This is something I have thought for a while but haven't really shared with other people. Have you ever looked at your pets in the mirror? My cats love to jump up on the sink and drink water from the slowly dripping, trickling faucet so I have looked at them in the mirror on many occasions and I am struck by the way they look different to me when I look at them straight on or at their reflection.
And that led me to thinking about how we mostly see ourselves in a mirror 90% of the time and maybe the other 10% is in photographs. Which is the real self? The backwards reflection? Or the photographed image?
And is this why people always say they hate photos of themselves? Because our perception of what we should look like is just enough changed from what we see on a daily basis?
This is what happens when you are sick for too long and have way too much time on your hands so you ponder weird shit like this.
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A few years back I posted loads of pictures of all the different kinds of candy corn at the Walgreen's. This year, had I taken pictures of all the new candy corns you would be looking at about 5 more new flavors. Now, why on earth do we need any new types of candy corn? I like regular candy corn and see no reason to add Caramel Macchiato or Pumpkin Spice or S'more flavoring to it. Those things are never going to taste as good as you think they will. I promise to take some pics of the damn candy corn aisle next time I am over there.
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If I had had any idea back at the first part of April when I got sick and started coughing that damn near SIX MONTHS LATER I would still be sick the smart thing to do would have been to buy Walgreen's stock. It's a good thing I didn't have any idea that this thing would hang in here this long because it is just too ridiculous for words. My next move is to find a good allergist and get some extensive testing done. The fall allergy season is upon us and I am not at all ready to take it on.
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Usually by now I have my Christmas list made and worked out what gifts I will be making and made good headway on having a bunch of them done. And you would think with all the time I have spent at home doing nothing I could have achieved that and even finished most of them by now. And yet, no. I am blaming my lack of energy and stamina on the 93% oxygen saturation that I was at for all summer long and just being exhausted by the never-ending coughing. So the truth is that I have done next to nothing and really have no clue about the Christmas list and gifting. That's sad for me to admit.
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I was really looking forward to The Bastard Executioner, the new show by Kurt Sutter who did the Sons of Anarchy. It premiered last night and was a big 2 hour extravaganza. It took me damn near the first hour to get involved in it and figure out who was who. I can't really tell how it will go yet. There was a LOT of set up of time, place, characters, conflict, etc. It is very reminiscent of The Vikings.
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Just so you know, I am done D U N with talking about my health and being sick this year. It is boring and a pain in my ass and I am quite sure no one else wants to hear this crap either. So rest assured, if you come back here to read again, there will be no more of the sick talk.
I am also done with using the cute little spacers between my random thoughts. I thought it was a good idea, but now I don't think so.
Hope you are having a really good day in your part of the world. Let me hear from you on the mirror vs photograph idea.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Carbs, Protein, Sciatica and DNA, oh my!
I am still on the Phase 1 of the High Protein, Low Fat, NO CARB diet. This is Day 6. And I believe it may be the last day.
I have Phase 2 printed out and items bought, and since I am dreaming about sweet things, it is time to switch. My husband, Mr. Big Ed, walked in today with a glass of tea and for a split second it looked like cranberry juice and I wanted to wrestle it from his hands and steal it.
Phase 2 will bring in some yogurt, tofu, and most excitingly CARROTS, BEETS and Pita breads. Woot!! Oh yeah, there will be the occasional orange too. All good things.
Does anyone know why I am craving peanut butter at this stage? Every night I have been dying for a spoon of peanut butter. Sometimes I get one, sometimes I don't. It just depends on how I feel.
Anyhoo, I had high plans for making some ketchup or chili sauce out of all those tomatoes that I can't eat, and yesterday morning I woke up and walked to the bathroom. Somehow I stood up wrong or leaned over wrong or something and that damn sciatica hit me full force. It is all over my lower back and over to the right and down my right leg. The same right leg with the arthritis in the hip and knee.
Yeah.
Nothing going on here but ice and ibuprofen. (Here in my house it is Wal-profen from Walgreen's)
Today marks the first day of the defense presenting their case in the Casey Anthony trial. It also marks the 3rd anniversary of little Caylee's death. I don't know how they were able to pinpoint the date down so exactly, but this is the date they are using.
