Hello all,
just wanted to pop in quickly and check on everyone.
Mary, I'm happy that your friend was glad to hear from you. I'm personally a bit crap at mending fences after a falling-out... I think from too many years of knuckling under for the sake of peace, I've probably gone too far the other direction now. Very happy for you.
Oxeye, you'll probably get a laugh out of this - I've been checking the other TR several times a day to see if our membership has gone up by one!
Could I have some (very late, I know) full breakfast? Unusually for me, I woke up really hungry today!
Must pry myself and Jackbaby out of bed. We have lots to do today - major item on the agenda is probably going to be a drive to West Vancouver (roughly 40 km from my house) for the sole purpose of buying some magic cream for a friend in Ontario who has burns from radiation treatment. When we had a homeopath working with us, she stocked it - well, rather, she tried to keep it in stock but it just flew off the shelves. We had a breast CA patient who used it all throughout her radiation treatment and literally, the only skin mark she ended up with was a square tan line!! She never developed any burns. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anywhere local to me that I can get it.
Other item on the agenda is a trial run of baking poppy seed streusel cake for this weekend's family dinner. DH can give me his opinion, and then I'm going to bring some to work tomorrow for one of my patients. He is the sweetest old man. I actually treat his (second) wife much more often than him (and boy, is she a case - think serious hypochondriac!!). He was in for a treatment yesterday and we got talking, and I told him about our family dinner Sunday and he was saying that he hadn't had anything like what we're making since his first wife died 8 years ago.
(To explain - it's sort of an annual event, around the time of the Grey Cup football championship (Canadian football league) to honour DH's grandparents who moved from Eastern Europe to Saskatchewan, one of the Canadian prairie provinces. Everyone makes one dish that Grandma B always used to make. DH's one cousin makes plum dumplings, the other cousin makes a noodle dish, MIL makes cabbage rolls, and this year it's my turn to make the poppy seed streusel cake.)
So my poor old man's mouth was just watering because his second wife (the hypochondriac) is a really crap cook. And he's from Saskatchewan too, the same area that a lot of Eastern European immigrants moved to, so he knows all those dishes. Anyway, I resolved there and then to make sure that left-overs came his way and asked him if "he'd mind helping DH and me taste-test the trial run of poppy seed cake". :)
Don't get me wrong, it's not my mission to feed all my patients, but I just love this old man, I wish I still had a grandpa and that he was like this man :)
((((HUGS)))) to everyone who needs them, JM's gotta get moving.
Oh, BTW - I went to yoga for the first time in 6 weeks yesterday and it felt great. You'd all be so proud of me - the only class time that worked was a really challenging one, and I didn't even come close to overdoing it. When things started to feel too tough and I got tired, I stopped.
My goodness, could JM have learned some sense?????