Monday, July 23, 2012

The Chair that Tried to Kill Me...

I had a wonderful weekend, aside from the horrific encounter I had with a lawn chair on the carport. It all started off innocently enough. I was sitting there talking with the family, and decided to scoot back a bit in my chair. It is funny how fast life can change, one moment I am sitting in the chair and the next I realize I am falling backwards and landing on the concrete with a thud. Yes a thud. It took several minutes (or what seemed liked minutes) to regain the use of my lungs. My mother, the concerned one, rushed to my side and screeched Do I need to call 911? I could not speak. However, as the scene of the ambulance rushing to my aid played out in my brain I felt I must make some sort of indication that I was still in the land of the living. NO I gushed, I just need a minute. Then as the air rushed back into my lungs I began to hysterically laugh. My family just hovered over me gawking. I finally peeled myself off the concrete to assess the damage. My right hip and elbow had taken the brunt of the force. My horrified daughter ran to my aid. In fear that she would indeed need counseling if I did not pull myself together, I assured her mommy was alright as I hobbled into the house. After numerous doses of advil and the night spent on the heating pad, the only evidence of my lawn chair debacle is a terrible gash on my elbow.

If you ask E what mommy did when she fell out of the chair, she gives the most charming impersonation of me in her best bevis and butthead laugh she says "mommy laughed like huh hu hu".

Hopefully this incident will not be forever imprinted in her memory.

Have a happy week!

Friday, July 20, 2012

Started off so strong!

Well after a few days, I just lost my will to blog. So let's see, what's been happening you might ask? Monday I dropped my phone and completely trashed the screen, but my new bff Zdot hooked me up with her old phone by Wednesday so life is just now getting back to normal.

I ate way tooo much Sushi today and wish I could just take a nap. I am proud to now have two followers, double the pressure to blog I suppose.

So this is officially a blog post with absolutely no purpose what so ever.

(I also put a few typos in on purpose to keep my first follower on his toes).

Happy Weekend!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Oregon and New Jersey are the best States.

Yes I've said it, and I'll say it again. Oregon and New Jersey are the best States. Now I have not actually lived in Oregon, but I have lived in New Jersey. I am not familiar with the particular politics of either State, and really I don't care. What makes them the best is the fact that is illegal to pump your own gas in either of the two. Now some of you may argue that they are putting their residents down by insinuating that they are not smart enough to indeed pump their own gas, and others will argue that it is taking away their freedom, or right to pump their own gas. HOG WASH I say. I hate pumping gas. If I ever make it rich (perhaps from writing this blog?) I will hire a person who's full time job will be to ensure that I NEVER pump gas again. I do not have any particular thing I hate the most about pumping, I just hate it. Loathe it even. The tank never runs out when I have nothing to do, I never remember to check to see how much gas I have, there's almost always a line and well the whole ordeal of pumping gas just bugs me.

So now you know how I stand on this issue.

For the sake of fairness: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15455

Ode to my one Follower...

Thanks a million to RhettRo for being my first and only follower to date. Hopefully my anecdotes will inspire the masses (and by masses, I mean you) to stalk my page waiting anxiously for the witty banter that will certainly fill my blog full!

My dear follower, I will certainly try to not lead you into the path of unrighteousness!

Good Day!

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

To anyone who's been told to drink more water...

Anyone who's ever complained of being tired, or said they wanted to lose weight has certainly been advised that they need to add more water to their day. Check out this woman who apparently is addicted to water.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/07/11/strange-addiction-woman-drinks-6-gallons-water-day/?test=latestnews

The most disturbing part of this article is excerpted here.
"Drinking too much water can be dangerous; it can lead to water intoxication, or hyponatremia, in which there is not enough salt in the body's fluids outside the cells. Both conditions can lead to serious health problems, and even death."

Proceed with caution my dear friends, too much of a good thing...

Zeryna the Warrior Princess

She wields the mighty sword of graphic ability! Since I refused to call my blog fifty shades of sarah, to make ammends I am posting this lovely picture she compiled. Who knew I had so many expressions? So here's to you my friend, thanks for the .gif.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Bacon


So according to http://www.calorieking.com/ there are 46 calories in a strip of bacon and you would have to spend 13 minutes walking, 5 minutes jogging, 4 minutes swimming or 7 minutes cycling to burn said 46 calories. So If you eat a pound of bacon and spend 33 minutes on the elliptical machine we could probably call it even.

There is a whole section of http://allrecipes.com/recipes/meat-and-poultry/pork/bacon/ that is dedicated to bacon. This brings the world great joy, much like the fact that I now have a blog.

What's in a Name?

So much is in a name, and choosing the perfect blog name seemed daunting. There were plenty of suggestions but Hamster Wheel Junction seemed to apply.  Many days I have felt like a hamster spinning fruitlessly on my wheel, no reward, no end in sight... but the hope that one day there will be a junction or joining of all my life's endeavors into some meaningful message to the world.... No really it just sounded cool and I couldn't come up with anything cooler on my own so thanks to friend Mike for suggesting it. Now to pay homage to all the names discarded for this one: sarahdipity, sarahmonium, shortbusrevolution, prettypurpleblogger, sarahmeetsgoldschlager, andthensarahsaid, andthensarahappeared, wonderblog, fiftyshadesofsarah, oh and so many more. Thanks for the help but I'll stick with the one I've got. Since I didn't come up with it, if you hate it I'll just blame it on my friend Mike.