Musings: Olympic Irony, among other things

So, Cam just got home from work to find me sitting on the ONE space available on the couch and watching Holmes on Homes while sorting out dog food. Yup - when you have time available in the day, you can handpick through mixed dog food to find the minisculely different pieces that were mixed into it that you suspect made your dogs sick - because you paid $70 per bag of the 'good stuff' and thought you'd save a few bucks by mixing in the 'unknown' stuff that your dog won at a flyball tournament.

So, instead of throwing it away, and instead of feeding it again on the hopes that maybe it wasn't that food mixed in causing the problem, I have spent numerous hours going handful through handful to pick out the 'bad' bits..... But hey - why not when you're wasting your time watching TV anyway - at least this way I feel like I'm getting something accomplished while doing it. Which also leads me into the Olympic Irony - however, I will get to that in a minute.

So, getting back to my situation, I decided that since Cam was home, I would start dinner and to do that, needed to wash my hands since they were busy digging into dog food.... SO, to make a long story even longer, I went into the washroom to wash my hands and heard the tub running. OH CRAP!!! Since I have no sink in my kitchen due to renovations, I have had to do dishes in the bathtub. Earlier in the day - and I'm talking like at LEAST and hour - I decided to do the dishes and turned the tub on. Then I closed the door behind me because Cooper loves to play in the bathtub and so I didn't want him jumping in with my dirty dishes. Needless to say, my chemo brain promptly forgot all about me turning the tub on.

So, I am happy to report that the drain at the top of the tub under the faucet is a VERY effective way to make sure your tub doesn't overflow..... the water was right at the top, but never overflowed. And, naturally, I had run the hot water tank completely out - so I was now pouring ice cold water into the tub. Yesterday, I left a message with the city to have a water meter installed instead of paying a flat rate. I'm wondering if I should wait until chemo finishes before doing that, or we'll go broke.... hmmmmmm

Anyway, back to the Olympic Irony..... 17 days of hailing the world's BEST athletes - admiring their dedication and athleticism and endurance.... all from the comfort of my ass planted firmly on the sofa to see it all. I'm thinking to myself 'gee, I feel kind of sloth-like - I should get out and get some exercise - BUT - I might miss the figure skating - or perhaps one of the 3 games per day of curling they were playing'. And when you think that curling games are 3 hours each and they played 3 games per day, that is NINE hours of curling per day - nevermind any of the other sports....

So, I loved the Olympic experience - the Opening Ceremonies were FANTASTIC, the closing ones were kind of lame in my opinion, but the opening ones made up for it. I loved being able to attend one curling game and loved watching the Men's curling team win gold (plus the other 13 golds too - Yay Canada & the gold medal record). But now that I have spent 17 days cheering for our countries best athletes and what good shape they are in, I now can get up off the couch and start to do something constructive (other than dogfood sorting).

Chemo brain is a real thing - most times it makes me laugh, but sometimes I want to cry because I feel so dumb. The other night I was talking on the phone to my sister who asked me if I had been asked to curl that night (a night that we often get asked to spare). I said no. Then an hour later, I wandered by my computer at 7pm only to see a note on the reminder label that I was supposed to curl at 7pm as a spare. ACK - I quickly called the curling rink to let them know I forgot, but sis bailed me out by jumping in her car & going to cover for me since she lives very near to the rink and I am across town from it....

Previous to that, I had forgotten to show up for my oncologist appointment. And now I've forgotten that I turned the bathtub on. Sheesh. These are the 'major' things - let's not forget the gazillion minor things I've forgotten about. Oh wait - I forgot them already.... Maybe next post... !!

Other than chemo brain, I am not suffering many physical issues except for lack of sleep. And right now, spring has sprung and my allergies are going crazy so I've had to take antihistamine which makes me tired. If it's not one thing......

Anyway, before I started this post, I was on my way to make dinner - and so I should get onto that before I forget.

Cheers!