today we ended with Ubers, planes, and vans… and home😊…
we started out in the dark with a lovely Uber driver who got us to the airport right on time…
we waited a while for our flight and when we arrived for our connecting flight we literally ran from one end of the airport to the other… yikes… not too thrilled with the help I received from WestJet online when I booked it…
I haven’t had purple in my hair for over six years… basically since covid when I stopped going to my colour person…
when the place I’d been going to for haircuts recently closed down, I found a hairdresser within walking distance…
she did a great job cutting my hair and we discussed the Elumen that I’d been using, and which she carried in her salon…
we booked a date and I was so happy to get there…
in the end she used two products… the Elumen which I’ve had before and really lasts a long time, and a little bit of the Pravana Everlasting … which will be a bit darker… she wants to compare the two of them to see which lasts longer and doesn’t come off on pillowcases or other things…
it came out very nice, once I got used to it again, lol… subtle 😊…
it is a mini printer (Ivy, by Canon) that connects to the phone and produces a cute little 2 by 3 photo sticker… what a clever idea my daughter had…
we’ve started a little journal and have chosen a few favourites each day…we print them, collaborate on the wording, and then she hand prints a little story for each photo…
my main job is to get the sticky paper off each one and place them in our little book, lol… and let me say, it takes work🤪…
while we were at my friends’ cabin, I slept on a soft bed… I always bring a comforter and my own pillow, then just fold the comforter in half and treat it like a sleeping bag…
I realized after the first night that my back and knees didn’t hurt at all… and that kept up for the whole trip…
so, I decided to look for a topper for my mattress…
my daughter suggested I try using the thin mattress in the pullout couch… my housemate brought it upstairs and I got it onto the bed and put the sheets and covers over it…
after all that, it didn’t make a difference… so took it off and returned it to the den…
next we went looking for bed toppers…
they were rather expensive and made me wonder if I needed to replace the mattress, which is about twelve years old… when I saw my physio guy, he suggested most mattresses needed to be replaced after ten years…
so, we went shopping… in person and online… did you know that soft (or plush, to use the correct term) mattresses cost more than the 90% that are firm or medium firm😳…
we finally found a company that has been in business for over thirty years and make the mattresses right here in the city…
the person we spoke with, and bought from, was very knowledgeable and didn’t try to upsell us…
and it was ready and delivered in five days, so I could enjoy it (hopefully with happy knees and back)…
I also arranged for Mother Earth Recycling to pick up and reuse bits and pieces of the old mattress 🙂…
my daughter recently sent me this postcard to remind me how close we are to our big trip…
for my birthday – the big 75 – I decided to take the train through the Rockies and visit gardens on Vancouver Island…
planning started last summer, and we had to book our train trip by December to be able to travel in September… crazy, lol…
next we searched for gardens that we would like to visit, besides the Butchart Gardens, which were first on the list…
then came looking at other spots in and around Victoria that we would like to see… we are going to have as many afternoon teas as possible, lol…
finding accommodations for our stay took a bit of work, but we found a lovely AirBnB close to the Butchart Gardens (and a Butterfly garden)… our second place to stay is a cute little hotel that faces the ocean in Victoria…
and finally, first class flights were booked back home… as I haven’t travelled for ages, the flights were covered by points… how cool is that;-)…
now to think about what I need to pack for a train trip and fall on Vancouver Island…
very happy to discover that the physio I’ve been paying for is covered under my insurance…
I had gone online to check for amounts and annual start date but couldn’t find any information…
I finally got around to calling and discovered, after talking to a very helpful woman, that I do have coverage and could submit my claims online to be reimbursed…
made me quite pleased as the visits are costly…
after filing the required information, it just took a few days for the money to make its way back into my credit union account…
and I continue to do new and interesting exercises to get back to my best…
