theresat

So after my great day yesterday, I slipped down the stairs and twisted my ankle. It hurts like hell, and I'm using crutches today since I can't put a lot of weight on it without it hurting. At least professors are sympathetic to the girl who missed class on Tuesday because of migraines and is on crutches today.

Bleah.

Naan recipe:
http://cucinabodanza.blogspot.com/search/label/naan

Coffee art:
http://timepassonline.blogspot.com/

Car-bomb cupcakes:
http://prettylushxx.blogspot.com/2009/03/car-bomb-cupcakes.html

Local CSA:
http://www.farmfresh.org/food/csa.php?zip=01608

Week in review...

Monday:
Made chocolate bourbon cake (take 1).
Made balsamic glazed chicken for dinner.
Worked on socks.

Tuesday:
Spent most of the day waiting for a friend to want to go to the gym. She never did.
Took a 3 hour nap.
Went to crafty.

Wednesday:
Baked bread.
Made quiche.
Made crockpot pork chops for dinner.
Finished weaving fabric that's been on my loom for-ev-er.
Wove a short scarf/shawl.
Drank good beer.

Today:
Went to pilates at 8:30 am.
Made chocolate bourbon cake (take 2).
Modified recipe for cake to make it chocolate spiced rum cake.
Cleaned kitchen.
Did homework.
Did laundry.

Later today:
Pack for the weekend (we're going to see Mike's parents in NJ).
Knit.
Fold laundry.
More homework.

Tomorrow:
Work 11-5.
Drive to NJ.

Did I miss anything?

Falafel recipe:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/mighty-appetite/2009/01/meatless_monday_first-rate_fal.html

Pork chops with garlic and soy sauce:
http://southernfood.about.com/od/crockpotporkchops/r/bl124c9.htm

Ravelry founders speaking at Simmons:
https://portal.simmons.edu/node/2472

"Knitcore" and "Buccaneer-Americans" t-shirts:
http://store.dieselsweeties.com/collections/clearance

I just made this amazingly delicious wonder:

http://ilike2eatdc.blogspot.com/2009/03/orangettes-chocolate-bourbon-cake.html

And now that dessert is made, dinner will be balsamic glazed chicken breasts with roasted green beans. Mmmm.

I'm glad I'm on spring break. I think Mike might be, too.

Today has been a good day.

After leaving work early due to a migraine yesterday, I had my doubts about the weekend. But I woke up bright and early this morning, ten minutes before a class I kind of wanted to go to started. Since I'm a quick dresser and the gym is two blocks, I decided to throw myself together and go. It was a kwando class, and tough, but good. I'm glad I went, but not sure I'll get up for 8:30 on Saturdays in the future.

I got home, and Mike and I got dressed and started to plan our day. Breakfast first, at a place called Bagels and Friends that was...underwhelming. The bagels were good, my eggs were undercooked, and my home fries were terrible. Rubbery, barely warm, bland, and undercooked. Mike said his were fine, which either means his were actually fine, or he has lower standards than I do. Probably the lower standards one.

After breakfast, we were off to the yarn store to buy yarn for a certain secret project. I bought yarn for that, some yarn to finish another project of mine, and two books. Naomi, I got the sock book you have, it's so great! I also got a book about knitting with handpainted yarn, that is super cool.

Next stop was the brew store, where we picked up all the tools and ingredients to get Mike started with brewing. We're both very excited, and we'll get started either tonight or tomorrow. Looking at all the ingredient kits was overwhelming, I'd like to brew one of each! There were coffee stouts, pumpkin ales, christmas spiced, hefeweisens, red, brown, every kind you could want! They had three samples running, and their brown was awesome.

After that, it was Lowes for seeds. We're going to be planting two kinds of tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, spinach, and green beans. Hopefully we're starting them early enough this year that we'll have more success with the tomatoes.

