But First… I NEED to Blog This

[pics incl] I am having a “but first” moment (or rather an exploding chain of events), that began with me fixing a drink before I began washing some of Jeff’s new dress shirts.  But first, I need to unload the dishwasher, so I can reload the dishwasher, so that I can fill a mop bucket with hot soapy water, so I can mop the floor.

but first… I NEED to blog this!

I was gonna wash some of Jeff’s new shirts, but first, I was thirsty.  I opened the fridge door and a cosmic chain of events ensued.  A partially drank bottle of Sobe screamed to all the condiments “run for your lives!” and pulled off a spectacular Buzz Lightyear flying maneuver because I couldn’t catch it.  It spiraled to the floor where the plastic cap shattered at my feet and continued spinning and spraying sugary liquidy goodness across the kitchen where it made one last desperate attempt to warn the little minions in the cat’s food bowl before collapsing and dumping the remaining liquid into the bowl.

I just stood here and said outloud “What just happened?!”

You may be wondering if I embellished the truth behind this brave Sobe’s sacrifice but Peanut was right here next to me questioning his motives as well!  We are both just ecstatic that none of the Hubert’s lemonade in GLASS jars, took up this Sobe’s cause to drown the cat food.

They say a picture says a thousand words and this one does, but you wouldn’t know what they were without the words 😉 … shattered cap, sticky water everywhere including in the cat bowl, confused cat (I promise the look on my face is probably similar)…



I think they plot this:  http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2012/03/22/soapy-mess/

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Eating Hospital Food Again

[pics incl]  Hehe… THIS time is by choice.  I’ve been trying to meet for lunch with one of my neighbors and “something” keeps rescheduling our time.  Last night as we were actually confirming that we could meet, I asked what she and her 3yr old like to eat.  I was assuming the 3yr old would decide for us but instead I get this strange txt:  “…I know it seems weird but I’ve heard good things about the restaurant in castle rock Adventist Hosp called Manna…”

1) if you KNOW me, I don’t typically leave my comfort zone but “post-clot me” is trying to be better about that

and 2) A HOSPITAL?!?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!? I have SOOOOOO many comments that all I could say is “I’m game. I’ll go check it out BEFORE anyone needs to visit me there 😉 HA!”

Truly awesome and interesting food! Ya’ll go down there and eat.  Kitchen is open-air so you can watch what is going on.

I had the best date ever 😉  Thanks Sonya and Brennan for making this hospital lunch visit a positive experience!

  
more Brennan: http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2016/02/07/super-bowl-50-at-wildermans/

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Vote for Best Car Wash 2016

It’s the time of year where I ask you to vote for our good friends Kevin & Shirley Leung’s business: Magic Rabbit Car Wash: http://ctvr.us/magicrabbit Please vote NOW as voting ends March 6, 2016!

Y’all have helped them win for Denver’s A-List in the past and now for extra incentive, not just Courtney has been working there… Ashley and I do too! (and you might see a teenage boy hanging around on occasion 😉 ).

You can vote for their Car Wash AND for their Auto Detailing.

FYI, they have a their location in Parker as well as their Highlands Ranch, CO and in summer of 2015, they opened a location in Aurora, CO.

If you want to catch one of “the Scott’s” though, you have to stop by the Highlands Ranch location T, Th, F, S & Sun.  Stop by and say hi!

http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2013/08/14/vote-for-best-car-wash-2013/

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STEM FRC Scrimmage 02/13/16

[pics incl]  William has commented before that STEM does not have a football team, they have robotics.  He is on FRC.  I came in and said “Oh I see, your helmets are actually safety goggles.” 

I was amused because several of the kids had on Splunk shirts (never mind if you have to ask).

Unlike REAL football, these teams actually HELP each other!  It actually took me a while to figure out which robot/team Will was with because he was helping them both.  And then I also realized part of my confusion was that the other school had a William… I will require constant supervision in other locations!

When he was younger on baseball I used to tell him “if you are not getting dirty you are not having enough fun!” apparently, the same rules still apply 😉

I’m not sure I look as cool holding a random motor as I was holding a baseball mitt.  You know, they run past you in one fell swoop and thrust in your arms “here mom, hold this real quick, I’ll be right back!”

