She sees 20-20 already!!!

So my daughter called me early this morning to tell me her lasik surgery was a success and as of thsi morning she can see 20-20. She still has some difficulty focusing, but she is so thrilled.  She was almost legally blind before the surgery.

I'm so happy for her, I'm tearfully excited.

Oh and I forgot!

I noticed my daughter who had eye surgery yesterday, liked a Bitstrips cartoon on my Facebook page this morning. This tells me she can still see :)  She said she would call me at work today, because after the surgery she shouldn't be staring at computer screens at least not the first day or so.

It's sad what happened in those neighbourhoods...

Articles I found yesterday and today point to the Syrian government punishing neighbourhoods where rebels were found by razing them down completely.  The official stance is that those homes were built without a permit and it's part of urban renewal. Well then why is it being done during a civil war and without any warning or chance for people to pick up their belongings?

It's so sad what has been going on in Syria. I don't care what anyone says, more and more civilians are being displaced and more of the country is being destroyed and to what end?

It's going on 3 years now.  In march it will be 3 years that the people rose in Syria. Those poor people :(

New view on life

Today my eldest daughter is having eye surgery. She has been very nearsighted for a very long time, and hopefully as she is still young, she will have good eye sight again.

I remember how sad I felt when I realized that she couldn't see much 2 inches past her eyes.  I guess that qualifies as blind as a bat!  

I'm going to be thinking about her all day, and hope that the surgery goes as best as it can and that she gets the best possible vision they can give her.  I can't imagine what it's like to have 20/20 vision, as mine hasn't been good since I was 12, but I hope her vision is close to perfect. She's young and deserving :)

Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness

Yes it's the title of a Smashing Pumpkins double album. Also summarizes how I've been feeling the past couple of days.  I can't shake it.

But having spent all my adult life living in Montreal I am well aware that in late January I tend to suffer from SAD.  Despite spending an hour under my lamp  every morning, I'm still getting seriously depressed.

I'm annoyed because you'd think with all the walking out in the forest I'd feel a bit better, but no.   I guess I have to go out more, and  hopefully if it can warm up, I can expose more of my face to the sunlight. It's been too fucking cold to expose anything.

Cape Breton trip 2014

Again this June I am travelling to Cape Breton. Due to a vacation restriction at work, where my boss, and his boss do not want ME to take 2 consecutive weeks, during the period between June 15th and October 31st.   Which is REALLY SUCKY since my favourite activity is camping and this covers the ENTIRE camping season.  However by taking my vacation in early June, I will be allowed taking long week-ends for camping here and there. Hell I may even be able to squeeze in a festival!

Anyways so I arranged my trip to leave May 30th, and come back June 12 or 13th in that ball park.  The sucky part is that there will only be Fundy National Park, Cape Breton Highlands National Park and Mira River Provincial Park opened in the 2 weeks we will be there. So no camping at a new site every night. On the other side of the coin though, at least at Corney Brooke, we will have a spectacular view of the sea, hopefully there are NO gale force winds any of the nights we're there. But the view despite the wind was spectacular.

This year I will get to see the parts of Cape Breton I have not yet seen, like the area between Sydney and Port Hawksbury along the coast. I'm guessing it won't enthrall me as much as the Highlands.  I wonder how many moose we will see?  I hope I will deal better with Sydney. I've warned everyone and their mother, that Sydney makes me crabby.  Dunno what it is about Sydney.

Randomly

I love it when Bob Newhart guest stars on various shows. 

This year it's been on the Big Bang Theory.  Previously it was on NCIS

Last Monday in January

It is snowing like crazy today. Will be a great day to go walk in the woods. Will be so quiet and peaceful. Always is right after a new snowfall, and everything gets muffled. Love the quiet of winter and walking in the woods.

In Bois de Liesse today...

We walked yesterday from my house to Mourelatos and back. It is a 2.8km round trip. Considering the windshield factor it was cold going, but much warmer coming back.

Grilled Haloumi

I just made pan-fried grilled Haloumi cheese. It was so incredibly good. Now I want more, but I had enough. Delicious as it might be. The Haloumi I used was a Cypriot version and made out of a mix of cow, goat and sheep milk.

...................... Sleep - that bitch!

I got new skates today at a liquidation sale

I picked up some Softec Vantage recreational skates for women at a liquidation sale today for $63 including taxes.

When blu-ray players attack!

