10:04 pm - Friday, Aug. 01, 2003
running into walls and jumping on couches
I got a stupid pap smear today. Stupid duck lips. But it went quickly, and I'm glad that it's over for another year. Plus, the Surgeon General of the United states published the 15 best things that you can do for your health (ie - #1 was quit smoking, 2 was exercise and so on) and on this list was preventative measures - getting yearly checkups, mammograms once you're older and pap smears. So I felt a bit better knowing that I was doing my bit to stay healthy. Plus - no thyroid problem, no anemia problems, and they're going to try and fix my buggered knee without surgery. They might need to go in through the side and clean out the bone chips, but it's not very invasive at all, and you're usually off crutches in three weeks or less. So either way, I get my mobility back... this summer has been a big swollen pain for me, and I can't wait to do something about it.
The weekend is looking good. Tomorrow I'm going to take my girls to see a movie, and then my family and I are going to the huge fireworks show downtown. I think it's neat - 450,000 people attend the fireworks each night, which is basically how many were at the stones concert... SO MANY PEOPLE. All of the downtown, and Kits/Jerhicho and UBC beaches are packed. Mom's talking about leaving the house at 5 to get a good seat for the 11:00 display. It's always been something that my family has done, and I'm really looking forward to it. Then on Sunday, mom and I are going to Costco and down Granville street to go window shopping in all of those funky little stores, and then I'm going to dad's, and he's going to take me to catch my 7:10 plane on monday morning. Blah. Work gives me this stupid pit in my stomach, because I don't know if I can spend another three weeks with these crazy kids! But the great thing is that the summer has gone by so fast...I started work on May 11!!!! And already I'm three weeks from OC, five weeks from school... all of the fall stuff is in the stores. I can't wait. Next year is a fresh start for me.
Regan and I went to ikea today and he bought a bed duvet cover thing - the same one that Josh has, and I really like it. But long-weekend traffic was SO BAD...everyone was trying to leave the city, and PoCo is pretty much the outskirts of Vancouver, so as we were driving home we were caught in cabin traffic. It took us an hour and a half to get home from Ikea, a drive that should have been 20 minutes tops. So I knit, and Regan sang and acted like an idiot, but it was cool that we had time to hang out just the two of us. We were sitting on all of the kids furniture, and running into walls and jumping on couches and sitting in bathtubs. It was a wonderful time.
Okay, so that's it. pap smear, Ikea, weekend, home. BLAaaaaaahhhh! Catch you tomorrow peeps ;;;;
