Back on My Feet Again

I didn't turn on the desktop immediately after I got up in the morning. I waited till late in the afternoon after I came back from the solo hiking in the mountains to check the emails on the computer.

Life is pretty much back to the everyday routines. I am feeling much better than the previous two weeks. My appetite came back and my weight increased. I still can't stop coughing from time to time, to get the attention on the public bus, and in the city library. 

I got up at 8:15 this morning, enjoyed a peaceful reading moment on the front veranda, drinking a big glass of warm water, followed by a glass of soybean milk with cereals, then I took three kinds of medicine to cure the coughing before I put on my teeth alignment.

It's the second day since I put on the 14th teeth alighment yesterday evening. The second day is always hard, becasue the teeth are adjusting to the new positions. It usually takes about 10 days for them to get sturdy to bite and to chew.

I took 10:35 Free New Taipei City Bus to the top of DaTong Mountain trail. The new bus driver was a young man. The old one quitted at the end of June. It's a pity because I have known the old driver since the COVID time.

 I got off the bus at the terminal station at 11:20, walked all the way down for about five kilometers. Along the way, I saw many flowers blossoming, many species of butterflies chasing one another, and many birds singing merrily. It was a quiet and peaceful hiking with the air full of vitality and engergy.

I decided to take a recess for 25 minutes leaning on a big tall tree. I took a delicious apple and a peeler from may backpack. It was relaxing sitting on the grass sidewalk, savoring the peeled apple, looking up at the green tree leaves against the blue sky with a few white clouds flowing here and there.

The breeze was really nice in the mountains. When I arrived at the end of the trail, I saw the big digital temperature monitor of Taipower Building showing 35 degrees celcius, I felt the heat waves rushing at me all of a sudden. I went into a local ZongZi store to quench my hunger. I got on the free bus at 1:50, arrived home at 2:30, took a long nap for one hour.

I took Bus Green 13 to the JingXin City library to reserve six books on line and borrow 7 new arrival DVDs. It was my lucy day. If I had my husband's library card with me, I could have borrowed 14 DVDs home.

The first DVD I watched was “In Broad Daylight (Chinese: 白日之下)”, a 2023 Hong Kong crime drama film directed by Lawrence Kan, from a screenplay co-written with Tong Chui-ping, about the abuse of patients at a local nursing home. While watching the DVD, I can’t help think of Brother Jimmy at New Taipei City WuGu Rehabilitation Center. Brother Jimmy is lucky to live with friendy disabled people to keep his companies, the center was managed by a caring and knowledgeable Center Director.