Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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Ho hum, laziness and idleness abound today
Another beautiful sunny, windy day. Just try to go out with a hair do today and you will end up with a tousled hair don’t ! I don’t mind it myself, because my short hair may stand on end, but a quick swipe of my hand lays it right back down again. I only went out for swim anyway and am home for the rest of the day, so weather will not bother me one way or the other.
We had a good rain, about 2 inches, day before yesterday and the grass is growing as is every other green thing out there. Lots of the flowers are in bloom, the cukes plants are starting to reach tendrils up toward the wire trellis and besides blooms on the tomato plants, I found a real tomato there this morning! It’s pea sized, but promising me a tomato sandwich in a few weeks anyway. I am looking forward to the squash too, though there are only buds on them so far. I need to get the okra seeds in the ground and might do that tomorrow. I am much to lazy today.
I love the swim exercise class, but an hour of constant movement, albeit in the water where my mass is not weighing on me, is so tiring. I always want to come home, eat my lunch and nap. And I did that today. Now I have some meat thawing for our supper and I decided to dash this off and try to get it posted. I’ll make chicken fried steak, some potatoes and mixed veggies for our meal. I know I am supposed to stay away from fried foods, but I figure if I do it at home in canola oil and drain and blot it well, it might not be so bad for me.
Truth be told, if not for cooking for Gordon, who needs to eat to gain weight and keep up his strength, I would probably forego meat altogether several times a week. I do love a good steak, or even chicken or fish, but when I have fresh veggies, I can make a meal off them easily enough. I made a dab of chili this morning and fixed us hot dogs for lunch, mine fat free and Gordon’s regular. I know. Processed meat is not good for me either. In fact, most things I can think of at the moment are not on my eating plan. How long can a person exist on what they allow me? ~sigh~
I finally got the vacuuming done yesterday. Now the house is in a semi clean state and I feel better about it.
We saw the ENT doctor yesterday, or rather he saw Gordon. He removed quite a lot more of wax from Gordon’s ear and gave him a hearing test and now Gordon can hear again and doesn’t have that stuffed up feeling and pain he had before. What a relief for him.
We have an appointment on the 15th with different pain management doctor who may or may not have some new ideas for treatment of Gordon’s ongoing painful condition. At least he is local and hopefully we won’t have to wait as long as with the last pain doc we saw. The ENT office was run efficiently and we only had a short wait for the doctor to see us.
I don’t know how many times I start writing entries for here and then delete them without finishing them. Some days it’s just not in me to write anything. I know I should update daily, but when it’s the same ol’ thing day after day, I just don’t do it. I never said this was going to be a daily anyway. Maybe I could put up this on the days I can’t think of something to write.
“Notice. This day passed the same as most others. No special happenings, nothing but get out of bed, do my chores, try to enjoy the outdoors for a short while, cook supper, clean up after and go to bed after watching mindless TV and/or diddling on the computer. I thank God for this ordinary day. I hope yours was as good as mine.”
No, I don’t think I’ll do that after all. LOL
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Who says you should update daily? It's not fun if you have to do it. Just do it when you want to. It's raining here today, but not hard, more sprinkling. I did a little bit of shopping. Bought a jacket for my daughter-in-law, and a pair of capris for me. Also a few groceries. My daughter is coming for supper tonite, and she requested tacos, so tacos it will be. Ooh, you plant okra. We learned to like okra when my mom moved to Fla. Then in Africa we ate lots of it. I've even planted it here in Ind. and it usually does OK. We prefer it fried, but I don't mind it boiled with onions and tomatoes, and a little hot sauce.
I get my exercise doing my chores and making lunch and dinner and it seems like the days go so fast also but I try to get outside with the dogs each day and spent some time with the hubby and laugh alittle and it's nice to get in my little bed tired.
Three things:
1. "Tendril" is one of the lovelies words in the English language.
2. I think swimming makes everyone sleepy. Maybe it's because we're out of our natural elements. I bet flying would make me tired, also.
3. "I thank God for this ordinary day. I hope yours was as good as mine.” That made me choke a sob, for some reason. It's true, an ordinary day is something wholly underrated.
x.g.
i'm sore from bowling...on the Wii! LOL. someday, oh someday i'll be in good shape again! glad to hear Dad's ear is better!
I remember being completely wiped out after I had swimming lessons in school. It was always completely exhausting. It's the nice kind of exhausting, though, usually - the kind where you feel like you've worked really hard.
(I clicked my way over here from underused's page. I hope that's alright.)
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@amidthestars - New readers are appreciated, especially if they take the time to comment, h. And if you are on Facebook and like to play Scrabulous, we welcome you there too. Isn't Ms. underused fabulous? Ava
Ditto, about not eating meat if it weren't for husbands. Me too. But I guess I wouldn't wish him away, and no one's forcing the meat down my throat either. I love a dish with sauteed veggies and then put in the liquid and rice, cover and cook 20 mins... rice with veggies... I've just discovered this recently, and one of my fave veggies to put in it is asparagus cut into bite-size pieces.
Hi and thanks for your visit. Reading your entry tells me you have a wonderful veggie garden in the works. I'm like you, I can make a meal of vegetables, just about any kind. I'm a meat lover also but I don't have to have it to be happy with a meal. Enjoy those tomatoes when they hit. I'm a zuccini fan, I love them sauteed in butter.
I hope the pain management visit gives some results. Pain is my middle name but they want to fill me up with drugs so I live with most of it. Anyway, It's not good for your hubby to be miserable.
Have a super week
Thanks for your comment. Our kids used to have to help with dishes too. We have 7 kids, but we never had more than 5 home at one time, because the oldest 2 were gone when we had the youngest 2. Since we've moved to the new house I have a frig with an icemaker for the first time. I really like it. Also I have a new, very quiet dishwasher.
Supposed to rain here the next few days---hasnt this been strange weather this year--cold -warm--cold-warm--and its May !!!
Hope that new dr gives hubby just the thing he needs
It's a bit chilly here today. We got a Siberian high pressure system after the rains blew out to sea. I love the breeze, though; seems like I can smell the spruce trees up northwest of us on the mountains.
Hope the doctor finds something to help Gordon. My prayers are with you both. I think of you often.
Lots of Love and Hugs from Asia,
~ Sil in Corea