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I'm back...
Sep. 30th, 2017 07:55 pmActually, I never really left; I just took a three-day vacation from posting.
Blood work and scans came back showing me in a stable configuration, so chemo #9 went forward yesterday. As has been the pattern after chemo, I got very little sleep last night (my perception is that I got none at all, but who knows?) and attempts to nap today were not very fruitful. If the post-chemo pattern holds, tomorrow will be a "coming-down" day, and I look forward to not repeating a series of less-than-optimum days after that, which occurred after chemo #8.
Enough of that... I plan on keeping my spirits up!
Mathew's birthday is just over a week away, and Galina and I are formulating plans around that event.
The floor coverings for the Webster house were finally delivered on Friday, after extensive interactions with Home Depot customer service. Galina found out from the truck driver that a previous attempt at delivery had been made (with no warning of any kind to us), but the delivery address on the shipping documents was wrong (one house off). Unbelievable!
In any event, after becoming "acclimatized" to the environment inside the house for 48 hours, I ought to be able to start installing the stuff on Monday or Tuesday, after I get some tools to help me do the job.
Alla leaves this week for home. She has been here for almost five months, but it feels like a much shorter time.
In culinary news, I reverted to the use of the break-maker, creating a loaf that was 3/4 all-purpose flour and 1/4 whole wheat. While that was going on, I whipped up a batch of short-grain brown rice that I picked up during my last visit to Nippon Daido on the other side of town, along with some textured vegetable protein that I'm hoping will serve as an adequate meat substitute.
I combined those two ingredients with some fried, finely chopped onion to create a mince that was then wrapped in cabbage leaves to create голубцы (golubtsy, or stuffed cabbage rolls). As this was my first ever "try" with this dish, the individual rolls were not very uniform, but they were pretty tasty.
The method for creating meat-tasting TVP still needs some work, however.
Finally, after emptying a bottle of some rather impressively priced kefir that I picked up at the Phoenicia specialty foods store down the street from Natalie's house, on Westheimer, I decided to order some kefir grains from the Internet, and the package arrived today and the contents are currently hard at work turning organic milk into kefir. I look forward to a long and profitable relationship with these grains.
I have four and a fraction jobs in the translation hopper. None of them are very large, so I expect to be able to return them by Monday morning with no sweat.
That about wraps it up.
Cheers...
Blood work and scans came back showing me in a stable configuration, so chemo #9 went forward yesterday. As has been the pattern after chemo, I got very little sleep last night (my perception is that I got none at all, but who knows?) and attempts to nap today were not very fruitful. If the post-chemo pattern holds, tomorrow will be a "coming-down" day, and I look forward to not repeating a series of less-than-optimum days after that, which occurred after chemo #8.
Enough of that... I plan on keeping my spirits up!
Mathew's birthday is just over a week away, and Galina and I are formulating plans around that event.
The floor coverings for the Webster house were finally delivered on Friday, after extensive interactions with Home Depot customer service. Galina found out from the truck driver that a previous attempt at delivery had been made (with no warning of any kind to us), but the delivery address on the shipping documents was wrong (one house off). Unbelievable!
In any event, after becoming "acclimatized" to the environment inside the house for 48 hours, I ought to be able to start installing the stuff on Monday or Tuesday, after I get some tools to help me do the job.
Alla leaves this week for home. She has been here for almost five months, but it feels like a much shorter time.
In culinary news, I reverted to the use of the break-maker, creating a loaf that was 3/4 all-purpose flour and 1/4 whole wheat. While that was going on, I whipped up a batch of short-grain brown rice that I picked up during my last visit to Nippon Daido on the other side of town, along with some textured vegetable protein that I'm hoping will serve as an adequate meat substitute.
I combined those two ingredients with some fried, finely chopped onion to create a mince that was then wrapped in cabbage leaves to create голубцы (golubtsy, or stuffed cabbage rolls). As this was my first ever "try" with this dish, the individual rolls were not very uniform, but they were pretty tasty.
The method for creating meat-tasting TVP still needs some work, however.
Finally, after emptying a bottle of some rather impressively priced kefir that I picked up at the Phoenicia specialty foods store down the street from Natalie's house, on Westheimer, I decided to order some kefir grains from the Internet, and the package arrived today and the contents are currently hard at work turning organic milk into kefir. I look forward to a long and profitable relationship with these grains.
I have four and a fraction jobs in the translation hopper. None of them are very large, so I expect to be able to return them by Monday morning with no sweat.
That about wraps it up.
Cheers...
