Photo-A-Day #1268

It was a really rainy day here in MA. My Dad called me to tell me that there were many spiderwebs covered in drops of water. I went outside but forgot my tripod. This image could have been a little better. It is very similar to this Spider photo I took in October of last year.

I was home on my own for the day while Allison and Eva went off for Book Club. This gave me time to do a few things around the house. Now that Eva is getting bigger she has little need for a few of her baby playthings. So I took apart the bouncy seat, the activity center and another activity thing. I packaged all of it up in a plastic container and made sure that I had removed all the batteries.

I am doing this so we can make space for the wave of things that will be coming in for Eva’s Birthday. I’m not being presumptuous about gifts that she may receive, I’m referring to two gifts that I already picked up for her. One is the Fisher-Price Go Baby Go Sit-To-Stand Giraffe, I picked that up from Allison and I to Eva. Since Eva is pulling herself up to stand so much I thought that this would be a fun toy for her to play with. There was another item from Playschool that we looked at but it was more of a sitting toy, Eva is a kid who likes to stand. The other toy is from Mimi and Grandpa Dano but I will leave that a surprise for now. Let’s just say I needed to clear out some room before we put that together.

Other than that I’ve been working on computer stuff all day. I did watch the season finale of Burn Notice and it rocked. Did you know that you can subscribe to episodes and clips from your favorite shows on Hulu.com. You can ever follow the things on your subs through an RSS feed. I added it to my Google reader and will occasionally share things I have watched. Also, I added coComment integration to this blog as well as to 4 other blogs including Allison’s Blog. Please let me know what you think of it, are you a coComment user please let me know as well.

Now I need to work on the Wired Kayaker video I mean to work on months ago. After I find something for dinner.

Photo-A-Day #1267

While we were in Florida we made a few trips over to Target. So it wasn’t much different for us from being home. While at Target we saw that Crayola now has a line of crayons for the crawling and toddling set, they are called Tadoodles. There are paints, crayons, markers, stamps and tub crayons. Each of the Tadoodles is a chunky fun to hold crayon that is supposed to help a child 18mo+ become acquainted with the Crayola brand, um I mean start being creative. Actually I have nothing against Crayola, I love them and love that they are making such products for children to express their creativity so much younger.

When we put them in the cart Eva immediately grabbed them and wouldn’t let go until we gave her something else to distract her but even then it was hard to free them from her grip. We also stopped over to Toys ‘R Us. We have never taken Eva to a toy store before and wow she was mesmerized. I’ve never seen her like this before. She recognized some of her own toys though and that was cool. We were looking to pick up her birthday gift as well as some of Earth’s Best baby food. There was a sale.

Today I was home because I needed to visit the neurologist. I wanted to see one about my feet. My diabetes has caused neuropathy in my feet. My feet are constantly tingling and occasionally I get sharp pains. I’m taking something for it but wanted to see if there was anything more I could do. Well it looks like I’ll be getting a lot more soon, I have to go for a Electromyography study. I’ve had one before on my arm.

Back in 1999 the pinky and part of my ring finger on my left hand went numb, constantly. Apparently I had completely pinched my ulnar nerve. It was such a strange feeling and I went though physical therapy and other avenues before I had a round of Electromyography to study my nerves. Let me tell you, that procedure was so painful that when the doctor told me about it today I nearly seized up. I actually cried during the last shock when we were testing my arm. I’m not looking too forward to having that happen on my legs and feet. My feet hurt enough as it is but I suppose this well help me learn more about my condition even if there is no cure for it.

Oh, my arm, eventually I had surgery and had my ulnar nerve moved, I have a wicked scar on my left arm near the elbow.