I think the defense lawyer is getting on the job training, and I also think his strategy is to bore the jurors till they say "Uncle, I give, we swear we won't vote for death penalty, if you just STOP!!!!"
I have never seen anything like the sidebar after sidebar in this case. And then there are the sidebars ABOUT the sidebars. It is crazy. That's what it is.
So I am sticking to this diet. I can't stand up. And I am glued to the trial online. In case you are interested in watching something move slower than paint dries, go to wftv.com on casey anthony trial live.
How are things in your life?
I have Phase 2 printed out and items bought, and since I am dreaming about sweet things, it is time to switch. My husband, Mr. Big Ed, walked in today with a glass of tea and for a split second it looked like cranberry juice and I wanted to wrestle it from his hands and steal it.
Phase 2 will bring in some yogurt, tofu, and most excitingly CARROTS, BEETS and Pita breads. Woot!! Oh yeah, there will be the occasional orange too. All good things.
Does anyone know why I am craving peanut butter at this stage? Every night I have been dying for a spoon of peanut butter. Sometimes I get one, sometimes I don't. It just depends on how I feel.
Anyhoo, I had high plans for making some ketchup or chili sauce out of all those tomatoes that I can't eat, and yesterday morning I woke up and walked to the bathroom. Somehow I stood up wrong or leaned over wrong or something and that damn sciatica hit me full force. It is all over my lower back and over to the right and down my right leg. The same right leg with the arthritis in the hip and knee.
Yeah.
Nothing going on here but ice and ibuprofen. (Here in my house it is Wal-profen from Walgreen's)
Today marks the first day of the defense presenting their case in the Casey Anthony trial. It also marks the 3rd anniversary of little Caylee's death. I don't know how they were able to pinpoint the date down so exactly, but this is the date they are using.
I think the defense lawyer is getting on the job training, and I also think his strategy is to bore the jurors till they say "Uncle, I give, we swear we won't vote for death penalty, if you just STOP!!!!"
I have never seen anything like the sidebar after sidebar in this case. And then there are the sidebars ABOUT the sidebars. It is crazy. That's what it is.
So I am sticking to this diet. I can't stand up. And I am glued to the trial online. In case you are interested in watching something move slower than paint dries, go to wftv.com on casey anthony trial live.
How are things in your life?
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Updates, Gossip and such
I woke up this morning with my head completely stuffed up, my eyes welded shut with sand, itchy inside my ears and down my throat. All sure signs of what we lovingly call "Cedar Fever" around here. The mountain cedar is horrendous. It will be the one thing that forces me to wave the white flag and give up and move.
But I have a client who is due in 2 days and the last thing she needs is someone coughing and wheezing all over the delivery room, so I trotted on down to the Med Clinic this morning. I say "trotted" and it was really more of a hobble with my bad knees. Anyhoo, I saw a very nice doctor person and after lengthy examinations and conversations he agreed with my self-diagnosis of Cedar Fever and arthritis of the knee bones. So I am taking steroids. I am on the 'roids, the juice, the stuff. I wonder if I am going to bulk up and go postal?
This very nice doctor person also told me I need to do water aerobics and other water exercises to not stress my joints. In order to do that, I think I might need to get myself a pool. Wait till I spring this on Mr. Big Ed. Ha!
Then I went and stood in line f o r e v e r at Walgreen's only to find out they are so backed up it will be hours and hours until my 'roids are ready to be picked up. So I came home and waited a long while and went back and got back into the interminable line in order to pick up my drugs. Due to having insurance I "saved" $125.00 on one of the prescriptions. Saved $125. off of the regular price. Shocking, isn't it? Do you know what was in that particular bottle?
Six little tiny pills.
That's all. Six.
Hmmmmppphh. The next time I have money to invest in anything it should probably go to the pharmaceutical people that are hosing the general public.
Did y'all see Survivor last night? o. m. g. !!!! It was a shocker. Two stupid twit girls told Jeff that they wanted to quit. They were tired. They were hungry. They were wet. They were just worn out. Big fat whiners is what they are. Then if you watched online when those two wieners showed up at the Ponderosa, which is what they call the accomodations for the jury members, the other people there were flabbergasted and highly pissed that they themselves were voted out and wanted to be playing the game and now can't.
