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Was visiting Karen’s blog last night and saw her response to a meme that was going around in January. I follow the link to Ces’ post (where the tag came from) and was shocked to see my name at the bottom! I’m so sorry, Ces, I totally missed this. [...]
Was visiting Karen’s blog last night and saw her response to a meme that was going around in January. I follow the link to Ces’ post (where the tag came from) and was shocked to see my name at the bottom! I’m so sorry, Ces, I totally missed this. So, this morning, while waiting for my pot of coffee to brew, I thought I’d take a break from all the current seriousness of my life and enjoy revealing just a wee bit more (but like Karen says, perhaps too much) about (copying you here, Ces) “the real Stef”:
- My biggest pet peeve is HAIR. I hate it on soaps — yes, thank goodness for liquid soap, huh, though I still prefer the old fashioned bar kind sometimes — and of course, in food, especially in salads.
- I studied classical piano for 12 years, but I hardly ever practice these days so you couldn’t tell from my playing. Those fingers do get rusty! Hubby and children always encourage me, though, and I am motivated to practice more especially now that my kids are learning and taking off with it! I also compose music, but what frustrates me most is not being able to transcribe what I’m making. A software that does this has been on my wish list for years.
- I love RocketMania and word games — the few leisurely activities I allow myself. We don’t have cable, and we don’t watch primetime TV either — not in the past 8 years anyway. We do rent movies and our one TV-show collection is Friends. My favorites are period/historical movies. Hubby’s are action ones, so we take turns and compromise.
- I HATE shopping. To me it is such a waste of time, to spend hours and hours just finding the right color, the right fit, the right cut. So I do most of it online. (Or, I sew it, though I haven’t sewn an outfit for myself in a while.) I am not a faddish person at all. I love good, traditional clothes, things that I can wear year after year and still have a dash of panache.
- In my mind, I am the most organized person in the world. If I had the necessary budget, I would line
our library wallsthe whole house with shelves and have everything put in the right place, I mean EVERYTHING. Then again, not having a place for everything is probably a sign that I should get rid of stuff. - I am a perfectionist. That doesn’t mean I’m perfect, or that I want the people around me to be perfect, just that I frustrate myself by making things more complicated than they ought to be. This goes for cooking, cleaning house, organizing, etc. I have a hard time stopping at “good enough” (with the help of good friends’ advice and lots of prayer though, I am getting better). But again, you wouldn’t know it looking at the mess in my rooms. The struggle of the perfectionist lies in WANTING things to be perfect and failing miserably half the time.
- I am allergic to shrimp and other shellfish, but I still eat these, with a big slug of Coke. Coke helps, don’t ask me why. Maybe because it’s strong enough to clean your toilets heehee…. Actually I should clarify. I have an allergic reaction when the shellfish isn’t the freshest it should be.
- I have tons of undone/half-done projects in the basement, that I probably can’t finish even if I had three lifetimes. These include knitting projects, scrapbooking, needlework, and sewing projects that I’ve accumulated for the past 8 years/4 moves. I am still working through them, but VERY SLOWLY.
- I used to oil-paint and watercolor, years ago before the kids. But my oil paints have probably dried up from years of unuse. (Is there such a word?)
- I can’t swim. Well, I can go under water and stay there and swim around for a bit, and I can float on my back — hubby was the one who taught me these things, thank goodness for him. But don’t ask me to tread water, or to breathe while in the water. Still can’t do those. My biggest fear is that I would die from drowning. So driving around/near water gives me a funny feeling.
- My hubby is my #1 fan, and my moral beacon. He’s my greatest blessing. Even now I still think at times, I don’t deserve him. But I know why God put him here — to be my angel, to be my guide. As a young teen I prayed and prayed for what I wanted, but God gave me exactly what He knew I *needed*. Never underestimate the power of a good man. His love and his faith in me has really transformed me and my life. My parents were an awesome example of a love-filled marriage, but without my hubby, I wouldn’t be half the person I am today.
And I’ll mimic Ces here and add one more:
Still thinking of who to tag, so I’ll edit this in the next day or two.
Tagging:
1. Jenn of Feast and Feria
2. Dawn of By Sun and Candlelight
3. Hsien of Cottontimer
4.
Just wanted to post a short note here for those waiting for an update. Hubby’s home, but we’re not quite out of the woods yet. He’s got a staph infection and since he’s high-risk for MRSA, we have to monitor him carefully. The kids are doing better since Daddy’s finally home — those 5 days [...]
