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Thursday, November 18, 2010
ETSU, Appalachian State kick off homecoming weekend inside ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 18, 2010) - Typically the number 13 is cursed with bad luck; however, the ETSU women's basketball team looks to reverse the curse as the Lady Bucs put their 12-game home winning streak on the line Friday night against old SoCon rival Appalachian State. Tip is set for 7 p.m. inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center.
The Lady Bucs, who are 2-0 for the first time since the 1999-2000 season, were ranked 16th when the updated CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 Poll came out Tuesday evening. ETSU began the year with a 77-60 victory at Chattanooga, and the Lady Bucs followed things up with a 96-84 win over Richmond Sunday afternoon. The win over the Spiders was ETSU's twelfth consecutive home victory, marking the longest stretch in program history.
ETSU has been led by the strong play of senior point guard Tara Davis (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and freshman Destiny Mitchell (Bluffton, Ga.). Davis is averaging 25 points, seven assists and five rebounds in 36.5 minutes of action, while Mitchell is averaging a double-double (16.5 points and 10.5 rebounds). Davis was recognized for her efforts as she was named Atlantic Sun Player of the Week on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Mitchell who has impressed the Lady Buccaneer faithful through her first two games so far, was snubbed by the league as Belmont's Molly Ernst was named Newcomer of the Week.
Appalachian State has won two of its first three games to start the year, but the Mountaineers are coming off an 88-78 setback at Richmond Wednesday night. The Mountaineers defeated Marshall (64-55) and Campbell (84-67) to begin the season in tournament at Longwood.
The Mountaineers are led by senior guard Sam Ramirez (17.7ppg), while sophomore post Ashlen Dewart is averaging 13.7 points and 5.7 rebounds. Appalachian State, who was picked second in the preseason coaches poll, is averaging 75.3 points and shooting 48.9 percent from the field (91-186).
Friday's game marks the 64th meeting in the series as these teams have met at least once since the 1978-79 season. Both teams have defended their home floor in the rivalry as the Lady Bucs haven't lost to the Mountaineers in Johnson City since Appalachian State defeated ETSU, 76-65, back on Feb. 8, 2003.
Fans who enter the gates with two canned food items will receive a special $1 ticket incentive as all the proceeds benefit Second Harvest Food Bank. Also, the first 300 fans will receive a limited edition giveaway - courtesy of Johnson City Honda - while free tailgate festivities begin at 6 p.m. In addition, students have the opportunity to sign up and win $50 cash.
Those who cannot attend the game Friday can catch all the action online via ASun.TV. Fans in the Tri-Cities area can also listen to the broadcast as "Voice of the Lady Bucs" John Stevens will carry the play-by-play on WXSM-AM 640 The Sports Monster. Live stats will also be provided on Gametracker.
For more information on Lady Buccaneer basketball, visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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The Ridgway major league (11-and-12 year old division) softball team opened all-star play Sunday afternoon with a 6-5 loss to Brookville at the Ridgway Little League fields along Grant Road.
Ridgway held a 5-4 lead entering the bottom of the sixth inning before Brookville would score a pair of runs as the designated home team to take the victory. Alissa Watterson started the inning with a walk. After a strikeout, Brookville starting pitcher Karlie McManigle would hit a short single to first. Watterson moved to third on a bad throw, putting two runners on for Brookville.
Members of the community and local dignitaries turned out Thursday night to celebrate Flag Day at the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge No. 872 at the corner of Mill and South Streets in Ridgway.
The guest speaker for the event was state Representative Matt Gabler (R-Clearfield/Elk). Gabler is in his second term as state Representative for the 7th Legislative District. A member of the U.S. Army Reserve, Gabler currently holds the rank of captain and serves with the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 424th Multifunctional Battalion.
A recent act of theft has riled Elk County Historical Society Director Mary Kalinowski.
Three days after planting the Alyce J. Bowers Memorial Garden located in front of the Elk County Historical Society's Center House Museum at 109 Center Street in Ridgway an unknown actor(s) stole three Celosia flowers from the garden.
The Celosia with its colorful flame-like flower head was a favorite of Alyce who passed away on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 in the early morning.
JOHNSONBURG – Residents of the Johnsonburg Area School District will not see an increase in taxes after the Board of Directors approved a general fund budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year in the amount of $10.6 million with a $91,778 increase in expenditures from the 2011-2012 year.
Board Treasurer Patricia Calkins said the district has not raised taxes in about 10 years.
The tax levies approved during Thursday night's regular meeting are the same as last year and are as follows:
RIDGWAY - Steps to strengthen source water protection were discussed at an Elk County Gas Task Force meeting earlier this week.
Jodi Foster, community and economic development coordinator for the Elk County Planning Department, said Watershed Specialist Kim Bonfardine is ready to start source water monitoring in Brockway. She noted that although Brockway is in Jefferson County and not in Elk County, the reason for the monitoring is because much of Brockway's source water stems from Elk County.
During a meeting of the Elk County Gas Task Force held earlier this week, task force chairperson and Elk County Commissioner June H. Sorg asked guest Bruce Manning, director of the McKean County Emergency Management Agency, about concerns some residents had brought up about trucks that transport hydrofracturing fluid or hazardous chemicals to and from Marcellus drilling sites.
Area youth are getting geared up for the Ridgway YMCA Kids Triathlon scheduled for Saturday at 11 a.m. at the popular North Broad Street facility.
"We added a new division this year, a team division," said Mary Lynne Bellotti, Ridgway YMCA executive director. "With three kids on a team, one will swim, one will bike and one will run. We're excited about that change and I think it is a great event for the kids.
"Each child goes home with a participant ribbon and a whole lot of memories."
ST. MARYS – While Elk County Catholic High School students and their faculty advisors are working to put the finishing touches on the school's 2011-2012 yearbook, they know that they have some high standards to meet as the 2010-2011 edition was featured in Josten's 2012 "Gotcha Covered Look Book."
"We were the only school in Pennsylvania that was selected," said ECC yearbook advisor Laura Anderson. "There were over 3,000 schools that were involved and only 400 were chosen."
BROCKPORT – The Horton Township Board of Supervisors approved a county-wide hazard mitigation plan during Wednesday's regular meeting.
Resolution 270-12 was developed to provide a blueprint for reducing property damage from natural and manmade disasters in Elk County.
"Elk County passed it," said Secretary Dennis Thompson. "They are going to go by the county's plan in case there are natural disasters. We just have to say we are going to go along with their plan instead of trying to make one of our own."


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Orthostatic hypotension is a condition of abnormal blood pressure regulation upon standing. The blood pressure quickly decreases, more than 20/10 mm Hg, when rising from a lying down or sitting position to a standing position.
Orthostatic hypotension has several causes.
Hypovolemia is the most common cause. It may be due to:
- Excessive use of loop diuretic medications
- Vasodilator medications, such as nitrate preparations, calcium channel blockers, or ACE inhibitors
- Dehydration
- Prolonged bedrest
- Addison's disease with inadequate salt intake
Impaired autonomic (nerve) reflex due to certain diseases:
- Diabetes
- Pernicious anemia
- Amyloidosis
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Riley-Day syndrome
- Shy-Drager syndrome
- Decreased heart muscle contractility or vascular responsiveness
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- Tricyclic antidepressants
- Tetracyclic antidepressants
- Phenothiazine antipsychotic drugs, such as chlorpromazine, promazine, thioridazine
- Atypical antipsychotics
- Quinidine
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- Barbiturates
- Alcohol
Risk Factors
Factors that increase your chance of orthostatic hypotension include:
- Increased age
Use of certain drugs:
- Loop diuretics
- Vasodilators
- MAO inhibitors
- Tricyclic antidepressants
- Tetracyclic antidepressants
- Phenothiazine antipsychotic drugs
- Quinidine
- Levodopa
- Barbiturates
- Alcohol
- Inadequate fluid intake
- Prolonged bedrest
Certain diseases or conditions:
- Atherosclerosis
- Advanced heart failure
- Addison's disease
- Diabetes
- Pernicious anemia
- Amyloidosis
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Riley-Day syndrome
- Shy-Drager syndrome
Orthostatic hypotension may cause:
Mild to moderate reduction in brain blood flow:
- Faintness
- Lightheadedness
- Weakness
- Confusion
- Visual blurring
Severe reduction in brain blood flow:
- Fainting (syncope) or brief loss of consciousness
Exercise or having eaten a heavy meal may worsen symptoms.
