{"id":684,"date":"2007-07-15T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T06:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/684"},"modified":"2010-06-01T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T22:01:08","slug":"chocolate-makes-everything-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/684","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Makes Everything Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday afternoon my friend Penny<\/a> came over for the afternoon to watch some chick flicks.\u00a0 We watched Studio 54<\/a> and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun<\/a>.\u00a0 After my KD and Wieners I had a craving for regular hotdogs so we went and picked some up at the Plus (our local supermarket).<\/p>\n

When we got home we went straight to the kitchen to make them, with Xander hovering about talking about how much he loves ‘whistle dogs’ (does anyone remember those from A&W? I make them for him and he is like a kid with them.\u00a0 All it is, is a weiner sliced down the middle with cheese in it hehe).<\/p>\n

Anyway, it was warm in the kitchen so I opened the balcony door and went outside to latch the door open.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s when it happened….<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>This is my knee, from the front. Ow.\u00a0 It would seem that the balcony was a little wet because when I stepped back into the kitchen my foot immediately slid forward causing me to go into a weird version of the splits with my back leg (the one in the photo) folding under me and landing on the bottom of the door frame.<\/p>\n

I was in a weird sort of twisted position where I couldn’t get the back leg out from under me and couldn’t get any traction with my front leg, but was afraid to move because I’m sure if I went any further down I was going to rip something in my leg.<\/p>\n

Penny and Xander panicked and came to help me, sitting me on the floor where I took stock of what hurt and what could still move.\u00a0 Everything was still in working order but I was a bit startled by the fall and sat there trying not to blubber like a baby.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m not sure why I cared since it was my husband and one of my best friends there, I mean I cried like an idiot at the dentist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Xander was his usually wonderful self, asking what I need, if I’m ok, what can he do… while Penny stood about a foot behind him doing the same.\u00a0 I thought they were both sweet but I was in pain and still in shock a bit and felt crowded so all I could think of to say was ‘FINISH THE HOT DOGS’<\/em>.<\/p>\n

They laughed about that all night, saying how they thought they were going to have to take me to the hospital with a broken leg or something and all I could think of was getting the hotdogs cooked.\u00a0\u00a0A girl’s gotta have priorities, right?\u00a0 No seriously though, I just needed some space to gather my composure.<\/p>\n

Not that it mattered because once I was standing and starting to get back to normal Xander said ‘I was sure you were going to start crying… I mean you really fell badly, it looked like it\u00a0hurt so much!’.\u00a0 Yeah thanks hon!\u00a0 Then the flood gates open and I started blubbering.\u00a0 So much for composure.<\/p>\n

Anyway it turned out to be a nice evening.\u00a0 Penny’s husband joined us later in the afternoon.\u00a0 We had dinner and gabbed and later on watched Shrek the Third<\/a> while eating the chocolate cake Penny and I made that afternoon.\u00a0 Xander and I took them to our favorite pet store (Rob’s in Slinge here in Rotterdam) and Penny oooh’d and aaah’d over all the stuff they don’t have at her local pet shop.\u00a0\u00a0 I hobbled around and picked up stuff I needed for my zoo too.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I woke up very very sore, and it’s much the same today… but you can always count on chocolate to make you forget the pain.<\/p>\n

\"Mmm<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s one of the set of plates Penny got me for my birthday back in May, they all have cute sayings on them like ‘A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand’ and ‘If you can’t make me thin please make all my friends fat’ etc\u00a0 I love them!\u00a0 Yesterday Xander got me a piece of cake while I was whining on the sofa and it just happened to be on the chocolate cake plate.\u00a0 Picture worthy, I figured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday afternoon my friend Penny came over for the afternoon to watch some chick flicks.\u00a0 We watched Studio 54 and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.\u00a0 After my KD and Wieners I had a craving for regular hotdogs so we went and picked some up at the Plus (our local supermarket). When we got home we …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[87,35,13,33,121,52],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","tag-food","tag-friends","tag-movies","tag-netherlands","tag-wounds","tag-xander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}