Deep Breath. Inhale…exhale….Ahhhhh… Ommmmm…..shanti…शान्ति
Let’s play OMMM- On My Mind Monday. Where the breathing is deep, but the thoughts? Not so much. Here are some random thinks I’ve thunk this past week. In no particular order. For no particular reason. Because.
1. Why am I just now learning you cannot microwave silverware?
Oops.
Also? I need to find a microwaveable peanut butter spoon.
2. Yesterday the man in front of me at Whole Foods was purchasing tofu and I knew there was a coupon for it in the “Whole Deal” circular. I told the man and the cashier to wait and was out the door running to get one with a quickness. I felt such glee. I saved him $1.25!
Am I weird? Vicarious coupon exhilaration may be a sign I have a problem.
I should probably get a bumper sticker.
3. These things:
Detest-icles.
Someone in my apartment complex has a pair dangling from their truck and each time I am forced to see it I feel accosted and filled with YUCK. Totally interrupts my zen. HATE.
4. I was thinking…if I were a grocery bagger It would be a highlight of my shift to find a scooter car in the parking lot. You have to ride it back to the store and I take my cheap thrills where I can get ‘em.
5. I LOVE living in South Florida because I CANT take cold. I’ve come to realize I don’t think ANYTHING could make me move northward. Not my fantasy job nor a million dollars or meeting the man of my dreams.
That’s kind-of an unsettling realization. But, seriously.
I just can’t handle cold.
- What’s been on your mind lately?
- Anything else I should know about my microwave?
Okay. Now I understand why when you answer the phone when I call, you drop it. Microwaving spoons falls under that category too. Oh dear.
Question; is North Florida considered too far north?
On my mind Monday for me is the continual reminder that even if the temperature reads ABOVE freezing, it doesn’t mean I should take of my Polar Trax because my walk this morning before sunrise was a lovely practice in balance and then a tally in how many various muscle groups I could pull. (I didn’t eat pavement though. Yeah!)
Nothing that is metal ever inside a microwave again, okay Missy? And don’t hang your microwave from the sprinklers. I think that covers it.
YOU! Don’t hang the microwave from the sprinklers MADE MY DAY!
Oh and actually, YES. Even Jacksonville is too cold for me and I was imagining moving there after Greg died (he lived there and his son is there).
Also? I have realized that I would loathe to move anywhere without a whole foods.
PS- Take care of your crack (0;
“Take care of your crack.” Really? Can I tell you how much I want to just take that and run with it, but I’m going to just hold off on that. YOU – back!
Wow! Knowing that even Jackonsville is too cold helps me “get it” that much more. I went and looked at the city data to see the coldest that it gets there and HONEY! now I understand. You are a tropical gal. No doubt.
There is a Whole Foods here. A little odd info. with that. It is and has always been at the one and only Eating Disorder Clinic/Facility that “once was” in this area. (Did that make sense?) It’s a small Whole Foods, but; they did try to go for a bigger space and a Super Target beat them out. RANDOM!
I think the next order of business is finding a microwaveable spoon that you approve of. Or better YET : inventing it. Patent 64779 (go look at the number pad on a phone for reference on that) pending, k?
That took me a ridiculous amount of time to figure out…O_o.
I need a nap now.
microwaveable spoon. AMEN SISTA
i am SOoooooooo damned happy that you’ve mentioned this mysterious “man of [your] dreams!” i SO MUCH wish to learn about this hypothetical fellow! is he floridian?
please blog about him soon! i WANT to specifically KNOW adjectives as related to this relationship (if and only when you feel comfortable with divulging), and i shall shall wait, until then, with baited breath! 
could the fellow at whole foods possibly be “the man?”
did he present you with his business card in that cocky ‘al pacino scarface’ sort of way? oh, that would do me in, for good!
despite my asexualism, i really do love the dream of men and associated romanticistic fantasies. it’s simply a shame that i’m not willing to go beyond “the fantasy.” well, maybe it’s not “a shame.” maybe it’s just a “i could have this, but i don’t really want it, but maybe in 10 years, maybe never, but it doesn’t really matter now” sort of fashion.
what do you think about the “sex and eating disorder” relationship? xxx
Oh dear, I fear I may be misunderstood.
There is no man.
Only the idea of one — yes even marriage.
That coupled with the defeating thoughts that I will never recover enough to get my life or a life back.
But even if I fell in love and my beau/fiance had to move to say…North Carolina I seriously don’t think I can do it. Too cold. My mom is like “you would” but I doubt it!
As far as ED and sex…well they screw with our concepts of and relationships with our bodies so I suppose the eating disorder has a profound effect in terms of just the physical act/component. Mainly my experience is a complete. lack. of. sex drive.
My brain is too…depleted. Also, I have spent so many years being told things about the way my body looks that I have NO ideas that any man would find me attractive and if they do I worry. That is just…years and years of being told negative things about my body (skeltal, emaciated, bony…Etc.) The flip side is I get so anxious when I hear “You’ve gained weight! You look great! ARGH, stupid disease. It just boils down to my ED has very little…maybe nothing to do with my appearance. Therefore my appearance is not a motivator toward making myself attractive to the opposite sex.
