Genuine Joe Anti-Fatigue Mat, 3 by 5-Feet, Gray Marble

Features

• Anti-fatigue mat helps reduce fatigue from prolonged standing and increase productivity
• Ideal for general office; copiers; teller stations; service counters; light-industrial dry-area assembly lines; airports and banks
• 1/2" Top surface is puncture-resistant and flame-resistant

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Anti-fatigue mat helps reduce fatigue from prolonged standing and increase productivity. ideal for general office; copiers; teller stations; service counters; light-industrial dry-area assembly lines; airports and banks. 1/2" top surface is puncture-resistant and flame-resistant. high-density foam backing provides superior comfort. beveled edges help reduce trips and falls. mat is easy to clean. simply wipe with a dry or damp cloth or wash top surface with water and mild soap.

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Chicken Calzones

I wanted to do some kinda comfort food for dinner tonight but wasn't sure what to make. We had chicken in the freezer and barely veggies in the fridge, but I found a neat looking calzone recipe, and altered it to suite the ingredients I had. 

DOUGH:

1 pkg. active dry yeast (or 2 1/4 tsp.)

1 cup warm water (105-115 degrees)

1 T. sugar

2 T. olive oil

1 tsp. salt

3 1/4 cups flour

Dissolve yeast in warm water until foamy, about 10 minutes.  Stir in sugar, oil, salt, and 1 cup flour.  Beat until smooth. (I do this in my Kitchen Aid Mixer.)  Mix in remaining flour to make dough easy to handle.  Turn onto lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes. (I let my Kitchen Aid do the kneading for me....same amount of time on speed 2).  Place in a greased bowl; turn greased side up.  Cover and let rise in a warm place until almost double, about 30 minutes.

I followed the recipe for dough but doubled it to make extra. Instead of following the BBQ part of the recipe I made a potato filling with: 

10 Potato's 1/2 red 1/2 yellow

1 Large onion

4 Cheese strings

1 Brocoli

Next I followed this red sauce recipe's direction except I found I didn't have a few ingredients so I altered this part also. 

Basic Red Sauce:

2 teaspoons olive oil

1/2 chopped yellow onion

1/2 teaspoon minced garlic

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon dried basil

1/4 teaspoon dried oregano

1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper 

16 ounces whole peeled tomatoes, broken into pieces, and their juices

16 ounces tomato sauce

4 teaspoons tomato paste

2/3 cup water

1/2 teaspoon sugar

In a medium pot, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the onions, garlic, salt, basil, oregano, and pepper, and cook, stirring, until soft, about 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, water, and sugar and stir well. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Lower the heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, until thickened and fragrant, 25 to 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Remove from the heat and keep warm until ready to use.

Yield: 3 cups

I didn't have oregano, black pepper, or olive oil. I substituted olive oil for vegetable oil and made the sauce exactly to the recipe above. 

Instructions: 

1. I put the chicken in the oven and cooked it

2. while the chicken was cooking, I boiled my yellow and red potato's and chopped up the onion and broccoli. The recipe calls for cheese but other than string cheese I didn't have any so i diced up the string cheese.

3. After the potato's were done I chopped them into smaller pieces and since I don't have a potato masher I improvised with a beater from my kitchen aid. After mashing the potato's I added milk and butter to them and continued until they were smooth. 

4. I added the chopped up broccoli, cheese, and 1/2 the onions to the mashed potato's and stirred it all together. 

5. I used the dough recipe above and mixed it together and set aside. 

6. I mixed together the marinara sauce in a small sauce pan.

7. By this time my chicken was finished cooking and so I diced and shredded my chicken into small bits. 

8. Separating the dough into 7 small balls I flatten each out into round disks on a large baking sheet and added two scopes of the potato mixture, then put as much shredded chicken on top as looked like would fit, and afterward added two teaspoons of marinara sauce. Folding the other half of the dough disk I pushed the edges together with a fork and continued this formula. 

9. Once the baking sheet was full, they were baked at 375 degrees for 25 minutes until golden brown.

These turned out to be a tasty treat! and now I'm glad I made extra because now I have a few freezer dinners for when my disorder causes me to be bedridden :)

The original recipe was found here: http://recipeaholic.blogspot.com/2010/03/bbq-chicken-calzones.html 

~ElysiaB

The site with the original recipe is: http://recipeaholic.blogspot.com/2010/03/bbq-chicken-calzones.html

Anti-Fatigue Chef Mat 20x60 Lattice Runner

Features

• Rubber foam with thick, dense cushion core
• Black faux leather finish with basket-weave pattern
• Anti-slip backing for safety
• Easy to clean: just wipe away spills
• Medically proven to reduce muscle fatigue

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If you do a lot of moving about in your large kitchen, you'll need the Anti-Fatigue Black Chef Mat 20x60 Lattice Runner underfoot the whole way. Place this long runner along your most frequented path so you'll feel like you're walking on air instead of hard tile. Made from durable rubber foam with a thick, dense cushion core, this mat is medically proven to te proper circulation and better posture while reducing muscle fatigue and stress. It's easy to wipe away spills, even though the mat is creatively designed to look just like black faux leather in a basket-weave pattern. An attached anti-slip backing ensures safe footing. Rubber foam with thick, dense cushion core. Black faux leather finish with basket-weave pattern. Anti-slip backing for safety. Easy to clean: just wipe away spills. Medically proven to reduce muscle fatigue. 60L x 20W inches.

