Bamboozelment of the father – First Time in History

We had a surprise birthday for my dad a week ago.  Fooling my dad isn’t a easy task, but we had him fooled all the way up to the door.  He wasn’t too happy with the fake proceedings we had to conjure up so he was complaining the whole time, even still hoot and hollering right up to the the surprise which made it that much sweeter.  This was a blow to his psyche as after the surprise he had to stand in the backyard for a minute to collect himself with embarrassment.   I believe if I’m not mistaken by consulting the surprise birthday manual that he has forfeited all birthday privileges to my mom when she has hers next month.

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Fooled

Fooled

Q and gramps

Q and gramps

3's

3's

The Food Weapons

Quentin's first photographs

Quentin's first photographs

Yea so textures are a majority of the issue in foods than taste, at least for me.  After further consultation with wizard Willis the proper cutting and food preparing items must be obtained.  I agreed with his take on the matter after further thought.  I need things cut in precise ways to combine for optimal texture of things.  That in itself lends to a certain art form I can appreciate.  The work to arrange and combine all these elements I can see could be as satisfying as eating them.

So here is a short list of weapons based on suggests of Das Willis:

Wusthof Classic 2-Piece Knife Starter Set

Progressive International CSS-1 Collapsible 5-Quart Salad (that’s if you don’t like overly wet salads which I don’t)

A good bamboo cutting board.

A good rice cooker made by Zojirushi

Right now I’m starting a list of the food items to start. It will be small based around salads and brown rice.  One of the things Das Willis does is make his own dressings.  Using allot of processed dressings is basically taking a candy bard and liquifying it on your salad.

I have all the above items on ebay watch as I try and get low prices.  I might even do some food network photo breakdown ninja kicks for documentation.  Yea it’s all known to 99 percent of everyone else but not to me.

As always up yours Taco Bell and McDonald’s but spare the granita, let the granita live a long life.

Polluted filters of natural foods

Das Q

Das Q

My buddy Das Willis, yes that’s what I call him, recently went on this change in diet that I’m going to adopt. He had some skin condition that I assume he attributed too a not so healthy diet ( yes also liked the asshole Starbucks).  Since putting to practice this plan his skin has cleared and he has  felt extremely better. It is basically a rejection of processed foods, those high in pesticides, dairy and meat.  In other words, screw you modern factories of processed shit you bombard me no more.

Here is a link to his write up of his plan, what he has experienced and some helpful related resources:

FairlyRaw

As I said I’m going to adopt this as a good starting point to re teach myself how to be healthier.  My issue is I don’t want to think of choices I want to have something I can trust and totally focus on it.  If I have to go into a large super market full of 10,000 things per food group I wont know what is what to choose.

iPhone Suess

iPhone Suess

If I did try and break it all down I wouldn’t start this for another year it’s simply too complex to me and I would be studying more than doing.

I’m going to document everything here as much as I can about the process and things I learn along the way.  One note discussed today that has me thinking is the thoughts of fish being nothing but filters in a already polluted water system. That thought has spawned alot of ideas in my that I’m still churning on.

I found the Kashi products in terms of breakfast and snacks for Q.   Although he sometimes has his Goldfish, which are nothing but empty crunchy things, the Kashi snacks actually give him  fiber and nutrition of value, which is noticed when he has a serving of ( you know nice poops).

I shall report back soon as for now I’m looking for a good rice cooker since it was suggested ( based on alot of servings of brown rice) that this item will be my little buddy for a good while.

Quentin is really skilled and knowing how to operate an iPhone. I don’t know how he natural figures this out at his age in being it’s so abstract but he knows you swipe to flip pages and what apps he likes, a good excuse to get an iPad.

The Day After – The hairy walrus washes ashore.

Some photographes I thought I had but didn’t. My buddy at work Nick Owens took these the day after surgery

You can see the rest at my flickr page.

Nap Time

Nap Time

Split Lip

Split Lip

Beat up

Beat up

Bump isn’t anything…

Dr’s didn’t seem to think it’s anything other than an irritation from my upper teeth possibly.   For the first time dealing with cancer I felt true sense of fear.  I can have my jaw rebuilt with leg parts, a hole in my leg among other wounds and yet never felt anything like when I saw this small discolored bump on my cheek.  It really brought me down to earth another peg I didn’t know was there.

TODAY

Today

Today

A Bump

For the last week Ive noticed this bump right above my incision in my mouth.   As one friend stated ” It looks like you bit your cheek”.  That would be awesome if I had lower teeth to bite my cheek with.  I moved a monthly check up to Monday to have it looked at.  My heart dropped though when I saw it and needless to say my head is now racing.

That

That

Cocoon forming

Been walking last few days feeling out how my leg feels after a couple of miles.  I can get around ok but I notice my gate still favoring my leg.  I’m trying to walk on the ball of my feet with the bad leg it still feels like I’m not sure whats going on.  I feel myself leaning forward more as well. Needless to say allot of little motors are out of whack at the moment.  This is all compounded by the fact the bottom of my foot starts to hurt as if it’s getting pounded harder than it is.  Next day I feel fine so I don’t think I’m doing any harm , just need to keep working on it.  About a month ago it was considerably more numb than it is now.

notes:

Kashi cereal kicks ass

I dig green tea

Bananas don’t taste like chicken.

end of notes

Also took these photo’s since they remind me of my surgery photo of my jaw with the cancer in it.. Maybe you don’t see it but I do.

Cancer forms

Cancer forms

Cancer Forms

Cancer Forms

Cancer on the right

Cancer on the right

Notice that round shape over my last tooth.