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Along with my herniated disk, I also have a strange pain in my groin/hip area. The chiropractor said it is either arthritis, bersitis, or tendonitis. It feels fine walking around and stuff, but I don’t have full range of motion without pain.

Earlier this week my mom read an article in the Palm Beach Post about someone with hip bersitis who started taking pineapple enzyme and had pain relief in only a couple of days.

I stopped by Whole Foods that afternoon and got some. Guess what? It really works. I am not 100% pain-free and I still don’t have full range of motion, but I can definitely tell the difference.

The main use is as a digestive enzyme if taken with meals. When taken without meals it has the effect of relieving physical stress. It somehow works as an anti-inflamatory. Yea!!!

Neil took the girls and Adrienne’s friend Lindsay to the Rooney concert in Fort Lauderdale. What concert? The Rooney concert. The lead singer is Robert Schwartzman. He is the boy in Princess Diaries who has a crush on Anne Hathaway and who ends up kissing her in the end and making her foot pop. He also happens to be the real-life son of Talia Shire, which also makes him the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola and the cousin of Nicolas Cage.

Because the band isn’t well-known, they were very relaxed and easily accessible. The girls met Robert chillin’ by the tour bus before the concert. They also got backstage passes just for buying a t-shirt. They were up by the stage screaming the entire three hours. Erica lost her voice. I can relate…

I just can’t handle all the laundry anymore! I bought the girls each two laundry baskets…one for their dirty clothes and one for their clean clothes. When their dirty basket gets full THEY will be doing their OWN laundry. I don’t care if it means a couple of extra loads of laundry every week…they will be learning a very important task and I won’t need therapy! Hopefully they will have as much fun doing their laundry as they had decorating their baskets!

Anyone for some banana chocolate chip bread?

How about some Italian herb bread?

You call in the neighbors and play “The Barbie Game” and hope that you don’t end up with a boyfriend named “Poindexter!”