Tried a short walk yesterday

I'd thought to get out and get a bit of light exercise yesterday. Patrick and I went to this park called Meadowdale Beach, and I hadn't ever been there before, so I didn't realize the trail was pretty steep (steps involved). Climbing uses my back muscles, so we weren't able to do much without me being in pain, but I did get a few pictures anyway.

I'm such a sad sack lately. I'm frustrated at this pain and not being able to do anything. I'm afraid of this coming week as I have a ton of work to do plus another therapeutic massage (first one was yesterday, fairly excruciating), and I know I'm going to be in a lot of pain and be very stressed. Dreading all that.

Everything makes me tear up and want to cry. I'm very pathetic just now. I'm not taking pain meds currently because I want to save them for this horrible next week, and I can't take Ibuprofen. The last two times I've thrown up for some reason or other (last was Friday night, time before that was Valentine's), my saliva afterwards has had streaks of fresh blood in it. I think perhaps the Ibuprofen is doing something to my stomach, so I'm not taking it anymore. I'm going to bring that up when I see the doctor on Wednesday and see what he says.

I can't even lift the cello without pain, so lessons are currently out of the question. Fortunately my teacher is very understanding. Not sure when I'll be able to go back to it. Probably a few weeks at least.

This morning before Patrick had to go play his opera I made breakfast. Cheese blintzes (sweet crepes with a filling of ricotta, huckleberry honey and vanilla, raspberry sauce drizzled over), cantaloupe and tea. Patrick graciously cut up the cantaloupe before having to shower and dress (opera requires a black suit).

It was mostly okay, except I've been feeling like I've got a tiny bit of vertigo today. It keeps happening. Suddenly my head spins a bit and I get a wave of half nausea, half dizziness. Doesn't matter if I'm sitting down or standing up. I am not sure what that's from. Maybe either the accident giving me a minor concussion or going completely off Lexapro. It isn't severe, thankfully.

Anyway, that's what's going on. Here are the pictures I took. Hope y'all like them. Hopefully clicking on them will give you bigger versions, but I'm not sure...

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Salad I invented the other day

Arugula, hazelnuts, coconut, strawberries, blueberries, walnuts, goat cheese, ricotta, and raspberry vinaigrette. Tasty!

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Random thoughts on a Sunday morning

I should really get off Tumblr and work on my Sunday school reading

My son didn't feel good all last night.  I feel bad for him, but I love holding him as we sleep.

The weather should be colder, but i like running without 4 layers of clothes.

I had an orgasm yesterday that was totally underwhelming

"The Hunger Games" was a good book but a boring movie.

It's been a quiet week with my blogger friends.

My daughter is going through a rough time as her best male friends chase after the rich girls.

I made a new friend on-line this week.  She is beautiful but lives in my home town.  that is wonderfully, but it makes me nervous and happy and horny all at the same time.

My pastor's daughter is a real bitch, and he can't see it.

Two of my main friends are on vacation and one is really busy, I miss them when they are away

I love the hour before everyone else wakes up.

My crock pot pork ROCKED last night

• Pork Shoulder Blade Roast - Boneless - trim the fat, cut into natural sections
• 1/2 yellow onion sliced, not diced
• 1 orange pepper - large, cleaned and seeded
• 4 -6 tablespoons spicy yellow mustard
• 1 can Campbell's cream of onion soup (with Garlic)
• lots of fresh ground pepper
• a few shakes of salt
• just enough water to rinse the soup can (not a lot)
• i put in the onions, then meat, pepper and salt, the Orange pepper, the soup, the water, put it on high for 5 hours and it was perfect.  The drippings made a wonderful gravy, I had trimmed most of fat so it wasn't fatty, and I served it with potato slices (like large hash browns), corn, and a green salad.  I ROCKED IT!

I'm typing quietly because my penis is sleeping.

Have a great Sunday.

(and I just got big news from a very special friend.  I am very proud of her.)

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Taco Inventors Extraordinaire

The past couple of evenings I've been reading through my Mexican cookbook (pictured above) and marking down recipes that I want us to try. I love this book. It doesn't have very many pictures, but it does have a really nice, conversational tone with stories from the author's time in Mexico and lots of good advice. One of these helpful observations is that once you've got the hang of making tacos, you can make them out of almost anything you have lying around the house.

Given that, Patrick and I decided to collaborate and try to create something tasty with what we had in the house. This turned out to be the following:

Corn tortillas
Sour cream
Milk
Chipotle chiles in adobo
Frozen corn
Garlic
Butter
Dried onion flakes

Our tortillas were a bit stale, so when we dropped by Plaza Latina to get coconut we also picked up some more of those, along with cotija cheese and dried epazote (Mexican herb). I'd originally envisioned us getting some mushrooms to put in the tacos as well, but that didn't end up happening.

Patrick created a delicious (although very hot) sauce with the chiles, milk and cream in the blender, and added it to the corn he'd been cooking with garlic and onion in a bit of butter. It needed a little salt, so we added that with the epazote, and then he put in a couple drops of liquid smoke to increase the smokiness of the mixture. I incompetently grated cheese (and managed to get it all over the floor; I'm a terrible cheese grater) until he took over to save me from myself, and cut up galia melon for later. I was going to cut up our papaya too, but it wasn't ripe yet.

We heated up the corn tortillas in the microwave for 30 seconds and then used them to make tacos with a bit of corn filling and then a few pinches of cheese on top. Very tasty! I think we might try and use the rest of the sauce in some other dishes this week, maybe camarones enchipotlados if I get ambitious. It'll have to be mostly me making this, as Patrick has rehearsals all this week, but you never know. We already have the sauce, so all I'd really have to do is make soupy black beans, rice, and add some shrimp. That'd be pretty easy. We shall see.

In other news, our crane count is at 910. I intend on making more tonight, and we'll see how far I get. The last two will be love letters written on heart-covered origami paper and then read before being folded up. I can't remember if I already mentioned that or not, but now you know. Hard to believe I started this little project back in April, whew! Monkey will be so sad when it's all done...

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