A Book Series Recommendation and more.

 We have had super crazy winds here in Tucson the last couple days. The winds were so bad last night that the whole house was rattling. I was afraid to go to sleep because the gusts were over 60 miles an hour. I’m not sure how much that has to do with climate change or if it’s an El Nino phenomenon. The air was so thick with dust yesterday that we could not see the mountains around our house. Some of those mountains were only 2 miles away. Forget about seeing anything in the valley. Now that the wind has stopped, it looks like rain clouds are coming in.

It’s a good day to stay inside to craft and clean. I am Almost finished reading book number 31 in the Bobbi Holmes series Haunting Danielle, mystery series. Bobbi Holmes is also know as Anna J McIntyer..  Since I am so far into the series of books, I would like to recommend this series of books. Truth be told, this is the series books I listen to while I’m knitting. or crocheting. Since I am feeling better being on the right medicine, I have been listening to the books faster again. I don’t know how many books are left of the series, but it’s one of those that, even if there were 100 books in the series, I would read every one of them. 

Now that I’m done with my 5 to 10 minutes of cleaning a day. It is time to kick off my shoes, put my feet up on my mushroom footstool, that doubles as warp storage for weaving supplies. Would you expect anything less from me? My current project for this particular knitting space involves what was once a 3 pound cone of cotton yarn. I am still making scarves from that 3 pound cone of yarn and I am at the beginning of the second year of working with the yarn. All the scarves are going to the Flowing Wells School district clothing bank.  I’m just using up different color yarns that go with the cone on yarn.  In the pattern that I want to do at the moment.  

TTFN

Almost Finished

 I have less than a dozen rows of Mosaic Tunisian Crochet left before I finish my cowl tom.  I am hoping not to play yarn chicken, however, my main color is looking very slim at the moment.  I promise pictures when I am finished tomorrow.  

This and That

 I finally found my rhythm, for the mosaic cowl that I talked about yesterday. It is going so much faster and looking so much better now that I found my rhythm. Hopefully I can finish that tomorrow and start my sheep and treat, area 51 hat for Halloween.

Recovery from the dental surgery is still driving me nuts. It’s still draining my energy too. Hopefully this too shall pass. I really hope the follow-up surgery for this tooth will not be as bad.

I’m really not liking the mashed diet. for the surgery follow-up for the next 3 to 4 weeks. The only thing it’s good for is losing between 1 pound and a half a pound a day. I did find one new food to add today that is low on the glycemic index, the Korean glass noodles. Made with yam starch. They are not very flavorful plain, but they are filling. Which is more than I can say for most of the mashed diet. If you’re wondering about the mashed diet, just think of putting graham crackers in a bowl of applesauce and mashing them till all you have is a paste, and you get to eat the paste, no texture, just paste. Soup is put through the blender until you can drink it with a straw, except that I can’t use a straw because of the stitches. You can see why find this diet so boring. If you have any good mashed food recipes, I’d be interested. I have already pulverized chicken to death, vegetables, I’m eating two bowls of oatmeal a day, and of course there’s the yogurt. 

In other news, It was bound to happen someday. Today was the day I burned my very first pan. Because of the dental surgery and the swelling, I’ve lost my sense of smell and couldn’t smell the pan was burning. Oops. Well, tomorrow I go get a new fry pan. Apparently when you have surgery on back molars, you lose your sense of smell, I wish somebody would’ve told me that in advance..

Well, it’s getting late. So I guess it’s TTFN time.  

The Gentle Current Cowl

 I finally made it to row 63 in the Aklori Design, Gentle Current Cowl. I only have to make it to row 83 before I can cast off. That is only 20 more rows.  What I initially thought was a mistake, is actually part of the pattern.  I am on the second row of mosaic, Tunisian crochet. It is fairly easy.  This gives me the confidence and courage to try to finish another mosaic design by Aklori Designs.  

Since I am at the beginning of row 63 I might pull back a few stitches to get the stitch right from the beginning of the row.   

I bought this pattern as a kit.  If I were choosing the yarn I would choose a lighter contrasting color to make it easier to see what I am doing during the mosaic Tunisian crochet .  The Ott light is helpful, but not as helpful as I would like.  This dark color requires daylight and the ott light combined.

