Grab Bag Fridays: Push It To The Limit
(1 Cent): Food Poisoning = Bad Times
So, at the encouraging of someone, I decided to write a little more about my bout with food poisoning this last Sunday (the 18th).
Basically, at noon Sunday, I started feeling a little funny. I had less energy and my stomach started to feel a little funky. Then, funky turned to discomfort. Discomfort turned into uneasiness. Uneasiness turned into pain and queasiness.
Then, I stated to get a little warm, but had chills/shakes throughout my entire body. I thought to myself, "This is going to be problematic." I went to my bed, hoping to kind of rest it off. As time went by, things just started getting worse.
About 4 1/2 hours after I started feeling weird, I had reached the apex of the sickness (fill in the blanks as you please). I had called my friend C.W. over to bring me some Gatorade and Pedialyte and hoped and prayed for the best.
So, after the worst day and night in a long time (I woke up about 5 times that night), I awoke feeling a little better; my stomach wasn't queasy anymore nor did my body have aches, but I still was fatigued and felt hollow. Apparently you're not supposed to eat food right away, so that lead to 2-3 straight days of just Saltine crackers and Gatorade. Gourmet meals!
Yesterday, I started eating "regular" food again and went back to the gym. I feel pretty normalized now, although I still feel like something ain't right. Maybe it's just my body adjusting to normal food again, I don't know.
Since I was sick until now, I've been trying to figure out what the heck it was I ate to make me go towards the edge of death. The only two things that I can come up with is: bagged salad that was a day or two old and/or my bread that was a day or two old. I'm the guy that throws stuff away by the "sell buy" date. The one time I don't, I get hosed. I don't care if people make fun of me for doing so. Getting an extra slice of bread out of my loaf or another bowl of salad isn't worth what I went through.
Luckily, I only lost 3 pounds during the couple days I didn't eat. Actually, I don't know if that's a good thing. Oh, well. I'm good again and that's what counts. Right? Right???
(2 Cent): Dating Ideas?
I was searching what some good, unique dating ideas people had to offer on the Net ... and I came up with either the "cannon" for dates -- mini golf, bowling, movie, blah, blah, blah -- or some really, really weird things that people should never do in general, let alone on a date.
One Web site that was the most ridiculous to me was by something called Nottinghamshire.gov.uk (hey, I just Googled the words "date" and "idea" and it was one of the links). If these are the date ideas from the government of the United Kingdom, then I lost a lot of respect for Europe. Some of these things included (with my thoughts in parenthesis):
-- Adopting a dolphin together (are you kidding me?)
-- Walk the dog (and pick up the poop together!)
-- Give blood together (c'mon, son!)
-- Mud wrestling (hehe)
-- Play tig (WTF is tig?!?)
-- Mow the lawn, weed the garden (then get back on the truck with the other Mexicans)
-- Playfight (well, if you do these other ideas, there won't be anything playful about the fight)
-- Find a tree and climb it (then find a rock and slam your head into it)
-- Make daisy chains (uh ... no?)
And now ... for my favorite date idea ever ...
-- Find out your old photographs of you when you were little, and see whether or not you've changed (naw, I'm in my mid-20s and I'm still 2'7" and wear my Sesame Street bib when I drink my bottle. I mean, hell! You serious? Get pictures of when you were little and see if you've changed? You need a picture for that? If you need a picture for that, just walk yourself right into oncoming traffic holding a sparkler in each hand. This is a date idea? It's more like, 'if you don't ever want to go out with that person again, this is what you do' idea).
Needless to say, I'm going to go adopt a dolphin, then take it for a walk while I make my date mow my lawn and make me daisy chains. Ladies, you know you want to.
(1/2 Cent): It's Not Monday, But It's Gotta Be Said
I hate writing about sports on the "non-sports day" but what Kobe is doing has to be mentioned. I mean, he follows up his 65 and 50 with a cool 60 in a 121-119 win yesterday? Are you kidding me? It's like I'm controlling him in my video game ... it's sick!
He plays again tonight against the NO/OK Hornets and who knows? What if he does another 50-60 point game? Who's going to guard him that game? Desmond Mason? Rasual Butler? Please. The only man on the planet that can stop Kobe is Kobe. As long as we keep having Walton and Odom pass the ball brilliantly like they're doing, while having good screens from Kwame ... Kobe can do this all day.
To all those haters out there ... yes, he did this against the Blazers, T'Wolves and Grizzlies ... but if it's so easy, why isn't LeBron doing it? Why isn't Wade, Nash, Nowitzki or anyone doing it? Because they can't, that's why! If it's so easy, then those fools would be doing it. Plus, Kobe's doing this while shooting OVER 50%! He's not just chucking it up and taking bad shots -- he's taking shots within the offense AND making difficult shots. All the while, the entire team's defense is focused on stopping him. They know he's going to shoot and they still can't do anything about it.
People just need to put all the crap aside and enjoy the Kobe era ... it'll be awhile before we witness something like this again (unless LeBron James realizes he's bigger, faster and stronger than everyone who guards him at the SF position).
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Hope everyone has a great weekend ... and eats food that agrees with them! Write in comments and questions for next week's Grab Bag to HCP2007@gmail.com or click the Comments link below.
