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Devin and i are uniting our forces. we will now be blogging at: http://devinandlarissa.blogspot.com/

Lap Top Ache

Anyone else get "laptop ache"? that dull, aching, cancerous feeling on the ol' thighs when you have a laptop on your lap? i feel like i might be the first person to get lap cancer seeing that me and top spend at least 8 hours a day together.

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Good Words

every so often, i get anxious at night when it's time to go to bed. i have irrational thoughts and make random, haphazard remarks that seem to make so much sense at night, but not so much in the morning. i'll worry about the day ahead, for example, when i have absolutely nothing to worry about, or i mourn the day that is over and the fact that i have to fall asleep, because i dread the transition - the state in between awake and asleep.

so last night was one of those nights. "i just want to be with you," i said, laying next to my husband. detecting my strange comment as one of my nightly moods, he replied in such a sensitive, matter-of-fact way, "we are right here, together." i instantly felt peace. his reply was so insanely simple, but it was just what i needed to hear. "we are right here, together" i repeated until i fell asleep.

devin often says the exact thing i need to hear. his responses are as varried as my changing conditions.

like this morning i was leaving the house to go work at urban grind (about 8 blocks from our house. i walk usually) and my eyes were just wanting to close. they were really dry or something. so with my eyes closed, lingering by the door, i told him i, "can't open my eyes, they just want to be closed." "that's okay," he said, "keep them closed, you know the way."

so i left for work smiling this morning. i am so blessed to have a life long friend to keep me going, and to keep me sane. and i did walk fifteen steps without looking.

Prolo Scar

Last year sometime i had a procedure to try and strengthen my knees. it's called prolotherapy and it's basically injecting sugar water into a muscle to draw the attention of your body to the area so it rebuilds tissue. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolotherapy).

if you've never had the joy of having a long needle inserted under and around your knee cap, you've not experienced the fullness of life. the best way i can describe it is imagine twisting your leg from the knee down until it all the bones, muscles and ligaments tear apart. sorry, that's sick.

so anyway, i had to have several treatments. during one of them, the needle must have hit the mother of all nerves because it was like an electric shock running through every network of veins and nerves in my leg.

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ever since then, i'd periodically have this sensation that a pin was inserted into the side of my knee. it took about 9 months to finally fade, but yesterday, since i'd been riding my bike a lot, it came back! i could have sworn there was a thorn or nail sticking out from the side of my leg. there wasn't.

my mom got treatment (injections in her feet) and it totally worked for her. not for me though. it's okay. it makes me feel like i've been through a war and have the shrapnel (strange looking word, wonder where it comes from) to prove it. or like my leg is a piece of wood that makes up a house.

Bike Routes?

You know how google maps has the little "avoid highways" box you can check? It would be cool if they had a "bike route" box. Is there a website that gives bike routes for whatever destinations you type in?

Puppies Bring Joy

Sometimes when i'm bored and when i'm not bored i look at dogs that need homes. I love to read their names. and feel sad that our appartment doesn't allow pets.

Funny thing, Jubba, an old pug (not pictured) got a home.

I had seen him online and like a month later i was getting out of our car and hear a girl say, "Come on Jubba" to a little pug. I talked to her. She and her husband adopted him. I'm so happy for him. Yay Jubba!

"Ziggy"

rode horses in his younger days.

"Snaggle Tooth"

Was up for adoption, but is now gone. If anyone sees Snaggles out and about, please let me know!

"Willie"

loves people. He also loves to knit. He will knit his new owner a sweater.

"Pepper"

Pepper's legs are fragile. He does not knit, but will hear everything his new owner is saying.

"Moe"

and Moe will see everything his owner is doing....kind of

"Ernie"

But ernie will remember it forever.

Silent Biker

I was riding my bike up johnson from the east side of the river where i had been working. as i pumped along in the rain, i started making up a rap about my addiction to sugar. i might be able to recall some of it. oh ya, here's some of it.

i love my husband, i really do
but there's somethin
i got to confess to you
i've got a secret love
like michael jackson fits a glove
like peace flies as a dove
i've got a secret love...

it's not coke, it's not crack, but it's white like that
it's not pot, it's not weed, but it grows like that
on a large plantation
available across the nation, at any grocery store or local gas station...

sugar in the morning, sugar at night, sugar after dinner
makes me feel a'ight.
sugar in the morning, sugar all day long, sugar makes me happy, then drops me like a glove or a dead dove.

You get the gist. So anyway, I was singing something like this and for some reason turned around, and yes, there was someone biking right behind me. I hadn't hear them, they were so quiet and sneaky. They followed behind me for the next few blocks as I rode scrunched up, trying to hide while still on my ride.
tongue tied. eggs fried. underwater scooba diver with a box of tide.

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