It's one thing to watch Top Chef, quite another to do The Running Man with one.
Last week I walked into a wall. In my own living room, all by myself. At least I can say it was dark and not in broad daylight. For the first couple of days my wrist felt fine, but by Saturday I was in terrible pain. So I drove over to the ER figuring if it hurt this badly, there must be something wrong. And I was right. Looks like I've got myself a third degree sprain, which may or may not mean I have a torn tendon/fracture.
My son took this picture of me wearing my fetching wrist spint. I look far more "SWAT Team" than fashionista, and I'll be sporting this look for at least another week until the docs can fully assess the damage to my wrist.
Typing with one hand is very slow going, and if you know me, I don't like being slowed down. Hell if it was going to get in the way of my commitment to the Go Humans Go! project. I'd already confirmed I would attend, I already arranged to pick up Chef Spike and bring him with us to the Capital Area Food Bank, so all that was left was for me to take my vicodin and make Sarah do all the driving.
We picked up Spike at his restaurant and quickly informed him of the "Sarah and Devra Quaker Oats Quickfire Challenge" where he would be required to prepare a dish using only ingredients found on the floor of Sarah's minivan; Quaker Chewy Bars, a Breathsaver mint, stale french fries, and crushed cheerios. Spike rose to the challenge and whipped up, in his head, "Cheerio encrusted chewy bar frite with Breathsaver mint infusion."
Say it with me. "I can make that in my own car!"
The idea of the Go Humans Go campaign is to bring attention to the problems of hunger in our own communities, and hopefully bring about an increase in volunteerism to combat hunger locally. This isn't the first time I've been involved with this project, and I'll be doing future events with Quaker to promote this program. I hope you will be inspired to volunteer at your local food bank, serve a meal or two at a homeless shelter or do something else to combat hunger in your community. It doesn't even take all that much time.
The work isn't that difficult and the food bank is very well organized. We watched an informational video about the food bank and the services it provides and then we were off to the warehouse. Myra was our guiding force at the food bank, making sure we understood exactly which items go where and how they should be organized and boxed, "Remember if you have a box of canned tomatoes, have it be a variety of canned tomatoes;diced, stewed, whole, pureed." Good information. Solid. Yo!
Who would have guessed it, but Spike's a bit OCD about making sure his pallet was complete. He also told me he was looking forward to wrapping the pallet in plastic, at which point I told him he was not only OCD but possibly a fetishist. That's right, I called him that. To his face. He did not cry. He also laughed when I told him I don't rap wrap because nothing rhymes with "Devra" other than the word "Chevre." All in all it was a fun morning and an easy place to spend a few hours volunteering. Kids over 12 are also welcome to volunteer with their parents!
But you might want to watch what you wear. After the jump see why...