  
  
  
  
  

 

   

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UGH, A Bird Pooped On My Hand!

What are the Vegas odds on reaching for your mailbox, and having a bird poop on the mailbox handle AND your hand at the exact same moment?  Because, I just won those odds….  I have a witness, William was standing RIGHT NEXT TO ME and he is unscathed.  That is so unfair because he was the cause of the last bird-poop day too!!!

For your reading pleasure, I highly recommend that you go ahead and set your beverage down now…. just trust me…: http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2011/03/03/i-had-a-bad-hair-day/

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Adam Sandler Stand-Up

[pics incl]  We went to see Adam Sandler’s stand-up tonight with David Spade, Norm MacDonald, Rob Schneider and Tim Meadoes, along with most of metro Denver.  We went to dinner tonight with several of Jeff’s coworkers and spouses.  One of them had a pair of Bose noise cancellation earbuds which are now my current “new favorite electronic”… hint-hint…  I borrowed those during the stand-up acts and tested them (turned off, took off, etc) and yup, they work!  [SIDE NOTE: need to see if I can find something for volume control of SOUND not just listening to music because watching “shootem” up movies is still gonna give me same problem w/ sudden loud].

Ashley has us pose for the camera before leaving on “date night.”

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THAT Senior Discount

It was REALLY busy today, with a really long line, and I had a guy standing off to the side of the line “kinda pretending to shop” AND heckling me while I was telling someone about our discounts.  I had been bantering back/forth with him but I do not remember exactly what he said when he asked about “his age” and the senior discount but … without thinking, I looked up an blurted out “You are TOO OLD for our senior discount” to which his wife cheered “HA! Someone has finally put you in your place!”

I couldn’t continue until the line finished clapping.

…I promise, I’m really NOT TRYING to get fired…

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Super Bowl 50 at Wilderman’s

[pics incl]  Snapped a few photos while hanging out at the Wilderman’s Super Bowl 50 party.  Just a few of my favorite hillbillies and I know a lot were missing!  Brennan started talking to me while I was taking the panoramic photos and I wasn’t quite sure what he was telling me (I had in ear plugs).  He finally figured out that I was having trouble HEARING him so he started pointing and said “come on, come here”…. and he took me in the other room and… I realized he was showing me “the OTHER” football fan in the room 😉  Apparently, Jack gets VERY expressive during football games 😉 but what’s even funnier, is when ANIMALS are on the TV, it’s unlike any other dog I have seen “watch tv” because this dog truly seems like he knows what is going on with the animals?!?!  I’d like to thank Lulu for taking me and Jack for a walk 😉

I don’t often go in for Super Bowl commercials (or ANY commercials for that matter, but kudos to Budweiser on their #GiveADamn Don’t Drink and Drive Ad… I may add that one to my own personal mantra! [http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2013/12/31/happy-new-year-2014/]

I was about to publish this post, I looked outside and saw this sunset… it’s PRIOR to half-time, so I’m thinking the orange and blue sky has something to say about today’s game! 😉

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Blake Olson, part 2

Today, the heater was not working for a while, so Ashley and I were taking turns warming up.  [I am covering for Courtney today].  During one of our swaps, a customer stepped into the gas station side, at the same time as me, so while we were chatting I did not see his face but he saw mine and knew me.  This happens often “with regular car wash customers” so it didn’t really surprise me, until he turned to face me and I’m like “hang on, I know you, why do I know you?”  “I met you, a few months ago, over in that building.”  “Ok, but I wouldn’t remember you from meeting over there, it’s something else, hang on… processing.”  He proceeded to laugh and help me out a bit because Ashley apparently had already explained to some of the customers that “I was too cold to think straight” or something funny along those lines 😉

“Oh, Nuggets!  Blake Olson!  Where have you been, I’ve been watching and haven’t seen you?!”  [Sigh, I wish I had been thoughtful enough to realize all this AND thank him for the tickets in the same sentence…. now I feel “rude” but I really was COLD… and I really was having trouble thinking 😉 ]!!!  We chatted a bit about last night’s crazy spectacular Nuggets game… and oh yeah, that Broncos football game tomorrow 😉

Blake Olson has taken on new opportunities in the Denver area, I’m sure gonna miss him as a true basketball commentator with real insights and valuable perspective… and of course, “as one of the guys I know” on the Nuggets!  I hope I get the opportunity to chat with him again and I hope that I remember next time to THANK him for always treating me with respect (and giving me free tickets 😉 ) and not just some crazy fan… I mean, I am a crazy fan, but he doesn’t treat me as such.

