Head, shoulders, knees, and toes

I spent most of the day working on a DIY home improvement project, which involved a lot of kneeling, apparently, because my knees feel bruised. They don't look it, but they are definitely tender to the touch.

This begs the question: Is it that my knees are old? Or is this something that also happened to me as a kid, if I spent a load of time kneeling? I honestly don't remember. It seems like it is probably a universal thing: knees just don't like all that pressure (I don't blame them). But, it could just be that I'm old? Older? As in, not 10? 

So I need some kids to help me out. And I guess teenagers, some 20-somethings, and some 30-somethings. And some 40-somethings, and I don't count because I didn't have any kind of measures in place for a science experiment. We need our participants, and we need to measure how long they are kneeling, any breaks (15 minutes on, 5 minutes off, or whatever). Then, at the end of the kneeling time, we need to measure the diameter on the knee that is tender, and also for how long it is tender. Then we tally the results and can determine if it's an age thing or not.

Or, you could just have your kiddo tell me if they get tender knees after kneeling for a while, and we'll call it a day. 

Deck the Halls

I am so ready for Christmas. 

Usually it starts to hit me in mid-November, and I can hold off until Thanksgiving to decorate and such. 

But this year, I'm ready for it now. The songs, the food, the wrapping paper, the decorations. I'm up for skipping Halloween--although my great-niece did look adorable in her costume! And I always love the pics of the nieces and nephews in their costumes, so I guess we can fast forward to the day, and then skip on over to Christmas! Maybe a really quick dip into Thanksgiving on our way. 

Or maybe I just need a couple of days to rest up. Because I'm exhausted. So maybe a couple of napping days and then we skip on over. 

Because you gotta have Christmas energy.

Fall

 

Whoopsie

I kind of accidentally learned how to make chiles en nogada last week. 

I know. How do you accidentally learn how to make anything, let alone chiles en nogada?!

Well, it started with a deal made who knows how long ago between my boss and a teammate, who weren't my boss or teammate at the time, in which the teammate promised the boss chiles rellenos. This was followed by what must have been at least several years of ribbing for not delivering on the promise. 

Fast forward to last year, when I found out that one of the reasons there had been no chiles rellenos was because Teammate needed a place to make them. Which I mentioned the next time ribbing was happening.

And so, this year, during the training seminar, there was an offer of a place and so the chiles rellenos were going to happen.

The place ended up being mine (which is fine--it was only for the cooking, not for the eating) and the chiles rellenos were switched to chiles en nogada (they are more fancy), and long story short, I now know 3 ways to roast chiles, how to make en nogada, that pomegranate seeds do not last very long, and it's a good thing because I have roughly 4 pounds of meat filling in my freezer, so all that info will come in handy. 

Just goes to show, accidents happen.