So...whats for dinner?
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Michelle- So glad you are having a great time and that the weather has cooperated for the most part. I agree, the computer can suck you in and is hard to leave behind 100%. Good for you for doing it. Once this past summer when we went camping I had no cell/Internet for 4 days. I had serious withdrawals. Everything from checking weather, facebook, e mail, BCO, texting- but it was probably good for me. Dh laughed at me the whole weekend as I would take out my phone and continue to see no service and put it back in my pocket:)
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Glad you are having a great time Michelle.
Chicken Souvlaki, steamed veggies & toasted pita bread for dinner.
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So... last night I made probably the biggest 'fail' that I've made for dinner in a very long time... It was boneless spare ribs that were supposed to braise in the oven. You weren't supposed to lift the lid so as not to let the steam escape.... Well all of the liquid evaporated at some time during the cooking leaving me with some pretty dry boneless ribs and zero sauce of any kind... uggghhhh!
Need to look up some possible rescue solutions, if any.... Tonight was cream of broccoli soup and that came out good, thank goodness!
To all on vacation, I hope you are having a blast... To those feeling under the weather, Zi hope you feel better soon!
A BCO friend sent me an email that I thought was very funny (thanks Karen) that I thought some might enjoy.... The story is fictitious but I think those of us who spend maybe a little too much time on the computer and maybe don't mind a drink now and then will find it humorous!
My Living Will
Last night, my kids stopped by and were sitting in the living room and I said to them, 'I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.'
They got up, unplugged the Computer, and threw out my wine.
They are SO on my shit list ...
Hope you all are having a good night! -
Here is a pic of Michelle and I today after lunch - check out her tan! Sorry, my Blackberry does not take good pictures!
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GREAT PICTURE OF YOU TWO!!!♥♥♥
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I cropped out a smaller pic of me with my Fasinator, I love that little hat. My DH said it looked like something he stepped on out in the yard. What a DH.
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deb - you look tres chic!
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Special K and Michelle- How CUTE are the two of you!!! Love the pic!!!
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I have to add Special K, I have met Michelle and she is tiny and you look the same size, so jealous!!
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laurie - I think we are the same height (I have heels on) but I am pretty sure I wear a bigger size, but you are sweet! We had a nice lunch and I got to meet Michelle's lovely friends - and we had a stroll around the mall - very nice!
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Glad to hear the vacation is going well, Michelle. That will be great to see a photo of you and the girls at lunch. You will be returning just in time to watch the big game!
RO appt went well today and she gave me some ideas to fight this sleep problem...for one thing I will change the time of day I take the Tamoxifen to AM or noon. Not sure why I got stuck on taking it at night anyway. So, that experiment starts tomorrow.:) Dr. RO and I parted ways with the understanding that she is available for any questions or concerns I ever have. I'll miss her...we got to know each other well, and I appreciated her wonderful sense of humor and attunement to DH's and my well being in our real lives outside of the treatment center.
After the appt, I went to a fabric store to replace the fabric I got before Xmas which I CANNOT FIND, and I know that I will probably find it now....anyway, they were having some good sales, so I'm glad I went. I might spend tomorrow sewing taggies and nursing covers (aka "hooter hiders" ) for the young moms and babies I know, while the builders finish the window project. Thanks all for your "window wishes" ....yes, I am eager for that project to be complete!
Tonight we had eggplant parm that was actually more like a lasagna with a mix of ricotta, mozzarella and parmesan cheese between the layers of baked eggplant and sauce. Also had vermicelli with it, and a garden salad. -
lacey - I changed my Arimidex from night to morning and it made a world of difference in my sleep pattern. Of course, I got up at 5:15 this morning and I am typing this at almost 1:00 a.m., but disregard that, lol!
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Lacey, when I had my surgery, my surgeon gave me a pillow that the hospital women's auxiliary made for breast cancer patients. It was a nifty little thing, a very small soft pillow that had a strap on it so you could put it over your shoulder like a (short handled) handbag. You could then hold it against your chest cushioning it. It was great right after surgery and when I slept. They made them in all sorts of soft and pretty fabrics and I was taken by what a good idea it was.
More comfort food tonight. Swiss steak with leftover mashed potatoes and broccoli. A fairly mindless dinner suitable for my condition. This cold definitely has me off my game. I must be getting better though. Night before last I went through 14 Kleenex overnight, last night I only used six. Yay! -
SpecialK and lacey, I wonder if femara is a sleep destroyer too? I started taking it at night because I was having some nausea with it at first, but I've been taking it for a year now (wow, only four to go!), surely my body has adjusted by now. I think I'll try taking it in the a.m. Thanks guys!
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Michelle and SpecialK great picture..yes Michelle is very tan. I like to wear jammie shorts to bed (yes even in winter) cause I get so hot....but I am so embarrassed with my lily white legs, dont even want my DH to see them!
Lacey glad you had a good appt. You cook so much better with no kitchen than I do with a full kitchen.
