A few weeks ago I bought some port to make a mushroom pasta sauce ( Read more... )

At 6:10 tomorrow morning I will complete the 23rd year of my life. It is quite a unique and odd time. I will doubtfully spend another March 4 anticipating marriage or a knee surgery--or in Albuquerque, New Mexico for that matter ( Read more... )

I have made a decision ( Read more... )

Putting my road bike on the training spinner failed. Neal's handyman skills are not to blame, my bike just had the wrong kind of axle. So we went and got a stationary seat bike from Goodwill. It's not something I would ever really want to own under normal circumstances, but considering that it is one of the few ways I can get decent exercise at the ( Read more... )

Neal is here. I just cut his hair and now he is in the shower to get the itchies off. He's the bees knees.

Okay. I saw the surgeon yesterday. I have completely torn my MCL (Medial Collateral Ligament), that runs from the femur to the tibia on the inside of my left knee for the purpose of stability. I also "blasted," in the surgeons terms, my ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) that is found in the center of the knee that normally prevents excessive ( Read more... )

The office where I went yesterday to see a doctor, for the sole purpose of getting him to order the MRI the surgeon will need to look at before determining treatment of my undone left knee, was kind of seedy.  Seeing the doctor was a flat rate of $80 cash, with or without insurance. (Unfortunately, I was considered to be without insurance with no ( Read more... )

Deb, who I think I will start referring to as my Albuquerque mom, called the office of the surgeon who I was schedule to see in three weeks to ask some questions on my behalf. In this process she managed to get me bumped up to be seen by this surgeon in six days--next Tuesday! Apparently, this is miraculous and I believe it ( Read more... )

On Sunday I went with the church high school youth group to go sledding up on the Sandia Mountain Crest, the same place I went cross-country skiing two weeks before. I didn’t have a sled, so I just brought my skis again.

If you have ever considered skiing down a sledding hill, don’t do it! Sledding hills have holes in the snow where people have ( Read more... )

Music can be so powerful ( Read more... )