Pearls of Wisdom and Foolish Mutterings

May is finally outta here!!

Thank God! May is finally over - I thought it would never happen, but finally, here we are. The first day of June! My excitement is diminished only slightly by the fact that it is also the first day of hurricane season, but not even that can get me down today.

In honor of the passing of May - and may I just say "goodbye and good riddance; don't let the screen door hit you in the ass on the way out, and you look good in the rear view mirror," I treated myself to a day of ME, ME, ME, ME AND ONLY ME!!  It was fabulous. First, I went to the bone cracker and had a terribly painful, totally wicked deep tissue massage. OH. MY. GOD. That woman hurt me. And when I say hurt, I mean she almost had me crying several times during that hour, but if I could have stayed for another hour, I would have done it in a heartbeat. At one point, when she was attacking a knotted muscle in my neck, I swear I thought I was going to throw up. Seriously. But, when I saw the receptionist again, I told her, "Whatever you do, make sure that you schedule me with her every time." Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Next, I saw the bone cracker for a bit of neck and back cracking and a delightful conversation regarding a fascinating article called "I Am Jill's Brain" that I read in Reader's Digest in his waiting room. If you get a chance, read that article. It's in the June issue and truly, it is fascinating. There was also a side article citing different reasons for memory loss, one of which is a severe deficiency of vitamin B12, which, according to the article, can look a lot like Alzheimer's. You must be asking yourself why I find this so interesting. Good question. Firstly, just because the "I Am Jill's Brain" was just a damn good article that taught me things I never knew; like where memories are stored (to begin with - in the hippocampus, and later in the cerebral cortex,) and which part of the brain holds on to the emotional part of a memory (that would be the amygdala,) and last, but not least, the fact that memories can indeed be implanted. If someone reads or hears many accounts of the event, it is possible for the "memory" to worm its way into the neural circuits and it will actually be recalled by the person as a "memory." Which has to be the reason why my youngest daughter swears that she remembers her dad making her eat throw-up after she tossed back up some hated vegetable we made her eat at dinner one night. That so totally did not happen, but she probably remembers it that way since her dad always said to her as she was gagging and doing the whole Drama Queen thing, "If you throw that up, you're gonna eat it." But I digress.

Secondly, the B12 thing was interesting because since I started taking those liquid Super B complex vitamins, I thought my memory had gotten better, but wasn't sure if I was imagining things or just have a run of good memory. Apparently, the Super B complex is doing its job. The good bone-cracking doctor also gave me some intriguing nuggets of info about insulin and vitamin D. But that's a whole other blog.

After the massage, the bone-cracking and the lesson on the brain and memory, I had a pedicure and had my nails done. Ahhhh, this is the life. By then, I was feeling so good that I went to the grocery store to get some food for my poor, neglected family (just kidding, they're not really neglected) and it's 5:40 and dinner has been ready since 5:00! Woo hoo! Have I ever mentioned how NOT domestic I am? I hate to cook almost as much as I hate to clean. I blame that on my time in Venezuela when I had a live-in maid. It ruined me forever.

So, this was a very nice day and it's made even better by the fact that it is a JUNE day! Happy June 1st to everyone!!