Monday Holiday
For some dumb reason, I made a 9 am appointment with The Physical Therapist - on a Monday holiday.
I could have slept in.
Silly silly me.
The good thing about the appointment was it was the last appointment.
Unless I need her help to see if the compression glove I order over the internet fits correctly.
Since it was the last appointment, I asked her to go over the Stretching exercise she showed me one more time.
All the lymph nodes massages they showed me, and the pumping finger exercises .... And I think the Stretching Exercises help the swelling in my fingers more that anything.
Especially since I am at a computer all day at work, and I the computer is one of my hobbies.
Stretching out the shoulders and arms really does seem to help with the lymph node flow.
Since I had made myself wake-up so early on a holiday, I decided to treat myself to breakfast.
I drove to Eat Well .
Typical breakfast - eggs, toast but I got the vegetarian bacon. And the vegetarian bacon was pretty good, it didn't taste weird.
Since having Breast Cancer, real Bacon is off my list forever - its not even a "splurge" or "special treat" food anymore.
I will never taste real bacon again. Sausage too. To many weird things in it.
And for all their lack of nutrition, that is one thing the Doctors actually mentioned. "Limit processed meats."
Well, I will just do away with them all together.
Of course, Soy is also now a big question for woman who have had breast cancer. Now "they" think it may not be a good idea to eat soy for BC survivors. I will leave soy on the "special treat" list.
After breakfast, I was off to distribute a few more of My CDs .
I drove to both "Out of the Closet" Thrift stores in Glendale.
My first stop was the one on 3160 Glendale Blvd in Atwater Village.
And I donated 5 CDs.
I didn't realize it was such a cute area, with such cute little stores.
I ended spending some time walking around and taking pictures of the area.
I am posting them up on Flickr.com . But I have a large amount, because there were so many cool things to take pics of. So keep checking my flickr page, because there will be more.
I put a few at the bottom of this post.
Since I decided to walk around Atwater Village, now I was running late to get to the movie.
So I will have to run to the next Out of the Closet, after the movie is over.
I drove to the Glendale Market Place to see "Chronicles of Narnia" .
The only place in Hollywood where it is playing is The El Capitan Theatre. And it is usually sold out there because they have a performance by Cartoon characters before the show. Its a great place to take the kids. But it is just a crazy place
to go if you just want to run in and see the movie.
I was expecting alot of Children at the movie anyway. Its a holiday, and its mainly for children.
Watching "Chronicles of Narnia" I wondered how many people actually knew that the Lion represented Christ and the Crucifixion story. If you don't know that, I wonder how much sense the movie would make to you.
The movie was good, and most of the kids were very well-behaved.
I was worried about the one little boy who sat behind me though.
Through-out the War battle scenes, he pounded on his seat with both fists chanting "Attack Attack Attack Attack".
Ok - so he likes the War scenes.
But even after the war scenes were over he still pounded with both fists "Attack Attack Attack."
As if he wanted more War scenes.
I finally had to turn around in my seat and look at him.
His mother quieted him down.
I stopped into Starbucks on my way out.
It was freezing cold, the wind was blowing. And I was thinking a hot cup of coffee would warm me up.
Instead, I treated myself to an absolutely gigantic coffee mug that said "Los Angeles" on it.
Finally, last stop at The Out of the closet Thrift Store at 2425 N San Fernando Road.
Its considered a "Super Store", and it was kind of hard to get to, because it was off a weird little One-way side street that ran along-side the main street.
I drove around the block a few times and managed to find parking. It was a pretty industrial area, alot of Car Repair places.
I ran in and donated 5 CDs.
I then finished off my Monday holiday, by taking a long nap. It wasn't even 3 o'clock yet.
And I was pretty tired from getting up so early on a day where I could have slept in.
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Here are a few pics from my day. But its just a few of many. So keep checking back.
