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Jilly

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This blog is 5 years old today. Heck, here’s a video:

link: Anniversary Song on You Tube

I’ll be back when I’m sufficiently fortified.

In the meantime, here are some jazzes.

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ps thanks for the kind wishes.

Thanks for visiting

I may pop up here and there.

I’ve enjoyed it. Maybe I’ll be back in a few months.

If this didn’t fix it I am at a loss haha

George Carlin on baseball vs. football:

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Go somewhere you haven’t been yet.

On this date in 1970: Dock Ellis pitches a no-hitter while on LSD.

His biography, Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball, was written with Donald Hall.

Best wishes to him and his family as he awaits a liver transplant.

38 to 1
hahaha

Blitzkuchen

(Lightning Cake)

4 Tbsp Butter -
10 Tbsp Sugar - hahahaha
3 Eggs, beaten -
1 1/3 C Flour, sifted -
1 1/2 tsp Baking powder -
1/4 tsp Salt -
1/2 C Milk -
1 tsp Vanilla -
1/2 tsp Cinnamon –
1/4 tsp Nutmeg -
1/4 C Walnuts, chopped - (One small supermarket pack, and crush a bit more with a jar or something before you open it)
Zest from one large lemon
4 Tbsp powdered sugar

DIRECTIONS ————————————————————

Cream the butter and 10 Tbsp sugar.

Sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk to the first mixture.

Add the rest of the wet ingredients and the nuts & mix.

Add the eggs and mix thoroughly.

Pour into a well-greased pan. (I use a Bundt pan, which it fills halfway.)

Sprinkle top of cake with the 4 Tbsp powdered sugar, & some more cinnamon and walnuts if you want.

Bake at 350-F for 30 minutes. (More like 40 – 45. Use toothpick method along with touch springiness.)

This isn’t an American-type cake.

- My 3 Korte Great-Aunts (via my sister)

Hi — an announcement

My first book of poetry, Trouble And Honey, is available for purchase at Lulu.com for a special recession-rate of $7.77. And if you live overseas, why not take advantage of the crappy fiat US dollar hahaha?

The book is also available as a PDF file, for free. This is an experiment. (My baseball poems free chapbook PDF has been downloaded just over 2,500 times so far, BTW. I’m sure that has everything to do with the subject matter.) The PDF of Trouble And Honey is genuinely free without any Read the rest of this entry »

Hey

I’ll be back around May 1st. Since my Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome diagnosis :/ my body has been somewhat falling apart haha. I don’t know if it is some weird psychosomatic shock, or this is a slide into physical disability or this is a temporary musculoskeletal freakout or ?.

The geneticist offered to refer me to a pain clinic when I was diagnosed but I said nah when she asked, although I have changed my mind haha and am waiting for a referral.

I’m trying an anti-inflammatory diet, exercise, I’m learning reiki, going to the chiropractor, etc. I bet I start PT again too. Mostly I am still, like, WTF? and as the primary breadwinner of the family (i.e. I pay the mortgage, have the job with health insurance, etc.) I am fighting a tendency to play catch with various scenarios in my head, all of which involve wrack and ruin WRACK! AND! RUIN!, hahaha. Plus there is the underlying fear of “am I going to be in this much pain - or worse - for the rest of my life?” And I have a weirdly high pain tolerance. Not that I enjoy pain. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that haha.)

I’m lucky though, from what I have read, a lot of people with EDS go years or decades without a diagnosis (it’s a rare condition) and/or a diagnosis of “it is all in your head.” Evidently, somatoform disorder is the new “hysteria.”

If you are looking for a orthopedic doctor in Nashville, I can recommend Dr. William B. Kurtz at Tennessee Orthopedic Alliance. He’s the smarty pants who noticed the EDS symptoms. The Division of Medical Genetics at Vanderbilt confirmed it, during a very thorough 3+ hour office visit.

Anyway, this is the last time I’ll probably blog about this so much; this whole thing is a drag. I know that readers come here for poetry news. I’m going to blog EDS stuff at Bad Glue — there’s a placeholder there now.

I’ll be back in the beginning of May, I think.