I have two days off in a row, starting today. It's almost noon and I'm still in my jammies.

I've just made two different kinds of starter for soft drinks. One is based on this recipe for a "plant." Taking her example I started it with raisins. The other is based on a recipe for ginger beer in Nourishing Traditions. I think these little ecosystems ( Read more... )

I'm home! I got discharged around 1:30 today. Kevin got me, we made a couple stops to shop for food and medicine, and came home. The cats missed me: Nicky came and greeted me when I came in. I made my own lunch of a grilled egg and cheese sandwich and a bowl of creamy tomato soup (not my own) and was so happy to eat food I made myself, and to chew ( Read more... )

Sunday night after working, I was so beat. It had been a hard day and I said, "Self, I am so calling in to work tomorrow. I am too sick for this." I've been battling tooth pain for a couple weeks now, had fillings two weeks ago, got a tooth pulled last week, and after the extraction, I just wasn't healing properly. I got way swole, and not in one ( Read more... )

Starting with the migraine-like ache on the right side of my head. This is from the dental work I had done yesterday. I didn't realize that I would hurt and be nauseated just as much the day after getting two fillings as I did the morning I made the emergency appointment and called in sick. But I have. Right after the appointment, before the ( Read more... )