Ok, maybe that’s a bad example!  Oh, she’s still cute.

My mother and I went to the chiropractor yesterday.  The car dealership next door had this rather amusing sign posted:

Tee hee!

I noticed my website hit 11,000 hits the other day!  Yea!

Thanks, everyone!

I’ll post about the surgery as soon as I can.  Stay tuned.

Today’s symptoms: A little more tired than usual today, since I haven’t been sleeping well over the last few days.  Just a few sharp pains here and there, but nothing major.

Anyway, it was a very warm, yucky day today.  The temperature at the office was a tad too toasty for me, and I ended up going home just after noon.  After dropping off my stuff upstairs, I went back down and loaded up my window air conditioner and dehumidifier on a cart.  I had the curtains and windows closed, so my apartment actually wasn’t too bad.  I put the AC in the living room, but still have not turned it on.  I have the fan going and it’s not too bad – much cooler than the office!  I have a heat intolerance, as most people with MS have, so I’m hopeful this summer doesn’t have too many days like today. 

Lately I’ve noticed that most of Boo’s pipe cleaners (her favourite toy) have gone AWOL.  I checked under the fridge and found four.  I pulled the oven cabinet out and saw this little surprise:

Actually, it’s not really surprising as I go through this every few months.  She’s so weird.

Another not surprising cat moment was Mya sprawled out in the sun:

Pinky flopped over too, soon after I took this pic.  I only allow them out in the sun after 4:00 when it’s not quite so intense.  I certainly don’t want lobster kitties.  They’re weird enough as it is!

For some reason, I’ve been really weak over the last week.  I’m usually ok in the morning, then I crash hard by the afternoon.  This is the fourth day in a week that I’ve had to crawl onto the bed and sleep for an hour or so.  Mind you, I wake up feeling just as poorly.  I don’t think that’s fair!

Only a few more days until my joyous sinus and septum surgery!  Oh boy!  I can’t wait!

Today’s symptoms:  Very weak and fatigued today.  Also, I had some crushing pains in my left foot.  Fortunately, it only lasted for about an hour.  Tomorrow will be better!

Thanks again, Janice!

They quickly headed out toward Lake Ontario:

It was a decent turn-out, as folks cheered on the ducks over to the finish line:

It seemed to only take a few minutes for the first blob of ducks to cross the finish line.  How they tell who was first is beyond me!

Congrats to the winners!  Now I just have to wait for someone from Kiwanis to contact me so I know where to send the pics.

My afternoons haven’t been too good over the last few days.  Someone had to drive me home from work early on Friday, because I was so weak.  After my flight yesterday, I was hit with the same weakness and spent the rest of the afternoon and evening in bed.  Starting to go downhill now today too.  Hmmm….must just be stressed about my upcoming surgery.  Something like that.

When I woke up this morning, I noticed that Boo and Mya were sitting side by side.  I said to them “Boo, you guys are buddies, aren’t you?”  At that point, Boo looked back at me, then put her paw around Mya’s back.  How cute is this:

And to think they were the worst of enemies when I first brought Boo and Pinky home.  Glad things turned around for the better.

Today’s symptoms:  Felt great this morning and early into the afternoon.  Starting to get a little weak and tired now, but it isn’t as bad as the last two days.  Must have just been a biological slip.

It started to rain right after I took this pic.  The clouds were still fairly high and the visibility was decent, so I carried on:

Welland Airport soon came into view:

On a bright note, I got a free plane wash out of the deal:

I had to get Vyctor back to St. Catharines by 8:00pm, so he could be safely put away in the hangar for the night.  Fortunately, it was only drizzling by the time I had to leave.

It’s been a busy time, as it’s Public Service Week, so quite a few events at work.  I was asked to be the photographer for the events.  Today was my compressed day off, but I was asked to come in to take pictures of the recognition awards ceremony.  Also, I was nominated for an award.  Yea!  We were given ice cream cake after the presentations.  I think it’s the first time I’ve had it – quite good!

