Food with Attitude!

Good morning everyone. 'Woke at 4:50.

No idea what breakfast may be, 'still need my covefe to kick start my brian.

'Just wanted to post before Para woke up!

I did manage to get about 3 hours, from 11-2. Then I laid in my chair watching Dexter waiting for the alarm to go off.

I feel better this morning. I was a little down last night. Maybe from the shots as they basically force my body into hypothyroidism. Or maybe it's just everything. That's ok, my Butters stayed with me all night.

I'm glad kitteh was with you. Mine doesn't understand that I'm not letting him out in the dark so he's becoming increasingly pleading to go out as sunrise becomes later and later.

Sometimes I have nights where no rest may be had--all of last weekend through Tuesday was such for me. I got twice as much work completed yesterday as I did Monday and Tuesday combined. I was tired enough I didn't trust my ability to work so I spent most of both days waiting for tasks requiring immediate attention vs. creating my own work with a project I've been managing for the past year.

You're in my prayer for a soon recovery.

I'm undecided between celery with peanut butter and honey, blueberry waffles, or General Tso's chicken for breakfast. They are all so different I can't decide.

That is a wide range of choices!

I think he said I can eat an hour after I take my pills. So I'll find something to chew on while I'm waiting to go back for the scan. Maybe I'll make some more egg white tortillas.

Are those the radioactive pills? Or prep for them?

Please excuse my ignorance. I pray your scan goes well.

These are radioactive, but not very strong. I don't have to isolate with these. From what is understand, this scan will tell the Dr how strong to make the pills that will destroy any remaining thyroid tissue.

I was at the hospital for over an hour before they even drew my blood. I'm now waiting for the results before he can give me the pills. Then I come back in 4 hours for a whole body scan. Then again tomorrow for another scan.

It's a lot. I just keep reminding myself that I'm lucky there's something to be done about it!

Amen to that!

It's been 2 1/2 hours and I'm still waiting for my blood work to be done.

Ridiculous, but that happens.

I think my brunch is channeling Chasity.

Cheese. Cheddar. Blue stilton. Gheetas mango chutney. Apple, sultana and date chutney. Beetroot.

Not a cheese specialist but the mango chutney is good with stilton. The other chutney ( usually read reviews ) is nice also.

Beetroot goes well with cheese but found it washes your mouth. As stilton is strong.

Nicer biscuits would be a bonus but its not xmas.

https://imgur.com/Jx2wcRL

Perfection!

Not as good as your hairy chicken thing.

When I close an eye. Everything is different to when I close the other eye. So have to assume the angles are ok. Didnt go to mad with presentation. Someone might get a measuring tape. If it needed to be blocks.

Should of used the halo plate though.

I finally made it in home. I was going to make tortillas for breakfast burritos, but our water is off.

So I guess leftover pasta it is.

Beautiful!

Thanks. You are beautiful also

Stunning meals and humour by all!

Breakfast wound up being Wonton soup! 'No idea what dinner may be.

Yesterday I got so much completed at work; thirty copiers and printers in my management project along with numerous other tasks.

Today I configured one copier and one fax [I do all of this remotely].

It seemed everyone needed assistance today, it was a day of hand-holding, be it with network routes, or determining what roles a new user required for their job--the person whose job it is couldn't get it right after hours of trying so she asked I intervene and do it for her.

Then I needed to remotely teach someone how to use their copier, its fax, and how to do it from her PC or the copier panel.

I thank God I can remotely take over control of a copier or printer display panel and show the users how to do what they need to learn. It's just they are all so needy and oh so dumb.

Well I can't gripe as it pays the bills.

I was just now emailed a request to help someone get into a document and you know what? She's gonna wait until tomorrow. 5:45 AM to 3:45 PM is enough hours for anyone to work and I've been told to quit codling dumb users; to make them wait a day or two.

She'll have her document unlocked tomorrow morning, although until I was told to 'quit helping idiots in what should be my free time' I would have logged back in and assisted her.