I found it interesting that they let them stay at the Ponderosa and continue on the jury. Seems like they should be booted and bring back the last 2 people before to be on the jury. Whatever.
Oh! And I found this little tidbit online. Celebrity Rehab 4 is coming in January and the cast has been announced. It is as follows:
Janice Dickinson (who didn't see this coming?)
Leif Garrett (former teen heart throb and current druggie)
Rachel Uchitel (claim to fame is being one of Tiger Woods' women)
Eric Roberts (yep, another train wreck)
Jeremy London (this is the Party of 5 twin, not the Dazed and Confused one)
Jason Wahler (I have no clue)
Jason Davis (his claim to celebrity is being a socialite, whatever that means)
Frankie Lons (again, I have no clue)
Looks like Celebrity Rehab is going to be a bit of a misnomer, kind of like Dancing with the Stars was this season. Down the tubes with another show, I guess.
Off to make some more hot tea with honey, drink another Emergen-C and carefully swallow a $25.00 pill. Hope you are feeling great in your neck of the woods!
But I have a client who is due in 2 days and the last thing she needs is someone coughing and wheezing all over the delivery room, so I trotted on down to the Med Clinic this morning. I say "trotted" and it was really more of a hobble with my bad knees. Anyhoo, I saw a very nice doctor person and after lengthy examinations and conversations he agreed with my self-diagnosis of Cedar Fever and arthritis of the knee bones. So I am taking steroids. I am on the 'roids, the juice, the stuff. I wonder if I am going to bulk up and go postal?
This very nice doctor person also told me I need to do water aerobics and other water exercises to not stress my joints. In order to do that, I think I might need to get myself a pool. Wait till I spring this on Mr. Big Ed. Ha!
Then I went and stood in line f o r e v e r at Walgreen's only to find out they are so backed up it will be hours and hours until my 'roids are ready to be picked up. So I came home and waited a long while and went back and got back into the interminable line in order to pick up my drugs. Due to having insurance I "saved" $125.00 on one of the prescriptions. Saved $125. off of the regular price. Shocking, isn't it? Do you know what was in that particular bottle?
Six little tiny pills.
That's all. Six.
Hmmmmppphh. The next time I have money to invest in anything it should probably go to the pharmaceutical people that are hosing the general public.
Did y'all see Survivor last night? o. m. g. !!!! It was a shocker. Two stupid twit girls told Jeff that they wanted to quit. They were tired. They were hungry. They were wet. They were just worn out. Big fat whiners is what they are. Then if you watched online when those two wieners showed up at the Ponderosa, which is what they call the accomodations for the jury members, the other people there were flabbergasted and highly pissed that they themselves were voted out and wanted to be playing the game and now can't.
I found it interesting that they let them stay at the Ponderosa and continue on the jury. Seems like they should be booted and bring back the last 2 people before to be on the jury. Whatever.
Oh! And I found this little tidbit online. Celebrity Rehab 4 is coming in January and the cast has been announced. It is as follows:
Janice Dickinson (who didn't see this coming?)
Leif Garrett (former teen heart throb and current druggie)
Rachel Uchitel (claim to fame is being one of Tiger Woods' women)
Eric Roberts (yep, another train wreck)
Jeremy London (this is the Party of 5 twin, not the Dazed and Confused one)
Jason Wahler (I have no clue)
Jason Davis (his claim to celebrity is being a socialite, whatever that means)
Frankie Lons (again, I have no clue)
Looks like Celebrity Rehab is going to be a bit of a misnomer, kind of like Dancing with the Stars was this season. Down the tubes with another show, I guess.
Off to make some more hot tea with honey, drink another Emergen-C and carefully swallow a $25.00 pill. Hope you are feeling great in your neck of the woods!
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Exciting Trip to my Favorite Store!
So I went shopping the other day. I went to my very favorite store to wander the aisles and kill time.
Walgreens!