This morning, Jan and I went to the States as I was running low on cereal and soup.  Check out this new joyous yum-ol-a product:

Mmmmm…..Cinnabon…..if they had Cinnabon spaghetti, I would buy it!

Anyway, we hit Timmy’s on the way back, then to the pet store and Costco.  I then went out to Fonthill for my 11:45 doctor appointment.  Back in St. Catharines, I dropped off my car at the apartment and walked to work.  Since I went in on my day off, I get to leave early tomorrow, which will be nice.  On the way there, I passed this person driving around with a Tim Hortons coffee on their roof:

I blurred out their face to protect them from embarrassment.

I had my pre-op appointment at the hospital yesterday.  I was told that someone needs to be with me the night after my surgery, so I don’t die from massive blood loss or something.  Fortunately, my little mother has agreed to sleep over that night.  My friend from work was so kind in lending us her air mattress, so Jan doesn’t have to sleep on the couch – thanks again!!!  I was given some post-surgery instructions, which indicated that I should breath once I’m conscious:

Good to know!  I’ll set a reminder on my iPhone just to be sure.

I believe this diagram indicates which way the blood and phlegm will fly from my body:

I like how the nurse also drew a picture of blood-saturated gauze under the nose.  Yup, feeling great about have this done next week.  Yee-haw!

Today’s symptoms: Felt pretty darn good except for some crushing pains in my left hand.  A tad more fatigued than usual, but I also did a lot of running around today.

A tow-plane with a glider was heading up to Trenton, soon after I took off:

No issues heading through Toronto Airspace, other than the Tower warning me of oncoming traffic.  Fortunately, I spotted him right away:

He passed to my right with no issues:

I came fairly close to the CN Tower.  I wish it wasn’t quite so smoggy/foggy:

The Island Airport off to my right:

Here’s some funky, window-saturated building, with a pool.  Excuse me – Geesh!

Passing by this lake before landing at Lindsay:

I followed a couple planes in to land at Lindsay.  I think quite a few more people drove rather than flew.  As usual, I had one of the cutest planes there:

Once there, I wasn’t planning on staying there too long – just long enough to pick up a bunch of their “World Famous Butter Tarts.”  I purchased three then phoned my mother.  She informed me that she would like lots.  Therefore, I bought three more.  Geesh again!

Heading back to my plane, I was relieved to see Vyctor was still the cutest plane in the lineup:

Even with a rubber chicken hanging off his pitot static tube.  What a classy dude.

A Tiger Moth passed me while on the taxiway:

Actually, I passed three other aircraft taxiing in while I was heading out to the runway.  I pulled to the side for each of them and waved.  No one returned the favour or even provided an acknowledgement.  Whatever – just a sign of the times, I guess!

Taking off from runway 13:

Back over Lake Scugog:

And back through smoggy ol’ Toronto:

Lots of sailboats on the Lake:

Once back in St. Catharines, I bid Vyctor adieu and then headed to Fonthill to drop off the tarts.  It was a great day, for the most part!

Today’s symptoms:  Felt great all morning and into the afternoon.  As usual, the flight pooped me out.  Still dealing with a nasty sinus headache too.  Only a couple weeks until my surgery – paws crossed that it helps!

Jan and I stopped at Petsmart on the way home.  There were a couple items on sale that I wanted, plus all other items were 15% off, as per the coupon my friend emailed me.  As we started pulling out of the parking lot, I asked Jan to check the receipt to see if they gave me the discount.  Nope!  Words of Lizdom: Always check your receipt before you leave the store.  Ugh!  At least only two bags of treats were what I was charged full price for, not the big stuff.

Once back at the apartment, Jan helped me bring the stuff upstairs.  After she left, I noticed her coat was thrown out on the balcony:

Mya sniffed it and Abby did this weird, stretch-paw-strong pose as she walked on by.  I still don’t know why my mother threw it out on the balcony.  She blamed it on the kitties when I mentioned it to her.  Nice….

