PAIN

The pain is so bad today, I just want to cry.  But I know from experience that it won't help.
I need to be calm.  Besides, crying upsets the dog.  But I find myself whimpering a lot.

EGGS

Sometimes I just crave scrambled eggs.  But I'm too lazy, or my back hurts too much to stand
at the stove for 15 minutes to cook them.
(Never install ceramic tile on your kitchen floor.  It's just like standing on cement - very hard on
your back.)
So, today I decided to experiment.  Three eggs, salt & pepper,  and a little milk whipped with a fork.
Paper towel over the top.  Put in the
microwave for 2 minutes.  Lovely!
And easy to eat when your face/teeth hurt with Trigeminal Neuralgia.

"ELEMENTARY"

So, we watched the new series "Elementary" last night on CBS.  TERRIBLE!  It could have been
an interesting show, except for 2 things.

1)  The sound quality was so poor it was unbelievable.
If you wrapped a muffler around your head three times, and then tried to listen it would be about the
same as this show.  This made the female lead very difficult to understand when she wasn't yelling.
We kept turning up the volume; but it didn't help.  That just made it loud and muffled.

Harv and I kept looking at each other.
"Am I going deaf?"
"No, the sound is really bad."

2)  The thick accent and staccato delivery of the male lead made him IMPOSSIBLE to understand
90% of the time.

Obviously, this made for a frustrating viewing experience.  The only reason we watched for the
whole episode was because there was absolutely nothing else on to watch.  (I'm so happy I pay
through the nose every month to my cable service, only to have nothing worth watching!)
A complete waste of 60 minutes of my time.  Next week we'll turn off the TV, and read a book.
I predict a quick demise for this series.

THERE'S GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS

The good news is that I have had very few migraines in the last 2 months.
The bad news is that after 8 weeks of a Trigeminal Neuralgia episode, I only had 2 weeks respite before it started up again.

SLEEP OR LACK THEREOF

Having a hard time sleeping these days.  I'm used to sleeping on my side; and right now spine
issues are giving me pain in both upper arms.  So I lay on one side until the pain wakes me.  Then
I switch to the other side until pain wakes me.  Then I lay on my back.  Hmmm, that won't work.
Then I look at the ceiling.  Too tired to get up; but can't sleep.  So then I start obsessing about
things because everything looks worse in the dark of night.  This doesn't make for a restful night.

I WANT FOR MY FRONT PORCH

I LIKE it!  Wonder if it would work.

SPIDERS

I completely understand.

We used to have these big hairy spiders in our basement.  I'd go down there to do something, and
out of the corner of my eye I'd see something scuttle really fast across the floor.  Now the thing with
scuttling is that you have first the startle, and then the screaming meemies as you realize what it was.
HATE spiders!  And these suckers were HUGE!  As in - you could saddle and ride them.

The worst was when Cal and family (including babies) visited with a baby monitor.  Apparently,
baby monitors emit a frequency that scares the beejeezes out of bugs in the walls and brings them all
out in the open.  When I had seen the sixth big hairy spider in one day, that was it.  Since then we
have sprayed every 3 months for bugs.  Now it is rare to even see a tiny spider or earwig in the house; and they are always dead ones.  These bugs cross the threshold where it is sprayed, go a couple of
inches and die.   HA, take that, Bug!