A Flare Up

 The dental surgery on Wednesday has lead to to a full scale Sjögren’s flare up today.  After a few activities this morning,  I slept the entire afternoon.  Now the fever has kicked in.  It has been years since I have had such a bad flare-up.  So I am going to be resting and cutting back on my activities for the duration.  I am in Croissant mode.   

This means that there will be lots of craft projects to complete and since I am already behind in taking photos of my completed work, I will have to catch up on that. So expect to see lots of pictures soon.

Well it’s time to complete the next project. 

TTFN  

I Survived

 I had unscheduled dental surgery this morning. Even though the local anesthesia is wearing off, I think I’m doing pretty good. I did not have a full blow panic attack either. I did a lot better than a few of the Doctors pieces of equipment that broke during the procedure. Although I am not sure whether doing the procedure being awake was the right thing. Although it’s to late now to change my mind. 

I am currently on the mush diet for three weeks. I have no idea how that’s going to effect my blood sugar. It’s mostly mashed potatoes, yogurt, oatmeal, protein, drinks, and pasta, scrambled eggs and anything you can eat without chewing. I am going to try pancakes, I picked up a couple mixes. I also picked up some pea protein To make milkshakes, this will be a great way to eat the last of my summer fruits. Also no straws so I will have to squeeze my applesauce pouches onto a spoon to eat. 

I am currently eating Cocojune plain, unsweetened Organic Greek style cultured coconut yogurt. It’s pretty decent and it has 10 g of protein so I guess since it’s the first food I had since last night it should be ok to break the fast.  

What is going to annoy Me for the next three weeks, is the fact that I can’t have bread or crackers untill the stitches come out and possibly three weeks after that. No bagels or bread for up to 6 weeks agh!!!

In four months, I get to have dental surgery again, to put the implant in to hold the new crown. I think that should go pretty easy. Then a couple of months after that and my mouth should be better than it is right now.  

It is surprising To me that doctors appointment appointments right now are being scheduled into next year. Sunday morning I had a crown fall off. Monday morning I got a dentist appointment. Tuesday morning I had the dental surgery. I think this might have something to do with the economy with people thinking dental work is not as important to their health or not covered by health insurance that they skip it if money is tight.

Well, it’s time to go fill out the paperwork for my next appointment of the week and then to put my feet up and rest.

It’s Not a Good Day to Eat

 Today was not the best day for eating.  In the middle of the night one of my first dental crowns just decided to fall off.  I think I got it in my late 20’s thanks to my very dry mouth, which over a decade later was linked to Sjögren’s.  But the cavities started in earnest when I was about 8 thanks to a very dry mouth. But I regressed a bit.   I rinsed the crown off and put it into a Ziplock bag, and then into my purse.  By the looks of the crown I can see another dental implant in the very near future.  It’s not the first implant that I have had and it will not be the last.  

Breakfast was very easy.  I made a fresh pot of oatmeal.  I cook it in the rice cooker, making 4 servings at a time.  I eat the first bowl hot and the next 3 bowls cold out of the fridge.  Lunch was another story.  I had made a turkey breast to cover a few dinners.  I should give you my recipe as Thanksgiving is coming up.  Anyway I had enough leftovers to make 2 servings of soup.  I was working at my usual work spot.  I stepped away to get a container of rice to divide between the pot and the freezer container.  While my back was to the soup, somehow a plate left the cupboard, hit the soup pot and broke into an awful lot of pieces.  After we cleaned up our part, my husband set up the Roborock to vacuum and then mop the area twice.  

Then at the same time we said in unison, I guess it’s time to go out to lunch. My second lunch mistake was trying a new restaurant.  I thought that since the restaurant and parking lot were crowded we might have hit on a new spot to eat. Boy was I wrong. Because of the bad experience, as keeping with my blog policy, I will not give the name or location.  We had to wait to order, they promptly forgot about our order. When the food did come out my food was very spicy, I ordered very light spice.  My husband did not even get what he ordered.  Both items came out stone cold..Needless to say we got home just in time for my body to get really sick.  I spent the next hour in the restroom.  

Dinner was hard cooked duck eggs, sourdough bread and 2 mini oranges.  It almost sat well.  I think my tummy was still out of kilter from lunch.  

I hope you hat your Sunday was better than mine. TTFN.