Kick-Ass Alex!
Now I can have Crisco for supper!
After a healthy breakfast of old-fashioned oats, dried fruit, and a generous topping of
Kashi GOLEAN, I thought I was doing well. But then I had a homemade white bean-pasta-mustard green soup (with plenty of garlic!), a megasalad, and some homemade sourdough wheat bran bread for lunch. I'm feeling so healthy and fibrous right now. I think my belly is going to explode.
Maybe I will need new trousers in which to eat my Crisco.
If anyone would care to join the missus and me for dinner, either tonight or tomorrow night, I think we're going to garnish the above-mentioned soup with rosemary oil, parmesan cheese, and bacon. Just let us know. We could throw down some Ben & Jerry's for dessert. And, as always, we have vast reserves of wine, women, and song.
Much love to you.
A
Today I went for Stage II of my root canal extravaganza. This should have been the last step -- the dentist fills in all the spaces where the nerve was, and seals it up for eternity so I can eat carrots again. Unfortunately, due to
an earlier incident, I'll have to go back again after the holidays.
It was not, in fact, especially painful today. Uncomfortable, yes, because I have a cold and can barely breathe through my node, and because... well, I don't want to skeeve you out with the procedural details. But I managed to remove myself from the chair and dissect the various parts of "She loves you yeah yeah yeah." John and I were having a nice chat when I happened to open my eyes and see the dentist lighting a butane torch with a lighter ("Boy, it's hard to do this when you're wearing gloves") and holding a pick over it. He then put this pick IN MY MOUTH. I don't know if I would have noticed the heat and burning smell had I not seen the torch, but I DID see the torch and I DID feel the flames of hell licking at my molar. Oy vey. At least with the nerve gone the tooth isn't giving me grief anymore.
The missus and I met with our wonderful friend and babydaddy last night. I haven't laughed so hard in ages. From the belly, that's how to do it.
Hope all is well in your corner of the world.
A
After two days of eating oatmeal, yogurt, and soup (not all at the same time), my routed tooth is feeling better. It still hurts occasionally, but the advil helps with that. I have to go back next week to get a permanent filling put in. Ugh. Kiddies, please throw out your hard candy right now. It will only cause you pain. Of course, I'm genetically predisposed to crap teeth, like many people from West Virginia, but candy is bad for everyone. (Liquor is quicker. Jack Daniels is halfway gone, and we just bought it on Saturday.)
It was a rainy rainy morning and my sneakers and trousers are still soaking wet, two hours after I slogged the 0.8 mile to the office. Not cool. It made me think that maybe it's time to get a
grown-up raincoat. I always thought those were the ugliest coats ever, but now I see the advantage. Gotta hand it to grown-ups: they're thinkin' sometimes.
Happy World AIDS Day.
-A
I kick it
root down. And I'm on Advil.
It could not be a more gorgeous day here in New York. (New York CITY?!!) Sunny, dry, warm enough to walk around with my down vest unzipped. I wish I could work outside today. Maybe not in midtown, though. There's something depressing about the way the sun slants up 2nd Ave, even at midday.
I am posting this
NYC Department of Transportation Special Traffic Advisory just for your enjoyment:
The following nine days have been identified as days when pedestrian and vehicular traffic in Manhattan is anticipated to be the highest for the 2004 holiday season. Visitors to Manhattan are urged to use public transportation whenever possible.
Friday, November. 19: The Friday before Thanksgiving.
Wednesday, November. 24: The day before Thanksgiving. Matinee day at Broadway theaters adds to traffic congestion in the midtown theater district.
Tuesday, November. 30: Tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center.
Friday, December. 10: A popular shopping day.
Wednesday, December. 15: Matinee day at Broadway theaters and a popular shopping day.
Thursday, December. 16: A popular shopping day.
Friday, December. 17: A popular shopping day.
Wednesday, December. 22: Matinee day at Broadway theaters and a popular shopping day.
Thursday, December. 23: The day before Christmas Eve.
If you are planning on coming to New York for the holidays, remember to bring your walking shoes. The missus and I are planning our vacations now, and if my boss ever approves my three Christmas vacation days (yeah, look at me, taking THREE days off... am I committed to work or what?) then we will be able to enjoy even more of Michigan in the butt-freezing cold.
Love to all...
A
