If you were not already aware. I have a bum knee. It looks fine on the outside but it aches like the dickens. So yesterday I headed over to my knew, favorite orthopedic doctor to have him check it out.
Let's just say that I should not have worn a dress since I was asked repeatedly to bring my knees to my chin and do an assortment of other poses that had me showing my undies. Poor Doc.
Also in case you were not aware, I tend to pass out easily and unexpectedly. (I have some pretty wicked pass out stories that should probably shame me but, hey, you gotta laugh.)
So after the knees to my chin stretching he decided to whip out, not one, but two spinal needles to shoot me up with some steroids.
Um... yea, you guessed it, I felt faint.
I had to take a little reprieve then had to explain to him how I tend to topple over quite easily.
He understood and positioned me to were I could not see that HUMONGOUS needle being inserted into my knee and hip.
Hopefully the shots and the oral steroids will get me back to my running.
I watched Hoarders for the first time in my life last night.
As I said on twitter, I thought The Jersey Shore and Sarah Palin were trainwrecks! But Geez Louise these people are whackadoos.
I'm not gonna lie,
I just dont get it.
I get that there has to be some other underlying emotional issue but I don't get WHY it would manifest itself in a hoarding fashion.
I mean I can understand psycho-killers, alcoholics, anorexics, I can even get Crazy-Ass Kelly Bensimon from The Real Housewives of New York and her paranoid schizophrenic self, but hoarding I can't seem to understand (give me 'satchels of gold' over mummified cats buried in trash any day!). If you understand, please feel free to explain.
I have been cooking. Well to be honest, I really cooked my first meal last night.
I decided it was time I bought some pots and pans and got after it.
I have never cooked in my life.
I mean I didn't even know how simple it was to bake chicken.
So I asked this one over the weekend, who is some what of a gourmet cook, to show me some skills.
And she did. She outfitted me with a whole recipe box and my first order of business in the kitchen was making homemade dough for pizza which was my first meal last night.
On the menu for this week
BBQ chicken sandwiches with homemade BBQ sauce
and Chicken Stir fry.
Wish me luck.
Here's what I know about Hoarding (warning - my dad is a shrink and my mom is a therapist. yikes). Hoarding is generally a form of control. Much like many young girls choose anorexia as a way to take control of their lives. A lot of the people on that show will talk about how they started doing it after a tragic event in their lives. Basically they needed to control something, anything, and that's what happened. They attach themselves to something they can control which ends up controlling them. It used to be classified under Obsessive Compulsive Disorder but many doctors now put the disorder into its own category because it takes such an extreme form.
ReplyDeletehaha this blog post cracked me up! If you are just starting to cook, you MUST check out The Pioneer Woman (and then you'll insist on picking up her cookbook), if you haven't already. She makes it so easy! I swear it changed my life in regards to cooking (and baking!). ThePioneerWoman.com Enjoy!
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