Early birds, Lucylee, PWYC

[MysteryWoman]

Good afternoon! So glad lucylee will be able to have her biopsy in relative comfort, and they will be able to get a better sample(s). Still praying the biopsy brings good results.

I have not been productive today. I spent most of the time between breakfast and lunch looking through the three cookbooks I got for Christmas. DH got me a vegan cookbook, meaning to get a vegetarian one. I’m looking through there for recipes I can use or adapt. DC is allergic to tree nuts, and DH is allergic to most legumes/pulses, including soy. (He can tolerate soy in small amounts, but something featuring tofu is not going to work for him.) He also got me a cookbook for cooking in cast iron. That may be a little more useful. Dfriend K got me a Ticket to Ride cookbook. We often enjoy playing Ticket to Ride with them, and DH has, I think, all the variations they don’t have. So she thought I should have the cookbook. It’s an interesting read — it has menus based on the various train routes — but as for cooking, oh boy! Most of the recipes are pretty complex; several of them require specialized equipment. I don’t have a pizza stone, a smoker, or a sous vide machine. It does look like there are some recipes for some snacks we could make for a game night, though.

I’m sorry you will have to redo your long trip to the doctor, LadyM, but I have to chuckle wondering how long that grocery trip will withstand the nightly snack runs.

Glad the package has been found, Harriet. I wonder if the people at the other end called the carrier.

…and DC has gotten me distracted with one of their shows. I need to re-order my CPAP supplies. I had it on my calendar for today, and I’ve gotten an email and two texts. After that, more laundry — I’m still layering here.

[Twins' Mom]

I have worked my way through generating all the invoices, seventy-something. Where there's a space for a note, I had to paste my note in every one of them. I did call QB support, but I suspect the gal knew less than I do about it. Anyway, after 10 minutes or so I gave up on her. I was nearly half way done at that point. I need to reconcile the amount of invoices - be sure everyone was invoiced, and then review each and hit send.

I've done three laps today with ddog plus walking at food store so I'm at a respectable 7600 steps. Every morning I add my steps for the day before and compute how many steps I need daily for the rest of the week to meet my goal. So I'm over that and it's all good!

[Lady Maverick]

Using a food processor to shred cheese does make it go faster, but the cleanup is longer. ANYway, it is done.
Sharp Cheddar
Parmesan
Flamin Jack
Pepper Jack
Mozzarella
Parmigiano-Reggiano
cheese wedges/blocks are now shredded, packaged and in the freezer. My future self will be pleased to not need to stop and shred as I cook.

DD13 is home from public school. DS16 has finished his homeschool assignments.

[Twins' Mom]

Done with sending them out. I put a note on the Facebook page that I've sent them. I should send an email also, but I'm just done with it, honestly.

I'm straightening out a record on FamilySearch site and getting a little genealogy fix in.

DD just called, but she was walking on the street and I couldn't hear her. I think the phone was picking up the wind. The dog also was barking at me again and that made it doubly hard. She's really not very cooperative these days.

Lucylee, you'd think that your doc or someone in the office would have realized that before. I hate that you've gone through all this waiting and worrying. Doing under a general anesthesia in hospital really is the best thing, though.

Finally I think I hear the garbage truck. Everything was pushed back a day this week because of the snow last Friday. Usually garbage is Tuesday and recycling Wednesday. We have both out today, just in case.

[CathyS]

Yikes! I have been watching a new-to-me organizing person on FBook reels. She is interesting. Last night the reel I watched was talking about "Cousins and coworkers" and discussing how to use this method to put things with like things. Well... this afternoon during a tv show that I sat down and watched with dh, I was popping up and down and going into the library to deal with some stuff. I got all the unshelved books together in one spot. I got the stuff I wanted to donate in another spot, all cross stitch stuff in another spot. I did it in short spirts during the commercials, so I wasn't giving myself much time to overthink some of the stuff. Wow!

More on this in MO.

[Harriet]

Y'ALL AREN'T GOING TO BELIEVE THIS!

We had it all arranged that HRH was going to carry my sample for me and do another errand. Not much problem and I could get some rest. Got another call BACK saying it wasn't enough to get a sample to them, I now had an APPT to be seen there. I asked what I was to do with my sample now, since I was having to appear in person to someone, and caller said she figured I could bring one but no need, they'd be likely to request one while I was there. We raced around and did get there. They called my name, I gave the sample, then tech said, "thank you, you may go".

I hit a quiet but firm high C. I said, where do I go for this appt, then? Which room? Shall I sit to get vitals taken? I was really angry. They wanted to know who was my dr there and of course there isn't one - I've only been there once before to get a shot. I reminded - not that anyone knew - that my initial phone call was because I didn't think I'd feel well enough to go out to an appt tomorrow, and I was told I should stay home. But the result had been to be called in today!

HRH felt so sorry for us, with no better plan for a meal, that he went by Sho mars (family restaurant) and got Beyond Burgers for home. Mine was absolutely delicious and I actually ate the whole thing, I was so hungry. That was by far my largest meal since treatment. I napped a couple hours, really tired afterward.

Twins' that is a great lot of office work to get done.

Mystery, those restrictions of no legumes, no tree nuts, make a vegan cookbook a real challenge! Are cashews restricted? Cashew sauces can be very helpful.

Yes, the recipients of the pkg evidently went to the trouble, as well, of trying to explain to someone that they had a random pkg.

The new shelves, so far, seem very nice.

[lucylee]

Oh. My. Goodness. (((Harriet))) (((LadyM))) what a mixed up day we have all had! Must be the full moon.

Editing to add (approx. 2.5 hours later)
I have vacuumed the hard floors in the main area of the house and in the master bath, and I have sorted (loosely) a HUGE * HUGE * pile of papers that has been sitting on the bathroom vanity for a LONG time. These are print outs of sample planner pages, inspirational articles, decluttering and organizing articles, just ALL kinds of stuff. Some of it, I have no idea how to file... but at least I have made some sort of sense of it and the pile is no longer in danger of falling to the floor.

Motivation is that pest control lady is coming tomorrow. I still need to vacuum the carpets and wash dishes in the sink, but I at least made some slight progress.