Orthostatic hypotension is diagnosed when symptoms are present and there is a measured reduction in blood pressure while standing, which is relieved by lying down.
Treatment for orthostatic hypotension depends on the cause.
Treatments include:
Adjusting Dosage or Type of Medication
When orthostatic hypotension is due to hypovolemia related to medications, adjusting or stopping medication may be needed to reverse the condition.
Treating Dehydration
Orthostatic hypotension resulting from dehydration is treated with fluids and electrolyte replacement.
Dietary Changes
Changing the way your eat may help. Do not eat three large meals. Instead, eat smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day. This will help to avoid low blood pressure after eating. Consider talking to a registered dietitian for advice.
Minimizing Bedrest
If bedrest is the cause of orthostatic hypotension, symptoms may be improved by increasing time spent sitting up in bed.
A number of medications may be given to boost blood pressure. Over-the-counter medications include caffeine and ibuprofen.
Other Interventions
In some cases, individuals may be encouraged to increase their intake of salt. Fitted elastic stockings that go up to the waist may be worn. Individuals may need to be taught to rise from lying down, to sit up, and to stand in a slow and gradual manner. Similarly, they should be discouraged from standing still for too long a time.
There is no way to prevent orthostatic hypotension if it is a result of other diseases or conditions. However, if your orthostatic hypotension relates to medications, dehydration, or bedrest, you should talk with your healthcare provider about treatment options.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: Michael J. Fucci, DO
- Review Date: 08/2014 -
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Third season: Assistant director of Tommy. Previously: Founding Artistic Director and past Resident Director of Resurgence Theatre Company in Newmarket, Ontario, Lee was the assistant director to Des McAnuff on The Tempest film and stage production at the Stratford Festival, starring Christopher Plummer. He is also one of eleven directors who participated in the inaugural Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Directors at Stratford. Lee was the Apprentice Artistic Director/Artistic Associate at The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario, during the 2008/2009 season. In 2008, he was invited to the Old Vic in London, England, to take part in a directing workshop with the Peter Hall Company. He was an Intern Director at the Shaw Festival during its 2005/2006 season and the Resident Director in the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre at the Stratford Festival in 2004/2005. In 2003/2004, he was awarded the Urjo Kareda Residency Grant to study directing/artistic direction with director Richard Rose at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. Lee started off his professional career as a member of the inaugural Soulpepper Training Company, studying directing, acting and design with Robin Phillips. Directing Credits Include: The Merry Wives of Windsor and A Midsummer Night's Dream for Theatre by the Bay in Barrie; The Campbell House Story for Single Thread Theatre Co.; The Crucible for Ryerson Theatre School; Hedda Gabler and Picnic for the University of Windsor – School of Dramatic Art; Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors for the University of Waterloo Drama Department; The Sicilian, by Molière and adapted by Nicolas Billon, for the Toronto Fringe Festival; Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night for Resurgence Theatre Company; Arms and the Man, The Magic Fire, Rosmersholm (assistant director) and The Valiant (director) at the Shaw Festival; Measure for Measure and As You Like It (assistant director) at the Stratford Festival. Upcoming: Artistic Producer on a TV mini-series based on the New York Times best-selling novel Lion of Ireland, by Morgan Llywelyn. Lion of Ireland chronicles the life of Ireland's first High King, Brian Boru, and will be a Canadian-Irish co-production.


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How Science Shook My Faith
Sometimes when I am studying evolution, I take a step back and worship my Lord because I am so in awe.
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Sometimes when I am studying evolution, I take a step back and worship my Lord because I am so in awe.
A college student raised as a young-earth creationist shares his story of coming to understand and appreciate God's evolving creation.
I became such an expert in young-earth creationist theology and science that it turned into a wrecking ball for my faith.
My childhood in the evangelical church gave me the toolkit that led me to eventually accept the evidence for evolution, and marvel at the God who created it all.
Recent high-school graduate Jacob shares about his journey from young-earth creationism to evolutionary creationism, and how his faith was challenged and strengthened along the way.
Last week Ken Ham addressed BioLogos specifically in a blog post, in response to Daniel Hamlin's testimony told in our blog on October 14th.
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In this series, U.S. Navy Commander Mike Beidler shares his own personal journey from accepting young-earth creationism to embracing evolutionary creationism.
As he endeavored to learn more, David was intrigued by Francis Collins book The Language of God because Francis did not present evolution as a rival theory to Christian faith, but as something that described God's method of creation.
In this series, Bob Jones University graduate David Buller recounts his spiritual and intellectual journey in which he came to a deeper understanding of the metaphorical nature of the Genesis creation account and no longer views evolution as contradictory to God's Word. It is the story of a courageous and truth-seeking heart.
In this series, Dennis Venema describes his personal journey that took him away from the Intelligent Design arguments toward the evolutionary creation worldview. Through careful and honest research, he discovered ID scientific reasoning to be analogy-based, in sharp contrast to evolutionary science, which was supported by concrete data. After accepting this view, God's presence ever strengthened him as he explored the compatibility between the Bible and God's creative mechanism.
In this three part series, Dennis Venema introduces and highlights Todd Wodd—a biologist who validates evolution as a credible theory, yet rejects the theory itself on a Biblical basis. In other words, Wood is a Young Earth Creationist. Despite their different perspectives, however, both he and Venema offer similar scientific critiques of arguments made by Reasons To Believe (RTB) including their view that physical, anatomical and genetic similarities as well as shared pseudogenes do not imply common ancestry between two organisms. The careful evaluations made by both Venema and Wood demonstrate the scientific weaknesses in RTB's theories.
Ten years ago I knelt at the side of my bed and prayed, "Dear Jesus, please help Nana not to believe in evolution anymore."
By all accounts, my faith should have perished the moment I started asking questions about faith and science. All my life I'd been taught that I had to choose—between believing the Bible and believing my science book, between honoring God and embracing evolution.
In this short series, Brian Godawa relates his personal journey from faith in instantaneous creation to gradual evolution. He initially held the scientific six-day model of creation after reading The Genesis Flood, thinking this to be the plainest reading one could have. However, he quickly realized that his "simple" reading was biased by his 20th century, westernized culture that thought in scientific terms. Ultimately, the Bible is inerrant on matters of faith, life and God, but there are cultural barriers threaded throughout the text that must be overcome with proper hermeneutics.
I'm a conservative evangelical. When I became a Christian fourteen years ago, I not only embraced profound new spiritual perspectives, but inherited a host of new scientific views: the earth was young, macro-evolution was false, and to affirm the contrary was to discredit the Bible and even the Gospel.


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Of the 3,423 students who applied for admission to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology this year, 480 were accepted as part of the Class of 2016.
Of those who gained admission, 81 percent live in Fairfax County. The remaining 19 percent are from Arlington, Loudoun and Prince William counties and the city of Falls Church. Public school students make up 92 percent of those offered admission.