Last night was meatloaf with mashed potatos and corn. DH definitely has strep and could only eat the mashed potatos, I also made him some pudding. I have never seen him this sick...sent him to urgent care and he got some antibiotics and came home and crashed. He has never taken a sick day from work in the 36 yrs we have been together!
Son and girlfriend coming home from Ohio tonight, my son is buying a new car that he found locally here. Think I will make pizza for them and hope that DH can eat. He went to work today...Dummy!!
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Cute picture of you and Michelle, SpecialK. Thanks for posting it. You both look great.
Lacey, I have wanted new counter tops for years but can't bear the thought of the inconvenience. When I shopped counter tops, I was told I would have to remove everything from the bottom cabinets and be without use of my kitchen for as long as a week. All that and write out the check! I also don't want to have to replace the kitchen wall paper and I'm afraid removal of the old and installation of new might ruin the wallpaper near the backsplash.
Last night's dinner was delicious split pea soup that dh cooked on Wed. Also a yummy salad with romaine, cucumber, orange bell pepper, avocado, and blue cheese with a home-made vinaigrette made by the pour and splash into the bowl method. Kalamata olives on mine and sweet onions on dh's. The man loves onions.
Watched a segment of the Martha Steward Cooking School last night. It was on emulsification and she made vinaigrette, mayonaise, creamy blue cheese dressing and aioli. I can eat all of those by dipping in my finger!
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I forgot to comment that I take my arimidex pill at bedtime along with a knock-off benedryl that serves as a sleep aid. I sleep very well. At first I took the pill in the morning and felt like a 90 yr. old woman. I don't think I would have continued taking the med if I had to take it in the morning and felt that miserable.
I'm counting the days until my 5 yrs. are up because of the SEs. My blood pressure has gone up and become hard to control, my cholesterol has gone up so that I now take a statin, and my weight went up and it has become VERY difficult to lose weight. My blood sugar also eased above the normal line but I think that health problem is hereditary. I continue to try very hard to lose more weight on WW. I'm not overweight but like to weigh less than I do.
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Not sure how I missed the posted picture of Michelle and Special....1AM fatigue, I suppose. Adorable! I also noted the petite factor, Laurie.... guess it's a big girl thing to notice that. But take heart...... As a senior, I keep losing inches,( the wrong way...vertically) as I age, so at this rate, maybe "petite" will arrive some day.
Very funny story Seaside!
Hope you can shake that cold, Nance. What a sweet idea the pillow is... I should check to see if my local hospital does that. It would be nice to contribute my mediocre sewing skills.
Speaking of volunteering, I saw a segment on the Today Show this AM, where The Samaritans group is positioning themselves at train stations in the morning and cheerily greeting people and offering an orange to each person, purely for the purpose of supporting positive human connection. Lovely idea!
I would love to do it but the early AM piece is daunting given my sleep issues.
OK, I am sitting here worried that I made a horrible decision for the builder to go with a very wide window molding so that it could reach the borders of the current wallpaper. I so wanted to avoid the mess (and expense)of having our whole complicated kitchen re- papered since the paper (which I love) is not too old and in lovely shape (and I am pretty old and not in such lovely shape to tolerate more house changes). Anyway, the window molding waiting to be cut looks huge, that is huge enough that it may not be one of those decisions that you obsess about during construction but is not even noticeable once the job is complete. Oy! I'm afraid to look once he gets it up. I guess the mental "out" is that if we really hate it, when we do have the kitchen re-papered, we can put up a normal sized molding......but realistically, it will probably be the next people living here who do that!
FLASH! I got up the nerve to check out the completed molding....and, while it is very wide, I can definitely live with it. Whew! Such trivial issues...apologies....obviously not much going on in this person's life today. I think I'll go take my tamoxifen! Does anyone know if it has to be taken at really close to the same time every day? It was easy to remember at bedtime.
Many leftovers in the fridge, so, " for darn sures" tonight. I think I have to scale down my cooking...or start taking people in to share meals! Just another reason I wish DS1 and family were here instead of sitting in NJ! Would love to be cooking for them.
Someone mentioned that I could possibly make soups for our food pantry, but I'm not sure if they would accept any homemade food from a kitchen not registered with the board of health. Oh well, I think I'll go sew.....and stop rambling.
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lacey - I think the anti-hormonals build up in our system so a little variation in the time you take it is not that important. When I switched from night to morning I don't have a set time that I take mine either. I have not noticed any change in any other SE other than I sleep better. My mom used to be part of a group at church that took donations of leftover vegetables and stuff from area restaurants and every Wednesday she and her friends met in the church kitchen and made soup out of whatever they gathered. They also added some baked goods from their own kitchens, and some other goodies. They took it to an area the following day that had a program for meals for the homeless and it may have been church-based, I can't remember - they did this for many years (I am pretty sure they are still doing it) and never had any issues with having to make the soup in an inspected kitchen. This was in the suburban Los Angeles area.
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Lacey, here's a link to a pdf if you're interested. It's called an anti-ouch pouch and they say it can be made in 15 minutes.
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That's reassuring to hear Special.Took it around noon and am doing well so far!
