STUFF and Addictions

Not quite sure what is going on in my life these days but change is a key word.  I have had a cell phone for years and have never lost one. I have gone from the basic flip phone to an amazing phablet, which is a huge smart phone on which you can even watch movies.  Needless to say, I am addicted.  All my photos are on it because it has an amazing camera.  I schedule all my appointments on it.  All my contacts are on it. My life is on that damned phone.  Well, now I have lost it.  Friday the 13th. Go figure. Argghhh.  I feel so lost.  I cannot believe how addicted we get to those phones.

And to add insult to injury, I also had my laptop stolen.  Not being a geeky person, I had not thought about the fact that I should backup everything on that computer so things like all the photos of my grandchildren were stored very nicely on it.  I kept thinking one of these days, I really should print some of those photos but now.................. Gone. Of course then there were all my work files.  Arggghhhh. Now, being of the belief that everything happens for a reason, and that we create our lives, I still want to scream and yell, what the hell is going on?????!!!!!! Then my big brother has got to get his 2 cents in asking "Why are you creating this Bev?"   OMG.

I really am getting the message that maybe I have too much STUFF! My car is always full of stuff, going out to the farm or coming in from the farm, or going from one of my offices to the other or things to be returned to a store, or , or or.......  Things could get lost in there.   One of my friends is a little psychic.  Actually I seems to have a few friends that are a little psychic and some that are a little psychotic. But that is another story.  Anyway, my psychic friend  told me that my phone was in my car.  So I just came in from searching through it hoping to find my phone somewhere. Perhaps it had just fallen out of my purse. It was not in there.  So much for her talent.  It is -35 C today with the wind chill factor.  Today is the first time that the Bon Soo Winter Carnival Polar Bear Swim had to be cancelled because of the temperature.  My fingers were freezing after 5 minutes out there.  I had to come in and put them under warm water to stop them from aching.  I HATE WINTER!!!  I have had enough.  I am so looking forward to Ecuador in April.

Maybe this would be a good time to explain about my foot issues.  I had thought we may be hiking around the Andes next month and going inside a volcano that my brother had visited last year when he was there.  But 3 months ago in November, on the first snowfall, I fell off of the bank and into the Thessalon River at my campground. My roommate thought this was a funny thing and was buckled over laughing at me.  I had to quickly grab onto a big tree to stop myself from sinking in the quicksand. I was so worried about losing my boots in the mud, and having to walk out bootless in the snow, that I didn't pay much attention to the pain that was going on in my right foot.  Apparently my right foot hit something under the water.  After a week of complaining about the pain, I finally took myself down to the hospital and had some xrays done.  The kind, condescending doctor told me that I just had a contusion, no breaks, and it would get better in a month.

Well then it was Christmas, and I was off to Ottawa to see my kids, and grand kids.  All the time walking on the outside of my foot as it was still painful under the toe next to the big toe. Stairs were especially bad. Now, I have pain the the right hip from walking funny and 2 months have passed.  I finally get into my doctor who takes more xrays and tells me nothing is broken.  I explain to him that he must have noticed by now that I am not a hypochondriac He sure doesn't see me too often.  I don't like doctors.  I like my naturopathic doctor much better but this is not the kind of thing I think she could help me with.  I explain that my foot is still paining, and still swollen and inflamed so he schedules a foot scan.  This takes another 2 weeks, and then my doctor is off for 2 weeks.  3 months have now passed with my walking/hobbling on this sore foot with this very sore right hip now.  My doctor then calls to tell me that yes, i do have a stress fracture, that I need to go get an air cast, and he has scheduled a MRI and an appointment with a orthopedic surgeon.  OMG.  So, I guess, I am not hiking in the Andes next month.

 Yep, there's the boot. My friend Nancy has gone off to Arizona to visit my cousin Colleen for the next 3 weeks, luck sot, and I am staying at her house watching her dog YumYum.


 I did buy a phone on eBay yesterday and it should arrive this week. I am shocked at the exchange rate right now for us to Canadian dollars.  $168 US cost me $213 Canadian.  That is going to hurt in Ecuador where we must use US dollars.  Did I mention how frustrated I am at this time with life in general.  I have gained 15 lbs since Christmas with my lack of activity due to this friggin foot/hip thing.  I know, I could go swimming but it is cold outside. I got both snow machines all ready for the season but cannot go out in case I get stuck and would not be able to walk out.  Got some new cross country skis in the fall but................ Yeah.  Frustration.


Well, my brothers and I did rent a 3 bedroom condo on the beach in Ecuador for the month of April so I guess that is what I am doing next month. Not such a bad thing.  My brother Gary assures me that alcohol is cheap there.This is the view from our balcony.  I cannot wait.  It has been and still is a very long  and very cold winter. Gary has informed me that he is selling all his furniture and is hoping by next year to live in Ecuador all winter and stay in his magnificent  motor home all summer. He had white leather reclining sofas in it and a stack able washer/dryer.  I sincerely am liking this idea a lot.  I have a little Boler trailer that I can pull behind my Subaru Outback.  Not quite the same caliber of accommodation but.  ......We could hit music festivals all summer.  I could do some massages, make some money. And enjoy life. It could work, just sayin.