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Mastro Anti Fatigue Cushioned Kitchen Mat - 20-Inch by 36-Inch, Rustic Brown. Reduces back discomfort and relieves pressure points of feet and legs. Durable and stain resistant.

Features

• Made from durable premium quality material.
• Very safe with trip-resistant beveled edge and non-slip backing that will stay flat and will not roll up.
• Easy to clean. Perfect for kitchen, laundry, bathroom, garage and other areas of your home.
• Non toxic and safe for children and pets. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.
• 5 Year Warranty.

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Standing on a hard surface does a number on one's body. Studies show that Anti-fatigue mats are able to reduce discomfort and increase productivity for people who stand all day. Therefore, anti-fatigue mats are great for areas of your house where you notice that you stand a lot. For instance your kitchen or garage.

he jests at scars that never felt a wound

The phone rings and I lay in pain watching it, knowing there's no way I'm going to make it through a conversation right now, I can hardly talk to the cat, and to whomever was calling I truly am sorry that I did not pick up. For the past few days I've been avoiding life, it seems I've fallen into this fog of pain that slightly disorients me. I know I should call the doctor and make an appointment, but to be honest I'm avoiding him too. After he told me he didn't think they'd ever figure out what ails me, I just lost faith in him as he did in helping me. Although I know I have to see him for the results of my thyroid ultrasound, I just don't want to see him and be discouraged again. Hope is a necessity when dealing with this mass amount of pain, and I can't lose it, it's all I have. Hope that diagnostically there will be an end to the pain, or at the very least an answer. Hope that spiritually what I go through can have some positive effect on others, to bring glory to God, or at the very least console one other person. Although I have my doubts that either will come to pass, or that it has impacted anyone else. It's hard to see through the fog of all of this, to really know if it makes any difference to anyone but me.

Last night I was up till 3 am because I can't sleep. It all just hurts far too much, and there are no more pain killers I can take. I have a bit of a temperature and severe pain in my rib cage and bones. I awoke today puking and feeling tender, but at least the hard painful lump in the cafe of my left leg has gone. Which ensues another debate over wether or not it's worth going into see the doctor over, and at first we agreed that I should but then comes the question of well what else hurts? The answer is too much. So if I go in which problem will the doctor be able to do something about, and if I go in will he assume its all the fibromyalgia since I have so many oddities within. I don't know, and so I digress that it can wait to get worse or better.

It's hard to be in a frozen state, of perpetual pain and unknown. As I have mentioned before this state of unknown pain makes planning in life a lot more difficult. I just want to please everyone, and sometimes I go to far and it's at the cost of myself. I hope people around me can understand or at least, do not take things the wrong way, if I cannot make it out to an event that's been planned. I never mean to offend anyone and it's only because of being sick that I cannot attend. There is no deeper meaning by not attending, nothing implied, no lines to read between. Yet, I feel as though we each come from our own bias perspectives and sometimes don't first think of where the other person is coming from.

Open and honest communication is so important in life, and yet still so difficult, as I sit frustrated by others perspectives. It's interesting how vocal and judgemental people can be about a situation their not facing day in and day out. When they are not the ones dealing with it, I wonder if they stop to consider how it might feel, or how they might deal with it had it been them instead of me. And I don't mean this directly at anyone in particular so again do not think that there are lines to read between or that it's secretly aimed at anyone. It's just my own perspective at the moment, that I want to be honest about sharing as I know there are many others who deal with the difficulties of human interaction while living with a painful or debilitating disorder.

It's not easy missing out on events that you wanted to go to, with family or friends you want to see. Eventually friends drift away because, after so many cancellations no matter how old the friendship they just stop asking. That's been a hard thing to get past, not only the lose of health but the lose of friends too. Then when events are attended there's always the same polite question of, "how are you?" That's a tough question to not only answer but that I also receive a lot of criticism over.

~ElysiaB


What other people have said about answering the question "How are you" when in chronic pain:
- http://curingchronicpain.com/how-does-a-chronic-pain-sufferer-respond-to-how-are-you

Sure, it’s just a friendly formality, but what else can you say after you’ve said ‘Hello’?

Seems simple enough, but any self-respecting chronic pain sufferer who wants to appear positive, yet honest may think twice before answering that dreaded question. Would you really like to know what they are thinking?