Thomas Jefferson, which serves as Northern Virginia�s selective magnet school, is known for its scholastic excellence. It has been named the nation�s best public high school by U.S. News & World Report during all five years the magazine has published its ranking.
Throughout the years, however, some parents have criticized Thomas Jefferson for its lack of diversity.
Of those who applied to the school: 42.9 percent (1,469 students) were Asian, 36.2 percent (1,239) were white, 8.3 percent (285) were Hispanic, and 6.9 percent (235) were black.
Admissions statistics provided by the school system demonstrate a similar trend.
Of those students receiving acceptance to the school 64.2 percent (308 students) are Asian, 26.3 percent (126) are white, 2.7 percent (13) are Hispanic, and 1.5 percent (seven) are black.
Although 11.8 percent of the applicants were eligible for the federal reduced-priced or free meals program, only 1.3 percent (six students) gained admission.
Of the 1,800 students enrolled at Thomas Jefferson during the 2010-11 school year, 906 were Asian, 787 were white, 42 were Hispanic, and 34 were black, according to the Fairfax County Public Schools system.
Thomas Jefferson was converted from a regular high school in Alexandria to a magnet school in 1985, with the goal of offering a comprehensive college preparatory program emphasizing the sciences, mathematics and technology.
Candidates for admission are required to submit essays, teacher recommendations and information sheets, as well as take an admissions exam.


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If you're like me, almost every day you read reports of some new toxic threat in food, water, cosmetics, or household cleaners.
It's a tough job keeping up, especially distinguishing real threats from the hyper-vigilance of the worried well.
In May the Michigan environmental group Ecology Center released its 2012 Garden Products Study, which reported research that examined 179 common garden products, including hoses, gloves, kneeling pads, and garden tools for evidence of toxic substances.
Researchers found more than two-thirds of the products tested contained high levels of one or more toxic substances (including lead), chemicals linked to many such adverse health effects as "birth defects, impaired learning, liver toxicity, premature births, and early puberty in lab animals."
Toxic garden hoses?
And unlike standards that govern public drinking water and the infrastructure that delivers it, no regulations establish safety standards for garden hoses and the fittings that connect them. It's buyer beware.
Especially concerning for me: the number and amounts of number of toxic substances that leach from PVC garden hose.
For years, we've run several hundred feet of cheap PVC hose to our various gardens and the food plants inside our solar greenhouse.
Switching to drinking-water safe hose (rubber or polyurethane) and lead-free couplings will require both research and money, so we'll plan to do it in stages.
In the meanwhile, we're following the experts' suggestions for continuing to use our existing hoses:
- Letting the water run to get the standing water out of the hose before watering food crops
- Minimizing the hoses' exposure to direct sunlight. The heat of the sun on water stored in the hose increases the amount of toxins leaching from the hose.
- Not drinking from the hose or using it to water the chickens. If we had pets, we wouldn't fill their water bowls from the hose.
- Looking for safer hose couplings. Ecology Center's tests showed that 29 percent of brass hose connectors contained unsafe levels of lead. Researchers suggest non-brass couplings of stainless steel, aluminum or nickel.
Margaret Boyles lives in a wood-heated house in central New Hampshire. She grows vegetables, eats weeds, keeps chickens, swims in a backyard pond in summer, snowshoes in the surrounding woods in winter, and commutes by bike whenever possible.


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There were top ten times in Saturday's qualifying for the Abu Dhabi GP for Felipe Massa, Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo...
There were top ten times in Saturday's qualifying for the Abu Dhabi GP for Felipe Massa, Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo...
Felipe Massa: "I am pleased with my qualifying and things went better than I'd expected. All weekend, we haven't been competitive enough and after this morning's free practice, I was worried I wouldn't make it to Q3, but then, thanks to a lap where I got the maximum out of the car, combined with the drop in temperature, I managed to make up a few places. Today I did all I could and I think that without a bit of oversteer at the final corner, I could have done even better. This track does not suit our car, as you need good traction and the high temperature doesn't help either, but the race is run in the evening and I hope that will allow us to bring home those important points we need right now, even if it's definitely not going to be easy."
Fernando Alonso: "This qualifying has been as difficult as the rest of the weekend, even if in some races, starting eleventh on new tyres can help, so let's hope that's the case here. It is without a doubt better to make it through to Q3 but unfortunately I didn't manage to get a very clean lap and I didn't manage to make it by a few tenths. This is one of the tracks where we suffer a bit more than usual, but in general our Sunday performance is better and so, again this time, our approach to the race is positive. We must absolutely get a good start, stay focussed and run a perfect race if we want to take points towards our aim of finishing second in the Constructors', because it will be a tough fight. We have seen that in the heat, the Softs work better than the Mediums and so logic dictates we should start on the softer tyre while it's still daytime and switch to Mediums when darkness falls. Clearly, we have to see how things go."
Sergio Perez: "The car felt great today. If we'd found a couple of extra hundredths, we might even have been seventh - it was achievable. It was important to stay calm after a disappointing FP3. I think we've made the right steps forward for the race, particularly as we knew how much the track would change from the afternoon into the evening - we reacted well. Overall, it's been a weekend of improvement for the team, so I'm really looking forward to tomorrow."
Jenson Button: "Today's Q3 was a puzzling session. I think we struggled to get the tyres working because of the cooler temperatures - I had to take so much rear wing off to try to help balance the car, but it wasn't enough. We were maxed-out on the front wing, too. There wasn't anything else I could have done with the car to help the front end, since we were already running very low downforce on the rear - as could be seen by our straightline speeds. It's quite frustrating, because in FP3 this afternoon we looked really promising - sixth-quickest - and the car felt very good."
Toro Rosso:
Daniel Ricciardo: "I think making it into Q3 was already a good achievement, after the difficulties I'd experienced getting the car the way I like it on Friday and even for the final practice today. My Q2 lap was a very good one, but not the best, so I came into Q3 feeling I could improve in a few areas. We decided to make a slight adjustment to the front tyre pressures which turned out not to be the right decision, as I then had to work harder to warm the tyres. The lap itself was not too bad, but the time never came. The heat? It's only a problem once you get out of the car because inside the cockpit you get some airflow and it's all fine."
Jean-Eric Vergne: "Everything went smoothly in Q1 and also in Q2, I managed to improve my time, even on old tyres and I was heading for a really good time at my last attempt, but I locked the wheels massively going into Turn 8 and that wiped out any advantage I had. It is a real shame because everyone had worked so hard yesterday and last night to give me a really good car, that I was very happy with right from the start of FP3. I have to put my hand up and say I made the mistake. I wanted it too much and tried too hard. On the plus side for tomorrow, I have been on the pace all weekend and the speed is there. So, with a good strategy plan, I am looking forward to the race, when I am sure I can make up for this evening's disappointment."
Force India:
Paul di Resta: "I am pretty satisfied with P12, which puts us in a reasonable position for tomorrow. I'm feeling good in the car, which has worked well all weekend. For tomorrow I'm optimistic that we can be up there with a good chance of picking up some points. The car is responding well and I also think we are more suited to the race than qualifying. There's a long race ahead of us, but we will work hard to put together a good strategy tonight and try to push our way forward in the race."
Adrian Sutil: "I've not been feeling comfortable with the car this weekend. The practice sessions have not been easy and I just can't find a balance that is working for me. It started in second practice yesterday when we had the issue with the brakes and since then I've been struggling. We made some changes before qualifying, which were an improvement, but it was not enough to progress to Q2. So we are disappointed with P18, but it's the result of things not coming together for us. It's a long and tough race here, but I still look forward to it and will try my best to improve our performance."