Oh, I mentioned during my previous blog that a car drove through the burnt out building just down the road from me.  Here’s a pic from the paper:

Apparently someone ploughed through two people in this parking lot, then crossed the road into the building.  I haven’t heard the details, if the driver was drunk or something.

To end this post, I would like to share with you this adorable little photo.  Mya brought her blue fishy friend up on the cable box with her:

What a sweetie!

Today’s symptoms: Felt pretty good this morning, although my headache is getting worse from my sinus issues.  Only a few weeks left until my sinus surgery – yea!  Since this evening, I’ve been feeling pretty crappy from my IV infusion.  I usually feel like I have the full-blown flu during the evening and night of my infusion, mildly flu-ish the next day, then fine the day after. 

Here it is the next day:

I went out with a bunch of friends tonight and on the way home, our street was blocked off by cops.  I went around a couple other streets to get over to my apartment, but they were blocked too.  I eventually made it home and checked the area from my balcony to witness this little scene:

Yup, a car drove right through the protective fence that is surrounding the burned-out building:

It’s a couple hours later and they still have the area blocked off.  It will be interesting to hear what happened.

Today’s symptoms:  Felt pretty darn good today!  My fatigue level was lower than normal and very few aches and pains.  Yea!

I flew over Jan’s house and she went out on the balcony (in her nightgown!) to wave at me:

Lookin’ cute, Jan.  Nice slippers.

I phoned the Niagara Chapter of the MS Society earlier in the day, to find out when the Falls would be lit up.  They were told 8:45.  Well, here’s what the Falls looked like at 8:50:

Doesn’t look too red to me.  Here’s a shot almost 20 minutes later:

Let’s see – that appears to be mostly green.  What the heck?  I phoned the MS Society the next day and they couldn’t believe it either.  They were all standing there in the conference room of the hotel, watching for the lights to change to red.  It never happened.  It was advertised and everything.  I’m still waiting to hear back regarding why the Falls wasn’t lit.  Ugh.  At least it was still a nice flight.

I was supposed to go for another flight yesterday.  It was to fly over a charity golf tournament.  Unfortunately, the weather was really bad, so the flight didn’t happen.  I must have checked the weather at least 30 times that morning, plus two calls to London Flight Services for weather reports.  Things just got worse as the day went on.  There were even urgent reports from large passenger jet pilots in Toronto, stating there was pretty severe turbulence in the area.  I was so bummed to be grounded that day.

Today’s symptoms: Felt pretty good, although a little more fatigued than normal since the time I got up this morning.  Still dealing with a worsening sinus issue.  I’ll be glad to have my sinus and septum surgery later this month.

Once I was just beyond Hamilton, I noticed that I was going to arrive in London much sooner than our scheduled 10:00 time.  I slowed down quite a bit, which helped a little.  I texted my friend when I was about fifteen minutes away.  I came into London so slow, the tower probably thought I was a glider:

Flying into London is so scenic:

After landing, I visited the little pilot’s room, then took a seat in the restaurant.  My friend arrive a couple minutes after I sat down.  We had a really nice visit, with yum-o food:

I wasn’t able to eat my toast and I considered bringing my tomato to Mike at the Flying Club, since he really enjoy the two tomatoes I gave him last week.  As you can see, Donkey was reunited with my friend, as he was with me in Ottawa for the training.

After chatting and eating, we headed outside so I could introduce her to Vyctor.  He’s so cute:

Back in the saddle to head back to St. Catharines.

Here we are after doing a loop:

Moo:

Landing (with the help of Donkey) in St. Catharines:

While I was in the air, I called Rapid City Cycle here in St. Catharines and asked them if I could bring my folding bike in, as the tire is flat.  I had a friend come over yesterday and apply a patch, but it was flat again when I got home.  So, I loaded up my bike in Lola Corolla and drove a few blocks away to the bike shop.  Poor bike with his rear tire amputated:

They replaced the tube – very quickly and for a pretty good price!  The guy who did the work took it for a test drive around the store.  I laughed at him, since everyone always laughs at me when I ride it.

