Here are some pictures of my hand, with second degree burns, after the fire:
Day Four
Looking at these pictures makes my stomach turn. The memory of how painful the burn and healing process were still take my breath away.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Two Year Anniversary
2008 was a Helluva year. First, I got laid off. Then, I caught my kitchen & myself on fire. There are pictures below and they are pretty graphic, so if you have a weak stomach, skip this post!
Here are some pictures of my hand, with second degree burns, after the fire:
Day One
Day Three
Looking at these pictures makes my stomach turn. The memory of how painful the burn and healing process were still take my breath away.
As they say, time heals all wounds. This was taken March 13, 2010.
Here are some pictures of my hand, with second degree burns, after the fire:
Looking at these pictures makes my stomach turn. The memory of how painful the burn and healing process were still take my breath away.
Suicide by Fried Rice
So, yet again, I tried to kill myself. This time I attempted death by food poisoning, not death by fire. Sorry, that’s a bad joke.
After seeing a clip from Food Inc. and The Cove during the Oscars on Sunday, I was seriously toying with being a vegetarian. I got home and decided to make vegetable fried rice a la Trader Joe’s. Now, a little back story. I SUCK at making white rice. I am a pretty darn good cook, but somehow, rice is beyond me. Tuesday, I got lucky. Followed the ex-boyfriends advice (he made fabulous rice!) and it turned out...OK... I was so proud. I had just watched America’s Test Kitchen make stir fry and (1) made sure my pan was smokin’ hot (2) sauteed onions and more mushrooms (3) stir fried the frozen veggies in batches so as not to steam them (4) cooled my rice before frying it. All was on track to be a tasty meal.
Sometime between dinner Tuesday night and waking up Wednesday morning, my digestive track staged a mutiny. Oye vey.
Later that morning, after I composed myself, I called Mom to whine. Then I posted on facebook that I was sick. I toyed with setting up an out of office email explaining that I was dying. There is something about being sick that turns me a pathetic whiney human being. I want sympathy. From anyone and everyone. There is NO WAY any one else has ever felt as badly as I do in this moment. It's not possible. (See Rougie’s lessons learned about being sick.)
So, I slept. I slept ALL day. My wonderful sister brought over seltzer tonic water (it was supposed to be seltzer), krispy kreme doughnuts (surprisingly easy on the digestive system) and McDonald's french fries. Mickey D's french fries are my magic cure all when I am sick. This may sound crazy when your stomach is upset, but I like to feed a sickness and is usually works. Note, I said "usually!" Not this time, I couldn't eat the fries...or the doughnuts. It was back to the popsicles for me!
After seeing a clip from Food Inc. and The Cove during the Oscars on Sunday, I was seriously toying with being a vegetarian. I got home and decided to make vegetable fried rice a la Trader Joe’s. Now, a little back story. I SUCK at making white rice. I am a pretty darn good cook, but somehow, rice is beyond me. Tuesday, I got lucky. Followed the ex-boyfriends advice (he made fabulous rice!) and it turned out...OK... I was so proud. I had just watched America’s Test Kitchen make stir fry and (1) made sure my pan was smokin’ hot (2) sauteed onions and more mushrooms (3) stir fried the frozen veggies in batches so as not to steam them (4) cooled my rice before frying it. All was on track to be a tasty meal.
Sometime between dinner Tuesday night and waking up Wednesday morning, my digestive track staged a mutiny. Oye vey.
Later that morning, after I composed myself, I called Mom to whine. Then I posted on facebook that I was sick. I toyed with setting up an out of office email explaining that I was dying. There is something about being sick that turns me a pathetic whiney human being. I want sympathy. From anyone and everyone. There is NO WAY any one else has ever felt as badly as I do in this moment. It's not possible. (See Rougie’s lessons learned about being sick.)
So, I slept. I slept ALL day. My wonderful sister brought over seltzer tonic water (it was supposed to be seltzer), krispy kreme doughnuts (surprisingly easy on the digestive system) and McDonald's french fries. Mickey D's french fries are my magic cure all when I am sick. This may sound crazy when your stomach is upset, but I like to feed a sickness and is usually works. Note, I said "usually!" Not this time, I couldn't eat the fries...or the doughnuts. It was back to the popsicles for me!
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Wine makes everything Fine.
I was just reading over a blog a friend and I started in 2008. We were going to sell our places, ditch everything and travel until the money ran out. I had been laid off, she hated her job. It seemed like a good plan. Stuff happened and in late '08 the plan was put on hold. Well, she's in India practicing yoga and I'm drinking a glass of wine in the same kitchen as 2008. At least it's been fully remodeled since then - I do love it.
Today was a rough day. Nothing in particular went wrong. Just lots of waiting on other people and a lot of pissy people. Something was in the air, so I left work at a decent hour, ran some errands and headed home. Carolina Girl called while driving home. I pick up the phone, say hello and get "I am so pissed. everyone is pissy. can you go out for a dinner and wine?" I just started laughing! Perfect. Yes. How about wine and some dinner? We're off to check out a new sushi place and I'm looking forward to it. Looking forward to that dinner, a quick power yoga and a large glass of wine later, I am in a much better mood!
BTW - the yoga dvd was "trudie styler's power warrior." Recommended by Cookie (she's a yoga teacher who is a best friend's mom). Lady knows her stuff!
Today was a rough day. Nothing in particular went wrong. Just lots of waiting on other people and a lot of pissy people. Something was in the air, so I left work at a decent hour, ran some errands and headed home. Carolina Girl called while driving home. I pick up the phone, say hello and get "I am so pissed. everyone is pissy. can you go out for a dinner and wine?" I just started laughing! Perfect. Yes. How about wine and some dinner? We're off to check out a new sushi place and I'm looking forward to it. Looking forward to that dinner, a quick power yoga and a large glass of wine later, I am in a much better mood!