Time for 'me' time!



Last Edited by Louis in Richmond on 10/07/2021 04:41 PM

Awe, Thank you!

I love wonton soup! I'm making meatloaf tonight with one of the new recipes. It uses oats instead of bread crumbs. It sounds a little strange, but I'm willing to try it.

We only walked for about a half an hour at the park, but after today, I'm amazed I felt like going at all.

After I water the garden and make dinner, I'll probably collapse!

Be sure to use much inhalation therapy. It's what the doctor orders!

Tonight's dinner is General Chang's Chicken, not on a rice bed, rather with with extra peppers, broccoli, and the chili crisp past gastly sauce. OMG it's burn your mouth spicy hot--perfect!

It's incredibly depressing that Mrs. will eat nothing I cook, goes out of her way to deride my participation on the forum, and makes fun of us for being "Foodies".

Thank God she has gone upstairs, hopefully to not be seen until tomorrow. I can't easily maneuver my way upstairs so I sleep downstairs in the den. Or at least try to sleep; she will usually stay on the sofa and wakes me no fewer than ten times every night so that I can't get proper rest.

When she sees me asleep she will call to me to wake me up.

She is the curse that keeps on hurting and just won't go away.

While not pretty, here is my dinner. It tastes wonderful and I wish I had someone who appreciates good cooking to share with.

https://imgur.com/P0axBXE

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Edit to add: she has come back downstairs to attack and says my cooking smells like burnt cat food. God, please make her go away.

Last Edited by Louis in Richmond on 10/07/2021 07:16 PM

As long as it tastes good to you, that's what matters! My meals aren't usually pretty.

Your food smells like burned cat food to her?

I would just say "good, more for me!"

I think she only makes fun of you posting here because she's jealous. She doesn't really have any friends anymore. What about her friends where she fishes for crab?

Or maybe she just doesn't want you to have anyone & wants you to be as miserable as her. Don't let her drag you down. You're a good man & she's the one who is missing out!

I have learned a simple 'rule': If I like it she will hate it. If she has liked it for years if I say I like it she from that moment on hates it.

Her friends at the river seem far less amenable to her now--good. She deserves no friends.

I have always taken the position that when she starts being negative to me I will be over the top, Concierge from Home Alone in New York, positive. And that pisses her off even more

I never let her see me upset and return a sickening level of kindness to her when she is a f*cking horrible person her normal self.

I am a better person than she will ever be.

It just strikes me as so very wrong that others pray for the wellness of their family members and I must pray for ill to befall her so she is removed from my life.

Some day I will have peace in my life.

You are a better person!

Meatloaf and acorn & butternut squash with bit of coconut oil stirred in. I switched from the oatmeal to crushed Matzo crackers. I just couldn't wrap my head around oats. I thought they would get chewy? Anyhow, it was good except I didn't like the sauce on top.

https://imgur.com/5xWbtuM

I was so tired, I fell asleep in my chair for 2 hours before dinner. Hopefully, I'll sleep good tonight!

I hope you get the rest you need.

I have come into a pattern of falling asleep for twenty to thirty seconds every five or ten minutes.

It's really weird to me as I have never had that happen until the past five or six weeks and it now happens forty to fifty times daily.

I'm like a Frigate Bird--they stay aloft for weeks at a time by power napping for ten to fifteen second periods while flying.


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Oh no, Louis is turning into a bird!

Is this before or after you've been toking?

I haven't for days, usually weeks pass between my partaking despite my posts advocating it.

I may have one joints' worth while Mrs. will smoke an entire oz.

'Another reason to cut her off from any resource I may provide her.

I cannot express the hatred I now hold for her.

If only I had a way to cut off her healthcare I would do it.

Edit to add: My skills are quite markletable; I have been seriously contemplating finding employment in Mexico or the Caribbean, quitting this job, and leaving the country with no means of her locating me for the sole purpose of leaving her without any resource or income.

Last Edited by Louis in Richmond on 10/08/2021 12:07 AM