[CLOSED] Penny Luster Giveaway #1 (Twelve Days of COINmas)

I liked spinach as a kid. Even without Popeye’s propaganda. Kale was another story, and I’m still not a big fan of that. Maybe if you cooked it until it surrendered...

When we lived aboard a sailboat in the Bahamas when I was around ten (I had a rather colorful gypsy childhood), my mother sprouted alfalfa sprouts and made us eat a cup full of them every day.

I hated them. I’d hide them in my pockets and when I went abovedecks, I’d throw them overboard. The gulls would swoop a time or two, but even they wouldn’t eat them. When you’ve got a food that seagulls reject, you’ve got something truly nasty!

To this day, if I get even a single alfalfa sprout in a salad or sandwich, I can taste it immediately. If there’s more than one, I’ll gag.

Some foods I disliked as a kid (mushrooms, shrimp) I really like, now.

Others (fish, alfalfa sprouts, liver) I still don’t like.

 

Nicely done!

 

I like proof coins.

 

It'll be my third round of vein surgery in this one leg. The other leg gets its third procedure two weeks later, on my birthday, 12/28. Ugh. So I'll be a bit gimpy for a day or three, and bandaged, and wearing those horrible pressure socks.

But no worries- I didn't flirt with the nurses the last two times, though one or two of them were a tad flirtworthy, perhaps.

*Hey, y'never know- one of 'em might be into fat, farty, fiftysomething dudes.

... who are married and semi-broke and own a beat-up old car and fourteen cats, right?

Right?

What?

No?

Aww, bummer.

The first time, I did get a little bit high on the anesthesia, though I've been fully awake through the whole thing each time.

What was funny and oh-so-appropriate was that Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds" was playing in the room where they were dissecting me.

Take a good listen to the lyrics, and you'll see why it is the perfect song to have playing in a room where you're operating on someone!




I went home singing it out loud, as if I were some happy drunk.

I guess I was, in a way.

Of course Bobby McFerrin's classic would always be a good choice, too.

Maybe dentists should take note of this.



Wait, wait... those dance moves... holy cow! Is that a younger Robin Williams in that video?!? I never knew!

Now that does make me happy... and a little bit sad, too. RIP, Robin. I wish you’d taken Bobby’s advice.