I am really very good at baking bread. I learned when I was a little girl - I had to kneel on a kitchen chair to reach the table top to knead the dough. My mother and my aunt, both excellent bakers, taught me. And as I became an adult, I read a lot of books on breadmaking, and watched videos, and tried out various techniques.

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Back on May 4th, I had an operation called a pyeloplasty. It repaired a congenital problem with one of my kidneys (one that's fairly common); the opening that lets the urine flow out of the kidney to the bladder was narrower than it ought to have been, and that meant that kidney stones could get trapped there. Part of the surgery involved inserting ( Read more... )

I had the kidney surgery on Tuesday. I now have several holes in my belly (laparoscopic surgery), some of which hurt. So I have some pain pills for that, and some antibiotics (routine for most kinds of surgery) Apparently everything went the way it was supposed to.They have to check a few details next week, but I'll find out the details soon enough ( Read more... )

Rabbit rabbit rabbit.. Regarding the habits of rabbits

Hooray, hooray, it's the first of May,
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It has nothing to do with Covid, but on Tuesday, May 4, I'm going to be in NYULangone Hospital in New York City for kidney surgery. I will be having a laparoscopic pyeloplasty, to correct a constriction in the tube from one of my kidneys to my bladder, to enable that kidney to do its job more effectively. I was born with one kidney smaller than the ( Read more... )

Panera Bread also allows its managers to discriminate blatantly agains employees who do not participate in mainstream Abrahamic religions - especially self-identified Pagans. "Your hours are cut until you find God"-

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[to the tune of Dolly Parton's "Jolene"}

Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine,
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine!
They've given both injections to me;
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine,
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine!
I've done my bit for herd immunity!
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I got my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine yesterday. My arm still hurt a lot when they injected me, but I'm not as overwhelmed by the effects today. But I did sleep a lot ( Read more... )

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Dance is about creating beauty from the ways the human body can move. Human bodies come in a fantastic range of beautiful skin colors! And their shoes (and costumes and makeup) need to contribute to the beauty of the performance. This entry was also posted at https://acelightning.dreamwidth.org/202557.html. Reply wherever you read it.