I ask you, what better way to while away an hour waiting on a prescription? I bet there is no other place on earth where you can:
1. Get a prescription
2. Buy 5 t-shirts for $10.
3. Get movie sized boxes of candy
4. Cosmetics
5. Take your printer cartridges to get refilled
6. Get film developed
7. Buy an invalid potty chair
8. Eat a pint of ice cream
9. Beer and cigarettes
And Walgreens is so compact. It's not like going to Target where you know it's going to be a long haul to do every aisle. And you know how much I love Target, but it's just not the same as Walgreens.
Anyhoo, I was at Walgreens and I headed straight for the Halloween aisles. I love all the Halloween stuff! And of course I ended up perusing the Halloween candy and here is a smattering of what I saw.
Do you see that? It is caramel apple flavored candy corn. Well, it that wasn't exciting enough, there is this.
These were just caramel, no apple.
At the end of that row there were the bags of assortment. All sorts of different Halloween shaped candy corn flavored things.
Next there were the Indian corn that we all know and love.
And who doesn't love the pumpkins??
This bag appeared to be regular traditional candy corn and the more exotic Indian corn mixed together. Very fall/Autumn but not specific to Halloween.
This is what I chose to take home with me; the much larger bag of original candy corn. And then I looked down the row a bit and what did I spy?
This is a marshmallow candy corn with candy corn covering. Essentially it is a large Peep covered with melty candy corn like frosting!!! OMG!
Guess who took one of those home? I sure did. You bet your booties! I haven't eaten it yet. I was kind of saving it for when I was really craving Halloween candy. But I will be sure to report back on how delicious and yummy it is.
One last thing, at the end of the aisle they have what is known in the industry as "end caps". Yes, I am hip to the jargon. And in the said end cap they were promoting an item I have never seen before. Let me show it to you.
Saline nose wipes. Wouldn't this just be a wet nap for your nose? Well, according to Achooz this is a necessary item that I didn't realize I couldn't live another day without.
Not only is this completely unnecessary but it looks really weird hanging with all the Halloween stuff!
I hope you enjoyed your trip down a Walgreens aisle with me. Come back soon and we will do it again.
Walgreens!
I ask you, what better way to while away an hour waiting on a prescription? I bet there is no other place on earth where you can:
1. Get a prescription
2. Buy 5 t-shirts for $10.
3. Get movie sized boxes of candy
4. Cosmetics
5. Take your printer cartridges to get refilled
6. Get film developed
7. Buy an invalid potty chair
8. Eat a pint of ice cream
9. Beer and cigarettes
And Walgreens is so compact. It's not like going to Target where you know it's going to be a long haul to do every aisle. And you know how much I love Target, but it's just not the same as Walgreens.
Anyhoo, I was at Walgreens and I headed straight for the Halloween aisles. I love all the Halloween stuff! And of course I ended up perusing the Halloween candy and here is a smattering of what I saw.
Do you see that? It is caramel apple flavored candy corn. Well, it that wasn't exciting enough, there is this.
These were just caramel, no apple.
At the end of that row there were the bags of assortment. All sorts of different Halloween shaped candy corn flavored things.
Next there were the Indian corn that we all know and love.
And who doesn't love the pumpkins??
This bag appeared to be regular traditional candy corn and the more exotic Indian corn mixed together. Very fall/Autumn but not specific to Halloween.
This is what I chose to take home with me; the much larger bag of original candy corn. And then I looked down the row a bit and what did I spy?
This is a marshmallow candy corn with candy corn covering. Essentially it is a large Peep covered with melty candy corn like frosting!!! OMG!
Guess who took one of those home? I sure did. You bet your booties! I haven't eaten it yet. I was kind of saving it for when I was really craving Halloween candy. But I will be sure to report back on how delicious and yummy it is.
One last thing, at the end of the aisle they have what is known in the industry as "end caps". Yes, I am hip to the jargon. And in the said end cap they were promoting an item I have never seen before. Let me show it to you.
Saline nose wipes. Wouldn't this just be a wet nap for your nose? Well, according to Achooz this is a necessary item that I didn't realize I couldn't live another day without.
Not only is this completely unnecessary but it looks really weird hanging with all the Halloween stuff!
