Debs Daily Deliberations 137

Evening Folks Today has been a good day all in all, woke around 7.30am came downstairs where Dexter was asleep on Tony's part of the sofa and made a cup of tea. Ollie didn't get out of my bed until 9.15am....lazy little sod! It was raining so no laundry out on the line.....another cup of tea and some toast and marmalade to take my steroid with, guess the only thing I will miss about the steroids is the fact they have made me eat breakfast! I took a while longer to get motivated for my walk to Tesco's, somehow grey and rainy doesn't put such a spring in my feet. Still I pop on my raincoat and set off and what would you know.....the clouds cleared and the sun came out - as I put on facebook earlier, there's a saying about the sun always shines on the righteous.....yep that would be me then ;) Got home and hung the laundry out and put another load on. Washed up and made some lunch and before I knew it Tony was home to take me for my bloodtest .......gulp!!!! We had a good run over to Romford only getting snagged in a wee bit of traffic due to temporary traffic lights. We walked to the bloodtest area and there was.......NO ONE waiting.....straight in to cubicle 4 where a smiley young man of oriental descent was waiting with apron and gloves ready! I warn him I am difficult and he smiles reaching for the tourniquet, "I am going to put this on very tight now"....ok he wasn't kidding, if I drew a cartoon you would see a ballooned arm at the bottom......a big squished in bit where the strap was and normal arm above ;) he added that he would "leave me cooking for at least a minute longer than normally required". I had my hand clasped shut (long nails is NO good for this ladies I tell you) and had pins and needles in my fingers and my arm felt fit to burst......did he slack the tie off.....nope. He felt around and said he had found 2 "tiny" veins, now which one to try. I was then handed the recycled kidney dish with the vials in etc and asked to hold them for him as he was working back to front on my right arm. A slight scratch and he did indeed get a vein first time.....woooooooo and bloody hooooooooooo. Two vials filled and finally the tie was loosened, I was expecting to hear a whoooooooosh as my arm deflated lol I thanked him and he tapped the electronic counter on the wall "we are professional you know, you are the five hundred and eleventh person to have blood drawn here today". Now we just gotta keep our fingers crossed that my platelets are good. Home and we have a cuppa tea and coffe for Tony and we managed to polish off a bag of Cadbury's Giant Chocolate Buttons (product placement - vouchers or advertising deal this way please Mr. Cadbury). Have a little play on the computer and then its back in the kitchen to cook a Chicken Caesar Salad with added garlic mushrooms - just cos I had a few mushrooms in the fridge. Was pretty darn good too! Tony has gone off out to try and resolve the issues they have with the karate club, boys are upstairs on their computers and Lara is down here on her netbook webcamming with her friend while I have The Italian Job on tv.......sing along ? now this is the self-preservation society ?. I think its time for another cuppa. Thought for today: There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.” Paul Bryant