life can be a bitch sometimes.

I wasn't really sure what to call this post.

I had hurnia surgery a week and a half ago. overall it was painful but the pain is nearly gone now and the stitches come out wednesday.

All of this wouldn't be so bad if i'd not spent the last 5 days in the hospital puking again.

no one knows what's wrong still sothey treat and wait it out.

My rroommate this week was terrrible. an 85 year old lady who by the time she left was convinced that anyone with major medical problems should be pittied and "she would justt cry her eyes out if she had to do any cooking or cleaning if she had to...after all she can pay people to do it for her right"

Needless to say i exploded at her before she left. told her if she wanted to get better she'd have to starrt acting like the adult she was. people arenn't here to baby her.

so glad she left maybe i can sleep now...

misc things

I seem to be doing very well on scd. Have had a couple of pain/angziety
flareups since i've been on it, but no nausia this time. Definitly
progress there. I've been out of the hospital for about a month now with
no real relapses or nausia. Here's to hoping it stays that way!

I've finally decided to get my paperwork in order to get my state id
sorted. Initially it seems to be easier then it looked. Least the state
of New York seems to be cooperating to get me the court order of
adoption i need. And they actually didn't charge me, I'm impressed!

The reason I've finally decided to get things in order is 2 things. 1.
Looking at my options for another dog I can't really decide if I want to
try for home training for another dog with fidelco, or spend 2 weeks in
Nj at seeing eye. Training at home has advantages. I can train in my
environment and things like that. This would be ideal for scd and still
may be what i'll do. I could go back to seeing eye, and i still may
however I almost would rather train at home this time. I have more
reasons to want to train at home these days...

A couple weeks ago google sent me another recruiting email. This is the
second time now that google has tried to hire me for sysadmin. I'm still
unable to work at this point which is frustrating, however when i
suggested they might want to interview chris, they took me up on it.
He's got his second interview wednesday the 18th. Let's pray he aces
this one like he did his first interview.

We really want to get out of florida. In his first interview, google
offered him washington, oregon, california or atlanta. Chris told them
washington or oregon. Washington would be most ideal for us since it's
in the Seatle area. Public transit is supposedly farely decent there for
the most part.

I will probably put training for a dog on hold till we see what google
says. It would be hard to train here for a dog, we're blocked in by a
main road so home training here wouldn't be very ideal.

I think what i will probably do is that if google doesn't hire chris,
then I'll probably eventually go to seeing eye for a dog just because
training for a dog there would be more ideal then here. However, if we
move to say washington or oregon then i'll probably end up doing home
training just because either would probably be more ideal for training a
dog then here.

Oh well, time to wait and see!

well this is annoying

So, i was happilly making yoghurt this morning. Did everything right got
it in the yoghurt maker to cool, and promptly fried the new talking
kitchen thurmometer i just baught. Well, i dont know that it's fried yet
but i wouldn't be surprised. It got wet enough to start randomly
spouting off weird temps and so on.

We pulled it out dried it off, let's hope it still works once it's dry.
I've got 1 more batch of yoghurt to make this week. So, here's to hoping.

whee

So my almond flour came yesterday. I've been super excited about this
because it means i can start eating bread type things again. My mom went
to the store for some of her groceries and braught me home a jar of
organic peanutbutter soi could make some biscuits from a recipe i had.

http://pecanbread.com/new/recipes/teabiscuits.html

The biscuits came out wonderful. Chris ate 2 and enjoyed them. My mom
ate 2 and said she was full after the second. I ate 2 and tend to agree.
They're very very filling.

I'm going to the store tomorrow to get the remains of what i need. I
need to get the milk so i can make yoghurt. A lot of the baking recipes
call for yoghurt or dripped yoghurt so i actually need to make both things.

We ordered a talking kitchen thurmometer which is a good thing. It's a
bit hard to rely on someone sited to check the temp of the milk to
ensure it hits the right temperature. Hopefully today or tomorrow the
thurmometer will get here.

The breaking the vicious cycle book has a recipe for bread in it. I want
to try and make this though i dont have a loaf pan. Might make it
similar to flat bread or in that banana cake pan i use. It will come out
flat but it wont be bad and can still put things on it like honey and so on.

much better

Ok so apparrently lifeway farmer cheese is ok on scd and someone
pointed out $5/lb....Ok that's more sane then the price i saw on some
random food website where they wanted $109/lb for the stupid friendship
farmer cheese.

Fwd: bastardized orange chicken

Ok so here's my real attempt at a meal with scd. Problem with this was
that the coconut milk had sugar in it. Next time i'll make my own
coconut milk but, this works for now.

1 13 oz can of unsweetened coconut mlk
4 bags california mixed vedgitables
2 tbsp orange zest
2.5lbs boneless chicken thighs
2lbs mushrooms
1 small onion
1/4th cup honey

cook the 4 bags of vedgitable mix for a good hour on medium. This
ensures they're well cooked.
cook the chicken thighs in coconut oil for a good 45 mins on low
slice the mushrooms
chop the onion fine but not too fine (note) you should use 2 onions my
husband and i didn't think there was enough onion flavor in it)
when chicken is done, take it out of the pan and put it on paper towels
to drain off the extra oil.
when vegitables are well cooked slowly feed them into the food processor
till they are completely pureyed there should be no lumps in them if you
can help it.
fry the onions and mushrooms in a little olive oil till they are very
well done.
add the coconut milk and orange zest to the mix in the food processor
and let it blend for several minutes
chop the chicken into small bites
pour chicken mushrooms and onions, and mix into a large pot and set to
simmer
add the quarter cup of honey and let simmer for about half an hour
stirring ocationally.

I say unsweetened coconut milk. We had the missfortune that sweeteened
was all wallmart had. Amazon has unsweetened organic coconutmilk by the
case. I'll probably purchase a case of this next month to use with cooking.

We found almond milk today which i'm definitly excited about. I've been
looking for a good replacement to cows milk and now i have one that food
stamps will pay for. Thank god. They wont pay for almond flour which i
paid $65 for 10lbs....not pleased there but what can i do. Food stamps
certainly wont pay for certain bulk items like nuts and almond flour. I
wish they would.

Chris and i have been trying to save, but i feel like we start saving
or get to the point where we might be able to save and we really can't.
I figured we'd save about 100 or so this month, but it's turned around
and gone right back into the endless pit that is my health. Oh this may
not be quite so bad as it could be. Chris will eat the breads and things
that i make with the almond flour and nuts I'm just frustrated by the
fact that i can go out and buy chocolate or cookies or chips on food
stamps, but i can't buy things like bulk nuts of nut flours that i need
to survive.

Oh well i'm done ranting now.

My dad and chris are gonna dot he guy thing for newyears, my mom and i
may watch tv but it's more likely that i'll read or watch tv all night
till i pass out.

Going to make a banana cake tomorrow. Going to double the batch this
time though because i want to hopefully have it last longer then 3
days....I can't help it though i love the stuff lol and it's nice to be
eating bananas again.

I've got the makings for an scd pumpkin pie to. The pumpkin has sugar in
it to, blah but i'm going to go to amazon and see if i can find some
organic unsweetened pumpkin.

oh i forgot

friendship darey farmers cheese. I can't find this anywhere in this
pathetic state. We looked all over wallmart with no luck. I need a new
cheese cake recipe that's scd legal so that i can make me a cheese cake.

I've still not decided quite what i'm going to feast on for newyears
besides the orange chicken. Banana cake most likely because it needs to
be made soon. I can't wait for pumpkin pie though. that's going to be
tastey.