brain is weird
I'm beginning to think the steroids aren't really giving me false energy, they're giving me this impetus to do stuff.
Like yesterday, now that I'm finally over the stomach ick, I was watching football (pre KU) and decided to go fill four bags of clothes to take to the clothes drop off place.
I've run the dishwasher two days in row.
I've folded laundry and put it away.
I've been going through old cooking magazines and tearing out recipes.
I've been de-matting Raine.
Yet, I still got tired and napped during KU's third quarter (waking up in time to watch them score their first touchdown only to have it negated by WVU running back the kick off for a touchdown).
Bizarre.
It hasn't given me the impetus to go mow...
So, yes, KU lost but we did score twice and our second half was better than the first.
Watched most of the extra innings of the Giants/Nats game.
Mom and I did go to KC yesterday to the Hallmark open house. I got all the family cards. One of the pains of not having a Hallmark store is that finding cards for nephew, godson and sister-in-law at the groceries is impossible. Now I just need to remember come December that I bought them already and where I put them. I also want to figure out where on etsy I bought the cute address stickers last year and order some more.
You know one of the best things about KC being in the playoffs? We actually have the sports news talking about them. They're on espn.com. There's like respect!
I just watched the Vampire Diaries and it was actually a pretty good episode. I got bored with the Traveler crap from last season. I'm also SO glad Ric is back.
Most of you probably don't care or know but Kansas actually has a chance to defeat its longterm Republican Senator Robertson by an Independent (this due to the Democrat quitting and a couple court battles to force us to nominate someone else but our courts which are still moderate said 'nope'). There's a Republican ad running against this Independent (who's more liberal than conservative and says he'll vote with the party in power in the Senate in most cases, yay) which lambasts him as a liberal because he gave money to Harry Reid, Barack Obama and Hillary.
Hillary.
No last name.
This pisses me off so much. What? Powerful women scare you so much you try to depower them by not letting them have a last name????
Yesterday was an exciting college football day with Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas A&M all going down! This play off thing is going to be interesting. Of course, I wasn't happy about OU losing since they were in the top four and they're Big 12 and I'm all for Big 12 wins as long as they're not against us.
In the people are stupid realm, last week I realized that some people don't understand what double yellow lines on the road mean. In one of our construction zones, they're adding a left turn lane where the turn signal light has already been shifted, but the lane's not there yet. Four lane road with a double yellow line. If you want to turn left you get in the inner west bound lane. You do not cross over the double yellow line and get in the inner EAST bound lane just because the signal is above it!
I've seen people do this twice now (and I only travel that intersection a couple times a week). The first time they were able to get back over. This time, the light turned green for the eastbound lanes and this person was sitting there facing a truck coming at them! What a fucking idiot. It wasn't like the day it was raining so hard I couldn't see the lines on the street. It was perfectly clear and the lines are perfectly colorful.
One more week of icky tasting pill that makes my mouth taste like crap (and coffee taste like crap). On a plus side, it seems to be working, healing the fistula. But then the steroids did that first round, too, before I cut down to ten mgs a day. I'm at 25 for two more days than 20 for ten days or so before 15 and that's as low as I go before I see the doctor again.
Who charges fifty bucks more than MY doctor for a visit. :P
Hopefully my dad will find out this week if he's diabetic. Mom and I were talking about it and, if he is, it's going to shift his life dramatically. He drinks every day. One or two glasses of wine (not horribly high in carbs) and a very sweet booze drink usually as well. The main med clearly states 'do not drink' which is not a problem for me because I barely drink anyway and I still have about four or five drinks a year. He also loves his red meat, potatoes, pasta, fried everything, and barely eats vegs or fish. It'll be interesting.
On the other hand, mom's doctor pushed off the threat of dialysis way into the future, thank god. Her kidneys are doing okay, the calcium seems to be not going to her organs as much, her parathyroid function's better, and her iron count is up due to the shots. (Her blood sugar last time they tested it was 60. I'm pretty sure I've never been 60--mine's usually around 100). :P
And dad's lungs are stabilized--at least that's not something I face as it's not genetic but environmental.
We also talked Thanksgiving which will be at my house. I've made an apple cider turkey for the last several years which yields yummy gravy (I'm not a turkey gravy fan usually) but mom can't have it because of the flour so I'm going to try it with rice flour. I make the best gravy in the family--it's effortless, I have no clue why; mom's is always lumpy. Rice flour can make it gritty but I think it will work for me. And we use lactose free milk for the mash potatoes which taste just the same. She can't have stuffing or green bean bake, but she found a gluten free pie shell that's really good for the corn syrup less pecan pie.
I realized then that Christmas is four weeks after that--short time frame this year! Will be very, very busy. Should I wish for another round of steroids so I'll have the impetus to "do stuff"? *g*
Well, what I should do is go shower and get ready for church...