 So yesterday I was sitting at my desk and I hear what sounds like a corning ware dish break on the floor. When I went to investigate, I found out that the noise was our Lite On external blu-ray player that had shattered a bluRay disk "The girl with the dragon tattoo".   One of the guys in my team,  sitting next to the player tried to eject it to make it stop making noise and by touching it, a shard of bluray disk flew out and attacked him.

Pieces of blu-ray disk

Injury to co-worker

It is lucky the piece of bluRay hit his head instead of hitting his eyes, he could have lost an eye in the process. Pretty nasty. And of work related injuries this has to be one of the weirdest I've seen.  We ordered a new bluRay player to replace this one and I did not order another Lite-On.

It was beautiful but frigid.

So far this week I've walked  Monday, Tuesday and today about 25-30 minutes a piece.  It was -25 on Tuesday but there was no wind, it was -19 today but with the wind it felt colder.   Doesn't it look pretty, this photo was taken just around 3 pm where the sun is really low at this time of the year.

So far between my walking in the woods almost daily and my Vitamin C cubes I have been able to stay healthy. The less I cough, the less I risk throwing out my back.

I may have called it's death prematurely.

Today at lunch time I went to Canada computers and bought a brand new Linksys router, the EA4500.  I got home, re-checked the old router, still flashing like a Christmas tree. So unshrinkwrapped the new router. Put the CD into the player, and before putting hte new router up I started to untangle all the wires to unplug the power cord from the power bar.  I looked at the power supply that took forever to discharge and pondered if maybe NOW the router would work. And it did.  I've got it re-configured and back online with it.

 For removing the shrinkwrap there is at least a 5% restocking fee, and it's a nice router.  So I decided I was going to configure it this week-end. At least for tonight it's working. So I will have a backup router in case something goes wrong.

RIP WRT610N dual band router

So last night around 9:30, with no warning, my LinkSys WRT610N router just died.  Of course it died after the stores were closed.

So we spent last night pining for the internet.   Sure we have internet on our Androids, but typing on a bloody android is a PITA.

So today at lunch, I'm going to buy a router.  All I know is that it's going to be dual band. Beyond that... I have no clue.

Good session

I had a good therapy session. I was annoyed at myself for getting so angry at the moron in our help-desk on Friday. I even left work at noon, because I was too angry to focus, be productive or have the patience for my interns.  My boss was really supportive too. The only thing he told me is that the moron at the help-desk is not even worth my anger.  He's right too.

It's so nice that my boss supports me. Of course it helps we've probably been working together for 17 years now.  I joke he's the longest relationship I've had with a male not related to me.  But it's the truth. And at least most of the time these days I feel supported when I have problem. It probably helps that I can identify my problems bettter and know how to ask for help.

To get back to the session, I described how angry I got. How I left work at noon, and went home. I spent about 1 hour on my ADHD forum on Facebook and some of my friends from the UK were in a silly bantering mood, and after spending an hour with them, I was in a great mood.  I love those people to bits. I have never met any of them in real life, but they are sometimes my saviour.  I even ended going skating and that was so therapeutic, until my fucking skates broke!!!!

But I didn't fume all week-end. Though I was apprehensive to take a voice mail from the said help-desk moron yesterday, in the end it was just to tell me equipment was in. I did get animated describing how angry I was at the guy... because I can always relive those anger moments.

Therapist pointed out that I dealt well with my anger. Even though I still got angry.  So I'm seeing the positive. I also didn't get angry at myself for getting angry. Just annoyed.  Like when am I going to learn that it is pointless to get angry over things I have no control over or morons that I know are just morons!!!

Happy Blue Monday

Apparently today is Blue Monday. 

And I'm not feeling as blue as I usually do in January. So it's all good :)

You're walking through a Forest

Is a line I heard way too much in my friends living room for many years from out of our "friends". I put it like that because the only reason he was 'friends' with any of the girls in the group was to gawk at their boobs and get inside their pants. He hasn't tried with me in easily 10 years now, but he's still trying to get into the pants of people I know. Despite being married to his DD wife.

Beyond that, we went walking around the neighborhood through a wooded area between 2 streets in DDO behind Fredmir park, and it's always so pleasant.

Graffiti tree in woods between Beechwood and Arragon park

Sunset seen from the chain link fence of the baseball field of Arragon Park

Too funny

My first bitstrip was inspired by a friend in my ADHD group who said she wanted to punch in the face anyone who bitstripped. So I bitstrip her punching me in the Face.

And then I got addicted. This is today's bitstrip of me pretending to be David Caruso. Bahahahaha

Typical Belge dinner

When I think of Moules-frites I think of my dad, and Belgium.  I made some for the first time tonight, and it is delicious.