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I am a huge O'Reilly fan, and watch him almost every night. I read Bold Fresh and enjoyed it. This book seemed a bit rambling and didn't really say anything I haven't already heard on his show. I am glad I checked it out for myself. I hope the next one is more original.
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Dec 23 2011
All I Wanted Was a Doughnut
Yesterday Marlboro Man and I ran to the big city to shop for his mom and grandma, to pick up a couple of last-minute things for the kids, and to be alone together and have one-on-one conversation without our four precious children, our hungry, demanding cattle herd, or our two malodorous Basset Hounds needing something. And we didn't "run" to the big city, we drove, which brings me to my point: part of the topic of conversation in Marlboro Man's pickup was our new wintertime plan—which is to start today—of getting out of bed at 5:00 am so that we can spend an hour working out together before the kids get up and before Marlboro Man needs to go feed cattle. This conversation began after I spent ten minutes lamenting how jiggly I am after a summer and fall of cooking constantly for my cookbook, filming two seasons of a cooking show, and discovering the joys of semi-soft unripened cheeses.
"My jeans are tight, my back fat is violent…" I said. "And I'm at the point where I either need to buy bigger jeans or do something drastic." So Marlboro Man calmly and without agreeing with my back fat lamentations, which is why I'll keep him, laid out his prescription of early morning exercise, and committed to joining me in my new fitness regimen so I wouldn't have to go it alone. Of course, he didn't empathize much. He is chiseled out of granite and weighs the same as he did when he was seventeen. Not that I'm complaining. Granite's my favorite.
Two-thirds of the way to the big city, I asked Marlboro Man to pull off the highway and stop at a very busy convenience store so that I could get some coffee. I'm nursing an upper respiratory infection and had been feeling a little draggy, plus the conversation about my getting up at five to work out for an hour really wore me out. So we both went into the convenience store: Marlboro Man headed to the refrigerated case to get a can (not a bottle, as bottles don't taste right) of Dr Pepper and I headed to the coffee area to fill a large cup with the nectar of life.
It took me awhile to fill my cup because this particular convenience store has a beautiful run of coffee options. You can get French Roast, Columbia Roast, Breakfast Blend, Kona Blend…not to mention all sorts of little squirts of flavor and shots of different forms of cream. I want this coffee area in my house, is what I'm saying. So I stood there and decanted, squirted and decanted some more until I had a great big ol' cup of beautiful convenience store coffee that was likely extremely caloric but I only had one more day before my new exercise program so I figured I'd go out with a bang.
I headed toward the register. I could see Marlboro Man standing there waiting for me so he could pay for his Dr Pepper and my coffee together because he's chivalrous that way, and because he has never known me to have a single dollar of cash on my person. The store was packed with other patrons, because it's a choice location on a busy highway and because it's an incredibly nice convenience store that offers many coffee choices, many wiener/hot dog choices…and doughnuts. Along my journey to the front of the store, I passed the very large, very impressive and beautiful glass doughnut case and was accosted by a very large, very crisp-and-sweet-looking apple fritter on the top shelf. It tapped me on the shoulder, then it reached out its long, evil fingers and said "Come…come to me."
Without thinking, I removed an individual square of paper from the dispenser and reached for the knob of the window that was separating me from the apple fritter. I say without thinking because I somehow had completely pushed the entire conversation I'd just had with Marlboro Man about my back fat out of my consciousness. Or if it was at all in my consciousness, I must have rationalized it by reminding myself that I only had one more day to party before my 5 a.m. boot camp began, or even that apple fritters are actually a healthy doughnut option. They have fruit in them, after all.
I pulled the knob to the right, thinking the door would slide to open, but it met with a tiny bit of resistance. I had Christmas shopping on my mind—what size top I should get Edna Mae and how I wanted to find a perfume counter and sniff all the men's cologne—so I inexplicably pulled backward on the knob, possibly thinking that the door opened by flipping up rather than sliding over. Then, suddenly, a horrible sound crashed through the heavily trafficked convenience store when the entire tempered glass front of the beautiful doughnut case shattered into thirteen million tiny, sparkly pieces. The sound was deafening and seemed to happen in slow motion, as if a house of glass sitting on a frozen lake had fallen down wall by wall. I stood there in shock, not knowing what to do. Glass was everywhere: in the doughnuts, on the floor, in the adjacent sandwich case, in my boots, into which I'd tucked my jeans. And the small stainless knob was still in my hand.
Customers ran over to see what had happened, my husband among them. And when he saw me standing there in the middle of a sea of tempered glass, a small knob in my hand, the now-exposed array of doughnuts right in front of me, and a look of horror and confusion on my face, he had but two questions for me:
"Are you okay?
"What happened?"
"I wanted a doughnut."
By now the manager, assistant manager, cashier, assistant cashier, and probably all their friends and relatives had rushed over to the scene. The manager wanted to first make sure I was okay.
"Ma'am, are you okay?" the nice gentleman said. "You're not hurt, are you?"
Still holding the knob, I answered, "Yes. My pride is hurt. It is badly, badly injured."
But other than that, I told him, I was totally fine, and may I please borrow a broom and a shop vac so I can whisk all this away and pretend it never happened? I noticed a woman out of the corner of my eye. She had her hand over her mouth.
"Oh, we'll take care of it," the manager said. "I just wanted to make sure you're okay."
"I'm absolutely fine," I insisted. "I am so, so sorry. I don't know what happened. One minute I was reaching for an apple fritter…the next minute…" I shook my head in disbelief.
"It's perfectly okay, ma'am," he reassured me. "This has actually happened once before."
I immediately felt better. I'm not the only person who'd shattered the doughnut case at this convenience store. All was suddenly better now. But then I did something I can't explain. I instinctively began reaching for the apple fritter. I don't think I actually had any control over this action. I didn't logically believe I should get the apple fritter; I think it was a desperate attempt to just carry on and pretend the whole thing hadn't happened. Or maybe I really just wanted a doughnut.
That's when the assistant manager stepped in. "Oh, ma'am…you can't have a doughnut now," she said.
I know she was just trying to protect my gastrointestinal tract from glass shards, but at the time she said it I felt like a little girl who had just been grounded from round, delightful yeast treats. It took me a minute to realize she was just gently reminding me not to hurt myself. My face felt hot.
After several minutes of offering to help clean up and insisting on paying for the broken glass and trying to figure out what country I was going to move to once I left the store, I finally made my way to the counter so that Marlboro Man could finally pay for my coffee. But when we got there, the cashier held up his hand and said, "Don't worry about it—no charge." I think he wanted me to leave as soon as humanly possible.
When we got in Marlboro Man's pickup and continued on our trip to the big city, I looked at Marlboro Man, who had a look on his face that I'll never be able to describe. It was the look of a husband who is married to a complete klutz who complains about her tight jeans then stops at a convenience store and shatters a doughnut case while trying to retrieve an apple fritter. It was the look of a husband who has seen his wife fall down, run into doors, use the wrong remote control to change channels on the TV, and wear her black leggings inside out for an entire day without knowing. It was the look of a husband who had just filed another incident into his vault of similar moments…and who couldn't wait to remind me of it the next time we're driving together and I say I want to pull over and get coffee.
"You're…funny," he said, reaching over and squeezing my knee, which made me squeal.
Then we continued to the city and went Christmas shopping.
As for lessons I learned from this incident, I took away two:
1. That's what I get for trying to eat a doughnut.
2. I'm never leaving the house again.
I hope you all have a joyful day. Merry Christmas Eve Eve!
Pioneer Woman
1616 Comments and 45 Replies
Daddy Scratches On Friday, December 23 at 9:24 am
Remind me never to come between you and your doughnuts.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Ree.