Today’s symptoms: Feeling great!  I’m a tad pooped after my flight today, but I’m always tired after I fly.  Still having the super-sensitive skin.  When this symptom flares up, it usually lasts for at least a few days, and sometime a couple weeks.

What a goober.

I got my friend this snail for her garden.  I always tell her about when I stop to pick the snails up off the sidewalk and put them in the grass, while I’m walking to work.  Thought she could be inspired by my good deeds when she looks at her new ornament:

I think rather than be inspired, she’s more convinced what a complete nut-job I am.  Oh well, she picked me as a friend!

Had a nice day at work.  I got a lot done in the morning, then headed down to Fort Erie to pick up a computer from a teleworker in the afternoon.  It was nice to see him as he isn’t able to come int0 the office too often.  I will be going back there on Tuesday with his new computer and to train him on Windows 7 and Office 2010.  The traffic down that way was much more heavy than normal – must be due to the US long weekend coming up.

I should have some nice pics for tomorrow’s blog.  I’m flying down to London, Ontario to meet up with a friend from the training I just took in Ottawa.  I haven’t flown into London for a few years.  Should take about an hour.  I’m planning on landing just before 10:00 to meet up with her.  We’re going to have breakkies at the restaurant at the airport – the Katana Cafe and Grill.  Of course, Donkey will be joining me, since he was with me during the training in Ottawa.  Boo won’t be joining us though – I don’t have a headset big enough for her massive ears:

Today’s symptoms: My energy level was actually decent!  It’s been pretty bad all week due to a bladder infection.  The only symptom I had today was the skin on my right upper arm and left thigh was super sensitive.

After my flight, I drove over to Lil’ Jan’s for our weekly visit.  After I got back home, I did my daily exercises (about an hour on my exercise bike) then chilled out for the rest of the evening.  I was hoping to go flying again, just around Niagara to check out the Victoria Day fireworks.  Unfortunately, I was too pooped.  I instead made myself this gourmet grilled cheese sandwich and watched the fireworks from my apartment:

I don’t have  a toaster oven and didn’t feel like dirtying a frying pan, so turning my toaster on its side seemed to do the trick!

I’m almost glad I didn’t fly over the festivities last night, as there were no big firework shows, just small ones:

Yet another perfect day today so just after lunch, I headed back to the airport for the third day in a row.  My mother and I realized that she didn’t get her two tomatoes she bought yesterday, as they rolled out of the bag in my trunk.  I don’t eat tomatoes so decided I would either have to drive them out to her house or donate to someone.  I chose option two.  Mike at the Flying Club was unbelievably ecstatic when I gave him this wonderful gift:

Yup, his life is now complete.

After making Mike’s dreams come true with the tomatoes, I cranked up my plane and headed over my mother’s house.  I gave her a call and she wandered out to her driveway for a photo op:

After a tour of Fonthill, I headed out to the Lake Erie shoreline, to see how many folks were out, enjoying the nice weather:

I’m really relieved I didn’t inadvertently fly over a nudest beach…

Hi, dudes:

Almost out to Fort Erie, the beaches were still pretty packed:

Again everyone, I would just like to thank you for not being naked!

Today’s symptoms: Feeling great!  I’m sure if I went for a flight last night, I would be very fatigued today.  Glad I listened to my bod when it said “Ok, you’re done for the day!”  I should really do that more often…

This morning, I decided to take advantage of the great weather and headed out to the airport again. I headed over Jan’s house and tried to get a picture of her washing her car.  I had a hard time getting her in the picture, but I think you can see her waving at me in this one, just behind the trees:

Isn’t she cute?  So smiley.

After snapping this joyous pic, I headed over to Port Colborne, then East along the Lake Erie shoreline.  There were plenty of folks out boating today.

A couple of boaters waved their paddles at me while I flew over so I rocked my wings back at them.