Here’s the first time I met him:  http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2015/04/04/nuggets-tickets-040415/

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The Inarticulate Thesaurus

I’m talking about me of course.  The now, inarticulate thesaurus.  I know I have a thesaurus in my mind somewhere, I just cannot seem to find it.  If you knew me “before clot” (yes, BC … 😆 ) then, you have probably called me a thesaurus… or heard me “call me” a thesaurus… a quick blog search [http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2011/09/15/an-indescribable-soun/]

Aside from pain, or weakness or other “physical” or “visible” type … injuries (is that the word I’m looking for???) the biggest frustration I have is the fact that I know that I should KNOW better words…. grrr.  Spelling… that’s right there too 😉

Words that often come out of my mouth now: “It’s like playing charades… and neither one of us knows the answer.”

These are simple pet-peevish type complaints and I am grateful that I get to have “simple-pet-peevish-type-complaints!!!”

[Next on my list… ask me how I feel about the person who invented “let’s sand up the painted stripes on the freeway” especially in the middle of a construction zone!! 😉 ]

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Images from MRI 01/05/16 & status update

[pics incl]  OK, had a follow-up visit with neurologist and went over the results from the 01/05/2016 MRI.  IF… I understand it all, it’s overall good news.  While my left jugular remains blocked, the clot in my brain down to the jugular has lessened (you decide from images).  We are all guessing and assuming that the increased pressure from the increased blood flow is causing the pain.  To help with the dizziness and “sudden sharp pain” on lowering/bending my head down, the neurologist is adding Topamax and decreasing Gabapentin.  Tompamax is another anti-seizure meds but one that specifically lowers pressure in the brain & spinal fluid.  Follow-up in a month.

She also described an area in the top/middle of my brain that still has blood on it.  It’s not doing anything, just hanging around, so… apparently, I need to wash my brain 😉

I’m still just going with my completely unprofessional opinion that “it’s the pistons are trying to re-fire.”  So hopefully, we just “stay the course” with anticoagulant and see what happens.

Links to previous MRI:  http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2015/04/23/welcome-taz-brain-clot-info-mri-pix-nurse-tributes/

If you compare the last image to this one from 10/17/13 you can see a difference. I don’t think I have images from April 2013, the original clot/bleed.

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Snow 02/02/16

[pics incl]  We’ve had a bit of snow.  So I made yummy looking stuff.  Heather promptly asked “but how does it taste?”  Yah, don’t judge her…. she’s right, it wasn’t that good 😉  [thats because I took out all the “good stuff” and made it healthy].

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Dim Sum 01/31/16

[pics incl]  Snow started falling last night and a LOT is expected so Magic Rabbit Car Wash is closed.  It’s fortuitous because it allowed all of us (Scott’s & Leung’s) to go out for Dim Sum (which only occurs on Sunday mornings).  Fortunately, Jessica was also off of work and she and Ryan were able to join us.  Next weekend is Chinese New Year [Year of the Monkey]

Go ahead, YOU try and get 10+ people to be still!

Go ahead, YOU try and get 10+ people to be still!

The last time we had dinner together:  http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2015/10/20/dinner-with-the-leungs-102015/

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It’s STILL Not a Swimsuit

Today, a customer said he was interesting in knowing “what is a clear bra?”  I’ve been in this particular situation before:  http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2015/04/24/its-really-not-a-swimsuit/

This man is a “senior” and had his grown daughter with him.  After telling them “it’s really NOT a swimsuit” the man proceeded to say:

“Well, that’s too bad, I was going to suggest we start selling them at Hooters.”

His daughter punched him in the arm, at which time he profusely apologized to both of us, through all the laughter, and insisted that he’s never been to a Hooters in his life, he just thought it would be a funny comment and “she made me do it!” pointing to me!  HEY?!?

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X-Files

X-Files IS BACK!!! X-Files IS BACK!!!  X-Files IS BACK!!!  in case you were uncertain 😉

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