螃蟹的泡泡

Feb 17, 2010 (Wed)
或許該先查一下黃曆  今天是否宜外出 
不到八點  突然停電  還好孩子吃完早餐上學去了  電力公司的電話打不通  大概跟以往一樣  一兩個小時就會復電  先把亂糟糟的屋子收一收吧  可是太亂太多不知如何收起  不確定熱水爐裡的熱水是否夠用  先洗頭吧  再晃晃收收  十點了  電還沒恢復  試試看吧  希望還有熱水  哇!  不只有還很燙哩 J  洗個熱水澡真舒服  可是頭髮沒得吹乾啊  好像全Palo Alto都沒電  Rajiv建議我到24HR Fitness去把頭吹乾  我怎沒早想到!  既然要出去  那就順便吧  買點菜  去吃午飯(家裡沒電也沒得煮啊)  出門時  特別告訴自己待會回家時別走Alma  Alma轉Oregan Expwy的地方積水  這時卻忘得一乾二淨  塞在Alam時才想到不該走這條路  紅綠燈怎還是壞的?  都下午快兩點了  電應該恢復了啊  難道是這紅綠燈真壞掉?  塞塞塞  塞到原本積水的地方   還好  水已退  咦?  店家怎都還是黑漆漆?  難道?  不會吧!  唉  還是沒電?!  好吧  反正要接小孩了  耶?  學校居然有電?!  喔  Escondido的電跟Stanford綁在一起  沒被這次大停電波及  聽說最早五點可能會恢復供電  另一說可能八點  拜託  五點好不好  不然今晚的movie night可能要泡湯 

灣區出名的是地震，不是風也不是雨。如今卻要下個一個禮拜的雨!
已經下了兩三天了，每天都是凌晨過後下，下到晚上下班尖峰時間過後，才讓土地有個喘息的機會，然後隔天繼續。今天比較不同的是風。
雖不能與台灣的颱風相提並論，但是灣區畢竟不屬亞熱帶颱風愛觀光的地區，所以下一個星期的雨是件令人心惶的事。灣區的綠也很有名，綠的山坡綠的樹，只是這些樹經不起風強勁無情的推搖，一些枝葉早在這兩三天的試驗下，散落一地。更有大樹被搖昏後只能跌躺在房子上。今天的風會把灣區再颳成什麼樣的景色呢?
記得小時候有個電影，有句歌詞「風聲、雨聲、讀書聲」。風聲有了，雨聲也有了，卻沒有了讀書聲。現在的孩子已經不流行全班一起唸課文了。

好忙 好煩 好無聊
忙小孩的衣食住行+課後活動+作業+林林種種    忙做家事 忙照顧幾盆花草一小片地    忙復原    忙跟朋友聯繫
煩幹嘛挑衣服穿 煩幹嘛這不吃那不吃    煩接接送送    煩孩子怎麼學過的東西都不記得    煩這邊收好那邊又亂了    煩幾天沒澆水那些花花草草就不高興    煩復健了半天為何膝蓋還是不靈活
總是做些不太用腦的事    有時又不太用心    等待的時間長不是很長(做白日夢不夠)短又不太短(一眨眼又比它長)

A foodlover is suffocated...
我發現     要謀殺一個美食者是多容易的一件事    把他軟禁兩個星期    冰箱裡冰著提不起他的胃口卻又能吃飽的食物    可是只要一動任何一項    下一餐就會自動加倍    而且被迫食用
因此    這個美食者打開冰箱    嘆著氣    盤算著碰哪一盒食物才能把"傷害"減到最低    這個 噁    那個    嚥不下    唉唉唉    可是好餓啊    豁出去了
就這樣    這個美食者害怕某國料理    原本一個星期可以享受三次    如今吃一次可以當半年用    而且吃完還會罵自己豬頭    對胃說對不起    對精神抱歉再抱歉

Man!  I had a great doubt of the necessity of the knee surgery.
It has been more than a month since the surgery.  Full anethesia was a horiible experience.  I woke up w/ nausea and the rest of of day in & out of consciousness.  It has been a month since that experience, but my knee doesn't seem to do better.  I am on physical therapy for 12x, as per doctor's prescription.  My knee is either still swallen or something wrong w/ it!
I still can't bend/fold it fully.  I can't twist it too much.  It locks on me if keeping it staight too long.  I don't see how my other friends could recover in a month!  What's wrong w/ mine?!!  So, pls tell me why I had the surgery at the 1st place?

