Just some stuff and other stuff

First of all i have the best of news for anyone with a family. You know how from time to time the family gets unhappy and the general peace is disrupted?? Well, earlier this week i was looking at the take out menu for May China Restaurant here in Garland and i discovered something very very special. I discovered that about half way down their entrees they sell the "Happy Family" for 8.95. Boy i have to tell you that is good news. Gone are the days of making everyone kiss and make up, now I'll just simply go to May China and for about ten bucks I'll have the Happy Family and all will be restored in the world. If you need their address, just let me know. They do deliver, so if it's an emergency, just google them.
Now for something far more trivial. A good number of years ago i was diagnosed with a hormonal abnormality. Basically, i had gone through, for lack of a better term, male menopause. So my hormone levels were ridiculously low. Now is where you should be giggling, cause hormones and sex go hand in hand. However, for me it really was more frustrating than anything else. Sure, the pharmaceutical companies gave us men pills to counter act the inability to perform in the bedroom, but while everyone was making jokes about whether or not a person took Viagra, cialis, or levitra because they wanted to or due to a need, more important details were left out.
I used to take my little blue pill and marvel at just how effective, sorry for using the pronoun but it makes me laugh, it was. However, the blue pill notwithstanding, there were other things that weren't so mundane. My mood, get up and go, and overall feeling of well being were all but gone and my teeth seemed to be dissolving in front of my eyes no matter what i did. Enter one dentist that was focused on the whole patient and not just the bill. I remember wanting to make sure the dentist knew that i wasn't a drug user and that it was important to me that he believe me. He said, i know, you have a hormone problem. Huh?? How does a dentist know this?? He told me before treatment i needed to go see my regular doctor and get a hormone test and a bone density test. And he was right. All the time i had been taking Viagra for poor sexual performance, my body had been trying to tell me that it was out of hormones. I was tested and my results were so low that we tested them again with the same outcome. It was at that time that i was placed on Hormone Replacement Therapy. Basically, i smear this gel on my shoulders everyday and make sure my wife doesn't come in contact with the gel as it would make her grow a mustache. Like she needs help in that department ;-D The thing about the gel is the cost. Typical HRT for a woman is about thirty or so dollars a month. For men, it's about Three Hundred. Why you ask?? I'll tell you! It's all because some lawmakers in Washington are mad that some professional athletes use steroids and so the stuff that goes in the gel is legislated by that and that drives the price up. Totally not right, but that is the state of things. So, now I'm on the hormones and I've had the bone scan and life goes on.
Here's the point to all this. This week, i had oral surgery to remove my teeth and repair my jaw from the effects of having low hormones for so long. I have bone loss in my hands, neck and other parts of my body and the lack of hormones drove my cholesterol number for years. Here in a couple of years I'll probably start getting calcium treatments like one of those little old ladies and all of this was largely preventable. If you are a man or have one that is over forty, have him get his hormone level checked. The test is cheap by medical testing standards and the benefits so completely outweigh any embarrassment he might feel. Insist on it, hormones aren't only for the bedroom. Just wanted to share, Dave
p.s. next time I'll tell you why i never tell her to cut or not to cut her hair.

nothing old or predictable

Well it's been nearly a month since i last penned something here. For my absence, you have my deepest apologies, for some, and it must have been a refreshing break, for others. truth be told, since i signed up on Blogger i haven't blogged like i usually do. I'm not sure if it's because it seems more formal here or if i've just grown lazier. The smart money is on the latter.
While it is true that i live in Garland, i started teaching a sewing class at Lone Star College in Houston in March. It's just one day a week, but that takes three to four days to do. I tell you now, it's not a commute for the faint of heart. I have 12 women in my basic sewing class. These women have skill levels that range from "so this is a sewing machine" all the way to, "are all the projects going to be this easy." A couple of them have Kenmore's. A brand of machine marketed by Sears for years and they generally work pretty well. I don't know who actually makes the machine, but they have pretty much always been a pretty reliable machine. The balance of the class ALL have Singers from Wal-Mart. The first thing i guess i should say is that i think that Wal-mart is the Devil!!! I detest it!!! The vary mention of it makes me cringe!!! At any rate, the class has progressed nicely and all of the ladies have taken to a man instructing the class just fine. I guess the class is going fine, i've been asked back to teach three different sections this fall. I have to say, i had my reservations when i took the gig, but it has turned out alright. I'm sure that as time goes by it will only get better. But, as of tomorrow, i only have one class left. I have to tell you that i'm ready for it to be over with. I need a break from this traveling. Leave garland on sunday, go home on wednesday, repeat?? Yeah, i've had enough of that for a while.
Tomorrow, after class, i'll go home and have oral surgery on wednesday morning. I'm terribly apprehensive about it, but what can ya do. If you need it, you need it. Hopefully, i'll be drugged out of my skull for the whole procedure and remember nothing. At least, he claims that i'll remember almost nothing of the hour and a half. Here's hoping he's right. I bet i talked to thirty surgeons before i found one i felt comfortable with and so now it's on and paid for. I guess at this point all i need do is show up.
Next week, i'll be back down here in Houston for my last class and then home again. I'll be home for about two and a half to three weeks and then i'll be headed off to Alpine for a while. When life closes in on you there is no place to get your head wrapped around things like in the high desert back home. I've been needing a break for a number of years now but i've never taken the time and you know what?? I'm taking it. I know my mother has a grocery list of stuff she wants me to fix around her house and i'll do my best to get all that done. Though sometimes her lists never end. As you get one thing cleared off, two more get added. Then again it's for Mother Nature, what's a guy to do. After all of that, i have to get back in time to get my "bruiser" son to "weight camp", no he's not fat, it's a football thing. So somewhere along in here i'm just hoping to have a day or two where i can throw my feet up and just enjoy the day and i hope you do as well. Till next time, y'all be good, Dave
p.s. Most of the people i know that blog any at all feel obliged to include random recipes and with all of the phone calls i get for how to cook something, i'm going to give you my stupid peanut butter cookie recipe. i hope you enjoy.
1-2-3 cookies
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
beat that all together and make peanut butter cookies. bake at 350 for about 10 minutes or golden and enjoy. yes i know there is no flour in the recipe. Trust me, they're great. Have i ever lied to you before?? peace!!!