I hope you enjoyed your trip down a Walgreens aisle with me. Come back soon and we will do it again.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Ranting. again.
Anyone remember Muttley? Muttley was the dog of Dick Dastardly on the Saturday morning cartoons.
This is what always happened; Dick Dastardly made a mess of things and then yelled at Muttley to clean it up. Then Muttley would find a way of getting back at ole Dick (can we all say Passive Aggressive?) and then he would do the Muttley wheezey laugh.
But . . . way back when Dick Dastardly was yelling at Muttley, that is when we would hear Muttley cursing and swearing under his breath "Ras-a-frass #$$%$%^%%^^" Remember? THAT is exactly what I was doing today! The Muttley Cuss-a-thon! Yeah!
And now that I have used my daily allotment of !!!!, I will get on with my rant. The mood has been set. The tone is now right. Everyone understands what kind of response I had to things that happened today.
First, I went to Walgreen's. I love me some Walgreen's! They are one of my all time favorite stores. As a matter of fact I went in once and bitched at the manager because they have signs all over their parking lot saying 30 minute parking or they will tow your car off. Now, how on God's green Earth can anyone get in and out of Walgreen's in less than 30 minutes? Never gonna happen. They have the cutest little cart/buggies to push around, don't they? Not like those weird ass things they have as Kohl's. Those things are just weird as hell. So, anyhoo, by the time I get my cart and strap in my purse and start heading up and down each aisle and then check to see what's on sale and what's on clearance, and then finally go get what I came in for, well, you KNOW 30 minutes have already elapsed right? So, I was in Walgreen's today and wanted to complain about how they have changed the Walgreen's brand of Ibuprofen. So I asked the checker guy who I would complain to about product changes? He has no clue. But here is the deal: Every single product that Walgreen's makes their own generic version of has a cute little name.
For example:
Sudafed = Wal-fed
Claritin = Wal-itin
Ibuprofen = Wal-profen
I love this and I think it is one of the funniest things ever! The last batch of Wal-profen I bought didn't say "Wal-profen" on the bottle it said IBUPROFEN. Then to make things worse, they changed the color from a nice sedate little Sienna red-brown to Bright fluorescent orange, like you would be wearing on the side of the road picking up trash. wtf? I am not too happy about fake colors in my body anyway, but fluorescent ones seem 100 times worse. For some reason we also have a Target brand of fake Ibuprofen in the kitchen and it is also the horrific orange. This is what I have been doing, taking the newer Walgreen's Ibuprofen and pouring them into my old Wal-profen bottle!
Needless to say, the 10 year old checker dude at Walgreen's was not at ALL interested in my story of how I hate the new changes to Wal-profen.
I left there and went to my local grocery store and headed for the men's deodorant aisle. And why I didn't look for this when I was at Walgreen's I will never know. But there I was at the men's deodorant aisle at the grocery store looking for Regular Old Spice Deodorant Stick. Not the roll on, not an anti-perspirant, not a new flavor, just what I had been asked to get. So I perused the aisle and found the Old Spice area. Starting at the top shelf, going across, "Not that one, not that one, not that one" down a row, "not that one, not that one, not that one". I FINALLY found the one I was looking for on the very bottom. And then I counted every. single. version. of Old Spice Deodorant they carry. Want to take a guess at how many there were?
THIRTY-FOUR!
That's how many types of Old Spice Deodorant were available at my grocery store. Guess who was doing the Muttley grumbling cussing thing in the men's deodorant aisle?
This is the same flipping store that carries 5 Brazillian flavors of my favorite brand of Mexican juice except for the one flavor I want. (It's Plum Nectar, by the by. And it is delicious!) The same store that carries 5 rows of Orange Jell-O but not one single box of Apricot Jell-O. The same store that won't stock the only flavor of Campbell's soup that I like.
Don't ask me why I don't go shop elsewhere because in this area there is the one big local chain, and Super Target and Super Walmart. That's it. Unless you count Costco and Sam's. And in my house Sam's and Walmart are verbotten! I do hit my Super Target quite a lot because it is right around the corner, but they just don't have the selection that the grocery store does. Don't you feel bad for me? Aren't you glad you get to shop in your own home town that probably has more stores and some competition?
