Matthew LaVelle’s weblog

Men are strange. They say, “Honey, have you seen my [insert inanimate object here]?”. Everywhere. Let’s define everywhere. Let me…define everywhere. I’m going to go ahead and group all men into this with me since I’m hoping it’s true with others besides me (hint: can I get a little feedback on this one fellas?). According [...]

The coolest thing, from a culinary arts standpoint, about holidays is that they bring up an interesting array of topics and questions. There are a few that I’ve googled today. Let’s start with why I’ve been finding myself yawning constantly ever since about an hour into the turkey cooking process. I googled around and found [...]

Our brave group worked right on through Veteran’s Day to get this coming Friday off and round out our big four day weekend for the year. Our free range turkey is in the oven as I write this and it’s keeping my stomach growling in preparation for our fourth Thanksgiving Dinner together. This one is [...]

My back is still bothering me but I’m ready to beat it. For any of you out there who’ve had chronic back pain you know that it hurts. And it sucks! It really does! So I’ve been trying to get over it for two weeks now. I really should stop talking about it because it [...]

So, after a drive up to Eugene and back yesterday my back has regressed a bit and I woke up this morning very upset. I am getting sick of this lower back pain. It got to the point today where I had to call in a presription for a muscle relaxor and it’s starting to [...]