Today, Rook is officially 17 years old. Crazy, isn’t it? I remember when he was born…and that makes me feel kinda old. Then again, Mom and Dad remember when I was born, so does that make them ancient? Lol, just kidding! At any rate, I’m thrilled that Simon managed to not accidentally kill himself with his swords, nunchucks, trees, insanity or whatever in the past year to be one year older. Here’s to another year of him surviving himself and the rest of our crazy family! I know I add to the insanity in there sometimes, hehe. Happy birthday, Rook!

That being said, I wanted to respond to everyone’s posts yesterday about leg cramps. No real reason for it, but I thought it’d be funny.

Dad: Bruised? Crap on a crap cracker. It’s not like I don’t already have enough trouble with my knees; now I have to have bruised muscles as well. Oh well, I’ll look into getting bananas.

TBOMM: Dried apricots have potassium? Does that mean fresh apricots have potassium? I like apricots, but dried fruit sometimes tastes funny to me, so I’d probably eat it fresh. Apricots and bananas!

Lushbaugh #1: Hmm, the potassium district gets pretty shady at night, which is when I’m up mostly. I might have to hit Potassium, Potassium, Potassium sometime later though to get my fix. 😉

Rook: Lessee, if I wanted to blow up, sure, I’d ingest some pure potassium. Haven’t they shown you that video in chem class yet where they drop a small amount of potassium in a bowl of water and it explodes? What grade did you get in chem class? 😉 Just kidding! As for massaging the muscle, that didn’t occur to me. Of course, it was really freaking early in the morning and I was in a lot of pain, so the only thing that occurred to me was to swear like a sailor. I did right a thesis on the subject, after all.

Lushbaugh #2: Sodium! Huzzah! And they threw it at monsters in an MST? Have I seen it? Proabably not, but I’m sure I will someday. Hooray for MST!

So, back to the leg cramps. Ian and I disagreed as to what to do when having such horrid leg cramps. My immediate reaction was to stretch it a little, bend it back to where it didn’t hurt so much, stretch it again a little further, bend it back, stretch it yet again just a little further, etc. until I could get my leg to straighten out then I kept bending it back and forth fully until the pain pretty well subsided. That wasy my take. Ian’s take on leg cramps is to get it in a position where it hurts the least and hold it there until the pain subsides. Rook suggested massaging it, and Lushbaugh’s movie would probably suggest throwing sodium at it to get the monsters out of it. So what is one supposed to do when one wakes up in the middle of the night with a cramped-up leg? I wanna be prepared for next time…which means bananas, dried apricots, Potassium, Potassium, Potassium, seeking a chemist, and thrown sodium. Hmm…kind of an odd list. We’ll work on that. For now, I have some very pressing business to get to, which will be posted about later, probably.