This and That

It is very chilly here today. The  temperature is 20 degrees  and feels like 20 so, thank goodness there is little wind. I went out for a short walk this morning and will try for another this afternoon. There is snow on the sidewalks but very little ice.
This morning I was reading about yet ANOTHER highly advertised drug which is not doing what it is touted to be doing and that is to lower cholesterol. Every time I read something like this I want to say, "See? Told you so!" I am very anti any drug advertised on television. When I changed doctors last which I do because I am in the program where doctors get to practice on me–under the supervision of the Top Doc-and when they move on, I get a new one. Good heavens, where WAS this convoluted sentence going? Oh, yes, well, every time I get a new resident, I tell him or her that unless the prescribed drug is the only one that will stop me dying, I will NOT take anything advertised on television! This always seems to amuse them. I take three drugs, one for depression/RLS, one to lower blood pressure and one for the early stages of glaucoma–and ALL of them are generic and all of them do a good job.
On the subject of the dishwasher, I ran a load yesterday and had to empty the little bowl this morning. And, as I may have mentioned, I can hear the water going "plink plink" into the metal bowl. I got down on my knees this morning to see exactly where the bowl was. I am pretty sure I can get it from now on without any crawling about on the floor. This is a Good Thing but it doesn’t mean we are going to let this be permanent. After a week or so we are going to ask him when will it be fixed properly.
Yesterday in physical therapy Candace tortured me for a while and then let Alica, the student supervise the last bit. Alica is a Candace in the making! I had to lie on my right side on a machine with a sliding board and push with my left leg. This moved back the pad I was lying on. Then I had to S-L-O-W-L-Y let myself  return to the original position with Alicia chanting. "Control! Control! Control!" This morning, although both butt muscles are sore, the left one is VERY sore!
When I made appointments for PT for next week, I had to change from Tuesday/Thursday to Wednesday/Friday because NEXT Tuesday is when I start back to class!  And when I was putting all this in my calendar I saw that next Tuesday is also the monthly meeting of our book club! We are discussing A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which is a book I LOVE. so, despite having ceramics from 11:30 to 2:30 and Italian from 3:00 to 4:30 I will have to keep up enough energy to go to the library from 7 to 8. I missed the last meeting because of snow and ice..   Now, I am going to check the college website one more time to see if the Italian instructor has put up any books and then let it go until the first class.QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht, 1933