Wednesday, May 13, 2015

In Bits, In Pieces

I got up last night just after midnight and couldn't get back to sleep. I had an early doctor's appointment, so I just decided to stay up. It rained all night, not a hard rain, but a steady one.

A little before five, I took a shower and got dressed. I made some cheese toast for breakfast and had a cup of coffee. I put together Dave's lunch and made a snack for myself for later.

I had to be at the doctor's at 7:45 but I wanted to take the long way, out along Rio Grande, so that I could look at all the green things made greener by the rain.

The doctor's appointment went fine. I have no answers to any of my concerns, but we'll see what's next. I went out with a round of new tests, a new prescription, and a referral to see a specialist. Maybe one of those will work.

After I left the doctor's office, I went to Target and got a soy latte at Starbucks (my post-doctor treat) then wandered around awhile. I got the few things on my list and a few things not on my list. I actually left Target without a new red lipstick, which is my version of discipline and/or willpower.

I was feeling pretty exhausted by then, so I came home, texted Dave to let him know I was home, changed back into my pajamas and went back to bed. I slept for several hours.

I've been having strange, edgy dreams recently. There's a lot of anger and fear in them, but they vanish almost instantly when I wake up. None of that's good, I don't think; Which reminds me that I need to call the new therapist for another round of phone tag.

I decided to go off menu tonight for dinner and recreate a dish that Dave likes from the menu at Flying Star. I think they call it Power Hash or something ridiculous like that. It's a mix of red quinoa and a bunch of vegetables topped with an egg. I decided to use onions, carrots, potato, sweet potato, zucchini, Brussels sprouts, and kale, all of which we had in the fridge. I washed and peeled and chopped and cooked vegetables while the quinoa quietly steamed away on the stove. Everything was seasoned very, very simply, just garlic, soy sauce, black pepper and a tiny bit of salt.

When the quinoa was done, I mixed it into the vegetables. To go on the side, I made a simple salad with tomato, avocado, and lemon juice. When Dave came home, I dished out the quinoa-vegetable mix and topped each serving with a fried egg. It was very tasty and almost pathologically healthy. (Which is why I never order it at Flying Star. I figure if I'm going out to eat, I want to splurge on a huge cheeseburger and fries, not a plate of quinoa and vegetables!)

We had a late-ish pilates class tonight and I still had to go pick up my prescription, so after dinner, we decided to leave early and stop at the pharmacy on the way to class. Of course if we had been in a hurry it would have taken half an hour, but since we had plenty of time it took us all of about three minutes. We had so much time before class that we stopped for huge, icy, diet sodas and then drove around Dave's old neighborhood, past the house where he lived as a child and the first elementary school he went to.

4 comments:

Carol said...

Hello Rosa!
Hope that your health concerns get figured out soon.

Lipstick is something I wear everyday - I feel naked without it.

I'm getting over my doughnut addiction which will help with me eating better. We usually eat pretty good, but I was eating too much bread over the winter and seem to still be doing that. Oh we had a freeze warning last night (but no frost, pheww) - weird weather.

Rosa said...

Hi Carol!

Thanks! Lots of weird lady-bits stuff going on, which is why I'm reluctant to post details. Sigh.

Doughnuts!! OMG. My favorite. Last year I had doughnuts instead of a birthday cake. I'd eat them everyday if I could get away with it. (Where has my high school aged metabolism gone?)

One of my new year's resolutions was to wear lipstick everyday. So far I'm getting about a 50%. I'll keep trying though! Any brand/shade recommendations?

Carol said...

I totally understand xo

My high school metabolism ran away!

I really love Cover Girl Lip Perfection - stays a long time, great color. I probably have ummm six or more of these in different shades? And I have re-purchased certain colors too . Re: shade/color recommendations I am not really sure what you look like!

And I also like (as I am pretty broke these days) NYC City Proof Twistables/Intense Lip Color - dang, that's a mouthful! A big fat lip pencil from NYC. The color doest last like Cover Girl above (two different types of lip color) but it is cheap and it feels good.

Rosa said...

Yay! I love CG. I wear their foundation, but oddly enough don't have many of their lipsticks. I also like NYC stuff (I have at least two that I can think of off the top of my head), and other "cheapie" brands like Wet'n'Wild and Jordana (though the new Jordana matte lipsticks that I've tried are not good, so save your $2.50!).

I used to have a profile pic, but believe it or not, I got some nasty comments, so I took it down. Life is too short!