1. It's blood draw time again. I have an appointment with Dr. Bieber a week from today and, ideally, I would have gone to Coeur d'Alene this morning and had it done.
I need to be finished with these blood draws by no later than about 9:00 a.m. because I can't take my 8:00 meds until the blood draw is completed.
Haven't I explained this in other blog posts?
Starting in about July of 2025, I began waking up every morning with a mild headache and most mornings I was unsteady on my feet and my mind was foggy. These symptoms always diminished as the day progressed and didn't keep me from doing the things I needed to do: cook, feed Copper and Gibbs, shop, drive to CdA for blood draws and Spokane for appointments and specialty blood draws there, nor did these symptoms stop me from having fun on Winning Wednesdays!
I did, however, discover at some point, that everything went better if I slept a little longer in the morning than usual.
For quite a while, it was my habit to be up and an 'em around six in the morning, sometimes a little later.
That wasn't working any longer and it has helped me a lot to sleep until 8 o'clock or so.
This morning I woke up around 7. It would have been a great time to get up, take care of Gibbs and Copper, and head to CdA.
I knew, however, I needed more sleep and I didn't get up until about 8:30 or so -- too late for labs.
Therefore, I'll go to CdA tomorrow, no matter what!
2. My need for more sleep turned out to be fortuitous.
Just as I was sitting on the edge of the bed, petting Copper, and clearing the cobwebs out of my head, Debbie called.
She updated me on what's going on in her world, which I always appreciate learning, and I let her know that I was dong much better than I had been over the weekend.
Adrienne and Jack will be away, starting Saturday, so for the following week she'll be taking care of Elloise and the dog and two cats of the house.
Later in the day, I discovered, just as Debbie texted me about it, that our niece Allison is featured in a People online story. She just gave birth to her second baby and she had posted a video on Tik Tok about her postpartum meal prep -- 72 hours' worth of food.
Someone at People saw the video. People reached out to her and the article is up. It's right here.
If you follow this link, keep scrolling down. You'll see the video, a handful of pictures, and the story, about twenty paragraphs long.
3. I hadn't had the wok out for a while. Today, I took a break from fixing soups and because I had tofu in the fridge, I fixed a vegetarian stir fry.
I tried something a little different in making this stir fry.
I fried the tofu first and once it was lightly golden, I went to work on the white onion, celery, sugar snap peas, green beans, mushrooms, and yellow pepper. I also cooked a batch of basmati rice.
Eating this stir fry, it made me very happy to know that my forty-two year relationship with tofu is secure and that tofu always comes through for me, even if I am neglectful and forget for months at time to buy some and bring it home.
Tofu is faithful.
Tofu is always in my corner.
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