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I got an unexpected phone call from the doctor yesterday saying they needed me to go get blood tests to keep an eye on things due to me taking the beta blocker now. Which is fair enough. They had an appointment at my own practice the third week in June, or else I could go to the out of hours clinic and have an appointment today. Of course I took that one as the out of hours is pretty much the same distance walk away as my own GP. So, I'm off there tonight at 6:30, bonus being James can pick me up after on his way back from work.

Then later, I was in McDonalds with Bodhi when the surgery phoned again, the same lady saying the doctor also wanted to know my weight and BMI so could I attend an appointment to get that done. Not going to lie, that got my back up a little as it seems so unneeded and brings back the days when everything medical was brought back to my weight. But, for some reason they can't do that at the out of hours clinic so I needed an appointment at my own GP surgery. That's going to happen next Tuesday, they did offer one today but it just didn't work with the other appointment as I'll be walking to both.

I'd picked Bodhi up from school yesterday, and the day before, and also had her at my house for a few hours Wed evening for sad reasons when Kayleigh had to unexpectedly go to the hospital to visit her seriously ill friend. All the Bodhisitting went well, but man, McDonalds after school kick out is full of feral kids. My ears were ringing when we left.

In other news, the Radio One Big Weekend is happening a few miles from where I live and while I'm sure it is good for the area the road closures are insane. I've just had a text from the doctor warning of road closures in my town and to leave plenty of extra travel time if you're coming by car. And as for driving anywhere close to Herrington Country park where the event is happening, forget it.

We've tickets to see The Mandalorian and Grogu tomorrow morning and would usually drive that way to get to MetroCentre, but I suspect we'll be going on a detour and bypassing that area completely.

James had some annual leave yesterday so before picking Bodhi up we got a fruit and vegetable box from Re.F.Use. As usual it was great value and for once only contained one lemon. It did have dried thyme, dried basil and finger chillies, so I see some kind of pasta sauce and stew in my future, especially as the box included loads of onions and a punnet of mushrooms. Not sure what to do with the finger chillies as James doesn't tolerate anything spicy and there are only so many stir fries I can eat. Oh, and the extras this time were a beautiful bouquet of flowers and the tiniest almond and cherry loaf cake. Seriously, I bet you can eat it with one bite.

Wednesday didn't turn out exactly as I'd planned.

Went to class for 9 and had a talk about the role of stress in terms of healthy eating, then the usual exercise session. My friend attended the Wed class for the first time in a while so we partnered up which was great as some nattering and laughing helps the circuits go fast. Nothing new or unusual that Rosie had us do, but we were doing goblet squats when she came up to us and said if we wanted to go spicy go from a goblet squat, to an overhead one-armed press with the weight, then swap hands in a clean dip movement, so I tried it and man, my coordination got up and walked out of the hall *g*

From there we were supposed to go home and get changed before going to an appointment in Sunderland, except it turns out the appointment was actually a telephone one, so no need to go into town that early. Got that done and would have been able to chill out except Kayleigh had asked if we could pick Megan up at the vets at 4:30 as she'd been in and sedated for a skin scrape and biopsy.

Now, that would be cutting things tight as we had a table booked at a restaurant next to the theatre for 5:30, but agreed thinking it shouldn't take that long to get her and take her back to Kayleigh's. And it didn't, except when I was opening the door, juggling the cat carrier, meds, and discharge instructions one of Kayleigh's other cats got out, and I spent time chasing him to get him back inside. Thankfully, Lucy and Bodhi had come home by that point so they took over the chase, and in the end we were only five minutes late, after amazingly getting a great, and very close to the theatre, parking spot.

Poor Megan though, she's got a skin condition that is focussed on her face and she's had to have steroid and antibiotic injections for years now to keep it under control. Which obviously, isn't ideal, and then to top it all, recently, those started not to work either leading her to look like this. I'm only linking and not putting the vid in my post as her face looks so bloody and sore. The vet wanted the biopsy etc to ensure a new treatment they're thinking of will help, but until then Meg has to be weaned off the steroids before starting this new treatment in three weeks. It'll be off brand, and something designed for dogs, but the vet does think it'll help. I hope so anyway as she's been through so much, she was a rescue when mam got her, then had to move to Kayleigh's when mam died, and she just deserves a chill and itch free life.

So, left there, and spent time worrying that Daniel was back inside -- they did get him back in btw, and got to the restaurant just a little late. Like the last few times we've eaten there, we were seated on the window tables which are on a high ledge with the chairs being the actual window ledge and the tables tall barrels. But, they were comfortable enough, and as always, the food was delicious, the service great -- though they did charge for a salt and pepper pizza and not salt and pepper fries meaning the bill was much higher than expected, but that was soon sorted, and the atmosphere buzzing. Mainly because, with being literally next door to the theatre, it was full of theatre goers all looking forward to the show, and what a show The Choir of Man was!

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Yesterday I had an appointment booked with a tech who was coming to check our TV monitor. I'm a member of a service that sees what you watch, and then you get paid for that info. It tends to pay for Christmas which is great, but the monitor hasn't been picking up for a while so he was coming to change it for a new version.

I was up and about early to make sure he could access behind the TV easily, only to get a phone call 15 minutes before he was due to say he'd called in sick. Which couldn't be helped I know, but was frustrating. Then Pauline phoned asking if we wanted to go out for tea, her treat, and I wasn't about to say no.

So that's what we did, and the food and company was good, even though we were the only people in the restaurant the whole time we were there, which felt a little strange.

Now James has just messaged saying he's had a fall at work and is having to sit with an ice pack on his knee. No sign of them sending him home yet. He says he's fine, but we'll see I guess. I wouldn't care but literally this morning we were talking about how it's been months since he's needed time off sick. Talk about jinxing the situation.

intoabar is open for sign ups again. I failed my assignment last year, but usually have a lot of fun with the challenge, so am thinking of joining again. Maybe anyway. I have about a week to decide.

We went to see The Sheep Detectives on Saturday, and man, it hit me right in the feels ( cut for spoilers )

Sadly, what doesn't have a feel good ending is the results of the local elections where Reform has done really well, including taking all posts available in my local area. I knew it would happen, and it really was a case of voting for the best of a bad lot. But Reform, and seeing that slime ball Farage gloating about taking Sunderland made me sick.

People on the local FB groups have been constantly complaining about how bad a job Labour has been doing, now lets see Reform do better. Somehow, I suspect they won't.

My nurse appointment went well last week, ( cut for medical talk, maybe verging on tmi )

Class went well on Wednesday, we were talking about the benefits of sleep, another topic I've gone through about three times now. Why it sticks in my mind though is we were talking about using devices like Fitbits to track sleep and everyone who had one checked their app to see their sleep hours the night before. Mine was 9 1/2 hours, and yeah, sleeping is one thing I'm usually okayat. But, even that was long for me.