When I came back to land, I decided to do a couple touch and goes.  Then I decided to put my newly learned “skill” of shutting off the engine and turning it back on to use.  After a couple of normal touch and goes, I did four or five dead stick landings.  I shut the engine down on the downwind leg of the circuit.  The propeller looked a little something like this:

And here’s the runway:

If you go to my videos page, the first video on the list is the engine shutting down and the dead stick landing.  They all went very well and it was a great experience!

I think after I got back home today, I could have really used a drink of this wonderful new vodka I found.  There aren’t too many things I love more than cake.  Look, now I can have my cake and drink it too!

Notice little Pinky sitting outside in the upper left hand corner of the shot.  Goober.

Today’s symptoms: Feeling so much better today than I did yesterday.  At work on Friday, I could hardly stay awake!  I couldn’t believe I made it through till then end of my work day.

That’s his Donkey, by the way.  As I mentioned in earlier blogs, I took him away due to Donkey neglect.

Needless to say, he’s much happier now:

On the same day as the Crunchie event, I had to take little Abby to the vet for her second B12 injection.  While waiting for the vet, one of the assistants helped to clean her ears, which she wasn’t too happy about.  I was though, as it’s never fun to do it myself:

Poor little dirty earred goober!

I took the day off yesterday and in the morning, met up with a pilot friend for a coffee.  We fed this little fella some donut crumbs, when he hopped onto the table:

So cute!

After our visit, I went over to Fitness Niagara to check out their exercise bikes.  I have a recumbent bike I bought a few years ago and also picked up an upright at an auction last year.  The upright no longer has any tension and the console rarely works.  I figured since I exercise for about an hour almost every day (alternate from the recumbent to upright) that I might as well purchase a good one as a replacement.  Actually, the price wasn’t too bad and I paid a little extra for them to assemble and deliver it to my apartment.  Looking forward to trying it out on Thursday.

Despite taking vacation yesterday, I took a couple hours this morning too (such a rebel!)  I took up one of the musicians who performed at the Marcel Dionne MS fundraiser last month.  He was gung ho to try aerobatics, so we did a few manoeuvers before heading over Niagara Falls.  We did some more aerobatics once back at the airport, then in for a landing.  He really loved the flight – or at least he said he did!

Some dude wandering by was nice enough to take our picture together.

Today’s symptoms: Felt great until about 2:00 this afternoon, then I crashed.  I think it was just because of the RAA meeting last night, plus the exciting flight today.  Well worth it though!

Since the weather was nice, the Air Cadets were out in their gliders.  We also had the pleasure of seeing a Canadian-Forces De-Havilland:

They picked up some more folks and took off just before we did:

We tried to catch up to it, but were slightly out-powered.

This was Jan’s first flight to Tillsonburg.  We tried to go during our last flight but I radioed the terminal and was told the restaurant wasn’t open yet.  As we descended, it started to get a little bumpy, which Jan has no tolerance for.  I think I entered the circuit at about 120 mph.  I was glad to be down, knowing my wussy mother was getting stressed.  You can see a couple yellow Harvards in the distance:

While we were eating, astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason was just landing in his Pitts after doing some aerobatics.  He recognized me when he walked into the restaurant.  You know you’ve made it in life when you’re recognized by an astronaut!  Tee hee!  I introduced him to Lil’ Jan and we chatted for a bit.  He was a guest speaker at one of our Recreational Aircraft Association meetings, back when I just joined about four years ago.  It was one of the best meetings ever.

Here’s a shot of one of the Harvards coming back to the ramp:

After Jan and I finished our yummy breakfast of French toast and home fries, we headed back to St. Catharines.  She loves the water so on the way back, I headed south and then east along the Lake Erie shoreline.  Jan snapped a few pics on the way.  I think this one is either a covered tobacco or ginseng farm:

This is Port Dover.  I hardly recognized it without the thousands of bikers normally there when I fly over on Friday the 13th:

It was a really nice flight and Jan was impressed with the airport and restaurant.  Just like at St. Catharines, they have an aviation fuel loyalty discount program – kinda nice to get a little break with the rising costs!