Now we're settling in back at home, Mike is reading his brewing literature, and I'm getting ready to do some knitting. What a nice Saturday! Oh, and I'm wearing a skirt because it's nice enough out, and I looked super cute today. When we stopped in at work for some coffee, two different people said how nice I looked. :) Yay!

Maybe Watchmen tonight.

Second migraine hit around 7:30 am. Augh.

1. I wish there were somewhere to nap on campus. Between the long day of celebrating Mike's b-day yesterday and getting up at 5:30 this morning so I had time to study for my 8 am exam, I am freaking exhausted. And I still have 12 hours of the day left before I get to drive home.

2. Yesterday's birthday celebration was a trip to Boston for the Museum of Science. Mike had never been there, so I figured I would surprise him. We had a great time, and I'm really glad he enjoyed himself.

3. Lunch yesterday was at Boston Beer Works. We had nachos for an appetizer, I had a burger with gouda and bacon, and Mike had a fried chicken sandwich. February is stout month, so I tried an espresso stout (yum!), a chocolate stout (meh), and the regular Curley's Irish Stout. I also tried the Tell Tale Lager, since they only had three stouts on draft, and I needed a fourth to fill out my sampler.

4. I've gotten prescriptions for my migraines, finally. I have a preventative that I'll take twice a day and a symptomatic that I'll take if/when I get migraines. I don't recall the names, but I'll be sure to let the interwebs know at some point. I haven't started them yet, because I want to familiarize myself with all of the side effects, drug interactions, warnings, etc, and the pharmacy managed to only give me the first page of drug information for each medicine.

5. Related to the pharmacy, I hate my health insurance. It's provided through my school, and every year, around this time, it lapses for 4-6 weeks. Apparently, the school is incapable of giving the insurance company the list of students insured for the spring semester in any sort of regular fashion, so the insurance company shows every RIC student as having lapsed as of the end of January. There shouldn't be any such lapse, which is incredibly frustrating. This means I have to pay out of pocket for meds, but luckily they're cheap enough so that it's probably not worth the effort to get the money back from the insurance company.

6. I am so spaced because I'm so tired, I can't imagine today is going to be a fruitful day for classes. If I hadn't missed two classes on Tuesday, I might go home for a nap then come back for my 6 pm (once a week) math class. Unfortunately, no such luck. Maybe it will be warm enough to nap in my car later.

I was going to go to the gym tonight for pilates, but got the first indicators of a migraine about an hour before I was planning on leaving. I felt off enough that I decided not to go, and while I'm bummed, I think it was a good idea.

I feel like I'm battling it, I keep having symptoms come and go.

I called the neuro first thing this morning, left a message for the doc, and didn't get a call back at all today. When should I call them again?

Other than the brain, I have a midterm Thursday, Mike's birthday is Wednesday, and tomorrow is crafty. Oh, and this weekend is K&Q fencing! Spring break is also coming up, and I don't know if I'm doing anything. Mike and I thought about it too late for him to take time off, so if I do anything, it will be solo. It also might be a good idea for me to just hang around at home.

That's about it. A little more tv, then bedtime.

Clearly, I got another migraine (I guess that's the best thing to call it) last night. This one started just after 11, began with the vision and tingling symptoms, and I quickly just felt....weird. My right arm felt detached from my body, and I felt a general uneasiness.

I started to get a headache, so I went upstairs to lie down in the dark and quiet. The headache quickly became the worst I have ever had, and lasted for about three hours. It was absolutely miserable.

At one point I decided to go downstairs to get a glass of water so I could take some tylenol, and the light in the living room was nearly blinding.

Mike eventually came upstairs, and by this point I was nearly hysterical, I was in so much pain. All I wanted to do was go to sleep. He gave me some ibuprofin, a benadryl (to knock me out), and put a hot pack on my forehead.

That must have worked, because eventually, I fell asleep.

I feel okay this morning, but I have to go to work, and I'm wary about all the loud noises that working in a cafe comes with. I'll let my boss know when I get there, in case something happens, but that's really the best I can do.

Thanks for the concern, everyone.