And man, Nicole! You get me to talk about things I never thought I would on my blog. LOL.
i humbly thank you for sharing this personal information. so much! i know that YOU KNOW of my feelings toward sex. i was a sexaholic, once upon a time, to prove myself worthy. i don’t need that anymore. but i do believe that i might, one day, find a man to whom i’m ferociously attracted. but frankly? although i might be attracted, i don’t think that i’ll want to be bothered. if you were to find yourself in a physical, attractive, reciprocative sort of situation, would you be compelled to act on your feelings? again, please don’t answered if i’m prying too much. xxxxxxxxx
Actually I missed the sexaholic part. I really did not know. Maybe I will have to go re-read your post about the asexuality (I read all your blog entries BTW.)
If I fell in love or well.. you know you get a crush…chemicals, endorphins, butterflies! Well those feelings take over. It’s nature’s way. I can be a flirt and I am by nature a really open person so I am not one to play games or make a guy court me or whatever.
But man, with my condition as it is I would be HARD To live with so I’d need work before marriage/moving in.
I think LOVE changes everything though. So I would be willing to let go of “My” space.
I just..no sex drive, no social life, and I’m kind-of ugly at this point. BUT yes, I am not asexual…just…celibate for now and not interested in even dating.
I guess…wait….does that mean I don’t want to be bothered? LOL.
I never even thought of microwaveable cutlery before. Wow, Missy, you have discovered an untapped market! Another thing you can’t microwave is air, I discovered by doing that very thing. Kept forgetting to put what I wanted to heat in, which led to sparks and pops and finally… no more microwave
xx
those testicles are obscene. perhaps you could anonymously plaster the bumper just above them with a ‘certified jerk’ sticker?
scooter carts? We never had such thing here!! We have carts designed for someone in their own scooter to push but… oh what fun! I’m moving there. I would be speeding through the carpark hollering “get outta my way”.. shopping would never be the same again!
oh and another microwave tip, never try to microwave eggs. You will pay for it with an explosion and a very messy (and even ruined) microwave. Even an egg on the plate if you have not popped the yolk is iffy. But a whole egg? Yikes!
Thank you for making me laugh
throw away your microwave! that’s what i did! it was to heavy to lug to “goodwill.”
xxx
* too heavy
I’d die without my microwave.
My old one broke one night and I was in a state of panic. My mom, knowing me well and how much a BIG deal this was to me because of the ED bought me a gorgeous one the very next day.
It was an early christmas gift. (0:
Yeah it is actually very bad to run your microwave without anything in it! I recently learned that when I got my new one. I tested it and my Mom was like TURN IT OFF!
I thought it would explode…lol. She’s dramatic.
I actually havethree microwave egg poachers and I microwave eggs ALL the time. Funny you say that.
You gotta learn the proper technique or yes — that will happen.
Microwave eggs smell. I don’t care but my co-workers do when I make them at the office.
PS- Fiona do not get too excited about the carts. They like…CRAWL. Seriously. You wouldn’t be able to walk that slow.
LOLing about the carts. It reminds me of a security cart/trolley/scooter thing that the security guards got at the hospital here to get around, instead of their motorbikes. Those stand on things. They were sooooooo slow it was hilarious. “Hello, security, emergency here, we need you fast!” “On my way… see you tomorrow” putt putt putt putt putt… and there was a steep hill, I always imagined they would fall head over heels going up or down that.
I don’t really like microwave anything.. it just tastes and seems wrong to me. The only thing I found them good for was cabbage. Now I loved nuked cabbage, put it in for long enough and it went so meltingly soft and brown.. YUM (yes I know it was gross but I have weird tastebuds and cravings).
Oh, and standing in front of a microwave gives your babies two heads. So I was told growing up.
Your wilted cabbage sounds good to me!
I miss my microwave, I had to throw it away it was dangerous after that. Not bothering to get a new one because I seem to kill them, seriously.. same with kettles.
the OMMM is pretty genius! love your thinking.
my sisters and I used to put things in the microwave and turn it on til they’d explode. hot dogs come to mind. but please don’t put your silverware in there!
Actually my friend and reader of my blog came up with it!
I am wondering if you exploded the hot dogs on purpose? Like a game? Oh your parents must have loved that!
Don’t boil water in your microwave in glass it can explode
You probably made that man’s day too. I would have been stoked if I were him. Either that or I’d have been like who is this wacky chick and why is she so happy to have saved me a dollar? But I’d have smiled and thanked you.
Imma go with wacky. He was grateful but I mean…$1.25 off tofu! That’s nearly half! However, it WAS whole foods and he was like… lets just say I can tell he had MONEY for sure.
coupons make me giddy, i hear ya! and the detestibles, i am cracking up, in a totally silly humor way.
I’m thinking a microwable PB spoon is genuis. Maybe one that has a pickle poker too?
Miss you. How are you? Email me when you can about life, etc.
The testicles are gross and totally dumb…I’ve seen several around here too! The coupon story is too funny…thinking of others : )
I’d love those 70 degree temps.
I love that you raise awareness with your writing so I’ve pledged you for the blog for mental health 2012 project
http://fiandshalimar.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/light-a-candle-blog-for-mental-health/
Ahhhhh, Ive missed you! I lost track of your blog for so long and have spent hours searching for you to see how you are doing – so glad to have you back =]
I’ve been around! I hope you really didn’t spend hours looking!
Uh-oh. Can I avoid trying to ride in one of those carts now?
We sell stuff like that where I work, and we have one of those then, sadly, the answer will probably be ‘no’.
As for microwave-safe silverware… tupperware *might* make some. If they don’t, I’d suggest patenting that idea!!