Today’s symptoms:  Felt great all morning and into the early afternoon!  Lots o’ energy and no real symptoms.  Mind you, I think I did too much today.  After the flight, I came home and spent almost four hours cleaning my carpets.  A wee bit pooped and achy now. 

They had an Emergency Awareness thing going on at the Market, which is right next to my office.  My friend and I wandered through and I snapped a few pics:

Tons of people were there, which was great to see.

As per Z101′s website:  Z101’s Chris Barnatt will be surviving at Market Square in downtown St. Catharines as if a REAL disaster has happened from May 6^th– May 9^th. On May 9^th join the Emergency Preparedness Awareness Event from 10am-2pm at Market Square.

Guess he’ll be camping out there for a few days.

After work today, I headed over to the PEN Centre for some Mother’s Day shopping.  On the way there, I passed a “hoarder” car that I’ve seen around town quite a few times:

The front passenger seat looks the same plus you can see in the pic the HUGE break in the windshield.  Ugh!

After getting all of my mother’s well-deserved pressies, I went over to a mental health fair and seminar at a nearby high school.  Now that I’m a referral agent for people at work when they need to speak to someone for support outside of work, I decided to go and pick up a slew of handouts and make connections.  Good thing I brought a bag with me because there is no way I could have carried everything I grabbed.

Once I got home, I decided to de-stink.  Have you ever been in the shower and had the eerie feeling that you were being watched?  Well, it happened to me yet again tonight – it was more than just a feeling:

Yup, that’s what Boo typically does while I’m showering – pervert.

Today’s symptoms:  Felt great today!  Got a little fatigued in the afternoon, but nothing major.  Hope I feel well for my Tysabri infusion tomorrow – yuck!

She actually started to fall asleep in my arms at one point.  Before leaving for the vet, I started making a couple batches of fudge for the Air Force Association craft sale on Saturday morning.  Once I returned from the vet, I started packaging the fudge until it struck me that I didn’t make enough.  So, I made a third batch.  I think I finally packaged up all of the ELIZAFUDGE around 10:30pm.

I headed to the Legion in Fonthill just after 8:15 this morning.  I stopped off at Jan’s first and we drove our own cars to the Legion.  After dropping off the fudge, we headed over to the nearby Tim Hortons. We actually stuck around for about an hour and a half, before I had to leave for the airport.

The weather was perfect today, which was great news for both of my passengers for flights today.  I took up my Team Leader’s husband again, as he had such a blast during our last flight.  We went up to 3500 feet over the airport and did a slew of loops, rolls, snap rolls and combos.  Then we went over Niagara Falls to check out the amazing sites.  Silly me, didn’t pull out my camera to take some pics.  Perhaps one of today’s passengers can send me some….hint, hint…..  After a couple circuits over the Falls, we went back to the airport and did some more aerobatics.  He said he wasn’t feeling even remotely sick, so I really let loose with the Elizabatics – that’s when I do a bunch of maneuvers together, kinda like freestyling.  After landing, I picked up my second passenger – my Team Leader’s son.  After climbing up overhead the field, I explained each maneuver I was going to do and what to expect.  He seemed to love it!  We headed over to Niagara Falls as well, then over to my aviation mechanic’s grass strip to do a low and over.  Back to the airport and I let loose with the aerobatics again.  What a blast!  There’s nothing I love more than giving people such a fun and memorable experience.

Soon after I got home from the airport, I realized how physically and mentally draining aerobatics are – I was pooped!  I just did some things around the apartment and chilled with the kitties.

Mya and Abby:

Pinky out sunning:

Boo:

Just received my copy of COPA (Canadian Owners and Pilots Association) magazine.  It was quite nice of them to include this:

Before going up for my first flight this morning, one of the FSS folks in the tower came on the radio and mentioned they saw my pic in COPA and congratulated me on the award.  They’re so nice!

Today’s symptoms:  Almost no symptoms today (wow!) except for typical tiredness (not fatigue) after my flights.  I have my fingers crossed I will feel this good tomorrow.