BB On Friday, December 23 at 10:43 am
This entire post made me cry with laughter. And then Daddy Scratches' comment set me off again…
Would it be fair to say that donuts are like your crack, Ree? LOL.
Of course, I have just stayed up wrapping presents until 2,30am Christmas Eve. So I am stupid-tired. And a glass-crusted donut sounds downright appetising.
Night y'all.
CaroleJ On Friday, December 23 at 11:20 am
So true! Don't get between a girl & her donuts!
Oh, & PDUB? It's Merry Christmas Adam today (because Adam came before Eve) LOL
Hope you have a very Merry Christmas!!
Paula P. On Friday, December 23 at 12:45 pm
Smart man, Daddy Scratches!
Ree, don't feel bad. My mom did the same thing in a grocery store once when she wanted a bear claw. She didn't go back to that store for six months!
Merry Christmas Eve Eve!
JustNanny On Friday, December 23 at 1:35 pm
…..I KNOW for a FACT that APPLE FRITTERS do not contain one single CALORIE, so PW was making the only right choice from the whole display of donuts! (Sadly, they might contain 1,000+ single calories, but whose counting? MM maybe?) I share her pain, and her gain!!!!! And her humiliation as well…….peaceful blessings! Nanny
Gabi Cumming On Friday, December 23 at 3:58 pm
Very, very funny! Did you eventually get your donut?
Karin from South Africa On Saturday, December 24 at 2:45 am
Yep, crying with laughter! Thanks for making my day, Ree! I am so glad i am not the only one these kinds of things happen to!
Merry Christmas from a hot and summery South Africa!
Sprittibee On Saturday, December 24 at 12:39 pm
No joke. My husband would have said you had a "Heather" moment. I also am a cashless klutz that often eats donuts after saying I need to go on a diet. Ha!
Heather R On Monday, December 26 at 1:42 pm
Hysterical! You are soo funny! I'm, also so sorry. Who else would that happen to?! Poor Ree, but I cried I laughed soo hard!
Lori On Friday, December 23 at 9:27 am
Merry Christmas from one Drummond to another!
marybeth On Saturday, December 24 at 7:24 am
You are so great! thanks for the laugh. Merry Merry Christmas to you and yours. Happy and great 2012 for us all! Pray Pray for peace in the world especially in Pakistan where my family is. Keep up the great work. You are like our own 'emergency broadcast system' that interupts our daily lives and give us a smile and love every single day. God bless you always.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Urban Wife On Friday, December 23 at 9:29 am
OMG!! What a story. Hope you and yours also have a Merry Christmas!!!
Leah On Friday, December 23 at 9:30 am
Seriously, that was awesome! I needed that laugh so badly. Thank you! Merry Christmas!
Lorelei On Friday, December 23 at 10:04 am
I was laughing so hard my children think I'm certifiable! I can only laugh because I can relate. Thank you and Merry Christmas All!!!
Karin from South Africa On Saturday, December 24 at 2:47 am
…one of the many reasons we just love the pioneer woman!
Allyn On Friday, December 23 at 9:30 am
Now I want one too.
and that's totally something I would do. Sigh.
Jana On Friday, December 23 at 9:30 am
Hahahaha! That is awesome! And it totally reminds me of something that I would have done. Thanks so much for the laugh. It made my day. Merry Christmas!
Cheryl Barker On Friday, December 23 at 11:09 am
This not only reminds me of something I would do, it reminds me of something I DID do. That's right — only I broke an entire display of glassware! All I wanted to do was check the price on a pretty glass bowl, and the next thing I knew I dropped it. It then hit the glass shelf it had been displayed on. The glass shelf broke and fell into another glass shelf which fell into another glass shelf –and all of these shelves were covered in glassware. Talk about a nightmare. Sounded like a truck had crashed into the front of the store. So Ree, when you get to feeling humiliated about your incident, thank your lucky stars you didn't do what I did
JustNanny On Friday, December 23 at 10:18 pm
Oh Cheryl, I share your pain…….I'll tell you my boo boo……..My husband and I were in a little town known for their "artisian" flair……I entered one of the shops to look around. It was the kind of shop you had to suck in your tummy, pull in tight your butt cheeks, keep you elbows straight to your sides with your purse held strung from your neck like a feed bag so you don't bump into something. It was alllll hand blown glassware pieces that you had to look at with an intelligent stare as if you could figure out what the piece actually was! I picked up this piece to "examine" it, lifting it upwards to look at the price tag, when the lid slid off. Now this shop was set up with all this glassware around the parameter of the store, with the center of the store open without display! The store was filled with about 15 shoppers, and that lid started to swirl around the floor, first in a hugh arc with each spin slowly getting a bit smaller, and smaller, and smaller till finally it slowed, ready to stop……but not without the added fanfare of a grand wibble wobble before finally, painfully stopping. There was not a sound in the store, but 30 eyeballs, plus the clerks staring straight at me. The clerk walked up to me as I picked up the lid, announcing that it was fine……she haughtily took the piece from my hands and huffed off! The only thing missing from the store was my husband……he had taken off running the moment I dropped the lid! I found him two blocks later sitting on a bench…..just staring off into the great somewhere….
Cindy Jenkins On Saturday, December 24 at 10:50 am
OH MY WORD!!!! I don't know who I laughed at…I mean with….harder. Ree, Cheryl or Just Nanny!!!!!
Kelley On Saturday, December 24 at 5:48 pm
Oh my, I needed that laugh so bad. Just Nanny, you are hilarious!! And Ree, oh Ree, you never fail to make my stomach hurt from laughter. Thank you both, I needed that boost to finish my Christmas Eve baking, wrapping, cleaning, baking…Have a great Christmas!!
Gail Adams On Saturday, December 31 at 8:59 pm
I have laughed till I have hurt.
Joye Foote On Friday, December 23 at 9:30 am
Are we twins! OMG I needed that laugh – you are a trooper my dear! Merry Xmas
Audra On Friday, December 23 at 9:31 am
First of all, doughnuts are important, totally not your fault. Second, sounds like something I would do, except if it were me I'd probably have to drive when we left because my hubs would be laughing too hard to drive!!!
Merry Christmas and happy doughnuts!
Sandi On Friday, December 23 at 12:54 pm
Colleen On Friday, December 23 at 9:31 am
Wouldnt life be terrible boring if we never embarrassed ourselves with food accidents? Merry Christmas! You are very lucky in your family and friends.
Jessica Wilhelmsen On Friday, December 23 at 1:58 pm
Colleen! Love that! "Wouldn't life be terribly boring if we never embarrassed ourselves with food accidents?" That's going up there with my favorite quote of all time, "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
Sheri c On Friday, December 23 at 9:10 pm
Haha! Perfect and I love that P&P quote!
Karen On Friday, December 23 at 9:31 am
Bhahaha! Thanks for starting my day out with a laugh, Ree! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Kristi On Friday, December 23 at 9:32 am
OMGosh, that sounds like something that would happen to me!
Merry Christmas!
Julie On Friday, December 23 at 9:32 am
Thanks for the laugh! That would be something that would happen to me too! I have tears from laughing sooo hard I cam just see myself in your shoes! Ugghhhh That dang donut!
Tammi McKinney On Friday, December 23 at 10:30 am
I was thinking the same thing. I am at work today going through my list of "need to do before tomrrow" and this just MADE MY DAY!!! I am so glad that I am not the ONLY person these things happen to when it is a "your not suppose to have that" moment. Merry Christmas Eve Eve!!!
Lesli On Friday, December 23 at 9:32 am
That is awesome.
Jean On Friday, December 23 at 9:32 am
Ahhh….Love your pictures, and LOVE your words! Ma-widge, as they say in Princess Bride.
