September 18 2010 - Day 260

It's been years since I've been stung by a hornet... and I hope it's many years more before it happens again! We went for a drive to Whippletree Junction and while we were sitting outside having a coffee a hornet got me just at the top of my shoe. MAN, did it HURT! (boy, do I need some moisturizer for my feet, lol!)

June 08 2010 - Day 158

mmmmm yummy - blended 'oatmeal' would you like a bite? No? Me either.... Thankfully I was released today.... whew! This is another cell phone picture with a texture added.

June 07 2010 - Day 157

Potassium and cranberry juice.... not a great combination. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) it was better than the horrible cream of asparagus soup they tried to get me to eat for lunch..... ick! I actually had to have TWO glasses of this. Thank heavens my potassium levels came back to normal.

June 06 2010 - Day 156

Pancreatitis. I hadn't even heard the word before last night. It is NOT fun, and beyond painful. I would not wish this pain on my worst enemy, seriously worse than labor. Hubby actually called the ambulance because I was SO sick, SO suddenly last night. This is a self portrait taken with my Blackberry.... played with some textures and messed around with it some....

May 28 2010 - Day 148

I hate being sick :( I know a good thing to cheer me up though. This is THEE BEST chocolate cake ever.

See the secret recipe in the background? splashes of secret ingredient on the well loved paper? :D It is SO moist, and so decadent, and even not TOO sweet, very cocoa-y :D

I had a difficult time making it, even though it's not a difficult recipe, must be my groggy head... here's a little excerpt from an email I sent to a friend about the experience ;)

Clearly I am not all better.... I was making THE chocolate cake this morning, poured it into the pan, threw it into the oven and started to clean up... all of a sudden I shrieked, grabbed the oven mitts, pulled the cake out, poured it OUT of the pan into the mixing bowl and proceeded to add the 1.5 cups of sugar called for in the recipe. LOL! Thank HEAVENS it was only in the oven for about a minute.... It didn't come out of the pan very well once it was baked either as some of the marg that I buttered the pan with had melted off into the batter... BUT I prevailed... BUT then I started icing it while it was too warm and the icing started dripping off the cake... really, it was pretty darn funny... I scrapped the extra icing off the plate, let it cool (at this point it looked like the lunar surface) and finished icing it. Still looks a little odd, but I think it will taste good... I can't believe I didn't burn it too....

March 26 2010 - Day 85

I did our taxes today.

They give me a headache.

I used a distortion filter on this to show how I felt afterwards, lol...

Enough said.

Jan 04 2010 - Day 4

Well, the sick bug that has been hitting everyone has finally hit me. Not feeling great. I spent much of the day just hanging out and watching TV.... Grumpy Old Men is on in the background.

Hopefully I'll feel better soon and be able to post something a little more exciting.