I aten't dead

[azurelunatic]

Not doing much writing, not doing much reading. Finally feeling up to sitting at the computer for a while!

Did gluten free paçzki for use-up-your-cooking-fats Tuesday (aka Fat Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras), which was also infusion day. (So I made them Monday night.) As well as a wheat flour batch. That was a 6-7 hour journey (Belovedest helped by rolling out the GF batch) and I was sore enough by the end that lying down hurt more than standing up. (No ragrats. Though I did request permission from my palliative care team to tweak my pain med dosage until I recovered.)

My primary care is tweaking some of my meds, which is going to be entertaining. And it's about to be Pillbox Filling Week. I was getting ready for the marathon tonight and discovered that I have a week left before it's absolutely necessary. Which is nice, and maybe I'll be ahead of the game for a little while! But that does mean that I'm not going to unleash full chaos until tomorrow!

I'm sitting on a very short Hands of the Emperor fic. The bunny bit me this morning, and I'm turning it around in my head for a while before I take it out anywhere. It's a very brief vignette of an AU where Aya and her husband decide to spring what's-his-name [I know his name] during the vacation after all. (That's it, that's the summary, I don't have any of the Adventurs that would ensue, but it would be Extremely Fun.)

Newest book discovery: The Golden Spider, Anne Renwick. Medical content ahoy, in a Victorian steampunk setting, with a romantic plot along with the mystery. Injured secret agent who is desperate to stay field-qualified, woman medical student with ideas about nerve replacement and a gadget that just might do it and a brother who needs a working leg for his marriage aspirations, and a doctor with more ambition than ethics leaving a trail of gorily experimented-upon bodies. I'm a bit into the second book, The Silver Skull.

Belovedest has been having fun at ECCC. Tomorrow (Sunday) is the last day.

Comments

[senmut]

nom nom

and writing! Lovely!

[nanila]

Those are some delicious-sounding cooking adventures and I hope they paid off!

[vass]

That's a fun premise for a HOTE fic. :starving crow react emoji:

I was sore enough by the end that lying down hurt more than standing up.

Oof. Glad it was worth it, sorry the price was that high.

[azurelunatic]

They did! My partner is a Michigander and misses them desperately sometimes. And last year when I mentioned my adventures baking them in passing at an appointment, the resident perked up Significantly, as she was gluten free and missed them. So I had Belovedest haul a cupcake carrier full of them (gf on the top tier) along with us when we went for my appointment. I wore a dramatic purple shirt, a swoopy white striped skirt, purple green and gold bead necklaces, an even more dramatic magenta cape, and of course my pastel rainbow hat. I cut quite a figure in the cancer center. One of the recipients requested the recipe. I sent the short stay infusion bullpen into a food coma. The leftovers went to the dessert buffet for the less-short infusion nurses (apparently they have a dessert buffet!)

[azurelunatic]

Apparently pastry is in great demand for gluten free folks! I have written down this year's modifications and will fine tune them the next time I make them. The thinner roll out worked spectacularly better than last time.

[azurelunatic]

As I told my palliative care team, I'm not afraid of doing things that I know will hurt when I have adequate medication for those symptoms.

[vass]

That's why you have them, I gather?