All done ranting today. Feels good just to get that off my chest.
This is what always happened; Dick Dastardly made a mess of things and then yelled at Muttley to clean it up. Then Muttley would find a way of getting back at ole Dick (can we all say Passive Aggressive?) and then he would do the Muttley wheezey laugh.
But . . . way back when Dick Dastardly was yelling at Muttley, that is when we would hear Muttley cursing and swearing under his breath "Ras-a-frass #$$%$%^%%^^" Remember? THAT is exactly what I was doing today! The Muttley Cuss-a-thon! Yeah!
And now that I have used my daily allotment of !!!!, I will get on with my rant. The mood has been set. The tone is now right. Everyone understands what kind of response I had to things that happened today.
First, I went to Walgreen's. I love me some Walgreen's! They are one of my all time favorite stores. As a matter of fact I went in once and bitched at the manager because they have signs all over their parking lot saying 30 minute parking or they will tow your car off. Now, how on God's green Earth can anyone get in and out of Walgreen's in less than 30 minutes? Never gonna happen. They have the cutest little cart/buggies to push around, don't they? Not like those weird ass things they have as Kohl's. Those things are just weird as hell. So, anyhoo, by the time I get my cart and strap in my purse and start heading up and down each aisle and then check to see what's on sale and what's on clearance, and then finally go get what I came in for, well, you KNOW 30 minutes have already elapsed right? So, I was in Walgreen's today and wanted to complain about how they have changed the Walgreen's brand of Ibuprofen. So I asked the checker guy who I would complain to about product changes? He has no clue. But here is the deal: Every single product that Walgreen's makes their own generic version of has a cute little name.
For example:
Sudafed = Wal-fed
Claritin = Wal-itin
Ibuprofen = Wal-profen
I love this and I think it is one of the funniest things ever! The last batch of Wal-profen I bought didn't say "Wal-profen" on the bottle it said IBUPROFEN. Then to make things worse, they changed the color from a nice sedate little Sienna red-brown to Bright fluorescent orange, like you would be wearing on the side of the road picking up trash. wtf? I am not too happy about fake colors in my body anyway, but fluorescent ones seem 100 times worse. For some reason we also have a Target brand of fake Ibuprofen in the kitchen and it is also the horrific orange. This is what I have been doing, taking the newer Walgreen's Ibuprofen and pouring them into my old Wal-profen bottle!
Needless to say, the 10 year old checker dude at Walgreen's was not at ALL interested in my story of how I hate the new changes to Wal-profen.
I left there and went to my local grocery store and headed for the men's deodorant aisle. And why I didn't look for this when I was at Walgreen's I will never know. But there I was at the men's deodorant aisle at the grocery store looking for Regular Old Spice Deodorant Stick. Not the roll on, not an anti-perspirant, not a new flavor, just what I had been asked to get. So I perused the aisle and found the Old Spice area. Starting at the top shelf, going across, "Not that one, not that one, not that one" down a row, "not that one, not that one, not that one". I FINALLY found the one I was looking for on the very bottom. And then I counted every. single. version. of Old Spice Deodorant they carry. Want to take a guess at how many there were?
THIRTY-FOUR!
That's how many types of Old Spice Deodorant were available at my grocery store. Guess who was doing the Muttley grumbling cussing thing in the men's deodorant aisle?
This is the same flipping store that carries 5 Brazillian flavors of my favorite brand of Mexican juice except for the one flavor I want. (It's Plum Nectar, by the by. And it is delicious!) The same store that carries 5 rows of Orange Jell-O but not one single box of Apricot Jell-O. The same store that won't stock the only flavor of Campbell's soup that I like.
Don't ask me why I don't go shop elsewhere because in this area there is the one big local chain, and Super Target and Super Walmart. That's it. Unless you count Costco and Sam's. And in my house Sam's and Walmart are verbotten! I do hit my Super Target quite a lot because it is right around the corner, but they just don't have the selection that the grocery store does. Don't you feel bad for me? Aren't you glad you get to shop in your own home town that probably has more stores and some competition?
All done ranting today. Feels good just to get that off my chest.
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