Like yesterday, now that I'm finally over the stomach ick, I was watching football (pre KU) and decided to go fill four bags of clothes to take to the clothes drop off place.
I've run the dishwasher two days in row.
I've folded laundry and put it away.
I've been going through old cooking magazines and tearing out recipes.
I've been de-matting Raine.
Yet, I still got tired and napped during KU's third quarter (waking up in time to watch them score their first touchdown only to have it negated by WVU running back the kick off for a touchdown).
Bizarre.
It hasn't given me the impetus to go mow...
So, yes, KU lost but we did score twice and our second half was better than the first.
Watched most of the extra innings of the Giants/Nats game.
Mom and I did go to KC yesterday to the Hallmark open house. I got all the family cards. One of the pains of not having a Hallmark store is that finding cards for nephew, godson and sister-in-law at the groceries is impossible. Now I just need to remember come December that I bought them already and where I put them. I also want to figure out where on etsy I bought the cute address stickers last year and order some more.
You know one of the best things about KC being in the playoffs? We actually have the sports news talking about them. They're on espn.com. There's like respect!
I just watched the Vampire Diaries and it was actually a pretty good episode. I got bored with the Traveler crap from last season. I'm also SO glad Ric is back.
Most of you probably don't care or know but Kansas actually has a chance to defeat its longterm Republican Senator Robertson by an Independent (this due to the Democrat quitting and a couple court battles to force us to nominate someone else but our courts which are still moderate said 'nope'). There's a Republican ad running against this Independent (who's more liberal than conservative and says he'll vote with the party in power in the Senate in most cases, yay) which lambasts him as a liberal because he gave money to Harry Reid, Barack Obama and Hillary.
Hillary.
No last name.
This pisses me off so much. What? Powerful women scare you so much you try to depower them by not letting them have a last name????
Yesterday was an exciting college football day with Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas A&M all going down! This play off thing is going to be interesting. Of course, I wasn't happy about OU losing since they were in the top four and they're Big 12 and I'm all for Big 12 wins as long as they're not against us.
In the people are stupid realm, last week I realized that some people don't understand what double yellow lines on the road mean. In one of our construction zones, they're adding a left turn lane where the turn signal light has already been shifted, but the lane's not there yet. Four lane road with a double yellow line. If you want to turn left you get in the inner west bound lane. You do not cross over the double yellow line and get in the inner EAST bound lane just because the signal is above it!
I've seen people do this twice now (and I only travel that intersection a couple times a week). The first time they were able to get back over. This time, the light turned green for the eastbound lanes and this person was sitting there facing a truck coming at them! What a fucking idiot. It wasn't like the day it was raining so hard I couldn't see the lines on the street. It was perfectly clear and the lines are perfectly colorful.
One more week of icky tasting pill that makes my mouth taste like crap (and coffee taste like crap). On a plus side, it seems to be working, healing the fistula. But then the steroids did that first round, too, before I cut down to ten mgs a day. I'm at 25 for two more days than 20 for ten days or so before 15 and that's as low as I go before I see the doctor again.
Who charges fifty bucks more than MY doctor for a visit. :P
Hopefully my dad will find out this week if he's diabetic. Mom and I were talking about it and, if he is, it's going to shift his life dramatically. He drinks every day. One or two glasses of wine (not horribly high in carbs) and a very sweet booze drink usually as well. The main med clearly states 'do not drink' which is not a problem for me because I barely drink anyway and I still have about four or five drinks a year. He also loves his red meat, potatoes, pasta, fried everything, and barely eats vegs or fish. It'll be interesting.
On the other hand, mom's doctor pushed off the threat of dialysis way into the future, thank god. Her kidneys are doing okay, the calcium seems to be not going to her organs as much, her parathyroid function's better, and her iron count is up due to the shots. (Her blood sugar last time they tested it was 60. I'm pretty sure I've never been 60--mine's usually around 100). :P
And dad's lungs are stabilized--at least that's not something I face as it's not genetic but environmental.
We also talked Thanksgiving which will be at my house. I've made an apple cider turkey for the last several years which yields yummy gravy (I'm not a turkey gravy fan usually) but mom can't have it because of the flour so I'm going to try it with rice flour. I make the best gravy in the family--it's effortless, I have no clue why; mom's is always lumpy. Rice flour can make it gritty but I think it will work for me. And we use lactose free milk for the mash potatoes which taste just the same. She can't have stuffing or green bean bake, but she found a gluten free pie shell that's really good for the corn syrup less pecan pie.
I realized then that Christmas is four weeks after that--short time frame this year! Will be very, very busy. Should I wish for another round of steroids so I'll have the impetus to "do stuff"? *g*
Well, what I should do is go shower and get ready for church...