Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
 
 Burrr the temp has really changed.  Can't believe it was in the 40s 2 days ago and now it is in the 20s for highs.  "Shiver me Timber".  My feet are so cold.  My family doesn't realize why I keep my feet up on the dinning chairs, but I have them up all the time because the floor is too cold for my feet.  I tried folding up a fleece blanket and then putting my feet on and in it, but it doesn't stay high enough. I need it to cover my ankles, and it seems like the tops of my feet are fine but not the back of my ankles.  I have been trying to think of a way to do it so that I can have some sort of wrap/box/lift thing for my feet but I'm not having any success.  Slippers just aren't warm enough.  At times I am tempted to just wear my boots around the house, as the Mukluk company says you can, but it just seems strange to me.

So I just can't lay on my left side anymore.  Every time I try to, after a while, I wake up to my whole belly being hard as a rock and hurting... bad enough I instantly take a pain pill and have to get up because the pain is so bad.  I don't sleep very well on my back and if I sleep on my stomach my back hurts. So it really stinks to be able to only be on my right side. I do often lay in bed on my back when I watch TV or whatever, but for whatever reason it doesn't bother me to be awake and on my back but sleeping on my back... who knows, it is a mystery that will never be solved.

Yeah, so I have been loving the flowers the fam bought me.  They just smell so good.  And this time of year.. well it doesn't smell that good around here.  They are so colorful and cheery.  hummmmm :)

My fever wasn't too bad, but I sure had a headache.  It was from my mass.  I kind of banged it which... i was in shock for a minute or so... and then the pain just started building and building..... I had to have extra meds and cold on it i think it was worse than the fever.. in fact I didn't think much about the fever as I was just trying to cope with that pain in the side of my head.  Now today from my temple down my neck is all tight.  

hum, lots of pain today I see as that is all I seem to be writing about.  *wrinkles nose*  Well, I guess that is all that is really on my mind at the moment.  ok, how about some vain... my nails are doing so much better.  my doc had put me on a med and my fingernails just became junk.  I have always liked my nails as they seem to be the only healthy thing on me.  oh, and my teeth and hair.  so i was on the med and she had to keep upping the dose and it wasn't really doing anything for me but making my nails crappy.  she ended up taking me off it because my lab test were showing another problem.  so i went off it.  and since my nails were crappy, while we were in CA we had our nails done.  WELLLLL, i figured since they were junk anyways, maybe .. who knows.  so once they grew out all the way from the damage they do when they "do your nails", it seemed to take another couple months and now... now .... NOW they are doing better.  so 2012 was a bad year for my nails. But they seem to be doing really good now.  they are growing and rock hard and looking so much better.  I am really happy with them right now.  yeah, it is vain, but I think I am more preoccupied with them because everything else on me is pretty worthless. It is nice to have something good.  ok, that is enough vanity for one day.