BTW - the yoga dvd was "trudie styler's power warrior." Recommended by Cookie (she's a yoga teacher who is a best friend's mom). Lady knows her stuff!
Friday, January 08, 2010
Yippee Skippy!!
I got my first blog comment today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Que the Pointer Sisters!
"I'm sooo excited! And I just can't hide it! I'm about to lose control and I think I like it!"
Ok. Breathe. Time to work.
Que the Pointer Sisters!
"I'm sooo excited! And I just can't hide it! I'm about to lose control and I think I like it!"
Ok. Breathe. Time to work.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Mhaaaawah....
It's Tuesday, which means yesterday was Monday. Not the most shocking revelation, eh? Well, every Monday for the last...I don't know? Two years? My best friend Andrea has been coming over after work. Originally, the plan was to work out and then I would make dinner, she brought the wine. I LOVE to cook and am a fair to middlin' cook. We stuck to this plan for a long time. You may be asking yourself, dinner...wine...exercise, what's the point? Don't they cancel each other out?! Well, sure enough...before long we were opening the bottle of wine when she arrived and ordering take out from the mexican dive down the street. Every once in a while, I would still turn out a tasty dinner. Remember, it's Monday night and we were tired!
Monday nights were just about sacred to me, and I hope, to her. They were something I looked forward to all day on Monday. It's nice to have something to look forward to after work on a Monday. Last Saturday the bitch up and moved! She left town for good. As previously mentioned, she is my best friend so this wasn't exactly a surprise to me. The surprise was how much I missed her.
I boo-hooed a little when we said our goodbyes, but not too much because we promised we weren't going to cry and, we aren't crying kind of girls. We've been friends for 15 years, almost half our lives (holy cow), it's not like we weren't going to see each other again. We both have several very strong long distance and long lasting friendships, so we know it can be done and have no doubts that we will do it.
None the less, yesterday sucked.
Monday nights were just about sacred to me, and I hope, to her. They were something I looked forward to all day on Monday. It's nice to have something to look forward to after work on a Monday. Last Saturday the bitch up and moved! She left town for good. As previously mentioned, she is my best friend so this wasn't exactly a surprise to me. The surprise was how much I missed her.
I boo-hooed a little when we said our goodbyes, but not too much because we promised we weren't going to cry and, we aren't crying kind of girls. We've been friends for 15 years, almost half our lives (holy cow), it's not like we weren't going to see each other again. We both have several very strong long distance and long lasting friendships, so we know it can be done and have no doubts that we will do it.
None the less, yesterday sucked.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
I heart...new to me techie things!
I am in love with two tech things right now! The first is "readability." I was introduced to this by David Pogue in his great ideas of 2009 article. This is great! When you really want to focus on content on a website, you click this little button on your broswer bar and next thing you know, you are looking at an "e-reader" version of the page! The article is translated into a nice white background with a lovely grey/black sans serif font. They have a few different "views" you can choose from, this is the one I liked. Here's the link if you're interested in checking it out: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
The second thing that I absolutely love is "Adium." Found out about this little gem of an im client aggregator from LifeHacker's blog. I have been looking for a way to put all of my im conversations in one program so that I'm not (1) logging into every darn one each time because my friends cannot all agree to use on free email service (or skype...who isn't using skype yet?!) and (2) it's just cleaner. You don't have so much crap crudding up your screen and RAM. Bonus! It pulls in Facebook chat too! Here's a link to download Adium (pronounced Stadium). http://adium.im/
The second thing that I absolutely love is "Adium." Found out about this little gem of an im client aggregator from LifeHacker's blog. I have been looking for a way to put all of my im conversations in one program so that I'm not (1) logging into every darn one each time because my friends cannot all agree to use on free email service (or skype...who isn't using skype yet?!) and (2) it's just cleaner. You don't have so much crap crudding up your screen and RAM. Bonus! It pulls in Facebook chat too! Here's a link to download Adium (pronounced Stadium). http://adium.im/
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Geeking Out on a Sunday Afternoon
I am stretched out in the "media room" (I use quotes because it's just the beginnings of a media room...more on that later) with my laptop, iPhone, Vudu remote & HD tivo remote next to me. Ah, technology is bliss!!
It's the beginnings of a media room because I have the basics: HD TV, HD Tivo, VUDU, DVD player and VCR.
I almost started laughing when I typed DVD player and darn near keeled over when I typed VCR! I have a ton of VHS tapes, but I cannot remember the last time I watched one, nor can I imagine watching one...alas, the VCR is still hooked up! Pretty much a ditto with the DVD player. Who watches DVDs?? There are HD downloads that look spectacular!
The whole blue-ray vs. whatever the other contender was debate bored me from the outset. Even when those technologies were launching, digital downloads were around the corner. Do you really need to touch & feel to watch & enjoy? I'd rather click - order - watch without ever moving my lazy ass!
It's the beginnings of a media room because I have the basics: HD TV, HD Tivo, VUDU, DVD player and VCR.
I almost started laughing when I typed DVD player and darn near keeled over when I typed VCR! I have a ton of VHS tapes, but I cannot remember the last time I watched one, nor can I imagine watching one...alas, the VCR is still hooked up! Pretty much a ditto with the DVD player. Who watches DVDs?? There are HD downloads that look spectacular!
The whole blue-ray vs. whatever the other contender was debate bored me from the outset. Even when those technologies were launching, digital downloads were around the corner. Do you really need to touch & feel to watch & enjoy? I'd rather click - order - watch without ever moving my lazy ass!
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