sometimes things dont go the way we want.

This morning started out nicely. Woke up got going early finally got
caught up on the endless pile of dishes that cooking makes and started
our date night dinner which btw is ham, asparagus, and coconut flour bread.

Well, i got 4.5 hours into the ham, and the smoke alarm went off.
"carbon monoxide warning" Couldn't get it to stfu it went on for about
10 minutes.

Ham is still cooking asparagus is just started, but need to wait for
maintenence to come by and have a look.

So while i was planning adventures in the kitchen for today with the
coconut bread, we probably wont have it today at all since i'm currently
waiting for maintenence to come by.

bye bye facebook

Well we finally got into my facebook account after we've moved and
decided it wasn't worth keeping i've done perfectly well without it for
7 months no point in keeping it if captchas have to be solved every time
i want to change computers or something.

adventures in the kitchen: peanutbutter cups

I decided to do a podcast today after all, I needed a bit of something
to do today. I decided to do the peanut butter cups, and here it is!

http://deedra.the-brannons.com/podcasts/20130314-peanutbutter-cup-making.mp3

the recipe for this is found on the digestive wellness blog
http://digestivewellness.blogspot.com

adventures in the kitchen

Well i was going to start the podcast today, but i woke up with a
horrible headache so it's on hold till tomorrow. I probably wont set up
an rss feed for i.. I'd rather just post the download links
here.....Blogger turns them into html links anyway, so the lazy folks
dont need to even copy and paste:)

a productive day

Well i didn't get as much as i wanted to get done today but some of that
is lazyness. I did get almond milk made and i made it using dates
instead of honey. This seems to taste much much better and it doesn't
give it the after taste that honey sometimes gives things.

Bella has been good lately, she's wrapping chris around her paws more
and more.

Tomorrow i have plans to make biscuits for chris banana cakes for me,
and i'd like to do the chicken egg bread but need to bake the chicken
and make the carrots first.

So randy gave me a bit of an idea. He's been trying to get me to use
audioboo though that isn't happening especially since they limit the
little podcasts to 3 minutes. Either way I think I'm going to start my
own...."adventures in the kitchen" maybe throw in some bella podcasts to
if she'll cooperate.

When i set it up in a few minutes the link will be:
http://deedra.the-brannons.com/podcasts

things to do

Well, I have food for today for scd so no need to cook today unless i
want eggs later.

I seem to be doing well so far. Haven't tasted the yoghurt today and
wont start eating that till tomorrow If i recall the scd site says to
wait for 3 days in before starting to add yoghurt.

I was having a bit of trouble getting the information i needed for s
boulardii but someone from the scd list was kind enough to post the file
to the list and that was very helpful. Thanks to those who have been
helping me on that list it's been very helpful.

I have to rant. Yahoo seems to require a captcha for their website in
order to actually get into your yahoo account. Well this is pointless
for me as their audio captchas only sometimes work and even then you
can't always understand them to solve them. I'm going to see if kathleen
can come up some time and help me with it so that i can actually get
into my yahoo account I'd like to download all those scd files then
repost them on my website for those who actually need them but are
having trouble with yahoo..

maybe i'll make this my next project for folks after it's unlocked.

We're still trying to get into my facebook account, maybe we can get in
do a final post and hopefully get folks to read this blog instead of
insisting on using facebook to communicate with me.

next week is my birthday. The collective offers 20% off to those on
their birthdays so I may go pick up some new strains to post to my other
blog in the coming weeks.

I got all the baking pans and supplies i need to start baking various
breads and muffins. I really like this part of scd because i can get
creative as long as i stick to scd legal items And scd items can get
quite flavorful and fun to do.

Bella is doing well, we switched to felidae grain free food both canned
and dry and she's complaining a bit about the canned stuff i guess even
cats complain about things that are healthy for them:P

I've finally found a way of eating that seems to work well for my
stomach i still can't eat much in the mornings but i certainly try now.
It seems that eating a cup every 2 hours works well. I just need to
remember to eat because my body doesn't always tell me when i need to
eat though sometimes it does.

good days and bad

Well i'm into my first 24 hours on scd and i'm still having reactions to
the milk i had tuesday. Hopefully this passes quickly would kind of
suck to end up having die off along with reaction to milk.

My almond milk yoghurt looks like it came out good, nice and jelled and
solid. Hopefully it didn't seperate too much when i go to eat it guess
i'll find out.

