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Cooking for Thanksgiving I mean. I am about to go get my kitchen all to' up from the flo' up and make my pumpkin cheesecake and chocolate pudding pie. I am kinda pissy because I can't find my motherfucking springform pan to make my cheesecake. I think I may have gotten pissed off at it last year because the bottom plate was slightly bent, and thrown it away. I don't remember tossing it but it is nowhere to be found, so I must have, hmm. So I will be making it in cake pans instead, ugh. I use a 9in and 7in pan so I don't waste any of the cheesecake filling and it doesn't spill over.
It's just going to be me, Josh, Holden, and our niece Chris, who is a vegetarian. We asked what she wanted and she basically said "squash" so I will be uh, preparing that in some way. I have never made squash before, anyone have any ideas? Do I just steam it or what? Besides that will be the aforementioned pies, turkey (what the eff are we going to do with 23lbs of turkey?! Holden doesn't eat it either, I have no idea why Josh got such a big one), mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, sweet potatoes, corn, rolls... I think that's it. Other than the crockpot kielbasa we make for appetizers, and cold shrimp also for an appetizer (only Josh eats this, whatever). Plus we have a few different beers, and some wine, and vodka. I think Chris has to work crazy early in the am so she won't be getting blasted or anything, kind of makes me sad! Last Thanksgiving, Chris and I stayed up wayyyy late drinking and talking and watching Conan O'Brian long after everyone else was passed out, it was super fun and silly, love that girl. But I know Josh and I will want to drink.
It's going to be fun, I am just glad I am feeling well enough now to cook a huge meal. That swine flu kicked my ass for about a month. There were a few days in there last week where I was seriously worried I wouldn't make it through. Like, DYING scared, that's somethin, whew.
When Josh went and did last-minute shopping for me today, I had him pick up a few cheap Christmas gifts for Holden. It's going to be a THIN xmas around these parts this year, due to the tenants moving out when they are, we have to pinch every penny possible (and I will have to work like ten hour days instead of my regular 2-3) to make sure we can make the mortgage payment next month. Fuckers. Luckily Holden is the type who just loves any kind of gift, 2 things I had Josh get for him today were new socks and underwear because he needs those anyway, and he actually gets excited for that sort of stuff.
Still trying to get my mom to move out here, that would be the best Christmas gift EVER. I miss my mommy.
Josh is on vacation this week. He's been passed out on the couch for 3 and a half hours now, I don't know what that's about. I hope he's not getting sick now, too, fuck. He doesn't have that feverish look about him, though, so I think he's just tired. I am glad he's getting some rest.
Okay, enough procrastinating. Gonna go get elbow-deep in some pumpkin cheesecake batter. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving :)Current Mood:  grateful |
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Nov. 23rd, 2009 @ 11:35 am
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Day, I dunno- fourteen thousand or so of being sick. Have gone through my course of tamiflu, and the fever and vertigo are gone but I still have lingering body aches and coughing. Also went through the vicodin they gave me already and they are calling me in some of that cough syrup with codeine that helped in the beginning. Hopefully that and some mucinex can knock the rest of this shit out. I am so tired.
Tenants will be out by December first. We are trying to decide between staying here on our half, or moving over to the half of the house they will be vacating, which makes sense for a lot of reasons- over there is the access to the furnace for when it needs tuneups, and attic access for wiring issues. It's also bigger and has the garage attached. We could obviously charge more rent for that side than this side, but they are only paying $25 more a month for that side than we were when we were renting over here. It just makes more sense I think for us to move over to that side. I think we could easily get what we were paying for this side, considering heat will be included (and wireless internet, and of course trash and water/sewer). Trying to talk my mom into moving out here. I think it would do her well. We'll see. Either way, December is going to be a month of fixing shit up so we can rent to SOMEONE. What a pain in the ass, I didn't expect to have to deal with it so soon after buying. Oh well.
Any Mainers want a 2bd 1.5ba townhouse-style apt in the Gardiner area? $820 including everything but cable and electricity! We're cool landlords, you can have pets, smoke in here, whatever, we don't give a fuck. Heh heh.
Okay, sending Josh out to get my drugs so that I can try to get some shuteye. Hope everyone is having an okay Monday (it's Monday, right?).Current Mood:  drained |
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Nov. 18th, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
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So far, things are looking okay. Haven't gotten the x-ray results back yet but they called us about the bloodwork which came back fine, that's a relief. Also I am definitely feeling marginally better today- still have the aches, but the vicodin mutes them enough to be mildly annoying and uncomfortable rather than so painful I almost pass out every time I move. It's also keeping my fever at bay. No vertigo or nausea today. So no hospital for me, woo! Unless the x-ray shows that I have like, alien babies breeding in my lungs or something. Even if I do have pneumonia we can treat that at home.
In other news... just got informed that our tenants are moving out on Dec 1. Greeeeat. I will write more about that later.
Right now I am going to try to get some sleep. I wanted to go to bed early last night but Vicodin doesn't really make me tired, just... fuzzy, and I got sucked into this weird segue of shows on the Biography channel last night and COULDN'T BREAK AWAY. First it was a bio on Don Knotts, leading to a show about Three's Company, leading to a thingy on John Ritter's life and death. |
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doc's words were "I don't like it at all." He is like 99% sure that what I have is H1N1, but is most worried that I was sick for a while, fine for a few days and now sick again. Thinks I have pneumonia too, they did chest x-rays and some bloodwork. Gave me tamiflu and vicodin for the pain so I can sleep. If not feeling... at least a little better tomorrow, will most likely be admitted. That's all I know.
Good thoughts/ prayers/ whatever appreciated. It's been a really rough few days. These body aches have had me screaming and crying since Sunday night. I've never felt anything like it. I am really scared. |
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Today I got hit in the face with a big, huge, splintery two-by-four of reality. Bang, right in the head and a second blast to the heart. That shit hurts, you know?
( this is really long )Current Mood:  loved... and humbled |
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