Had a nap from 3 to 8. But I’m still dissociating. A strange sense of doom looms over my head and has infiltrated my heart and my guts, I feel strange pangs in both.
Perhaps I’m just unwell, but when am I ever not unwell?
Also hugs. Am sending healing vibes over the ether. Is there a grounding thing you could do that might help?
Have you had enough potato today?
hugs
Did a big stuff up today, am upset due to it. Have some critical things in the next couple of weeks that will be emotionally challenging. Why is stress hard. Wish I was tougher.
Tough is keeping going. You’re plenty tough.
Big stuffups happen, it’s part of life. You got this.
you can do this 😘
Goodnight everyone, from fluffy butt and I ❤️
The exhaustion is hitting me haaaard again, slept til 11am, then had a slow breakfast, followed by going to three shops for groceries… then just sat in my car and snoozed for another hour. That’s bad, I normally chill in my car on my phone but have never actually slept in it.
Still haven’t done my readings either… But I made food?
Tonight it’s khichuri (the lentil-and-rice origin of kedgeree without fish in it) in the rice cooker, with mung dal as the lentil, and my first attempt at vegetable korma (thickened with coconut milk and cashews blended). Wish I remembered to buy frozen peas to really add to it.
not particularly aesthetic pikturz
Not a bad dinner if I say so myself esp with some super intense lime pickle to cut through ot all. Gonna freeze some of the excess korma for a nice dinner later on.
After visiting my aunt I feel inspired to get an Instant Pot to make this dish (and many others) more quickly…
I bought an instant pot for myself for Christmas and it’s fantastic. I cook a lot of lentils, it’s great for rice,.I make yoghurt in it. The best bit is that you can pop everything in and forget about it until it tells you it’s done. One less thing to watch when my energy is low.
For real, lentils and beans are a big part of my diet - being able to pressure cook without faffing around on the stove or worrying about things exploding is tempting (finally I can have a crack at making dal makhani). And as you say, SET AND FORGET - huge reason why I use a rice cooker. Being able to do pilafs and the like in the instant pot is very tempting…
Change your life if you meal prep. I usually have two pulce prep’s on the go. Being able to set/forget cook them is such a time/effort saver.
Yeah I definitely meal prep - fell off the wagon for a bit after I was sick, but now that I’m back from leave I’m keen to get back into it, especially as I might be cutting my work hours further.
Spending less time faffing about in the kitchen is always a win… I think I’m sold. Now to budget for one. Can I ask what size you would recommend for one person wanting to do at least 4-5 serves at a time?
I got the 8L Duo which does 10-12 serves. It’s a older model so it was cheap on Amazon. I went for the one with the stainless bowl. Reviews said the ones with an airfryer option don’t make great air fryers and they’re bulky to store.
Thanks - I’ll have a poke around later in the week. Definitely not going for the dual air fryer one as I already have an air fryer. Looking forward to making chickpeas from scratch again 😋
My daughter’s back from her camping trip. 16 adults, kids and 4 dogs attended. She’s recounting her adventures.
Her: Oh and we played trivia
Me: Did you win?
Her: Yeah
Me: Did you whip their arses?
Her: Yeah. And one of the blokes was an ologist of some sort.
Me: Did you whip his arse?
Her: laughs Yeah
Me: That’s my girl.Years of paying her to be an impromptu quiz master has paid off.
Cool. 🫠
I wish I’d tried the doona in a box before I bought several cat trees lol
Things my former cat liked to sit on - clean laundry, dirty laundry, laptop bag, laptop keyboard, shopping bag on the floor, open suitcase, recently vacated-by-human spot on couch, a cardboard box
Things she didn’t like to sit on - fancy cat tree, any cushion or blanket put down for her to sit on
Gibson has a beautiful coat!
She’s got a lovely coat pattern. Like the swirl on a marble loaf cake
She’s also symmetrical! I don’t notice till someone here pointed it out.
7pm is not too late for a coffee
An afternoon nap and coffee at 7pm? No sleep for you my friend 😴
my usual bed time is 1am
risky but worth the risk
Those days are long gone for me. Godspeed my friend ☕
the 20min nap took just 3 hours
Could have been worse.
Parents swung round bringing the gift of potat!
Threw some in the compost down the bellarine for a while and now there are heaps. Accidental potat!
Apparently that’s about half of them.
yum
It’s not friday or saturday but cheers erryone.
🍻👍
Rain.
The best naps are when you don’t know where you are when you wake up.
Also potentially in the reformulation hall of shame - Ensure powder. I’d been drinking it in recent years to help maintain nutrition, but then it got taken off shelves and brought back with new labels…
TW medical, vomiting
In developments that may or may not be connected, I started needing to dilute the Ensure much more to stomach it and eventually completely stopped having it because it was making me really sick, much more than my normal baseline.
My stomach still shuts down (gastroparesis but possibly something else too - tests are still pending) and I’m still in a lot of pain but since I quit drinking the Ensure I’m no longer routinely vomiting.
It was always a little gross to drink and I can’t find anything about a reformulation? Nothing is jumping out at me as different on the label.
But more recently it’s unambiguously been worsening things for me and I’m trying to remember if that started around the time of the new packaging.
I really feel like companies should be required to announce changes and disclose what they were.
so many hugs
have you thought of baby formula?
Thanks, I tried it but need non-dairy and the taste was pretty bad. I also feel weirdly guilty about taking something a child might need.
I’m going through so many options to try and regain my health but keep running into roadblocks and reformulations.
Blah. Nothing worse than digging through boxes of things o my to find it sitting on the shelf instead.
Airfryer dim sims review:
Meh
3/5 yum yums.
