shannanigans if you pull my card, you pull the ace, and if you ask me turn UP the bass

bringing brandy back

ok.

i’m back.

i would have come back earlier, but i pulled my hamstring….or is that just a string made of ham and not a muscle? anyway, i pulled some muscle found between your knee and your hip. my knee and my hip. and, i did it while i was just standing there. yep. just out of the blue. i was standing in duane reade all, la dee da, where’s the toothpaste and all of a sudden, ow! i was partially paralyzed all hunched over trying to relieve the pain in the corner next to the lightbulbs. i don’t know what happened. it’s not like i stepped forward or fell or tried to do a high kick. i was just STANDING. it was spontaneous muscle pulling. i think my muscle just contracted upon itself. it’s as if he just quit. all of a sudden my right leg was like ‘f, this! i quit working here!’ and nobody even knew he was unhappy with his situation or had family troubles at home. he just quit without warning. he even left his sandwich in the breakroom fridge. it was that fast.

the next day, which is the day that is today, it hurt lots more. stairs are very difficult now and when i stand up from kneeling well, i don’t really stand up right away because it hurts. i hope that somehow this means i am building muscle, even though i know it does not. my left leg also hurts in that area now, but not as intensely (which looks like it’s spelled wrong). i don’t know what is going on, maybe it is sympathy pains. what i do know is that we can’t afford to lose more workers. especially not with the writers’ strike.

lets talk about brandy (you’re a fine girl) by looking glass instead. yes, happier times. this is one of my favorite songs ever. it is so good and the story is just so painful and sad in the catchiest way possible. i think my favorite line is the silver chain bit in the second verse. i don’t know why, it’s just such a smooth rhyme. plus, that’s when you really get into the story, oh the painful story. it matches my leg pain but more like if the leg pain moved to my heart, but not in a heart attack way.

so good!

it’s a shame nobody was around to see the expression on my face as i read about your poor hamstring walking out on you. i guess he’s pretty irreplaceable, so you better get him back soon.

also, i like what you’re doing with your blog! adding the music theme into the usual hilarious shannanigans stories makes for a blogee’s (?) paradise.

That’s a really weird thing for a hamstring to do all of a sudden. I treat my body like a pile of scrap metal and it hasn’t done that to me. Yet.

that’s a great song btw….and to think the kind of crap they play on radio when there’s songs like these around. I used to be a strictly top 40s girl but your blog is slowly but surely changing my ways.

steph, thank you for your blogging support. i wish i had a trophy to hold up and gesture to you with as i was saying that but i don’t.

anonymous, i hope that none of your body parts decide to abandon you. ever. also, i feel so honored to have introduced something new to someone, thanks for the comment!