Nance, thanks for the anti-ouch pouch directions.They would be nice to make to give to friends who are facing surgery since the local hospital doesn't offer them....sadly, so many people just keep showing up in this damn club! Yesterday in the Radiation waiting room, I ran into a neighbor who I rarely see....and she had just finished up her radiation treatment. It was interesting to "discover" each other.....
I think I will check with my food pantry to see how I might help others via cooking.If I actually start to get some sleep I might even really be productive and helpful!
Carole, I totally understand your resistance to engage in the "process" of getting new counter tops, and it is possible that you would have to change your backsplash if it is currently wallpapered. However, since having our kitchen redone a few years ago,
( and that was a six week production!) I really love having, and working on, those wonderful counters. It also helped that our counter installers turned out to be total pros who did a great, efficient job....on a Friday, July 3rd!! I'll always remember that professionalism. I thought for sure they would cancel last minute.
If you ever do get it done, I would recommend that you tile (or use that pressed metal) your backsplash. I love my wallpaper look back there, but very impractical....it does get splashed on,(mainly by DH!) and when I decide I can stand the next mess,I will have that changed to be more functional with tile or metal. I spend a lot of time making sure that the beets I put in my smoothies don't splash on the wallpaper.
Also, by the way, although I love the look of granite, we installed corian counters since corian is more forgiving to dropped plates and glasses, and doesn't have problems with acid food.
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lacey - My parent's church also had a food pantry - when I closed down their house after my mom passed away I donated all the non-perishable food to their efforts.
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Nancy,
What a cool thing that ouch-pouch is! I sew on occasion. Nothing fancy but I can make curtains and things only require measuring and straight line sewing... Anything requiring a pattern baffles me... But I haven't really tried since I received a D on a halter top project in home-economics that went horribly wrong....lol!
The instructions for the ouch-pouch seem like something I could manage and I don't think that my Breast Center has anything like it (or maybe they were just holding out on me...lol). I'll have to check when I go in for my mammo...
Lacey,
I hear you on the cooking thing. With me I never know how many will be here sometimes it's just the two of us, sometimes it's us and our late teen/early twenties kids and then occasionally it's all of the above plus some friends of theirs... For some reason it feels like the more people who show up, the less I have planned for that night...lol!
What are 'for darn sures'?
SpecialK and Michelle,
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Seaside, my mother started calling "leftovers", "for darn sures" after being introduced to the term by a close friend and neighbor of hers who came from the southeast US. Is that a familiar term to anyone else? I assumed it was a regional expression, and have no way to make literal sense of it!
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Just think, if I lived next door to you, I could supplement your dinners when you get the unexpected crowd! -
Seaside, they are very neat and I used mine through radiation as well.
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Lol Lacey.... I certainly wouldn't turn your cooking away at the door
I don't think I've ever heard that term for leftovers before... Will be interesting to see if it's familiar to the others!
Most unusual term for leftovers that I've heard was from a fellow classmate when I went back to school... Since it was one of our 'late days' at school we were all talking about what in the heck we were going to be able to get on the table that night and my friend said 'I think we'll be having jump-ups tonight' To which I said, 'What are jump-ups?' She responded with, 'It's when I say jump-up and get your own darn meal... a leftover night'. Still cracks me up foday...lol
Nancy,
I'm trying to figure out how the ouch-pouch works? Is it to keep your arm from pressing on the wound or sore skin or does it help to support the breast or some combination of the two? -
It's certainly not anything I've heard here in Texas. Mom, GM, GGM and not sure how far back after that were all Texans. As a matter of fact I googled it and came up empty even with the alternative google suggested "for damn sure". LOL
My mom used to serve my stepdad "tidbit trays" which I think is kinda what Seaside is talking about but he did not do the "jump up" part. I think tidbit tray sounds just divine and certainly should be a party dish not leftovers.
I think tonight is bean burritos. Easy, peasy.
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Seaside, I like that term "jump ups", I'll have to try it! Of course if I said that, DH would take that to mean McDonald's. He'd never think of leftovers.
Yes, it keeps your arm from putting pressure on the wound site. It's very soft, but not too thick so that it wouldn't cause a bad angle for your arm.
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Love the slang terms, JUmp up! I need to have more of thise nights. But I honestly hate leftovers. Luckily DH does a good job with them and packing his own lunch.
Carrie- I hope your DH is feeling better. Sounds awful. I know what you mean about stubborn men and working. In the last 13 years Dh has called on once for being sick and it was only because he was vomiting and is on the road all day. I think if he had a bathroom handy he would have gone.
Tonight Ds1 asked for meatloaf- so meatloaf it is.
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I married a Georgian and lived in several towns throughout North Carolina over 5 years, and I have never heard this slang. It might be an original.
Eating is beginning to appeal a tad. Made some fresh pasta last night and sauteed chicken breasts. Then in a fit of energy, I made a lemon pudding cake. This recipe wasn't exactly what I have in my head, but very close.
Two days ago, had a friend over [reformatting her computer] and made a frittata which then became lunch for the next day as well. Huge salad balanced the meals.
Tonight, we are having fish.
*susan*
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