HCP
So, at the encouraging of someone, I decided to write a little more about my bout with food poisoning this last Sunday (the 18th).
Basically, at noon Sunday, I started feeling a little funny. I had less energy and my stomach started to feel a little funky. Then, funky turned to discomfort. Discomfort turned into uneasiness. Uneasiness turned into pain and queasiness.
Then, I stated to get a little warm, but had chills/shakes throughout my entire body. I thought to myself, "This is going to be problematic." I went to my bed, hoping to kind of rest it off. As time went by, things just started getting worse.
About 4 1/2 hours after I started feeling weird, I had reached the apex of the sickness (fill in the blanks as you please). I had called my friend C.W. over to bring me some Gatorade and Pedialyte and hoped and prayed for the best.
So, after the worst day and night in a long time (I woke up about 5 times that night), I awoke feeling a little better; my stomach wasn't queasy anymore nor did my body have aches, but I still was fatigued and felt hollow. Apparently you're not supposed to eat food right away, so that lead to 2-3 straight days of just Saltine crackers and Gatorade. Gourmet meals!
Yesterday, I started eating "regular" food again and went back to the gym. I feel pretty normalized now, although I still feel like something ain't right. Maybe it's just my body adjusting to normal food again, I don't know.
Since I was sick until now, I've been trying to figure out what the heck it was I ate to make me go towards the edge of death. The only two things that I can come up with is: bagged salad that was a day or two old and/or my bread that was a day or two old. I'm the guy that throws stuff away by the "sell buy" date. The one time I don't, I get hosed. I don't care if people make fun of me for doing so. Getting an extra slice of bread out of my loaf or another bowl of salad isn't worth what I went through.
Luckily, I only lost 3 pounds during the couple days I didn't eat. Actually, I don't know if that's a good thing. Oh, well. I'm good again and that's what counts. Right? Right???
(2 Cent): Dating Ideas?
I was searching what some good, unique dating ideas people had to offer on the Net ... and I came up with either the "cannon" for dates -- mini golf, bowling, movie, blah, blah, blah -- or some really, really weird things that people should never do in general, let alone on a date.
One Web site that was the most ridiculous to me was by something called Nottinghamshire.gov.uk (hey, I just Googled the words "date" and "idea" and it was one of the links). If these are the date ideas from the government of the United Kingdom, then I lost a lot of respect for Europe. Some of these things included (with my thoughts in parenthesis):
-- Adopting a dolphin together (are you kidding me?)
-- Walk the dog (and pick up the poop together!)
-- Give blood together (c'mon, son!)
-- Mud wrestling (hehe)
-- Play tig (WTF is tig?!?)
-- Mow the lawn, weed the garden (then get back on the truck with the other Mexicans)
-- Playfight (well, if you do these other ideas, there won't be anything playful about the fight)
-- Find a tree and climb it (then find a rock and slam your head into it)
-- Make daisy chains (uh ... no?)
And now ... for my favorite date idea ever ...
-- Find out your old photographs of you when you were little, and see whether or not you've changed (naw, I'm in my mid-20s and I'm still 2'7" and wear my Sesame Street bib when I drink my bottle. I mean, hell! You serious? Get pictures of when you were little and see if you've changed? You need a picture for that? If you need a picture for that, just walk yourself right into oncoming traffic holding a sparkler in each hand. This is a date idea? It's more like, 'if you don't ever want to go out with that person again, this is what you do' idea).
Needless to say, I'm going to go adopt a dolphin, then take it for a walk while I make my date mow my lawn and make me daisy chains. Ladies, you know you want to.
(1/2 Cent): It's Not Monday, But It's Gotta Be Said
I hate writing about sports on the "non-sports day" but what Kobe is doing has to be mentioned. I mean, he follows up his 65 and 50 with a cool 60 in a 121-119 win yesterday? Are you kidding me? It's like I'm controlling him in my video game ... it's sick!
He plays again tonight against the NO/OK Hornets and who knows? What if he does another 50-60 point game? Who's going to guard him that game? Desmond Mason? Rasual Butler? Please. The only man on the planet that can stop Kobe is Kobe. As long as we keep having Walton and Odom pass the ball brilliantly like they're doing, while having good screens from Kwame ... Kobe can do this all day.
To all those haters out there ... yes, he did this against the Blazers, T'Wolves and Grizzlies ... but if it's so easy, why isn't LeBron doing it? Why isn't Wade, Nash, Nowitzki or anyone doing it? Because they can't, that's why! If it's so easy, then those fools would be doing it. Plus, Kobe's doing this while shooting OVER 50%! He's not just chucking it up and taking bad shots -- he's taking shots within the offense AND making difficult shots. All the while, the entire team's defense is focused on stopping him. They know he's going to shoot and they still can't do anything about it.
People just need to put all the crap aside and enjoy the Kobe era ... it'll be awhile before we witness something like this again (unless LeBron James realizes he's bigger, faster and stronger than everyone who guards him at the SF position).
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Hope everyone has a great weekend ... and eats food that agrees with them! Write in comments and questions for next week's Grab Bag to HCP2007@gmail.com or click the Comments link below.
HCP
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