4 1/2 months post- TKR...
Yeah, baby, I got that bone-replacement slang down! I'm exactly four and a half months after my Total Knee-Replacement. Or as I like to refer to it: Cyborg assimiliation reassignment. See, before the...
View ArticleAt long last... possible progress...
For those who don't know, or those who knew but forgot because you didn't care, or those who knew, forgot, have no idea who I am or why you're reading this blog, here's the backstory-I am the spouse of...
View ArticleStep forward, now step back, now forward, now back...
...and now to the side, now back again, let's go forward, then we twist, two-three-four and step, two-three-four... and now dip!Am I dancing? Sounds like it, doesn't it? But alas, there is no dance of...
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Dem bones, dem bones, MY bones!
I had my six month follow-up with Doctor Bones yesterday (er, that'd be Thursday, September 3rd for those of you who don't read my blogs as soon as I post them. I've no idea why, they're so witty and...
View ArticleTime for Patty's semi-annual random rant...
Once in a while, I get a bee in my bonnet. That would be annoying, wouldn't it? A bee in your bonnet would get tangled in your hair, sting your head... on to the ranting...1. The ATM.The ATM is just...
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Has it really been a month?
Well, would you look at that... it has been a month!In that month's time, I've turned forty years old. The knee is slowly, sloooooowly getting better. We went from having warm weather in the 80s...
View ArticleI should have done this from the start...
I thought I was being clever. I should have used my Google-fu before I started. I need to change the title of my blog. I just Googled "My Bloggy Goodness" just to see what was out there. There was A...
View ArticleWhere should I start?
As we can see, I've been so busy that I haven't updated this thing in a while. Busy doing what? Not a hell of a lot, really. I've been tired a lot lately, which saps any form of creativity or...
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*cue dramatic music* BEHOLD!!!
BEHOLD! The POWER of this SIMPLE household item!!Brace yourselves!Are you SITTING DOWN?!This is a photo of my truck after an all-day snowfall!Six inches of snow!And, approximately ten minutes after I...
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A request from my child and random photos of said child
This is Jason. He was born on February 8th, nine months to the day from the day his father (the Disabled Guy- he's got his own blog) got home from the Persian Gulf War. How do I know? I counted. The...
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Pay attention to me! LOVE MEEE! PLEASE!!
You may not know this about me, but I have a bit of a self-esteem problem. Not overly bad- I mean, I still leave my house without a bag on my head. Sometimes, I'll get down a bit and while I'm...
View Article::INPUT:: THE ASSIMILATION IS COMPLETE ::END DATA::
Today, I had my one year follow-up appointment to my "total knee replacement"... why the "quotes" around an obviously true statement? Because my cyborg overlords have required me to state that I am now...
View ArticleI 'member the good old days...
Back when Patty used to update her blog on a regular basis. Before she started doing that bullshit blog about her knee scar. Whatever happened to it?Oh, it sort of died out.Did it now? What a concept,...
View ArticleI never considered myself a "girly-girl"...
I wasn't a total tomboy either. I mean, growing up, I was tomboy-ish. Then at nine, puberty hit me square in the chest and things just sort of happen. But back to today. As a few of you are aware,...
View ArticleChicken Soup won't help this kind of "FLU"
If you all remember, I fell in love with a book called Drop Dead Gorgeous by Wayne Simmons. I said in my review for that, as well as many posts and comments over the past year+, that I would recommend...
View ArticleFie-bro-my-AL-gee-uh... "myalgia" means pain...
Everything adds up. One plus one equals two. It walks like a goat, talks like a goat, smells like a goat... it is probably a freakin' goat. I finally got my knee fixed. And my knees- even the human...
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This is FIBROMYALGIA!!!!
Okay, so Gerard Butler screaming "This is Sparta!" in 300 was way cooler and he's infinitely hotter than I am. I was officially diagnosed with Fibromyalgia (read that with a deep booming voice that...
View ArticleDespite the title, "interesting" came right to my door.
We have a new puppy and the disabled guy decided that she needed to be in the living room instead of in the kitchen. So he rigged up a little area to keep her in the living room, but safely gated from...
View ArticleMy "Art"- or the lack thereof...
Back in the olden days, I fancied myself an artist. I could draw with almost anything. I preferred charcoal over pastels, chalk pastels over oil, pen and ink over pencils.What about painting? I knew...
View Article"Vlog"... Video Blogging...
All this time, I had assumed that "video blogging" meant that the blogger would type up all this stuff- these words- and then include a video related to what they had to say- like I do with the...
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Dear idiot Drivers-
Hey there! Remember me? A few years ago, I wrote a blog to all of you with visual aids showing who I am and what I do and so on. It involved me having to use a cane, yet still being able to do simple...
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365 self-portraits? A photo a day of myself? Hell yeah!
I did it. I completed an entire year of self-portraits. The rules are simple- one photo a day, every day, of yourself. You have to be in the photo somehow, even if its just a fingertip or a reflection....
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March 18, 2009- Cyborg Assimilation....
On March 18th of 2009, I became a Cyborg Sapien. Back then, I didn't update this blog very often, so I didn't post about it here. I did over on my MySpace, but about a week ago, I deleted my profile...
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HAPPY CYBORG BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEEEE!
Two years ago today, I became a Cyborg Sapien. That's right, I have metal skeletal parts. Back when I had a MySpace, I did my blogging there- and this is when I'd link you to the cyborg blog I wrote...
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Tutorial on how to post photos using Flickr or Photobucket
I frequent a few message board/communities on the Internet. Shocking, I know. Hey, I used to frequent a lot more (and I admined on a few). On one in particular, there are frequent Photoshop contests or...
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