At work, there are two entire refrigerators that are stocked full of different food items for everyone to enjoy. They almost always have a bunch of different loaves of bread, cheeses, ham and/or turkey. And today, I made myself first sammich I made with the company lunch meat at Grey Midwest…
It’s pretty cool. And pretty brilliant. If you give your employees access to a bunch of different food stuffs, they’ll make themselves something to eat and get back to work instead of running out and taking a long lunch. Pretty clever.
And then we had spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner…
This afternoon we ran over to Lowe’s on the Westside to get a ceiling fan for our front bedroom on the second floor of our house. On our way back home, we stopped at Ron’s Roost for lunch…
Ron’s Roost has some amazing chicken. And then we stopped at Putz’s Creamy Whip for malts. We’ve lived in Northside all this time and never stopped at Putz’s…
Ohmigosh. I love Butterscotch malts so much. They’re my favorite. When we got home, we installed our brand new ceiling fan…
And then we watched a movie upstairs with the dogs who were waiting for us…
The Pony has some of the best chicken tenders in all of Cincinnati…
Then we walked down Main Street to finally get to check out the relatively new Pins Mechanical Company just down from The Pony…
Pins has Duck Pin Bowling…
We didn’t try any bowling. We’ll have to save that fun for another time. And upon the second floor of Pins…
Pins has a whole bunch of pinball machines…
Upon the third floor, they have an awesome patio with a bocce ball court and giant Jenga. But that is another story for another time. On the way home, we stopped at Second Place to watch the end of the Champions League Final…
I can’t believe it’s already July. Where does the time go? It sure does seem to go faster and faster, that’s for sure. I was looking at my Timehop this morning. Two years ago today, we moved the very last of our stuff out of our little apartment downtown…
And we were just starting to get situated in our new big house in Northside…
Three years ago, downtown Cincinnati was ramping up for the MLB All-Star Game…
And four years ago, the United States Men’s National Team bowed out of the 2014 World Cup in that epic match against Belgium where United States goalkeeper Tim Howard stood on his head in goal to make 16 saves in one match. It was really something to see. A rollercoaster of emotion. But hats off to Tim Howard! The match could have easily ended 5 or 6 to Belgium…
Early yesterday morning, we drove back over to The Christ Hospital in Mount Auburn for my second hip surgery. Today, I was scheduled for a total left hip replacement…
The prep for the surgery went very smooth and very quickly. The actual surgery seemed to be over in a snap of the fingers, and just like that next thing I knew, I was in post-op chomping on pieces of ice, and not long after that, I was up in the recovery room where Genfier was already waiting for me…
We could see downtown Cincinnati again from the big window in our room…
Genifer got me this awesome blue bear in the gift shop…
She said she wanted to get something that said the Christ Hospital on it. But they really didn’t have anything like that. This guy was about the closest thing she could find. But every time I see him, I’ll think of my surgeries. We hung out together all afternoon into the evening in our recovery room. We had some room service while we watched most of the Reds game on TV together before she left to go home to let Mack out of his crate. Oscar was staying with Genifer’s mom for the weekend. After the Reds lost to the Brewers, I could kind of almost see the Reds Friday Night Fireworks from our recovery room above my red bag on the sofa…
After the fireworks, I laid down to try to get some rest. But it’s really hard to get a lot of rest in a hospital because people keep coming in and poking and prodding you. I took a photo out the window every time someone came into the room and woke me up…
And I was pretty much awake at this point…
I met with a physical therapist at 7:30am who had me walking up and down the hallways with a walker…
After meeting with a physical therapist, I ordered us some breakfast…
Genifer brought us coffees from Sidewinder. We started watching the France versus Argentina Round of 16 World Cup match. When I left to meet with another physical therapist, France was up 2-1. When I got back to our room after walking some stairs and walking up and down the hallway on crutches, this is the score I saw…
By 12:30, we were in the car and on our way to Walgreens to fill my prescriptions. Then I was home resting comfortably in bed with my new friend. “You’re my boy, blue!“
When we got home, we laid around and watched Uruguay knock Portugal out of the World Cup and then a thriller of an MLS match between Seattle and Portland before missing just our second home FC Cincinnati match ever, But we got to watch the FC|C match on TV. And they won, 2-0! My first day of recovering from hip replacement surgery hasn’t been that bad at all. So far so good. I hope the rest of this recovery is as smooth and relatively pain-free as today has been. Fingers crossed. And once again, I can’t really say enough about The Christ Hospital. The doctors and all the staff were just incredible. Everyone was so extraordinarily nice, so helpful and went out of their way to make sure I was always as comfortable as possible and that had everything I needed during my brief stay. It’ll be amazing once my physical therapy is complete and I’m back to 100% with no more hip pain. I don’t even know that I can fully fathom what that would be like. But I bet it’ll be pretty incredible. It’s been a very long time coming.
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We’ll be right back. I’m going in for surgery this morning. And I’m not quite sure how long I’ll be out of commission. Last time, I don’t remember it being very long. But we’ll be right back sometime very soon. 😀🏥❤️
Seven years ago, I brought home one of those Pizza Hut Big Dippers on the way home from Genifer’s house…
This photo popped up in my Timehop today. For the longest time, it was one of my most viewed photos on my Flickr. I was never entirely certain why. It just was, and it always struck me as kind of odd. why was this photo of a big pizza so popular? I could never figure it out. I guess people just really love their pizza, and photos of pizza.
Oh, and if you were wondering, the Big Dipper was delicious. I wish Pizza Hut would bring it back. Just for a little while. I would definitely get another one for old times sake. Thanks again for another great memory, Timehop! 😀🦕🍕❤
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