Today, is my fourth anniversary of when I proposed to my wife. As promised, here’s the story of how it happened. The story’s one of my favorites, and it even includes an international political figure who’s still in the news today. It all started a few weeks before our trip to Toronto. I was on [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Four Years Ago Today
Posted: August 26, 2010 in canada, comedy, Daily Life, Daily Living, disability, ontario, ottawa, personal, writingTags: anniversary of our engagement, anniversary of us getting engaged, canada, cbc, cbc television, cbc tv, comedy, disabled, entertainment, fairmont royal york, fun, funny, hamid karzai, life, living with a disability, living with a physical disability, living with muscular dystrophy, living with nemaline myopathy, love, luba goy, merlot rooftop grill, ontario, ottawa, personal, physically challenged, physically disabled, romance, royal canadian air farce, ryan lythall, the cn tower, the president of afghanistan, toronto, trip down memory lane, trip to toronto, via rail
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It’s All Relative
Posted: August 25, 2010 in canada, Daily Life, Daily Living, disability, ontario, ottawa, personal, writingTags: anniversary of our engagement, anniversary of us getting engaged, birthstones, body art, body ink, canada, caramel latte cake, comedy, corona, disabled, east side mario's, entertainment, fun, funny, geo-caching, geocaching, life, living with a disability, living with a physical disability, living with muscular dystrophy, living with nemaline myopathy, love, merlot rooftop grill, ontario, ottawa, personal, physically challenged, physically disabled, romance, ryan lythall, spending time with my family, spending time with my wife, the inkspot, weather, weekend, wheelchair, wheelchair symbol, wheelchair symbol design, wheelchair symbol design tattoo
My sister came to visit last weekend, from niagra falls. She arrived on Thursday, but we didn’t see her until friday. She came over just before 5, and we headed out soon after. My sister is heavily into geo-caching, so we headed to search. I’m not fully educated in geo-caching yet, but basically people leave [...]
It’s Time To Catch Up
Posted: August 15, 2010 in canada, comedy, Daily Life, Daily Living, disability, ontario, ottawa, personal, writingTags: funny, life, personal, entertainment, live entertainment, ottawa, ontario, canada, wheelchair, disabled, ryan lythall, love, fun, romance, weekend, wwe, wheelchair accessibility, physically disabled, physically challenged, wwe wrestling, silvercity gloucester, music, living with a disability, live music, the byward market, living with a physical disability, starbucks, rideau centre, ottawa greek festival, central canada exhibition, lansdowne park, living with muscular dystrophy, living with nemaline myopathy, wwe universe, espresso, ltv 1150 ventilator, expresso cafe, la petite mort gallery, penis, vagina, ottawa greek festival 2010, ouzo, fire dancing, the zorba show, wwe summerslam, wwe summerslam 2010, central canada exhibition 2010
Last time I posted was on Wednesday, just before using my new Ventilator. The first night was pretty rough. It kept beeping every few minutes, which meant i got almost no sleep that night. The next day was pretty much a write-off. I went out for about an hour to try to wake up, but [...]
It’s Like A Breath Of Mechanical Air
Posted: August 11, 2010 in canada, comedy, Daily Life, Daily Living, disability, ontario, ottawa, personal, writingTags: canada, casino sound and light show, checking out wheelchair accessibility, comedy, disabled, entertainment, fun, funny, life, live entertainment, live music, living on a ventilator 24/7, living with a disability, living with a physical disability, living with muscular dystrophy, living with nemaline myopathy, ltv 1150 ventilator, music, new ventilator, ontario, ottawa, para transpo, personal, personal care attendant, physically challenged, physically disabled, raising awareness about disabilities, raising awareness about people with disabilities, raising awareness about wheelchair accessibility, ryan lythall, weekend, wheelchair accessibility, wheelchair accessibility issues
So on Monday, I retrained an Attendant who’s returning after being away for a Year. Everything went fine, and she remembered how to do everything. I also interviewed a new Attendant, and she seems good. As for the rest of the night, I did laundry, reserved a table for a Dinner date with my Wife [...]
Busy Week Ahead
Posted: August 8, 2010 in canada, comedy, Daily Life, Daily Living, disability, ontario, ottawa, personal, writingTags: canada, casino de lac leamy, casino sound and light show, comedy, disabled, entertainment, fun, funny, grace o'malley's, life, live entertainment, living with a disability, living with a physical disability, living with muscular dystrophy, living with nemaline myopathy, ontario, ottawa, personal, physically challenged, physically disabled, raising awareness about disabilities, raising awareness about people with disabilities, raising awareness about wheelchair accessibility, ryan lythall, stand-up comedy, weather, weekend, wheelchair, wheelchair accessibility
On Friday, my friend, Alan came to visit. We hung out, drank, and laughed our asses off. We’ll be checking out a Comedy Show on August 29th at a Bar called Grace O’Malley’s in the West End. If all goes well, I hope to be able to do a set there in September or October, [...]
There’s A Lesson In Here Somewhere
Posted: August 4, 2010 in canada, comedy, Daily Life, Daily Living, disability, ontario, ottawa, personal, writingTags: 19 years of living in a hospital, canada, childrens hospital of eastern ontario, disabled, entertainment, fun, funny, learning about disabled people, learning about people with disabilities, life, life lesson, live entertainment, living with a disability, living with a physical disability, living with muscular dystrophy, living with nemaline myopathy, love, ontario, ottawa, personal, physically challenged, physically disabled, raising awareness about disabilities, raising awareness about people with disabilities, ryan lythall, spending time with my wife, spending time with my wife and her family, teaching children about disabilities, teaching children about disabled people, teaching children about people with disabilities, teaching kids about disabilities, teaching kids about disabled people, teaching kids about people with disabilities, weather, weekend, wheelchair
On Monday, my Wife arrived home just after 11 PM. Her Brother drove her, with his Daughter. We hung out for two hours as they got ready for Bed. I usually see his Daughter once a Year, and she’s a great Kid. A little wacky at times, but who isn’t when they’re ten years old. [...]
Long Weekend’s Over
Posted: August 2, 2010 in canada, comedy, Daily Life, Daily Living, disability, ontario, ottawa, personal, writingTags: canada, comedy, disabled, entertainment, fun, funny, gelato, getting around ottawa in a wheelchair, going out, life, live entertainment, live music, living with a disability, living with a physical disability, living with muscular dystrophy, living with nemaline myopathy, ontario, ottawa, ottawa international buskerfest, ottawa international buskerfest 2010, out and about, personal, physically challenged, physically disabled, pure gelato, rideau centre, rideau canal festival, rideau canal festival 2010, ryan lythall, sparks street mall, starbucks, summer music festival, television, tv, weekend, wheelchair, wheelchair accessibility
I wanted to post yesterday, but I was too brain dead from being outside. Anyways, this is what I did this past Weekend. On Saturday, I headed to the Sparks Street Mall for the Buskerfest. I saw two acts that day. Liquer Flambé — These 2 were from Australia. Their act featured a Violin, Fire [...]
