Ophelia wrote:
> "Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
> ...
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>>Everyone keeps on telling me the pain after surgery is pretty bad..and
>>judging from previous hip surgeries, I am doubtful I will want to do
>>much cooking that first week after surgery.
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>
> Nor should you. A friend has just had the same surgery. She has learned
> the hard way what the consultant told her. He said that the pain killers
> will work, so long as you don't over do things. She didn't listen at first
> and suffered for it.
>
> Now I know you are a sensible girl...........))))))
>

I did not have surgery for it but i had a spinal injury that forced me
to cook sitting down, big stool and i was fine. Couldn't use a stock
pot for about 3 years but other than that.

Fortunately at the holidays there was always someone about who could do
the heavy lifting of the turkeys or hams.

One year some of my friends even got together to do my christmas food
shopping for me, carried it all in from the car and put it all away.
Very nice of them i thought and their idea, after i let it be known i
would not be hosting or attending any such holiday meals that year.

It only occurred to me as they were putting the groceries away that they
all had to come back on Christmas day and help me cook and serve and eat
it

I was "Chef" for a day, complete with chef's hat (i already had the bib
apron) a waiter friend brought and plopped on my head with the
suggestion i just sit back and supervise. So that's how i spent
christmas morning, sitting on my stool with a glass of champagne bossing
every body around

By early after noon i almost had a couple of the Ladies talked into
wearing some french maids uniforms they had left over from halloween.
However i was finely talked out of my champagne fueled enthusiasm by a
particularly graphic description of the scantiness and eroticism of
those particular French Maids uniforms.

Besides it would only have been a joke. They would have brought in a
single dish and then sat down and ate with everybody else. And serving
a 25 pound turkey in stiletto heels was probly not a good idea.

It has occurred to me to do a Rocky Horror Picture Show theme dinner, i
got the bustiere and fish net stocking to do Dr. Frankenfurter but i
just don't know enough "Rocky's" to make it aesthetically pleasing
Plenty of riff raff's and magenta's even a brad and janet or two, but
.....no rocky's

And the last thing i wasn't to gaze upon, at any time, much less over
dinner, is the vast expanse of pale flesh of overweight, out of shape
old hippy's in nothing but gold speedos & wrestling shoes.
--

Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

Domine, dirige nos.
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