Jenn B On Friday, December 23 at 9:32 am
Seems to me to be an itty bitty miracle, like God stepped in to help in that moment. Pretty cool if you ask me…
beetree On Friday, December 23 at 9:33 am
I sooo needed some comic relief this morning- so thank you! It makes me laugh only because it's so relateable. I hope you get to enjoy a glazed pastry at some point before you start your boot camp!
Stephanie On Friday, December 23 at 9:33 am
This is probably the funniest thing I have heard in a long time. I needed that laugh!! Merry Christmas!!! Sorry you didn't get your doughnut!
Michelle On Friday, December 23 at 9:34 am
Great story! Glad no one got hurt.
Merry Christmas!
leisha On Friday, December 23 at 9:34 am
Oh NO! I can empathize and you might consider Costa Rica–good coffee there:)
Melissa On Friday, December 23 at 10:16 am
Ooooooooh yes! Costa Rican coffee! Especially when prepared by a real Costa Rican. Because they just do it better themselves. (We have a friend from Costa Rica – and he really does make the best coffee we've ever had!)
Bonnie On Friday, December 23 at 9:34 am
There's bound to be an easier way to get a doughnut!
Merry Christmas!
Annie On Friday, December 23 at 9:34 am
I don't usually comment, but I have got to say this is one of my absolute favorite posts. I love your style of writing and absolutely love that story. What a picture that was! Bless your heart!! I hear ya on the doughnuts, sister!! Merry Christmas!
Terri n da Hood On Friday, December 23 at 9:35 am
Your story reminds me of one of "those" moments!
I won't go into a lot of details just some hints:
My mother (the chicken lady)
her huge purse
a mirror
the Bombay Store
Merry Merry Ho Ho!
Connell On Friday, December 23 at 9:35 am
LOVE. xoxoxox
ann a On Friday, December 23 at 9:35 am
That was one of my top five favorite funny stories ever. Awesome. Merry Christmas, and thanks for sharing your human side.
Bobby Sue Taylor On Friday, December 23 at 11:55 am
Ditto on this story. Laughed myself silly. It just got better and better. I can so relate. What a champ you are to relate the story and we all love Marlboro Man – he is sooooo cool .
Heather :) :) :) On Friday, December 23 at 9:35 am
You were just trying to free those donuts I'm glad you are okay. I"m sorry you didn't get your donut.Maybe next time? That convenience store coffee bar sounds fantastic. I love coffee Happy Christmas to you and your family. Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather
sheilah On Friday, December 23 at 9:35 am
This is a great story.
…and you really are a klutz.
Natalie @ Cooking for My Kids On Friday, December 23 at 9:35 am
I cannot help but smile as I type this. I love this story and felt every single ounce of everything that you were feeling. Totally sounds like something that would happen to me. And, I can see my husband squeezing my leg, while holding back laughter. Have a Merry Christmas!!
Katie On Friday, December 23 at 9:35 am
Oh. My. Goodness! Too funny!!! You have to be related to Lucy!
rachael On Friday, December 23 at 9:36 am
You didn't know your own strength when it came to getting a donut. How funny. And how funny that even after all that, you still went for the donut again. I love it. Merry Christmas from Tuttle OK
Sandra On Friday, December 23 at 2:35 pm
Yes, I think that is the funniest part……that P.W. went for the donut a second time!LOL
ozark gram On Friday, December 23 at 9:36 am
Ree you have to be the bravest woman I know. How many of us would tell a story on ourself in such complete detail? But it sure is funny and so identifiable. You are one in a million and why I keep coming back to your website. Thanks for just being honest you! May you and your beautiful family have a very blessed Christmas!
Crystal On Friday, December 23 at 9:37 am
Happy Holidays to you and yours! I decided to start the 30 Day Shred 4 days ago. I hurt…I hurt a lot.
Donna On Saturday, December 24 at 8:56 pm
I unwillingly started mine as well…some people put their children through college and once said child receives his BS in Health and Exercise Science decides to formulate a "workout" plan for those whom paid for this BS. I still hurt…a lot; however I no longer scream when I squat to pick up something from the floor~ progress has been made!
Thanks for the laugh Ree !
Celia B On Friday, December 23 at 9:37 am
THAT is hilarious!!
Katie On Friday, December 23 at 9:38 am
Too funny, hope you get that donut before the day is over!
Heather On Friday, December 23 at 9:38 am
Laughing SOOOOOOOOO hard right now! But not at you…..with you!
Your stories make my day!
kacy On Friday, December 23 at 9:38 am
oh my that is hilarious…..you are too funny. Have a Very Merry Christmas!!!
MS BON On Friday, December 23 at 9:38 am
My goodness girl…………you tickle my heart! Thanks for all the laughs this year, you'll never know how you touch our lives……..God Bless you, and yours…………
Lisa Palmer On Friday, December 23 at 12:32 pm
That's so true. She will never know …
Sarah On Friday, December 23 at 9:38 am
That is too funny! Merry Christmas to you and yours! Oh, and Dr Pepper doesn't taste right in a bottle.
Anne On Friday, December 23 at 8:16 pm
You are so right about the Dr Pepper thing, and I never realized it until you said it. Cans only from now on!
Claudia T. On Friday, December 23 at 9:39 am
The two of you are awesome together!! Merry Christmas to all of you.
Lynda On Friday, December 23 at 9:39 am
God Bless Quik Trip.
Daphne On Friday, December 23 at 11:18 am
I was thinking the same thing based on what she said about all the fancy coffees and "extras" you can add there. I get into a trance when I walk into that place! They're taquitos are the best…
Regina On Friday, December 23 at 9:39 am
Good laugh this morning. Reminds me of the time(s) I drove off with the gas nozzle still attached to my car. Both times were at the same local convenience store. Couldn't hold my head up to tell them the second time.
Bronwen Ann On Friday, December 23 at 9:39 am
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO FREAKING FABULOUS!!!!! I am convulsing I am laughing so hard! I think it's because I totally relate, and can see that happening to me!! You are awesome!! Oh, and your husband is right, DP is better in a can!!!!!! Merry Christmas!!!
Ali On Friday, December 23 at 9:39 am
You and Marlboro Man are awesome. I can totally picture myself doing the same thing!
Lori S On Friday, December 23 at 9:40 am
That story made me cringe in sympathic embarassment, then laugh out loud! Thanks for sharing!
Missy from Memphis On Friday, December 23 at 9:40 am
Even though we have never met, I'm certain that we are somehow related!! I feel relief too – because it happens to someone else and not just me. Not too long ago, my husband and I stopped at a Wal-Mart gas station after church to fill up the car before we made the hour long drive home. I decided to be all nice and sweet and fill the car up for him since he had just preached a fine sermon and was going to do all the driving home. I get out of the car, (keep in mind that this particular day the wind is blowing hard enough to clean the particular piece of earth we were on) bend down to pull one single blue napkin from the gas station napkin holder thingy, and the whole napkin holder thingy COMES. RIGHT. OUT. IN. MY. HAND. So, the Wal-Mart gas station is full with people, the streets surrounding the gas station are busy, and I have just caused 5 million blue napkins to confetti everyone, every car and all the streets surrounding us. Then I discovered that the car was on the wrong side to even pump the gas. I don't even remember what happened after that because I have tried so hard to block it from memory. Merry Christmas Ree!
PenPen On Friday, December 23 at 11:16 am
I just stopped laughing about Ree's misadventure and I soooo sympathize. I'm not quite sure what regime my boot camp will take. Missy– I had to start laughing all over again about WalMart. My horror was only in my neighborhood. I was carrying the chocolate cherry cake for dessert down my outside backstairs when my foot slipped. Up went the cake and as I fell backwards onto the stairs, the cake fell downwards on top of me. I took it as a sign of no desserts for a while. My clothes were pretty tasty though.
