dragons' Den. But my vision was crap all day yesterday, so I delayed watching ST:Disco until this morning where it did an excellent job against the pain. Then, tonight, there was MacGyver but there was too much shooting so I couldn't really tell what was going on. However, I had luscious, glorious vision All. Day. Long. Too bad I didn't have the patience to read my library book. Sigh again.

Anyway, it's almost time for pills and bed. Crossing my fingers for a good sleep.

… doesn't deserve to have any ink spilled in description. But it was grotesque. And I've nodded off a couple times during the day in order to make up for missing sleep.

The only good thing was receiving a card from my sis RS. Alas, because of my incompetent vision today I couldn't tell what was on the cover or written inside. I'll try again.

As diversions from pain, there was reading fanfic and watching a touching epi of tonight's Bull. Really … awwwww. Right now, I'm fading fast so had better press Post.

As did waking up at my more usual time of 9:50. Also, no pain, so the little piggies of the universe did a very good job.

I read a little, did a tiny bit of work for the blind group, had the luxury of a two-hour nap around 1, watched my usual TV shows and am about to cue Bull to play.

And that's a wrap.

It's usually the right one, so I guess the left one is trying to catch up. But it's a trivial pain which suits all the trivialities of my day.

I ate, watched TV, read fanfic, caught up on FB, huddled in bed for warmth and am about to have cherry cobbler for my midnight snack before swallowing my pills. Obviously, with all the eyeball exercise, I had a decent vision day. Hope it'll continue.

Okay, let's dig into that yummy dessert.

A tale of two days.
Yesterday, I woke up at 9:11. Today, I managed to sleep all the way to 10:24.

Yesterday was a wasted day as far as my vision was concerned. Everything was leeched of colour and glaring so that, when I wanted to watch Battle of the Blades, I couldn't even see the skaters. That made me sad, because one of the pairs had the guy doing a death spiral - a lot harder for a guy to do because of the different centre of gravity, let along being kept in place by the strength of his female partner. But at least I got to hear the judges describe it and be impressed.

Today, I regained my colour perception, so was able to read - hey even fanfic is terrific after a rotten day of nothing.

But, right now, the pain is overwhelming me, so I'm going to stay up to see if watching SNL really live may alleviate some of it - along with the appropriate pills. ::crosses fingers::

It's been a short day for me at least, as I stayed up reading until 3:15 and slept almost until noon. How can a day with so few hours hurt so, so much? Definitely not fair.

I also missed a phone call while sleeping from my co-leader Maria of the old blind group. But I called her in the evening, learning how things were going. Her new normal sounds horrible - so I shouldn't be complaining.

I was busy with blind group stuff constantly during the day. Ub between, I watched my usual TV. In upbeat Canadian news, a boy here has a genetic eye defect causing blindness, starting with not being able to see at night. He couldn't Bsee at night. so stars were pit/ Bit his parents took him to the States for advanced treatment. He can already see stars and street lamps. The cost was a million bucks, so now Canadian governments and docs will be having some interesting discussions. No kidding.

The rest of the evening was suffused by horrid, awful, not good pain. Sigh. So I'm counting own to midnight. At least I conked out promptly when I'd gone to bed.

Ha! I wish.
Wednesday night (actually early Thursday morning) was torture for me after I'd gone to bed around 3:15 a.m. I'd had glorious vision, and ended up reading a really, really long fanfic. Took my pills at the usual time around midnight. So, they'd already worn off when I'd lain down. Cue wrenching pain. Yet, I was being - cautious - and didn't want to take another couple Robax. To my astonishment, I was able to fall into the perfect amnesiac sleep, waking up at 9:42 with only mild arthritis in my right hand.

The vision flickered on-and-off during the day, but returned strongly again in the evening. My reward for the pain? I watched a rerun of Young Sheldon and my usual TV. And stayed up reading until around 3:15 a.m. Woke up at 10. At least I didn't have to overpay for great vision All. Day. Long! I caught up on watching last night's animated Trek which I really liked (because it had the real Enterprise swooping in to save the day, accompanied by Next Gen music and appearances by Will and Deanna). I've figured out the best thing about this series is the characters talking about old epis and characters!

Because of my unusual vision, I did some housekeeping on the blind group's Contacts list (desperately needed) and now I'm reading again. Tried to get back into reading "Sapiens" but I'd lost the natural rhythm of the prose. Must keep at it.

Anyway, I'd better stop counting my chickens, but I'm enjoying the metaphorical clucking I'm hearing. Mind you, I haven't watched tonight's news yet and I think there's bad stuff about Covid in it. Uh-oh.

Repeat for hours. So utterly frustrating. Despite my other computer woes, I had exquisite vision the later it got, so I stayed up reading until - eek - 3:19 a.m. Slept until past 10, so that was okay. The vision was still mostly with me during the early part of the day until it began to fade. Um, maybe I should have restarted my computer when I could actually see. Silly Blonde.

My body flirted with pain through the night. Nothing new there. So, once again, it was pills, bed rest, and watching TV. I know: b-o-r-I-n-g.

Anyway, it's almost time for pills with a bit of chocolate and juice. Tomorrow, I'll be counting coins for our blind group's collection drive. Not looking forward to the task.