My Odd Sock works hard to be your agent of the absurd, proctor of the pointless & steward of the stupid. And this quick post certainly lives up to my low standards. Here are a couple of items, I’m hopeful will leave you with a weekend smile. Enjoy! Attention Editor: A …
What Gives? That’s what I wanna know. One would think with over 20 years of experience, a person might know something. After twenty years of marriage, you are pretty familiar with your partner. Twenty years on the job? It’s safe to say you know your way around the shop. But after twenty …
All my years in school (including the repeated years), we learned of the nine planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus (where women are from), Earth, Mars (where men are from), Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus (the fav of immature males), Neptune and Pluto. All was well & good as the stars aligned in perfect …
If you have followed this lowly website for any length of time…first, I apologize…and second, you know I get geeked by science. I love all aspects of science and what it means to life & the world around us. That being said, you probably haven’t given much thought about the Periodic Table …
Promotional giveaway items, knicknacks, doodads, whatnots, thingamajigs. The items have changed through the years. Kind of like a geologic time scale of gimcrack whatchamacallits. Anything with enough room to cram a company logo. Pencils. Pens. Matches. Ashtrays. Jar openers. Umbrellas. Chip clips. Note pads. Pill boxes. …
There is a big day looming on my MS horizon. Appointments. Not one. Not two. But three appointments in a single day. A trifecta of care at the Mellen Center of the Cleveland Clinic. I’ll begin with a morning session of Botox injections in my legs to …
We live by the numbers. Or so it seems. Apparently the number-crunchers do studies & collect statistics on every crazy, conceiveable thing you can imagine. Those of us with multiple sclerosis aren’t exempt from the studies either. Did you know….. 85% of people are diagnosed with relapsing-remitting MS at onset. And of …
Emojis are everywhere in emails and text messages. You can find them all over Facebook, Twitter & Pinterest. Emojis have become a familiar part of our communication today. Adding an emoji to your message gives it a little extra umph of feeling! But when you have multiple sclerosis, the most …
I’m always sorta glad when the holidays are over. The social atmoshere of family gatherings, Christmas parties & New Year festivities make me stick out like Santa Claus during Hanukkah. Mind you, I was never a life of the party. But I was certainly a more active participant in years …
You may have received a page-a-day desk calendar as a Christmas gift. But did you get one like this? Enjoy this re-run of My Odd Sock’s “MS-A-Day Calendar”….. Dogs. Cats. Jokes. Trivia. Recipes. Sports. They make those page-a-day calendars for almost everything. Almost. They forgot chronic disease. That’s why …
