three little birds

[hedda62]

1) We have been making Very Healthy Bread. This started when J. had done a batch of beer and had spent barley grains left over, and I said, I hear Growlers (local brewpub; neighbors' son works there) puts those in rolls they serve in the restaurant, why don't you add them to the bread you said you were going to make? And he did. And then I made some, a totally whole-wheat with walnuts loaf and added more spent barley from another batch, and sesame seeds, and chia seeds, and whatever else there was around. I'm doing more today, and freezing half. Together with the "always have some cooked greens in the fridge" initiative (we use frozen kale or collards or whatever for convenience, sauté onion, add the greens, maybe add some other veggies, finish with nuts and dried fruit and some crisped bacon if desired, season as you wish, balsamic vinegar is good) our diet continues to improve.

Including, of course, all the dark chocolate.

2) Went to see my favorite physical therapist today. Not that I have seen all that many of them, but he treated me for the first frozen shoulder ages ago, and can I just say it is so goddamn wonderful to be greeted with "Hey, nice to see you again, how have you been, it was the shoulder, wasn't it?" after a gap of more than eight years. I mean, I know he cheated and looked in my file, but he bothered to do it, and maybe he just remembered (it was an intense period of treatment, as a few of you may recall), and in any case, it's far and away better than a lot of the interactions I've had with medical personnel of late. Anyway, he paid attention and listened and showed me exercises and did marvelous things with electricity and so forth, and agreed that there is something up with the medial meniscus, though probably not an actual tear; he theorizes that it's just really irritated. Which strikes me as amusing, of course; I can see it sitting there going "What the hell, patella?"

It hurts now, though that is probably a bit because of my bopping around to Bob Marley earlier. I may have been overdoing the "Oh, Mr. Finch" and "Water Metaphors" playlists rather, but I am very fond of them.

3) May I just say that it amazes me that I have 579 hits on "Sparrow" in a month? This is on a crossover based on sources that have a medium-size fandom and a really small fandom, which I was unaware had any significant overlap. I am definitely going to write a sequel. (oh god, help me)

Comments

[philomytha]

Yum! I like the sound of your bread, and your pick'n'mix cooked greens too. I've just taken my own bread out of the oven, but it's much duller, just a plain wholemeal loaf. And the Christmas cake too, and turned the Christmas pudding off. This was theoretically my weekend for all the Christmas baking, but due to small-boy 'help' a lot of the actual cooking had to be saved up for today. He did enjoy making mince pies with me, though. And eating them.

And I'm quite sure dark chocolate is medicinal. I always feel better after eating some, anyway :-).

Also, yay for good physios! I went to the obstetric physio again a week or so ago and she did a Thing involving shoving my pelvic bones back where they belong, which was a bit disconcerting, but it helped a lot. I'm glad yours is helpful too.

[hedda62]

Mm, bread, and Christmas cake and mince pies too. And yay helpful yet disconcerting Things (so much in life fits into that category...).