The Week in Review: March 17-23

Well folks, it looks like a got a lot done regardless of the sick. What really happened was I had one good day where I did everything fun and colorful only to be paying for it now. Yikes! This cold or flu or virus or whatever it is that everyone out here seems to be coming down with is a chameleon. You go to bed feeling ever so crappified and you don't sleep for all the ickiness and then you drag yourself out of bed feeling even more crappified so you sit and whine and moan and complain. Then, after you have been up for a few hours you feel fine so you start thinking you are well and you start doing things like cleaning, crafting, cooking and visiting. The next thing you know you are wiped out on the sofa wining all over again. It ain't fun or pretty my friends. Today I have discovered an alien living in my chest. Not pretty at all.

This week I will be playing catch up on schoolwork, projects and swaps (of course). I didn't get to visit with granny because of the sick so hopefully I will feel better this week so I can visit. I also missed out on a family Easter breakfast and a evening with some nifty kidlets. I hate being sick! Hate it! All I want to do right now is go back to bed but I just woke up not too long ago and I have school. today. Sigh. I don't know how you parents do it. Your kids get sick then you get sick then they get sick again and there is no one to take care of you. I give you fresh baked cookies and flowers and pretty handmade blankets, I do. Take care of yourselves!

Happy Easter!

a weekend wip

I'm still sickish...bah! Here's some eye candy instead...

Photobooth Friday: More March Challenge

is it cheating if I took the picture years and years ago? Here I am in 2003 with a bunch of balloons for the mister's birthday strip. i had three balloons that I crammed in the tiny booth along with myself and the frames basically all looked like this...perhaps I pulled one down and then had a staticky head. I can't remember. All I know is that this was for the mister's first birthday with me and we're about to celebrate our fifth...whoo-hoo!

More boothiness over here....oooh, and here!

That Incredible Edible Egg

Gosh but I love this puff pancake thing like there's no tomorrow! I tried halving the recipe one day last week and it came out quite perfect. A really nice and tasty way to stretch one egg. It was delicious. Though, now I have to watch how many of these I eat. I don't want to give eggs a bad rep as I love the things but my doctor tells me that my cholesterol levels were all wonky and such which may be due to all sorts of reasons but I need to go back for some more blood work (Hello, Carolyn!). I also found out that I don't just have a nifty under active thyroid, I have a two faced thyroid that likes to attack itself. today I learned all about Hashimoto's disease. Sounds scary, I know but it's also unfortunately common so I will roll with the punches. Do I feel lucky or what?

I'm still sick though not like the poor husbandman was. My throat is achy and I am extra whiny. All I want to do is drink fizzy things and eat mashed potatoes and just so ya know, I did NOT pick up supplies for the evil sweet treat I wrote about yesterday, phew! Instead I baked an awesome savory muffin with sweet potato and carmelized onions. So good! So very, very, very good! I made 18 of them and there are only two left and while we did share with our neighbor, we did manage to eat a zillion of them and I think I had three today so I will save the other two for the mister. I'm nice that way.

The temperature outside is just warm enough to carry the scent of the orange blossoms and jasmine into the house. It is a lovely and divine kind of smell and I am so glad my nose works. I hope this sick doesn't screw it all up again. I like being able to smell. Even the icky stuff ain't so bad when there are good things to sniff like orange blossoms and cilantro.

Eh-oh!

Is it wrong that I woke up this morning craving graham crackers with cool whip and m&m's? Not only did I wake up craving my most favorite bad for you snack ever but I craved it in the manner in which I used to snack it...with a viewing of Teletubbies. I do adore me the Teletubbies. The first year at least, back before they crammed all the episodes into their own version of a NuNu only to be regurgitated out over and over again in the same but slightly different episodes.

I miss the theme song and the "Uh-Ohs!" and Dipsy's funky soul brother dance moves. I miss the fighting over the Tutu and Lala's Isadora Duncan tribute. I miss the "run aways" and the slightly H.G. Wells feeling of it all. I once read an excellent paper someone wrote comparing the Teletubbies and their environment to the Morlocks and the Eloi of The Time Machine. So fabulous! I know there are many people who are fearful of the whole Teletubby phenomenon but I just loved the design of the characters and the colors. From a child development point of view, while I don't think watching television under the age of two is a good idea, if a child were to watch, Teletubbies was in fact developmentally appropriate no matter how freakish you think it may be. Of course parents wouldn't like it, it was geared for two year olds! Repetition is your friend when you are two. When yo uare an adult it is a little bit tedious.

It is quite possible you are still thinking "What? Graham crackers with m&ms and Cool Whip?" I know, it sounds like processed food-sugar-overkill and it is. It's also extremely yummy and addicting and the last thing anyone should eat especially when they are couch bound with the evil cold, flu, sick that is circulating. My fingers are twitching. It was an accidental snack based on an event I did for a children's book years and years ago. We needed a snack for the kids and wanted to decorate cookies but realized we did not have the budget to accommodate the more than one hundred kids that generally showed up for my storytime. My partner in crime at the time thought that graham crackers and Cool Whip would be in our price range so we picked up boxes and boxes and sweet cereal and fruit and sprinkles and made it an out and out sugar fest. When it was over, we had some leftovers and I was starving so I topped my cracker with bananas and...ahem...lucky charms and um, m&m's and well, a new addiction was born. It works best if you ice your cracker, sprinkle it with the sweets and then set it aside so that the cracker gets a little soft. Disgusting, I know but really it isn't. Just don't ask the husbandman. He won't even try it, but he is good that way. I generally hit the craving around November and I buy a box of crackers, a tub of the white stuff and a bag of m&ms and eat myself silly until one the packages is empty then I am done. I didn't do it this past November and I'm thinking maybe....you'll still be my friend, right?