Rotting alive...

Ok. I tried. When I started this blog it was meant to be light and airy and just kinda about the everyday mundane things, to highlight something nice about my day or thoughts.
Who was I kidding. My thoughts arent like that everyday.

My day started off by looking up some images of skin diseases online, this was because yesterday this patient came in with these odd lesions on his lower leg... I could have sworn I saw a pic of that somewhere in some text book....
Anyhow, then my mind drifted.... as I walked past the waiting room I didnt look up and went straight to my room .... I recognized an odour coming from the waiting room. It was my patient's husband. I didnt even have to look up and I knew it was him.
He is a nice man but his feet REEK. I mean its like rotting garbage (as opposed to non rotting which isnt too bad, but garbage in itself is bad.This was rotting garbage).
My mind drifted some more....
His breath stinks too. He can kill a skunk with that breath. Its like dont explain anything just write it down or mail a letter.

So this is what I came up with - in my odd thoughts of the day:
If we didnt maintain ourselves as human beings - brush our teeth, bathe, clean our feet, clean our underarms, wash our hair, wipe our asses, clean our genitals, wash our clothes etc etc... if we were to just live.... eat, poop, pee, breathe, and live our daily lives without basic hygiene............we would indeed reek. But animals in the wilderness just live - dont they? They have minimal cleaning habits but they just continue on with their lives eating , pooping , peeing, and they dont reek right?
Well as far as I know,they dont reek, cause I havent exactly smelt a bear or hugged a lion or anything like that  before. But still.... are we human beings meant to just stink like rotten garbage?
Weird.
Ok back to the light stuff on my next post. promise

Veggie pasta salad

One time this Italian patient of mine brought me lunch. It was left over from the pasta salad she made for her church gathering.
I thought - aww how sweet!
Until I tasted it........
It was AMAZING!
I  have never tasted pasta salad that tasted this yummy before. I mean... it was filled with alot of veggies... who could make that taste so good?! But she did!

So every time she came in after that I have been hinting about how amazing it was, and she continues to talk about all the different kinds of foods she likes to make or the foods that she makes that her kids like etc....

Finally the other day I kinda got the ingredients for this pasta salad. Seems to be no big deal so Im sure there is something she may have left out... or maybe she just has that extra touch when it comes to making delicious dishes.

Here is the mix:

• red pepper
• carrots
• celery
• green beans
• peas
• zucchini (she seems to like a lot of this)
• a grated pickle
• either italian golden dressing or your own mix of olive oil, vinegar, lemon, garlic, parsley, oregano (dont remember if there was basil)

Ta da!
Now I just have to make time to test it out.

These apples are making me H_ _ _ _ Y

Hungry. Not Horney haha
So Plagued wtih massive cystic painful breakouts again... I tried everything. Now Im on the 3 Day apple diet kick..
Its day 0.5
I hope I dont pass out. I got alot of stuff to do and apts to go to in the next few days. Its gona be busy.
My tea is helping... I think its the cinnamon in it. My licorice spice tea.

Anyhow, of course, now all I can think of is food.

Coupon site reminded me of this... which I heard about a few years ago and have never tried...
So Im leaving the link here - just to remind me:

beard papa's

Crazy!

Stumbled upon this today in my search for things to do in the T-dot.
http://www.edgewalkcntower.ca/

Walking on the outer edge of the C.N Tower!

Crazy!

Not crazy to do - I think I would be up for it :-)
But 175$ ?!?! Now that is crazy.

Geez make it accessable to the public people! haha

Scones

My lovely patient brought these to me today! How nice it is to be treated every now and then!

I must say though, my friend makes the best homemade scones you will ever try!
So I have been alittle bit spoiled by having tasted her scones. I never really liked those bland bricks before until now.
These ones - if I were to compare - do not compare. They seemed like tastey soft orange cranberry cookies. But Im still thankful for some treats! These days I cannot stop eating!

Planning for Abundance

So a few years back many may remember the "almighty" Oprah introducing to the world the book "The Secret".
So much hype so I read it.
Who are we kidding... I hate reading.... so I got the video.
Kinda spacey but the concepts were intriguing!
Bascially, how we truely think about things is what we bring into our lives. Even if we say we "want" something in our lives yet we deep down truely believe we will never attain it - then we will always be struggling to attain it.
So it is a simple matter of changing our beliefs and thoughts that we put into the world (yea - actually not so easy).
But the thing about this book despite causing such a frenzy - is that - it never told you how to change that thinking that we already have so that we can start attracting the things we really want into our lives.

Anyhow, from there, for a bit I was testing it out and learning a bit of the concepts. Even talking to a good friend that had read more practical books on the concept with actual ' how to' methods. Apparently this "new " idea has been around for a long time and was a secret to only those that were actually successful in life.....

I thought about this today  because I stumbled upon one of the links on my "favorites" list on my work pc : Abundance Journal link.I forgot about this link.
I'm not sure if the author is someone formally educated in this matter or simply someones personal journal.....
Anyhoot, since Im in one of my many crazy "planning" modes - I should revisit this topic  --- here I go again! :-)

My cousin's wedding

Its funny (not really) what anxiety and nervousness can do to you. Cloud your train of thought I guess.
And mixed in with  a bit of alot of  alcohol to numb this anxiety or nervousness - thats just a recipe for a big ol' mess.
Guess this is yet another lesson in not judging others.... and also a lesson in being more self aware and facing my own fears. yada yada yada.
This all leads me to my 2nd most embarrassing moment of all time.
Wow... this year is filled with these apparently. So I am not looking forward to #3 (since they say most things come in 3's)
Its a darn shame that this "2nd most embarrassing moment of all time" had to come along with and in front of family and  "the best set-up" I have ever had. Great guy, too bad I messed it up. And as much as I long to explain "that is not really me, I'm never like that" (which, to those who know me, know that this is true) - It ends up looking like those creepy guys who always say "no you can trust me, Im a great guy" when in reality those words instantly alert the red flags and seem to mean the exact opposite. Its best I dont talk of it anymore and lay low for a while (which is weird, cause I thought I have always layed low in any group situation).
So to my cousins and family and especially extended family and their friends, I am sorry. I hope if anything they had a good laugh and focused more on the happy couple of course.