Were you aware that it is possible to bruise just your toe by your little toe?

And did you know that every toe is quite essential to you walking ( Read more... )

Last night, we had a simple dinner of veggie burgers (from Local Burger -- they use a quinoa base that is fabulous, and they are now available in the grocery stores around here) and Pirate Booty. The veggie burgers taste good with any assortment of condiments -- sour cream, pesto, Asian chili sauce, raspberry vinaigrette. Firebug Original was ( Read more... )

Before you ask if you are going to see me today, yesterday at PPD where I do believe they will be hard-pressed to have Gaia teach another workshop (but maybe I am being pessimistic), using my super-natural powers well, I found a hole. Right beside the sidewalk. And my amazing graceful falling style dictated that I fall on my face. So I am missing ( Read more... )

I almost made it! Just a few weeks to go, and I would have gone the entire semester without falling! But no, today was the day. Before my day really started, even, on the walk to the bus stop. I found the hole in the neighbor's yard, right beside the sidewalk. It is a small scape that bled very little. It adds some color to the fading brown scar.

The message: This is Mrs. G from Cordley. I need to talk to you or D. T has a cut on his eyebrow. Nothing serious, but I do like to alert the parents about wounds.

My son -- he inherited my chin, my nose, and my grace.

And on my way home, I found no trash! Until... I walked all the way home and had only seen one cup in someone's yard -- I do not ( Read more... )

Bamboo steamers are highly flammable, in case anyone was wondering.

druidevo's reaction -- Get Sir Dynamo to fresh air. Fire extingusher.
My reaction -- Well, shit. There go my bamboo steamers. How the hell am I going to steam those fingerling potatoes?

No! Don't use the fire extinguisher; you'll ruin the stove.What? Then what do you suggest ( Read more... )

I now know what it feels like for people with wooden legs. I'm not talking the prosthetic flexible legs with bendable knees... nah, you know, the wooden pegs sticking out of countless pirate depictions. This morning, walking to campus was Decidedly Not Bad. I stumped along up Mt. Oread with slow ease. Then, on the walk home, the pain killers where ( Read more... )