-http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/251185.page

I know this is a silly question, but I used to be in great health and never thought about how to answer this question. In the past year, I had a car accident and have had lingering issues. Friends or co-workers ask me how are you and I honestly don't know how to answer. I hate to be a downer, but I am in constant pain and facing potential surgery. Answering "just great" seems fake to me. With close friends, I may share more, but I have a really intrusive co-worker who is always asking me details about my medical condition (made the mistake of telling her i was not so great when she kept pressing why I was out of the office for a few weeks). I always feel like I am answering inappropriately. Suggestions from people with chronic conditions?

-http://gracefulagony.wordpress.com/ 

The questions I hate most these days are ‘What are you doing? ‘, ‘So what have you been doing lately?’, and my all time fave, ‘So what is it that YOU do?’ (that one is usually asked by people I first meet in relation to what career path I’ve chosen)
What DID, DO, or WILL I?
Absolutely nothing, thanks for asking!!!
Well of course that’s not what I say…. I mean, not out loud anyhow. I usually say ‘not much’ or mumble how being a Mom keeps me busy (If they only knew my son is in Grade 5, makes his own lunch every day and is very independent outside of school.), or I try to just change the subject. ‘What are YOU doing?’ seems to be a good enough reply. People like talking about themselves generally, and are only too happy to take the focus off of me and onto themselves.

Doctor, Doctor

Today was eventful, I went to the Doctor waited a 1/2 past my appointment at 11 just to get in. It's amazing how we push ourselves to get places on time, and how it seems quite the opposite for doctors. Any who, I went with a list of symptoms and questions in hand and he addressed each of them. He seemed really genuinely sad that he can't figure me out. I feel bad that he feels bad. Yet, we will try these new pain pills on top of the old ones, I really hope they help, the pharmacist explained that they had a side effect of giving some patients strange dreams. I think if the pot heads found that out they might start taking it too lol. O well, next I went for a stream of blood tests at the Vampires Anonymous Clinic (biomedical towers) and let me tell you that was an eventful trip! As I get out of the car I here a man yelling in his house across the street, followed by two loud shot-like noises. A few ladies in the parking lot called the cops and I went up to the clinic and watched at the clinic window as I waited for the nurse to call me. The cops got there, went in, the man came out and went back in and the cops left. I wonder what happened. After I come out from getting poked, my husband tells me that a poor elderly man just hit an SUV with his car...what a lively neighbourhood. As I return to my cozy nest, and take this new pill, which is known to treat neuropathic pain, I don't feel different I just feel sore and tired. Okay, Textbooks I hear you calling my name and I know I owe you some quality time :).

-ElysiaB

The unhopeful unending

Telling your story, I’m not sure I’m up for the task, there’s no happy ending yet it’s just looking quite dark from here. All I know right now is that my rock bottom was really just a layer of eggshells holding me up from the real fall. There’s a hard immediate reaction that came to me of devastation when I heard that the porphyry test was negative. That devastation seems so silly though because I knew it would be negative, but it was the last hail mary that the doctors and specialists had thought to test for, regardless of it being a rare disorder. I went in having not gotten my hopes up, but somewhere in between I fell again, crushed by the negative testing. Leaving felt like the end. What was left to hold on to?  I asked if there was anything else we could check for, but my doctor sadly said there wasn’t anything else he could think of that we haven’t already checked. It was the same with the specialists, I waited to get into the Internal medicine wing at UBC in Vancouver general hospital. And when I got a meeting the resident took all the information down, and checked me over, and the real specialist entered to say that she didn’t think there was anything she could think to do that has not already been done. So we headed home but on the way I went into extreme pain and had to go back to the hospital emergence room where after waiting two hours the doctor gave me a shot of morphine in the hip and told me to see my GP. 

The pain worsens daily, we pray daily, but I can’t help but feel like It’s going to have to get a lot worse to be figured out. Yet, I’ve been hanging on to the end of my rope, theres only so much pain I can take, and I know I’m slipping. I can feel it as others take more control, over what medications I can take, the regression but into what I don’t know. The thing is every time I’ve fallen, I’ve gotten back up. At times getting back up seems like a reflex as it’s something that you must do, because the only other option is to stay down and that is a dark place I don’t want to go. The Lord, that we believe in is sovereign and has everything already planned before it has happened, he has provided a way to take care of us in all our darkest moment. Most times God has placed people in our lives before we know we need them and we take it for granted, not seeing it for what it is. At this moment I don’t see hope for my life, but I know he who is sovereign has a plan for my life and he will provide light in this dark time. 

Right now, I feel like an earthquake went off in my head, and the sharp rubble spreads through my left ear, jaw and neck. I feel like there’s little imaginary men drilling for oil right under my rib cage on the right side. I can feel throughout my back the pain in my abdomen, it’s become hard to get out of bed and well do anything. Yet the mountain’s look gorgeous, and my dog perks up and gets all giddy when she sees me. So for now I’m okay, because although I don’t feel hopeful I have trust in my God that as I swing at the end of my rope wondering how much more I can take he already knows the stories end. Right now these feeling of sadness there like a singers song, it’s just a part of the tale not the beginning and not end just a part of emotion being expressed.  ffus-ptw4naXLNKMAQRo1yf_Ou4

~ElysiaB