I enjoyed the jello i had for breakfast, i'd forgotten the stuff was
good lol.

cooking day!

I decided to make today a cooking day. Chris probably has his soup for
about the next 50 years. I need food however so today i made the scd
chicken soup and made an attempt at making almond milk yoghurt. There's
a recipe out there that uses jello to thicken it up but i forgot to pour
the jello slow and it kind of clumped. I fished the clumps that didn't
dissolve out with a spoon...Hope i didn't mess this up too badly.

I also made a giant container of jello just now. I used 100% blueberry
juice. It's not home made so it's not really scd legal, but we've not
made our own juice yet and probably wont for a bit longer yet. I need to
get back into the habbit of cooking first so i wont try juicing till i'm
more comfortable with cooking all the time again.

So, I'm definitly having reactions to milk products. I cut out milk
products for 5 days then last night i had nachos and 2 quesadillas and
had a horrible reaction to the sour cream and cheese blah. I love my
milk products, but i suspected it was a problem. Oh well. The more i
drink it the more i like coffee with almond milk:P

guide dog reflections

I was reading someone's guide dog training class journal, and it makes
me remember my days in class with savannah. I wish i'd not lost my blog
from 2001-2006. I put a lot of work into those pages and the database is
gone.....but....anyway, I was reading Amy's journal and i was thinking
back to the antisipation i had when i was waiting to go into class. It
made me remember the juno walks and the lectures before and after
getting my dog.

Over all, I miss having a dog because i was more confident with mobility
but it seems as though something has changed. I seem to be a much more
confident cane user and that's only grown in the past several months.
Traffic still makes me nervous and edgey but walking around san jose has
made me a lot more confident in myself and most of that confidence came
from getting and working with dogs and descovering that yes, getting out
and learning how to get places can be scary so i walked slow, but i also
learned with the dog that i can walk faster, as long as i clear the
areas around me and make sure those areas are covered.

Since chris and i have met I've also descovered that having a much
longer cane helps. When i was replacing my cane a couple months ago they
were out of the length i wanted, so i went with something 2 inches
taller.....My cane is taller then i am! But there's an advantage to
this. I know what's in front of me where as before i never quite knew. I
also know more of when streets are coming which is somethng i'd missed
in the dog. I feel the ramps before i'm on top of them and this helps.
The longer cane means i can walk farely fast and still know what's
around me and i can do it with or with out a dog, I'm liking this.

neuclear eggs!

So i had another gastric emptying study this morning. Nothing really new
to report i dont think, i didn't take my reglan because i assumed not
let's hope that wasn't a mistake:P

Either way the test was a bit different then the ones i had done in
florida it was an egg salad sandwich instead of scrambled eggs. and they
didn't administer the reglan at the half way mark like they did in the past.

packages packages!!!

Over the weekend i ordered several things off amazon that we'll need for
the month or upcoming couple as the case might be....Cat food,
supliments and so on plus some stuff to start making yoghurt for scd

I think we've got over 5 packages or something like that coming today so
it should be interesting.....I bet ups will hate us today lol...

prepping to start scd

Gearing up to start scd. I dont have an exact start date yet, Still
trying to finish getting coordinated. Have some few things left that
aren't allowed on scd but i'll make due and start it then do the intro
once my ton of ginger ale is gone. No point to starting the intro now
not with that still around..

restarting the scd diet

So I made a rather hard decision in that i have decided to restart scd
after being off it for almost a year. The hospital is willing to work
with me here in terms of not getting illegal foods plus we're in an area
of the country where it's much easier to get organic foods with nothing
added and so on.

Basically i've got things going for me this time that i didn't have last
time. I'm excited about starting it in some ways, I'd like to get
healthier and i need something to help keep me out of the hospital so
it's at least worth a shot.

I figure the worst that can happen is that it doesn't work out and i end
up eating what i was before. I had some improvement on scd but i had
problems to. Part of my problem was getting illegals and having
infractions. That was one of my largest problems, and i'm going to try
and avoid that this time.

I've got several non-scd foods left in the house. I have a whole ton of
cream of chicken soup left for one thing plus a bunch of ginger ale. I
figure i'll put off starting scd for a couple weeks and help get rid of
all the illegals in the house lol. So here's to trying to see what happens.