AND NOW, ON TO A PRETTIER FACE......

Decided to post this to get the nose posted a bit lower on the blog.

For the life of me I cannot figure out what sort of club this man may have belonged to, some benevolent organization that dresses in silly hats, or some obscure mittle Europa place, ya? AND he's a very manly smoker.

DAY THREE ... RACCOON EYES

That is UGLY! I was working at my desk today when the wound care nurse stopped in to inspect my injury on a purely voluntary basis.

I had gone in without band-aids, just Neosporin ointment. She asked me if I needed glasses to see the computer. Um, yeah, I need glasses to see the end of my nose.

Oh you can't have those eyepieces resting on the bridge of your nose like that, come with me.

So, I followed here down the hall to her treatment room. She said it looked like there was no infection (good) and that I should be scrubbing with soap and water, do NOT use hydrogen peroxide to clean wound, soap and water is the ticket. Okay.
Then she put a special kind of membrane band-aid on my nose, it is all puffy.
She started laughing. Go look in the mirror, bruiser! Oh yeah, bruiser it is.
People kept asking me all day if I had surgery. Yep, new nose.

And as you can see the raccoon eyes are filling in nicely. Can hardly wait for them to turn green, yellow and purple. yeach.

Oh yes, I am not the only walking wounded. Our surgeon dived into a shallow lake and bashed his noggin as well. I haven't seen him but he wears a mask most of the time anyway.

Makes a person rethink about the merits of taking up the veil, or chador or the burka. Hard to type in a burka.

C&B SALAD AND WEIRD PEACHES

Decided to make cauliflower and broccoli salad today. One head of cauliflower, one head broccoli, one half large onion, half cup golden raisins, half cup sunflower seeds, 3/4 cup frozen peas. Chop to hearts content, put in bowl.

Original recipe calls for several strips of crispy bacon crumbled into the salad. This is optional for the vegetarians.

Dressing; 1 cup mayo, 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar, 4 to 5 packets Splenda, dash pepper. Stir, mix together, put in suitable shaped container, give a shake,shake, shake to distribute dressing and store in fridge.



At first glance this looks like some eggs. Nope, look closer,they are PEACHES, I decided to purchase some and let them ripen up a bit before making something peaches and cream, maybe Clafuti. I watched the show Two Fat Ladies and the Clafuti looked delicious. Clafuti is such a strange word for a French dish.

Must research crumpets.

FACE REPORT: I have scabbed up nicely, I only have a partial raccoon eye on the right. People kept telling me today, "I can't believe you worked yesterday!". Well I did leave after four hours and things were slow. That's all for now, I may update with a picture once everything turns purple, green and yellow.

Ewwwwwwwwwww!

This morning as I went to work, I noticed a huge spider web with a big old spider strung across the front porch. I swerved to the right to miss it, fell out of my shoes, banged my knees and hands and kissed the cement sidewalk. Bloody nose everywhere, a few scrapes. So I went back inside to ask for help in the transportation department. No problem. Away we went. I walked in and stopped at the nurses station and said that I needed to be seen.

Um, yeah, Bay 2.

Grabbed clean tissues and dabbed at home. Started paper work etc. BP a little high but not ridiculous. Pain scale 6 or 7 out of 10, down to 2 by end of visit. Doctor sent me to x-ray. No broken nose, thank you very much.

Apply band aid, Neosporin, rinse cut inside lip with hydrogen peroxide. And I checked in and went to work. Got the x-rays done, got the procedures for Dr. C done and decided I would come home. Called for transport and husband very quickly showed up. Hydrogen peroxide stings a bit on a fresh cut. Dang but you hafta do that for mouth wounds too much natural flora growing in there that needs to be killed off.

The light level was kind of low on the picture but there is a huge nasty scab forming on the end of the nose, the scrape on the upper lip is firming up as well. The cut under the band aid will just have to rest a bit. The lip is very fat and the doctor says I will look distintly racoon like by tomorrow, O Joy!

Oh and I scratched my new glasses, I should probably drop by the local friendly optometrist to see if the scratch can be buffed out.

Sigh...I am going to look at this as an opportunity to drop five pounds. It hurts to chew and I like applesauce. So, be careful out there, go ahead and keep an eye on spider webs but do stay on a steady course.

SATURDAY LEFT OVER CASSEROLE AND A PARTIAL BOOK REPORT.

Having dutifully consumed the chicken pot pie, it was time to roam through the freezer and cupboards gathering ingredients for left over casserole.