There is finally a break for my first cup of coffee. I am enjoying a fine "Sinful Delight" blend from Door Count,y Wisconsin. And let me say I bypassed the doughnut right now since I just took out a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake from the oven and inserted my special carrot cake. I deliver dessert for our parties tomorrow.
Merry Christmas to all and to all I'll laugh right along with you.
Missy from Memphis On Friday, December 23 at 1:57 pm
Oh PenPen! I have been needing these laughs!! Merry Christmas to you!
Kellie On Friday, December 23 at 9:40 am
Thank you Ree for making me laugh. Merry Christmas!
Wendy at the Rafter D On Friday, December 23 at 9:40 am
You've been making me laugh my guts out for so many years and you've done it again!
You can't live without coffee and I can't live without my daily PW. Just love you and thanks for the daily giggles. Merry Christmas!
Celestine On Friday, December 23 at 9:40 am
That is too funny and something that I would totally do. Hope you have a Merry Christmas!
Denise On Friday, December 23 at 9:40 am
That is the best story – I needed that laugh this morning!! My poor hubby has a vault of very similar stories and I'd like to think that I bring him joy he's never known. Merry Christmas, Ree! Thanks for all the smiles this year!!
Missi Parker On Friday, December 23 at 9:40 am
What a great story, and for a wonderful apple fritter too! Merry Christmas to all!
Diane J On Friday, December 23 at 9:41 am
Wow! When it's (the donut) not meant to be, it's REALLY not meant to be!
Mindy On Friday, December 23 at 9:41 am
I broke four nails trying to get the lid off of a Christmas cookie tin…I took it as a sign…you should too!
brenda p On Friday, December 23 at 9:41 am
you are too funny!!! i love marlboro man's response,sweet and short,"your… funny". merry christmas!!
Sarah On Friday, December 23 at 9:42 am
i've been meaning to find your blog ever since i saw your showdown with bobby flay but I kept getting distracted and forgettting! finally a blog friend of mind mentioned you and I remembered This post had my cracking up reading it. Hope you have a lovely holiday with your family xo!
Boojones On Friday, December 23 at 12:40 pm
You had a showdown with Bobby Flay!?!?!? I had no idea. I'm gonna have to google it. I hope you kicked his butt! :o)
Rita Salo On Friday, December 23 at 9:42 am
I agree with your Marlboro man, you're funny! Merry Christmas!!
Valerie On Friday, December 23 at 9:42 am
OH, thank you for the good laugh, I needed that today! I am truly sorry you had to deal with that, but so thankful for the much needed laugh it gave me! Gotta say…I can SO relate, and I can SO see that SAME look on my dear hubby's face. Poor guy, at least our men can't claim we are boring!
Have a VERY Merry Christmas!
Tonya On Friday, December 23 at 9:44 am
Bless your heart. I mean that in the best way possible:) It would happen to me too.
Jesse Hoeye On Friday, December 23 at 9:44 am
Oh Ree, I'm glad you weren't hurt. I also think I can imagine MM's look since it's probably very similar to the looks I get from my husband when I do something "interesting".
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Therese.A On Friday, December 23 at 9:44 am
From one absolute klutz to another, Happy Holidays Ree
Ambur On Friday, December 23 at 9:44 am
I would've reached for the donut as well! Quick Trip coffee is even better w/ their great pastries. Thanks for the entry today. It made me laugh out loud several times. Merry Christmas!!
tracyo On Friday, December 23 at 9:45 am
I think that was probably the funniest post I have ever read! Almost wet my pants! Things like that happen to me too…although not for a while. I hope I didn't just jinx myself! Merry Christmas to you all! Thanks for the good belly laugh!!
MichelleM On Friday, December 23 at 9:46 am
I had tears of laughter while I was reading this! I'm so sorry that happened to you! That's why people love you so much – you don't take yourself too seriously. It's even more hilarious given the conversation you'd just had. Thanks for sharing! Have a Merry Christmas!!!
Lizard On Friday, December 23 at 9:47 am
What a great story! Helped cheer me up. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
tracyo On Friday, December 23 at 9:47 am
Oh, I forgot to say, I absolutely LOVE apple fritters too! Now I want one!
Sharon in OK On Friday, December 23 at 9:48 am
What a great story! I laughed so hard when reading this to my husband, I cried. It reminds me of something that would happen to me.
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Debbie from Homer On Friday, December 23 at 9:48 am
Lisa from Moore, OK On Friday, December 23 at 2:43 pm
Debbie that is toooo funny!! Sounds just like a Lucy moment!! Good thinking!!
S. On Friday, December 23 at 2:43 pm
Luuuuccccyyyyyyy……….you got some splann'in to do……indeed!
Aimee Sales On Friday, December 23 at 9:49 am
I know which look you are talking about. My husband gives it to me all the time. Hope you all have a blessed and Merry Christmas.
Best Wishes,
Aimee Sales
Lubbock, Texas
debbie mccormick On Friday, December 23 at 9:49 am
So funny! I work next to a donut shop which I try to avoid but I'm going to head on over there this morning in honor of you. Merry Christmas!
lynds On Friday, December 23 at 9:49 am
I laughed so hard I cried! Merry Christmas!
Kim On Friday, December 23 at 9:49 am
Awwww, so sorry, Ree, that you couldn't get the fritter. Merry Christmas!!!
country@heart On Friday, December 23 at 9:50 am
I'd blame it on the upper respiratory infection you mentioned…and the momentary lapse of judgement to consider getting up an hour earlier to workout! If I considered getting up an hour earlier, I don't think it would be to work out! However, gotta love the moral support MM provided for your esteem! Merry Christmas to you and yours, blessings!
Darcie On Friday, December 23 at 9:50 am
OH MY GOSH!! So, so sorry, but this is hilarious. I actually have tears…not from laughing, of course.
And that look MM gave you….my husband frequently has that look on his face, as I am known to have "incidents" just like this.
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Laura On Friday, December 23 at 9:50 am
I'm sitting here with my mouth hanging open so wide, I could fit several of your beloved cattle inside with very little effort.
Thank you for sharing!
And I have decided, that in your honor, I will rise at 5 AM on work out in solidarity with you and MM.
I, too, have unruly back fat and my lady lumps have morphed into a size that is not sold at any major retailer.
pam On Friday, December 23 at 9:50 am
thanks for the laugh this morning! not that i'm laughing AT you, just WITH you. promise.
Margaret On Friday, December 23 at 9:50 am
O – M – G . . . That is sooo funny! So sorry to be laughing . . .with you, ye-ah, I'm laughing WITH you! That'll teach you to wanna doughnut.
I hate to tell you this, but I think it's time for you to go cold turkey. No fried foods, sugar or four products should pass your lips until you take care of your addiction. That should take care of the doughnut problem along with a plethora of other wonderful nummies.
Marianne A. On Friday, December 23 at 9:50 am
And after all that, they gave you your drinks for free! I think Oklahomans must be very nice patient people! I wonder if that would happen in New England. Great story. Hey, these things happen sometimes. Merry Christmas!
Norine On Friday, December 23 at 1:23 pm
Maybe not treated exactly the same way, but every visit I have made to New England has been fantastic – dumb word, but I've always enjoyed the people so much. They are very thoughtful at the very least. But, I have not single handedly destroyed a pastry case – there – heheheheheheh
Megan On Friday, December 23 at 9:51 am
Oh, sweetie. I feel your pain. And your back fat.
Just know that when you get up at 5 am, I am up as well, running my big butt off. Or maybe I'm already done… time difference and all. Anyway, just know that you are absolutely not alone!
