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Hello again!
It has been forever since I picked up lj, and ive decided I need to do this for my own sanity, lol. Every other form of social media has been taken over by the persona of my second career as a writer -- which is incredibly paradoxical, since I went into this naively thinking that I was finally just getting to write for myself, but of course not, ( Read more... ) -
just real quick -- mom's home, looks great!
we're looking at dinner. She's very happy to be home and she's looking strong and happy, after a scary yesterday at the hospital. They sent her home with a leaflet called "Living with Angina" but no formal *diagnosis* of angina...? -
My mother discovers Atlantis
So my mom is 90 and she lives with us. She has Lewy body dementia, which to save you jumping through the link, means she has Parkinson nodules (Lewy bodies) in her forebrain, so instead of a tremor in her limbs she gets tremors in her imagination. It's a damn good thing she has pretty good karma, because I can see how someone with a bad history ( Read more... ) -
State of the Shava 3/6
So, between ictal events, I'm running at 100%. Soon I have to decide how much I'm in love with the idea of treating the seizure symptoms rather than just living with the interictal (between seizure times, which are more than 99% - not sure how many sigmas...). If I'm ok, 99%+ of the time, but the meds are very very very likely to make me non- ( Read more... ) -
No Sleep Till Brooklyn (2011 genetic mutation)
My sense of humor? Neither/both ironic postironic
Monophonic beats with polyphonic, fav'rite tonic
I catch a video but catch a vid is catching I
I am discovering these new Das Racist nexi
[no really, my musical taste is more eclectic than you think right now. Now think again... Now think again...]
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The word for today is: Hypergraphia
Those of you who've known me for a while, know I write a lot, typically, since the early 80s, 2000-5000 words a day. Most of those words are emails, postings to groups, often blog articles. For the last three years or so, that output was probably cut to 2-5K words a week. It's been something I've missed terribly ( Read more... ) -
Vocabulary of the Day: Interictal
I suspect from how I feel today that I was seizing in my sleep last night. The period between seizures (which for me is probably well over 99% of the time) is called the interictal period. As long as I'm on the dopaminergics I can deal with the feeling of my brain being full of cotton wool and sludge is something I can muscle through, whereas ( Read more... ) -
Gung Hay Fat Choy!
You can put anything in a wonton wrapper. Back in the late 70s or very early 80s, out in Sunderland, we had a couple wonton wrapping parties where we'd make a cup or a pint of different kinds of fillings, boil some, eat some, put some in the freezer for each flavor, and have them for months from the freezer. I loved it ( Read more... ) -
Pesto Polpo
About 3C of baby octopi -- and yes, I feel a little guilty eating baby genius mollusks
a pint of water
Blanche the baby octopi, leave them in the hot water to finish cooking
When cool enough to handle, cut them up, reserve liquid to boil gnocci
Cut up 1.5 bunches of scallions, small across the length
Wilt scallions in 3-5T of good olive oil
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friends of friends who are friends
So, someone pointed out to me, there are people here who y'all know I know, who I don't know are here, and I should know (and friend) so let me know if you know someone I know so I can friend them and they can know I know they're here.
(imagine something about bitter batter here...)
Wonder how much local LJ traffic goes up when the snows come?
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