I was traveling this past weekend and got home very very early in the morning which is why I didn’t get my comic up that day. The place I was staying had a bed much softer than what I’m used to which is a normal futon. I guess I haven’t slept in one like that in a long time or ever. Anyway, it surprised me just how uncomfortable something soft could be. Complaining about back pain is something that just makes you sound/feel old, but it did sound especially so when I said it.
Actually Anna is the one who got a cut (though over a month ago I did get a bad papercut from trying to get my notebook out of the file box I had it in). She went to our first aid kit and I saw the very old band aids (or adhesive medical strips if you want to be technical) that my mom used to buy when I was a kid. When you’re an adult you really don’t injure yourself as much as when you’re a kid so that’s why I still have these band aids that are super duper old right now. Funny to think that as a kid I was using up band aids all the time to the point of running out and getting nice fresh ones.
At my last job three years ago I used to eat penne vodka for takeout during overtime hours all the time. I haven’t made much italian food before, but figured I’d give it a whirl.
I burned my hand a bit when I was making vodka sauce for the first time this past weekend. The heat was too high so when I stopped stirring the sauce some bubbles blew up and sauce went in a few places I had to clean up. The sauce turned out pretty tasty so I was very pleased. Now that I have one under my belt I’ll feel a bit more confident when I try again maybe with a different recipe just to see.
Something I didn’t know before is that vodka sauce is orange because of the heavy cream in it, lots of cream. Yeah, not good to eat all the time but every now and then it’s dern tasty.
First time I went to the ER they asked me to rate my pain. It took me a while because I was trying to think of it in terms of most painful thing possible. I mean, if there’s a magnitude pain of 10 out there it’s probably something like organ failure and/or multiple gunshot wounds. Bearing that in mind, where would the pain of my sprained thumb fall? Oh shoot, they need an answer! I said 5 because it was kind of painful but not over a thresh hold of real pain. In another doctor’s office I saw the pain scale illustrated with smiley/frowny faces.
Then I found out that it’s something for insurance purposes because I’m guessing insurance companies need numbers so they can make a definitive decision about the state of a patient’s case.
his is actually a couple stories in one. Freshman year of college I lived in a suite, and I remember one day I left for my room when I saw my friends were going to start daring each other to eat the little peppers in the Chinese takeout they had gotten. That’s when I heard the scream and subsequently my friend G.S. came into the room remarking on how clear his sinuses were. More recently another friend was asking me if I had wasabi because their nose just wouldn’t clear up no matter how much they blew it.
No I don’t have chronic back pimples more like once in a blue moon back pimple. But when that blue moon comes around and if my body goes against my brain’s better judgment I might scratch and then remember why my brain was telling me not to. I guess it’s because pimples can hurt in general and your back is a part of your body that doesn’t endure much wear and tear so the combinations just equals nine kinds of bad and tremendously painful.
Had a really bad stomachache yesterday, but it’s probably because after kung fu I didn’t really eat anything because I went to meet friends to watch anime and by the time I got home it was too late for me to heat up leftovers. Seriously though, if a stomach had enough consciousness to have ill will against someone then they’d probably be smart enough not to purposely put themselves into pain.