It was my day off today.  I had to go to the States to bring my GoPro camera back.  It stopped working during my last flight.  Fortunately, I just had to mail them (California) the little camera, and not the battery, housing and accessories.  Therefore, it was only $12 to mail (with tracking).  Hopefully it won’t take too long to get back.

Jan joined me today, and we decided to hit TOPS for some groceries.  I think we spent less than $50, but got a few items that aren’t available here.  I also stopped and fueled up Lola Corolla.

As I’ve been a bit down lately (too much going on!) I decided that a little retail therapy might help to pick up my mood.  What do most women buy when they’re feeling down?  No, not shoes – a vacuum!  I’ve had the same Bissell vacuum for about five years now and it works great.  One little problem though – for the last couple of weeks, it’s been emitting this high pitched screaming sound.  Rather annoying and I’m sure not too appreciated by my apartment neighbours.  Since I love to vacuum and do it almost every day, I figured I would splurge and get a really good one.  My life is now complete – I have a Dyson vacuum!

I phoned Future Shop to check their prices and was told they had one on clearance, as it’s a discontinued model.  Saved over $100, plus they threw in an accessory pack with a bunch of different attachments (valued at $100).  When I got it home and took it for a test drive, I was rather disappointed in the suction.  Not nearly as good as I thought it would be.  I fiddled around with it for a while then noticed there was a part on the bottom that wasn’t attached properly.  I snapped the part into place and cranked up the machine again.  Holy cow – I put my hand over the hose and was instantly given a massive hickey!  The suction is amazing – perhaps a little too good as I am now missing a kitty.  Since I vacuum almost every day, I didn’t think I would see too much dirt in the canister.  I was shocked to see how much there was.  I would like to formally apologize to everyone who has ever been in my apartment, apparently overwhelmed with filth and squalor.  It’s clean now!

Since the weather is so nice, I have all of the windows open.  Little Pinkster is just chillin’ in the workout room:

Abby found a sunny spot and struck this pose:

I accidentally left the closet door open and somehow Boo managed to climb into a basket I had up on the shelf.  It’s pulled out for this picture – I honestly have no idea how she managed to get into it:

Little Mya is keeping my pillow warm:

Today’s symptoms:  Still feeling a little weak, probably just too much going on over the last little while.  No noticeable MS symptoms today other than just a few sharp pains in my forearms.

It was apple caramel and absolutely amazing.  The girl next to me (who as I mentioned in my previous blog, had her butter leap into the air and onto the floor, completely unprovoked) said “Oh my gosh, I just inhaled my cake – it’s amazing!”  Yum-o.  I certainly agreed.  The main meal was excellent too.  I had the asian noodle BBQ chicken thing:

Very impressed with the food on Via Rail.

I spent most of the day yesterday just recovering from the long trip home.  I was really weak and felt like I had the full blown flu.  I’m sure it was just my MS saying “You did too much this past week – smarten up!”  At least I felt much better today, plus the weather was perfect.  Needless to say, I went for a flight.  I love it when the cadets and their gliders are there.  It’s so neat to see:

The One Design was out doing aerobatics too:

I headed out toward Port Colborne, and flew by a slew of fisher-folks out on Lake Erie:

I was going to fly really low over the water and scare away the poor little fishies, but decided against it:

I couldn’t believe how many boats there were out there.  Here’s the parking lot with the ten thousand boat trailers:

This lighthouse is part way between Port Colborne and Fort Erie:

I decided not to fly around the Niagara Falls scenic circuit, but snapped this pic on the way by:

Coming back in to land, I flew past one of the gliders:

It was a great flight – so nice to be back in the air again.  I’m hoping for a decent day on Thursday, as it’s my compressed day off.  I was hoping to head out to the airport and wash my bird poop covered plane.  The belly is quite oily too from the aerobatics.  Definitely needs a good cleaning.  Perhaps I should fly before I wash it…hmmmm…..

Today’s symptoms:  Felt so much better than yesterday.  Feeling a little weak this afternoon and have a bit of a headache, but nothing much else to report.  Yea!