I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 27 years, disabled daughter, college-aged son, and my 84-year-old mother. We have paid off $250,000.00 worth of debt (if you include the interest) in the last fifteen years and as of 6/12/2020 are 100% DEBT FREE!!!!I feel like all I have done for the past four days is sleep. My fever finally broke yesterday. A week at 101 is hard, but yesterday it was 99 and today it was 97.6 (my normal). I am still coughing a lot, but it's way up towards the base of my throat. I can read again (have several days worth of blogs to catch up on now!) for more than a couple of minutes at a time.
I have spent around $40 on Dayquil, Nyquil, and psuedophederine this week. They at least helped manage the symptoms. Until today that is all I spent in the last few days (for the daily expenses challenge). Today I ordered a XL pizza from Round Table which was $27.18. I'm still not much up for cooking. I managed a chicken stir-fry from one of my homemade kits in the freezer yesterday, but that about did me in. Mostly it's been soup and sandwiches around here, or anything that comes out of a can but doesn't have additives.
Hopefully I will feel good enough on Sunday to make a big batch of pancakes for the freezer. That would have come in handy this week as it only takes 30 seconds in the microwave to warm one up from frozen. Maybe I'll make a batch of blueberry cornbread muffins, too. That's real simple and fast and involves hardly any work on my part.
Mom is having a big get together on Saturday. Everyone will be here except my husband. My eldest sister, her son and his wife and their son, my older sister, her spouse and her four boys, me and my two kids. I don't know how much time I'll spend there, though. I can't be around my nephew's wife much as she is pregnant and I don't want to expose her to this. I'll probably hang around for an hour or two and then go back to bed.
Mom wants DD to make cookies. DD is probably still contagious with this same thing I'm getting over. I don't think that's a smart idea at all, and DD doesn't want to, but once Mom gets a thing in her head you never hear the end of it until it gets done. Of course if the whole family then gets sick it will be DD's fault. *sighs*
I filled out my jury question form and sent it in today. I listed all of my physical limitations and disabilities, as well as a list of the medications I am on that may cloud my thinking. I will probably still have to serve, but whatever. They can't say I didn't warn them.
Been a Few Days
April 14th, 2012 at 12:20 am
April 14th, 2012 at 01:58 am 1334368710
Quick Q: How do you freeze your pancakes? The boys love pancakes but I don't always have time to whip up a batch from scratch. Can you throw fruit in the batter, cook, and freeze? Or, should I use fruit as a topping instead. And, how do you heat them up so they aren't all rubbery? Do share...
April 14th, 2012 at 05:39 am 1334381967
Another thing you can do is make a batch the night before and keep it in the fridge. They're basically a bread product so they will keep about as long as bread in the fridge. I always ran out before I had to worry about them getting moldy. Just let them cool off first before bagging them or they will stick together and not peel apart well.
Oh, also I make thin pancakes, so thicker ones might take more time to heat up. And what's really good is eating them cold (but thawed) and smeared with jelly and rolled up like a burrito. It's a good on the go breakfast, I've found.
April 15th, 2012 at 04:33 pm 1334507605
Jerry