Just wanted to post a short note here for those waiting for an update. Hubby’s home, but we’re not quite out of the woods yet. He’s got a staph infection and since he’s high-risk for MRSA, we have to monitor him carefully. The kids are doing better since Daddy’s finally home — those 5 days felt like an unbelievably long time to them. We are all breathing easier, Thank You, Lord.
These are pictures I took at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in August. The kids and I thought the packaging was “so cool”, and I’m sure I’d have fun trying all of these (hey, I’m one of those people that actually like airplane and hospital food!) — but it [...]
These are pictures I took at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in August. The kids and I thought the packaging was “so cool”, and I’m sure I’d have fun trying all of these (hey, I’m one of those people that actually like airplane and hospital food!) — but it would get tiring after a day or too.
More at my Multiply site. I’m clearing off my hard drive, and there are about 20 shots to go in this particular album (Skylab food), and I’ve only uploaded 6 right now. Will do more later today and tomorrow.
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From Brent and Becky’s.
10 Crocus vernus – ‘Remembrance’
10 Allium aflatunense ‘Purple Sensation’
1 Fritillaria – imperialis ‘ Rubra Maxima’
10 Galanthus nivalis
10 Muscari – armeniacum
10 Scilla bifolia ‘Rosea’
Yena helped me pick them! Now to pick a spot. There are many choices, but I haven’t found the ideal one yet.
Warning. This is a bit of a rant.
Hubby’s at the hospital right now. He had outpatient surgery Thursday but by Friday had developed a fever, so I took him back and he was admitted last night. Turns out he has pneumonia, a known complication from his surgery (breathing problems because of the pain, [...]
Warning. This is a bit of a rant.
Hubby’s at the hospital right now. He had outpatient surgery Thursday but by Friday had developed a fever, so I took him back and he was admitted last night. Turns out he has pneumonia, a known complication from his surgery (breathing problems because of the pain, which causes the lung to collapse, etc., etc.).
So last night he was taken off solids and dr. ordered that his diet be clear fluids ONLY. Last night it was chicken broth (and not the homemade kind either, it smelled suspiciously of those instant bouillion powders or mixes that have all kinds of chemicals in them, sodium probably the biggest percentage). I had bought him Chinese food (I didn’t have time to go home and cook because I was with him at the hospital all afternoon), but he wasn’t allowed to eat it. After the fake chicken broth, I asked the nurse for some Sprite, to balance the salt with some sugar. LOL.
This morning, he was allowed hot tea. Then the dietitian came and said he was now allowed to have solids, so she was going over his food order with him, and she NOTED that he had food allergies, which I told just about everyone who came in contact with him yesterday. I told her I was going to go home and prepare him something, but I was told (in a bit of a snotty tone) that they deal with food allergies all the time (IOW, back off, woman, we know what we’re doing). I shut up and waited for his meal to come.
Ten minutes later, the aide comes with his tray, and in it are:
- saltine crackers
- A turkey sandwich
- Chicken noodle soup, emphasis on the noodles, because there wasn’t any veggies at all in it
So I told the aide that my hubby couldn’t have any of this and to please have the dietitian come in. She comes, and I explain that my hubby can’t eat this, and she goes, “So he can’t have any wheat AT ALL?”
Well, YEAH!!! (Isn’t that what I said in the first place?)
Then she goes through each item:
Dietitian: “The crackers?”
Me: “No, that’s made with wheat.”
Dietitian: “And I guess he can’t have the turkey sandwich?”
Me: “No, bread is made with wheat.”
Dietitian: “What about the soup?”
Me: “Pasta is made with wheat.”
Dietitian: “I’m sorry, I was just grasping at straws there. The lunch was basically already prepared when I was getting his order, so I just got whatever was available. I just wanted to make sure he had something to eat.”
I was tempted to ask, “Didn’t you tell me you dealt with food allergies all the time?”
So we go through the list together — which, I want to add, she had written on in BOLD letters when she was putting the order together: ALLERGIC TO WHEAT, DAIRY AND EGGS — and we decided he could have all the fruit and steamed veggies on it plus some tomato soup. I obviously will be bringing him dinner, which is what I wanted to do in the first place. These are the times I wish were in an Asian country somewhere instead, where the hospital meals would be sure to include rice. Sigh.
When things like this happen, I have fantasies of applying to be part of the staff so I can “change things”. But something tells me 10 years from now this still won’t be solved. Too many things at the root of the problem and not enough people concerned to really do something about it.
One more question: what do dietitians learn in school???
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