all the good things

okay, so i had a little freak-out/break-down last night before i went to bed. while i’m not happy nor content about the vision situation, i am running at a much, much lower anxiety level about it all. i’ve made a couple of decisions about how i want to be dealt with by the medical community and have taken steps towards achieving them. these are my eyes and my life and i refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what the doctors can offer me.
note: my “diagnosis” was not based on the puff-test given during routine examinations. i’ve been experiencing visual distortions for the past few weeks which i went to see my GP about. she immediately sent me to the ophthalmologist, who was the one with the very relaxed attitude.
now, onto much happier things in my life…
sunday marked the one-year anniversary of christopher and i meeting. i wanted to go do the same things we did on that fateful day, but we got distracted and then had to go to a family birthday party for him and his father (where i BLEW HIS MIND with the gift i got him).
tuesday was his actual birthday, and i had super-secret plans to take him half-way up Cypress Mountain to have a fantastic dinner & drinks at the Salmon House on the Hill, but when i called for a reservation i found out they were closed for kitchen renovations until the nineteenth. i was at such a loss as to where else i could take him i put a call out to some local foodie-friends for suggestions. in the end, i decided upon the Moustache Cafe in North Vancouver.
the evening started out rough (what with 100kph wind gusts and lots of waiting in doctors’ offices), but it all turned out in the end. we had a cozy corner table with a view out the window (where we got to see the hail, rain, sleet and snow falling), attentive service (there was only one other couple there when we arrived) and a fantastic three-course dinner complete with a half-litre of the most expensive wine which will ever touch these lips. christopher kept saying it was the fanciest meal he’d ever had and the best, outside of home. that’s high praise coming from him. i think i done good.
alas, i think one of the hessmobile’s belts snapped on the way home as i heard this fwap-fwap (shush, heather!) noise coming out from under the hood, but what with all the snow and transit-taking i haven’t had time to get under the hood to check it out yet. at least i hope it’s just a belt: that’s an easy fix.
oh, and i finally got a Wii ordered! i can’t believe it took so long, but it’s on its way to me now and i can’t wait to get to playing. yay!