Jen On Friday, December 23 at 9:51 am
The MM – he sounds like a keeper.
Did you ever get an apple fritter?!
Natalie On Friday, December 23 at 9:51 am
So glad to know I am not the only complete klutz in the world! Merry Christmas Ree and good luck on your exercise regimen!
Meredith On Friday, December 23 at 9:51 am
Priceless! thanks for a good laugh on Christmas eve eve. .
Allison On Friday, December 23 at 9:52 am
I'm pretty sure we were seperated at birth….these types of "accidents" happent to me all of the time!!! Merry Christmas Eve Eve!!
Nicole Brandies momma On Friday, December 23 at 9:52 am
Hahaha… You're worried about how it appeared and staff is worried you'll sue! Glad you're ok and hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.
Michele K. On Friday, December 23 at 9:53 am
Seriously, I was laughing so hard! You are a master storyteller…brilliant!! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
AndreaW On Friday, December 23 at 9:53 am
Hilarious! Only thing that would have made it funnier is if you had on your inside out leggings!! Merry Christmas to All!
Shannon On Friday, December 23 at 9:53 am
Lol! That was a great read for this morning of busy cleaning and packing before we head to see family. I think you would be a fun person to either be a fly on the wall with or just hang out with because funny things happen. Have a Merry Christmas and stay home!!!
Arnebya On Friday, December 23 at 9:53 am
Merry Christmas Eve eve to you too! Damn doughnuts are the devil! I hope you're able to reach all of your health-related goals (even with an occasional, purchased from some other convenience store without faulty donut housing, apple fritter).
kywoman58 On Friday, December 23 at 9:53 am
Thank-you for our gift of laughter, today. Personally, I really needed it. I think, we all enjoy you so much, is we have been there so often ourselves. Embarrassing moments are the pits….but like you I tell everyone I meet, the things that seem to happen to me and no one else. As I read other post, it is wonderful to know, I am not alone. Merry Christmas!!
Donna On Friday, December 23 at 9:53 am
Such a funny story Ree. I'm glad you didn't get hurt. Merry Christmas! XO
Natalie B. On Friday, December 23 at 9:54 am
That is hilarious! I completely understand the desire to get rid of the ever growing back fat and the stronger desire to eat an apple fritter. Once a week when I travel to the city to volunteer at the church, I treat myself with a Non-fat (to help the back fat) Peppermint Mocha and an Apple Fritter!
JennyJoT On Friday, December 23 at 9:54 am
Oh Ree, thanks for making my day. I love you! And I love Marlboro Man too. Merry Christmas to the whole Drummond clan.
Anne On Friday, December 23 at 9:54 am
It was a message from above.
Jenn On Friday, December 23 at 9:54 am
I'm sorry Ree, but I laughed so hard trying to read this. It was just too easy to picture! And I will definitely think twice before reaching for the handle on the donut case at the store in the future! Merry Christmas
bamanan On Friday, December 23 at 9:54 am
He loves you.
MsCellania On Friday, December 23 at 9:55 am
Further proof that doughnuts, fritters included, are evile.
And thanks for being pretty famous and still posting about your snafus. You know this same crappe happens to everybody, but you put a right amount of wth and ha ha ha on it.
Heather On Friday, December 23 at 9:55 am
I'm on a weightloss journey myself right now and I can't begin to tell you how much I adore this story. It's so funny and charming.
Suzanne On Friday, December 23 at 9:57 am
Oh, P-Dub, you are so adorably cute! Listen, guess what! It wasn't your fault that the glass on the case shattered. Particularly since the manager told you it had happened before, obviously there is a problem with the case itself, not with you. The design is flawed, and the glass should not be glass, but some shatterproof material. Klutzy you may be, but in this instance, the fault does not lie with you.
Now, as to the personal jiggiality issue…..a few days ago you posted some sweet pics of you and your girls when they were little on vacation….with a photo of you looking, and yes, I'm going to say it: too skinny. Yes, it's true, you are more gorgeous now than you were, what, ten or so years ago, at least according to those pictures. Right now, jiggle and all, you are gorgeous. Really gorgeous. Womanly in the best possible way, and really very, very pretty. Really. Very. Pretty.
And really, any one of us ladies who would not get up at five am to do anything with MM, please raise your hand and leave the room….so by all means, go for it and have fun exercising….but please don't be so hard on yourself, PW, you are already so, so fabulous, beautemous, and a role model for so many! We love you, just the way you are!
Lauren On Friday, December 23 at 9:57 am
OMG that is hilarious…
LanaKM On Friday, December 23 at 9:57 am
Ha ha! I've have had experiences with stubborn doughnut display doors, too, but have not had one crash down on me, thank goodness! Ahem, I was only getting doughnuts for my daughter, not me, mind you. Glad you were not shredded into a thousand little PW bits!
In case you want to know, the four words that have helped me drop 60 pounds in two years (yeah, I'm slow): Zumba, Kettlebells and Turbo Fire!
Mary On Friday, December 23 at 11:06 am
Lana, sixty pounds lost in two years is safe and sensible, not slow! Congratulations on your success!
Terry in Divide On Friday, December 23 at 9:57 am
As someone whose husband proposed shortly after having to change a tire in the rain on my car because I drove through a pothole, and that same day, I tripped over the curb into a mud puddle while walking the dog…I know what it's like to live that way. My father claimed I tripped over the lines painted in the street.
Have a great holiday. And next time, try a maple-bacon doughnut.
Maureen On Friday, December 23 at 9:58 am
I loved this story, it shows that you are human. It is something that would happen to my sister Ann Ellen and I would be laughing.
Jodi On Friday, December 23 at 9:58 am
I was not having a very good morning.. then I read this! You not only make me laugh so hard I shoot coffee from my nose but you also make my heart smile! Hope yall have have a wonderful Christmas! PS: I will never walk past an apple fritter again without thinking of you!


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This version, choreographed by Val Caniparoli, premiered in 1994 and was Caniparoli's first full-length work. One of the most sought-after choreographers in the world today, Caniparoli began his career as a dancer for San Francisco Ballet before being named their resident choreographer in the 1980s, and continues to dance for San Francisco Ballet as a principal character dancer. Caniparoli's version of Lady of the Camellias features a moving score of music by virtuoso composer Frederic Chopin arranged by the Metropolitan Opera.
"I can honestly say that this is the only ballet that brings tears to my eyes performance after performance. Tulsa Ballet took this work to its first ever international tour to Portugal in 2002 and it earned us the title of 'one of the best in the world' by the Portuguese publication Semanario," Angelini said.
Performances of Lady of the Camellias will run from February 1-3, 2013, at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. For tickets call (918) 749–6006 or visit us online at www.tulsaballet.org.
Live Streaming Event Scheduled for January 25
Tulsa Ballet will stream live footage from their rehearsal facility on January 25, 2013 at 11:30am Central Standard Time. Viewers will be treated to a sneak peak at the final dress rehearsal of Lady of the Camellias. Access to the streaming video link will be made available only to Tulsa Ballet Facebook fans.
"This is an opportunity to go behind the scenes at one of the top ballet companies in the country. We love these chances to give our audience a glimpse at what goes on before they see the curtain rise at the theatre," Angelini said.


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In 2 Kings 2:23, a group of boys jeers Elisha. Various English translations render this "young boys", "young lads", "boys", "small boys". What kind of range does the Hebrew word behind this group of people have? Likely how old were those jeering Elisha?
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The word נַעַר (na'ar), here translated "boy," has a broad range of meaning. It can refer to infants all the way up to adolescence. However, קטנ (qatan meaning "small"), used with it, limits the age.
The exact phrase, "small boys" appears in the following verses (all from the NET Bible):


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