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November, 2006
November 30th, 2006
I got all distracted telling you about the alternative medicine and nutrition thing and forgot to mention how I spent Monday afternoon. That’s when my stomach emptying test was scheduled.
So, I went to the Nuclear Medicine department at the hospital and they had me eat radioactive eggs. I’m not kidding here. I had to wear a bib and latex gloves so as not to get any on me, only in my mouth and the guy doing the test stood like 5 feet away from me while I was
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Tags: digestion, stomach emptying test, nuclear medicine, green eggs, wellness
November 30th, 2006
I’m a geek. O.K. I’m a roleplaying geek. Many of my friends are roleplaying geeks. About 15 years ago, we were on this kick where we’d keep track of the really off-the-wall things we said, usually during roleplaying games. Sometimes, the quote was something we overheard somewhere else and repeated because it “sounded” like something we’d say — you know something “geeky cool”. Then if the quotable was worthy enough, I’d have it made into a button at the next sci-fi convention I made it too.
As I was packing to move into my house, I rediscovered my stash
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Tags: bloghopping, meme, Thursday Thirteen, geek, roleplaying, buttons
November 30th, 2006
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn’t look up. Well, maybe once.
– Isaac Asimov
Tags: Quote of the Day, Isaac, Asimov
November 29th, 2006
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they’ve stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
– Kevin Costner
Tags: Quote of the Day
November 29th, 2006
I spent Monday focusing on my stomach.
Well, sort of.
Monday morning, I met with two GPs, who specialize in alternative medicine, specifically nutrition. Rather, I was referred to them to get counsellings on what changes to make to my nutritional diet to decrease inflammation in my body since I can no longer take anti-inflammatory drugs due to my kidney disease. I guess I kind of expected to get a list of foods to avoid and a list of foods to eat and a sample diet and have that be it, but that’s not really how it went.
First, I’m being referred to
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Tags: Wellness, alternative medicine, nutrition, acupuncture, IgAN, fibromyalgia, anti-inflammatory diet
November 29th, 2006
Oy.
So, the day of the big move, somehow while he was in his kennel so he wouldn’t chase around the movers, Pugly got a-hold of the power cable to my laptop, which wasn’t plugged in, thank goodness. He chewed it up until it wasn’t recognizable, rendering it useless. He just wanted to be sure to express his unhappiness at being in his kennel while such interesting things were going on.
Around 5pm, we realized that the phones weren’t working at the house and while the cable guy was installing cable and internet the night before Thanksgiving — a humongous
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Tags: little red house, moving, homeownership
November 23rd, 2006
$36.78 - Average cost of ingredients needed to make a traditional Thanksgiving meal — including turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie, and trimmings — for 10 people.
Tags: interesting trivia, Thanksgiving
November 21st, 2006
54 - Percent increase in long-distance travel over Thanksgiving, compared with the rest of the year.
91 - Percentage of these trips taken by car.
214 - Average number of miles per trip.
91 - Percentage of kids ages 5 to 13 who say they enjoy family trips because of the extra time they have with their parents.
45 - Percentage who won’t go without an MP3 player.
Source: Health, November, 2006
Tags: Thanksgiving, interesting trivia, travel
November 21st, 2006
“I don’t think Jesus likes dodgeball.”
– Baggage
Tags: Quote of the Day
November 20th, 2006
400 million - Pounds of cranberries that Americans eat each year.
20 - Percent of those eaten during Thanksgiving week.
206 - Approximate number of cranberries used in a 6-ounce glass of fresh cranberry juice.
Source: Health, November, 2006
Tags: Thanksgiving, cranberries, interesting trivia
November 20th, 2006
“We need a president who’s fluent in at least one language.”
– Buck Henry
Tags: Quote of the Day
November 19th, 2006
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
Tags: Quote of the Day
November 18th, 2006
Confusion is always the most honest response.
– Marty Indik
Tags: Quote of the Day
November 17th, 2006
I don’t know why, but I’m always a little shocked at what people will ask for on my Freecycle list. If you don’t know what Freecycle is, it’s an international network of people, “who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them’s good people).” Basically there’s mailing lists broken down to regional areas all over the world and
When you want to find a new home for something — whether it’s a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door — you simply send an
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Tags: greed, Freecycle
November 17th, 2006
90 - Percentage of people who consider their pet dog or cat to be a family member.
60 - Percentage of pets that are overweight.
45 - Percent of owners of overweight pets who say their pet is in “ideal” shape.
Source: Health, Nov. 2006.
You mean there are people who don’t think that their pets aren’t part of the family?
Of course, now I’m wondering when the t.v. shows for helping your pets lose weight are going to start on Animal Planet. I mean, you can already buy doggy treadmills — People, just walk your
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Tags: interesting trivia, pets, dog treadmill
November 17th, 2006
“If only God would give me a clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.”
–Woody Allen
Tags: Quote of the Day, Woody Allen
November 16th, 2006
Something told me that I was tempting fate last night as I took both my new 10mg of ambien and an oxycodone for my migraine as I was going to bed at 9:30pm. I even told Pugly that with my luck I’d get paged since I was on call. But the regular MaxAlt migraine med just wasn’t cutting the migraine pain yesterday. Not even a dent. In fact, it was worse by bedtime.
Well, wouldn’t you know it, at 3am, I got paged. It could have been a five minute deal really except that it turned out that the translator that
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Tags: work, sleep, migraine
November 16th, 2006
“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.”
–Spike Milligan
Tags: Quote of the Day
November 16th, 2006
I’m a worry-wart. I worry about all kinds of things and I can’t turn it off. I worry about whether or not my cats hate me. I worry about whether or not my co-workers are talking about me. I worry about whether or not the world is going to blow up today or if my house is going to burn down or if my headache means I’m getting a brain tumor.
I’m in therapy. At least I’m trying to get a grip, but it turns out that there are a lot of people who worry about
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, meme, bloghopping, risks, accidents, health, cancer, fear, interesting trivia
