Busy week. What else is new?

I don't know where to start.  It's been so busy this week.  Our day at Food and Wine on Monday was fabulous.  We ate at Greece and the Dominican Republic, and Mark had a sushi roll at Japan.  Everything was scrumptious and filling.  We had planned to stay just long enough to eat lunch, but we were having so much fun that we were there about six hours.  The weather was breezy and the place was far less crowded than on a Sunday.

Spicy grouper on rice, Yucca souffle, Caramel flan, beer, and rum cocktail from Dominican Republic

Drinking beer in his new shirt.

Spicy tuna and salmon sushi roll from Japan.

Veggie moussaka with Gardein sausage crumbles, spannokopita, Greek salad in a cone, a red and a white wine.

Free cocktail.  I'll take it thank you. 

Tuesday I was on a treadmill, similar to last week. Mark went to water aerobics by himself (the last time for three weeks) while I had a mani/pedi. Then I led the Cove Singers rehearsal while Mark waited for the AC repairman to come (fixed it easily for no charge), and then I went to the Guys and Dolls rehearsal.  All good but busy.

Wednesday was HUGE!  Mark had to be at the hospital at 6 a.m. to have his heart monitor installed.  They were running behind, what else is new at a hospital, so the 8 a.m. appointment became 10 a.m.  We had a late brunch at Denny's, did some shopping, and made a successful stop at the endocrinologist's office to have blood work orders changed.  Then we went home and napped!  In the evening we went to the synagogue choir rehearsal where MORE new members showed up.  It was an awesome rehearsal.

Mark's chest is blistered and red-looking under his plastic bandage.  It can come off Saturday afternoon, but it looks like that's going to HURT.  Meanwhile, he's not even sure the machine next to the bed that is supposed to send the data off to the doctor every night is working.  Hopefully, he will call the company for some tech support soon.

Yesterday we had our primary care doctor's appointments.  We go every six months.  My blood work was all great!  My weight was down about four pounds from six months ago, so she was happy with that.  At home I was 273.6 and in her office a few hours later with clothes I was 277.5.  She was okay with everything.  In fact staying the same for a year, essentially up and down the same five pounds, was totally okay with her.  She thought that was better than large swings up and down.  She's probably right. 

She looked at Mark's chest and agreed it's going to hurt when it comes off!  LOL! 

He even called the surgeon's office and was told to leave it alone, take it off Saturday afternoon, and yes, it's going to hurt.  Everyone is so helpful!  LOL

We both got our flu shots, so that was good.

I actually had my Welcome to Medicare physical.  Physically nothing was different.  They didn't even do an EKG, which every physical I ever had up north always did.  The only difference was a lot of odd and fairly stupid questions that were clearly assessing my mental acuity.  I passed.  Here are some sample questions:
What is the date?
Where are you right now?
What floor are we on?
Copy this picture.  It was two intersecting pentagons.
Write a complete sentence using good grammar and punctuation.
Count from 5-50 by fives.
She pointed to my bag of medications and asked me what it was.
And more of the same. 

I passed with only one wrong answer!  We do not have a working carbon monoxide detector in our house.

This morning we are heading to the Cove.  I will do water aerobics, but Mark will watch.  He might take a walk later. His plan is to write down what we are doing in the pool as the lady calls it so that we could do it ourselves when she's not there.  We'll have lunch there and then work in the library as always from 1-4 before coming home for Shabbat dinner and TV.