MRI found I tore my outer ligament/meniscus which takes a "simple" arthroscopic surgery to clean the debris and torn fiber and drain fluid.  But, it requires full anesthesia.  Why?  Well, it is how every place does it.  So, just follow the trend then.
The surgery is scheduled in a little more than wk from now and will last 1-1/2 hrs.  Hmmm...  Since I will be gas-ed, no driving afterwords.  Otherwise, I will be driving under the influence of abuse substance.   Then, what?  It will take 4~8 wks to recover after rehab?  Hopefully I will be able to make it to play badminton w/ the gang in December if...
Meanwhile, I can only hop around or move around w/ crutches.  I hate crutches.  Not only they slow me down, they tire me up so quickly and so much!  I think I will end up w/ very strong upper arms...hopefully also the chest.

種過番茄     也是爬藤類植物     想說絲瓜也是爬藤類    索爬的習性應該差不多才是
唉    還真不怎麼一樣    終於了解為何有絲瓜棚一詞
暑假回台灣前種了幾株絲瓜苗    老公在我們放假的時候負責澆水 只有澆水
他從來只非常願意付錢買苗株    其他的    頂多澆澆水
放假回來後    絲瓜看起來還蠻照規矩地長    澆水的任務又交還給我
不知是時候到了 還是我水澆得夠勤    開始開花了
怎都是鮮豔的黃花卻遲遲沒有瓜呢?     哎呀 原來那些是雄花
雌花含蓄慢慢地長    過一個星期吧    居然看到小絲瓜了!
長啊長    想像像台灣的絲瓜    胖胖的淡綠色
長啊長 怎還是綠了點?    怎還沒變得圓嘟嘟呢?
問了送我瓜苗的魏阿姨    才了解大陸的絲瓜跟台灣的絲瓜不同
台灣的絲瓜圓筒狀    胖胖的   炒的煮湯皆宜    甜的
大陸絲瓜若長到台灣絲瓜的size就已經老到可以當菜瓜布了
所以要在細長時就要採收    的確很嫩    但是沒有台灣絲瓜的甜味
所以魏阿姨說在大陸就當湯煮    加顆蛋
很不一樣的吃法

It has been too long since my last badminton injury...high school?  It was always my angle.  1st time on knee.
I literally felt one bone landing on another when I landed on my left foot.  Immediately I saw a little popping out on the outside of left knee.  I thought I could just shake it off.  Well, 5 sec later, I felt the great pain on the popping and had to quit the game.  I had difficulty to walk back to the bench.
Friends got me ice.  After 20 min, pain didn't subside.  Instead it spread to lower leg became unbearable.  Friends moved my car to the club front door and helped me into driver seat.  I thought I wouldn't feel much pain as long as I didn't use the injured leg.  Well, I was wrong.  Yes, I have an automatic car.
I chose the day Rajiv left his cell phone at home to get injured, and he chose the day I got injured to forget his cell phone at home.  So, I had to wait for Rajiv and kids to come home after soccer practice...an hr!  Today I decided to leave the book in the apartment.  I was sooooo bored and nothing to read.  So, I took out maps and started to read them!  Oh, my god!

Wow!  School finally started.  Anju and Akash are in same school from now on for 3 yrs before Anju will head to middle school.  I thought getting up at 7:20AM would give me plenty of time to get everyone and everything ready for 1st day of school.  Well, I didn't calculate in my mind after it was shut off for the whole summer.  This morning was like a war zone w/ chief commandor kinda got lost.
A dear friend told me once that it is good to go back to routine.  I didn't understand this statement until now.  I never knew I would ever look forward to routine life which grants me time to workout!  I finally can workout!  Man!  Although I have to give up belly dance lesson and put aside badminton class for at least 1 semester (maybe a yr!), at least I can still attend the gym (hopefully) twice or 3 times a wk!
Thursday will be back-2-school night.  Anju has already asked me to volunteer in her class in any way.  I think the only volunteering available in 2nd grade is library time.  And, Akash's teacher has already assumed of my volunteering in class.  A busy yr to come...
Workout!!!  Yeah!

Kristen, the librarian, is such a sweet heart.  She kept asking me to attend the volunteer apprecation breakfast this morning wks ago.  She even confirmed w/ me this Monday at my volunteering time.  I told her I would be there after dropping off Anju.  I even put this information on IM mesg.  I told people about it.  It was on my calendar.  And, what happened?
Somehow Anju finished her morning routine fast, so I got to drop her off early this morning.  I didn't even change out of my pajamas.  Kissed Anju and told her we will be at her hip hop dance recital this afternoon.  Weird thing was the parking lot was full, which was too early for the day.  I got home and ck'ed my email.  When I opened up one of IM's, I saw the personalized mesg I posted..."volunteer appreciation breakfast at 7:30AM...must be joking".  Oh, sh*t!  I was already home, and it was 8:16AM.  I wrote an email to Kristen to apologize.
So, going to bed to late and getting up too early does mess up your brain.