OMG! A Bug!

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

My cat Gandalf :

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The Ugly Truth about water

Monday, May 20, 2013

Day 9 of my 8 glasses a day streak. Regardless of the consequences I have to get the news spread and maybe I can save someone from these horrible fate :





EQUALS
EVERY. FIVE. MINUTES!

I can now understand the crazy astronaut lady who wore adult diapers to drive across the country.

Don't let this happen to you!

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Now What?

Saturday, May 18, 2013

I went to the farmers' market again today and wandered around while my daughter went looking in the shops for sandals and accessories.

I scored a nice fat eggplant, over 2 pounds of the fattest carrots I've ever seen, a carton of beautiful oyster mushrooms and some brown button 'shrooms to go with it, some sort of possibly Middle Eastern seafood mix (sold by the guy with the cart full of tzadiki and hummus and other awesome goodness)...and a large bunch of very pretty white asparagus with purple tips.

The eggplant and 'shrooms are joining the garlic and tomatoes I already have for a lunch casserole tomorrow. But...what do I do with asparagus?

I mean, I've eaten it at restaurants before but have never been faced with actually preparing it myself. At while it is certainly perfect enough to eat on its own...what exactly can one do with a bunch of asparagus other than grill or steam the spears to be eaten alone?

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Bionic Me

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

I wish.

When I was a kid, in grade school, we took a road trip out to SoCal. We actually criss-crossed the country and got to go to see Mt. Rushmore and the Black Hills in the north down to the Painted Desert, Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest in the south. We drove through Las Vegas, up, down and around San Francisco, and even made it to Tijuana in Mexico. I still remember the paper roses we bought from a street vendor there, and my Dad bought this large carved wooden boat that was awesome and we had for decades.

And, of course, no trip to CA is complete without Disneyland and Universal Studios. At US we were in the audience for a show and when they asked for volunteers from the kids of course my hand shot up in the air along with everyone's. To my great surprise and delight I was picked.

So I got to go down to the stage area in front of everyone...and become the Bionic Woman!

They had my run on this little treadmill kind of thing in the middle of the stage while up on the big screen behind me they demonstrated how they made her run so fast on TV.

OK, I am dating myself, but I loved that show when I was a kid.

And today I wish I had her knees.

I chose to skip my planned marathon in April because my knees weren't feeling right. I rested them for 6 weeks and then started running slowly again. No problems and I was careful not to push too hard to increase mileage and in how I ran (walking on the trails to minimize injury risk, being very careful when transitioning from curb to road and to different surfaces). Things were going good. I officially started marathon (re)training again on Monday, although the first training run would have been today.

Then yesterday morning, as I start my daily squats...BAM! Sudden sharp big knee pain from out of no where.

I've been doing squats since March. I know and use the proper form, I don't push the number (I just increased to 20 this week, up from 15 where I stayed for several weeks) because I am slowly working to strengthen muscles to help my knees.

No idea why all of a sudden doing a squat set off my knee. But it hurt all day every time I moved my knee...while sitting, while walking....although by the end of the day it minimized to hardly anything.

Still...I chose not to go to karate last night to avoid aggravating it. This morning it feels stiff and there are still flashes of "oh, crap, I did something to my knee again" not quite pain.

I know what the problem is (jumper's knee / runner's knee). Not bad enough to need surgery, PT I can do on my own.

Ticks me off to no end though.

I am beginning to think the universe just does not want me to run a marathon because I didn't have this problem until I started training for one (no, it was not brought on by over training or too many miles at a time without proper rest. I had a 30 week training plan purposely to avoid over training injury risk).

I would gladly trade my knees for the latest high tech marvels.

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I Found My Thrill

Thursday, May 09, 2013

...on blueberry hill...

Actually my thrill was bingeing....on music.

Thanks to a recent blog by BOILHAM I went on a music buying spree recently, starting with Fats Domino and Chuck Berry and branching off from there.

New treasures for my iPod include:

Blueberry Hill...Fats Domino
Wooly Bully...Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
Da Doo Ron Ron...Sha Na Na
Rama Lama Ding Dong...Sha Na Na
Witch Doctor...Sha Na Na
Walk Like an Egyptian...The Bangles
Mr. Sandman...The Puppini Sisters version
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy...The Puppini Sisters version
The Lion Sleeps Tonight...The Tokens
Long Tall Sally...Little Richard
At the Hop...Danny & The Juniors
Rockin' Robin...Bobby Day
Reelin' and Rockin'...John Primer version
Roll Over Beethoven...Chuck Berry
Johnny B. Goode...Chuck Berry
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie...Louis Jordan (original but the Asleep at the Wheel version is pretty good too)
Cotton Eyed Joe...Cajun Kickers version
Sea of Love...The Honeydrippers
Beyond the Sea...Kevin Spacey version (I like it better than Bobby Darin's but his is also good)
Come Candela...Arturo Sandoval & WDR Big Band (love mambo and flamenco!)
One of Them...Jace Everett (the guy who sings the True Blood theme song)
Rob Zombie's new album Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor

Most are oldies and truth to the saying Oldies but Goodies! And all make me want to move. I can't believe I went so many years while I was with the psycho ex without listening to the music that makes me happy. Not only do I want to move, I want to make it as well. First love in music is Big Band so I will be looking for sheet music when I am back home next month.

So just as soon as my iPod finishes syncing I am off for a run to enjoy my blasts from the past!

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