Tuesday: June Gloom, Counting my Blessings, and Casting my Vote!

After May Gray, we get June Gloom!  It is all due to a marine air inversion layer and results in cloudy, overcast mornings, which usually clear in the afternoons.  Very often, the effects of June Gloom are enhanced by another weather phenomena known as Catalina Eddy.  This morning, it was foggy, as well.

I don't like gloomy mornings, but I counted my blessings (I woke up this morning, well and alive, I didn't die in my sleep, I have been blessed with another day to live, even if it came with a gloomy morning), got myself up (I'm blessed to be able to get up and move, I am not paralyzed or disabled), and showered (blessed to have hot water on tap!), and dressed (clothes to wear) and headed off to work (blessings of being able to drive and having parking).

I had a productive day at the office.  I completed my portion of a project and sent it on.  I updated my supervisor on that project and updated another person about another project.  One of my colleagues returned from a visit to France and brought back some delicious chocolates to share with all of us and he showed me a video he took on his phone of the ride up the Eiffel Tower and the view from a restaurant up there!

I called the clinic to follow up on the message they had left on my daughter's cell phone to call them.  Apparently, I have been scheduled for one of my screening tests, by them, for tomorrow afternoon!  The receptionist I spoke with was probably doing something else while she was talking to me, because she was rather offhand and didn't give me all the information I needed.  She just gave me the date and time of the appointment and hung up on me!  I had to call her back to ask where I needed to go and she said "radiology on the 1st floor", but not in which building!  1st floor of the clinic?  The hospital?  I asked for a phone number to call, to get that information, and she gave me the general number to the hospital.

I called that number and had to be transferred twice (general number to outpatients to radiology) before I got to the right department, which apparently isn't even located in the hospital or the medical building attached to the hospital (where the doctor's offices and clinics are located), but in another building, altogether, a block away!  I got the address so I know where to go, tomorrow.  But when I asked for their direct phone number, the receptionist said, "Your calling it right now, aren't you?"  Um, yes, but only because I was transferred to that number!  No one transferring me ever gave me a direct number to call, in case we got disconnected, and didn't give me a chance to ask for it!  A long time ago, when I took a secretarial course while waiting for my "O" Levels results, one of the things I was taught, as part of phone etiquette was, to give the caller the direct number before transferring a call, just in case the call got disconnected!  Oh, well, at least they transferred my call for me and to the right department!  Yes, still counting my blessings!

So, to make a long story short, I have an appointment for a bone density scan, scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.  I informed my supervisor and told him, I'll be in tomorrow morning, but will leave after lunch and will probably go home afterwards.

I forgot to write one important thing in my To Do List for today - to vote in the California primaries!  So, as soon as I got home, I had a cup of tea, collected my sample ballot, and headed out to the polling station to exercise my right to vote! 

My "I Voted" Sticker!

Daughter called me almost as soon as I got home - she had just got home from her ice skating class.  We chatted for a bit and will video chat later in the night.

I also called friend R to check on her and we chatted for a bit.

Breakfast had been dry cereal (without milk).  Lunch had been leftovers from last night's dinner, with a fresh mango for dessert.  Afternoon snack was the last of the packet of pumpkin seeds.

Tonight's dinner was: the other half of the smoked sausage I had in the freezer (I had made a stir fry with half of it, earlier), cut into half again and split, corn on the cob (half of one ear of corn), and a salad:

Dinner: Smoked Sausage, Corn on the Cob, Salad

The rest of the smoked sausage and half an ear of corn is leftover for another meal or two.  I think I will pack another piece of the sausage with the leftover potato and some of the carrots and peas from yesterday for tomorrow's lunch. 

I might have half an apple for dessert/bedtime snack, a little later. 

Today, I am grateful for:
- Being alive and relatively well
- A drive through the park on my way to the office
- A productive day at the office
- Getting my bone density scan appointment scheduled (and I even know where to go for it!)
- Being able to vote

By the time I got home, cooked and ate dinner, it was already past 9:30 p.m. and I didn't feel like cleaning the fridge, or doing laundry, or ironing.  But it's OK.  I shall be home, a little earlier, tomorrow, and will do them, then.

Tuesday's To Do List:
- Go to the office - DONE
- Call the clinic - DONE
- Bring the trash cans in - DONE
- Vote! - DONE
- Call friend R - DONE
- Clean the fridge
- Do a load of laundry
- Iron the sari

Wednesday's To Do List:
- Go to the office
- Bone density scan
- Clean the fridge
- Do a load of laundry
- Iron the sari

How was your Tuesday?