Hmm, a bundle of three bags of frozen turkey stock. Must thaw carefully. One bag of frozen left over bread crumbs. One bag of left over shredded frozen new potatoes. Hmmm



One thawed bag of turkey stock and one chopped white onion simmer until melted.



Use largest mixing bowl for bag of left over bread crumbs, try to bash into slightly smaller pieces. Open can of whole pitted olives and carefully halve them, automatic pitting machines can miss now and then. Open and drain one can whole corn. Mix in two beaten eggs, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, oregano, garlic, dill, celery seed. Mix with Grandma Horn's heavy duty wooden spoon, one that was most often used to stir lemonade. Don't forget the melted half cube of butter.



Pour on top of the shredded potatoes, pat smooth and bake in 350 oven for 45 minutes.

The smell is driving everyone crazy.

Oh and I found a container of frozen homemade applesauce. I plan to put some in a container and take that and some of the stuffing to work for lunch. Yummmy!

BOOK REPORT:
I have SO many books that today I was idly cruising through the shelves downstairs and picked one up and browsed a bit. I gradually dawned on me that I. HAD. NEVER. READ. IT. !! Well!

"The Pleasure Trap" By Elizabeth Thornton" Set in Regency England (for you who failed history, Regency period is when King George III of Revolutionary War fame was declared incompetent and his son, George the Fourth, or Prinny was established as Regent).

Story involves a group of women who write Gothic novels and romance. They all have pseudonyms. Some one named Angelo is writing short stories about thinly disguised tragedies amongst the nobility. The nobility is alarmed.

My main character,Eve Dearing writing as Mrs. Barrymore, has dreams that seem to be coming true. Ash Denison is investigating Angelo. He thinks Eve Dearing is also Angelo. Hmm, not so. So much suspicion and a little bit of romance. I'm only up to page 127 and Ash has given Eve her first ever kiss.

Well, she was wearing a red satin dress, what is a red blooded Brit to do? I ax youse.

BOOK REPORT

Todd McAffrey is the youngest son of Ann, writer of all things Pern. I love the Pern books. I even like the son's books. However the most recent one "Dragon Girl" consists mostly of talking heads. Lots of conversations between various raiders ie; T'bon, X'ray etc and their dragons Doodath, Flipith etc.

I was drowning in mass paragraphs of identifiers and very little plot exposition. Mostly all I got out of this book is that the young heroine, a golden queen dragon rider surrounds herself with difficult people and winds up having a threesome or a foursome when her queen rises in her first mating flight and one of the partners was in a coma for gawds sake!! Jaid Black should have been subcontracted to write the sex scenes.

Another thing that I find highly irksome is that they are having what seems to be a very high fatality rate amongst the dragons and riders during Fall, that darn thread keeps sneaking up on these dummies who were designed and trained to fight thread not get eaten by it! No fix has been suggested in this book except that the queens must rise more often and lay more eggs.

I will somewhat warily keep an eye out for the next Dragon rider book but I don't expect much. There is one character that is destined to reappear in a future book but I am uncertain which volume.

I could just go smack somebody.

THE COMMERCIAL IS ON YOU TUBE

If you have not seen the Direct TV commercial; open Google, type You Tube Direct TV pygmy giraffe. Play to your hearts content. Don't miss the dogs playing poker in the opening shot. First words out of his mouth are "Opulence, I has it."

I still thinks it is the cutest commercial I have seen in a while.



And now for a dream interpretation.

A couple nights I woke from a dream where I was walking around a large new industrial complex, had all sorts of people walking here and there. I was carrying something. I finally saw what looked like a reception area. I walked up and seated behind a desk was one of our nurse administrators, I exclaimed, "Jane! I'm so happy to see you! Where do I take these?" and gestured to what I was carrying. She looked at them and said, "Oh you just go back outside, across the courtyard and into the garage and come in again from there, you will find bookkeeping." Sure enough I looked down and I was holding about one hundred bright blue time cards. Then I woke up.

I looked up "Lost" as a general theme at the dream interpretation web site and got what I figured it meant, I am looking for direction or have lost my way in my life.

Um, not quite. The alternative meaning was being lost could represent new occurrences in my life that have forced me to examine the direction I am taking.

Hmmm, pretty heavy stuff. I will partially accept the secondary meaning because the landscape at work changes constantly with the plans for the new facility and some of the ongoing drama within the department. It seems like somebody has to be excited about something ALL the time.

DUNT Dunt DUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!