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I picked up some kind of sore throat or cold or whatever while we were gone. I feel terrible. Slept most of today and plan to go back to bed once dinner is done not that I feel like eating. Everything hurts - skin, large muscles, head, guts, throat
We're back home from our trip, and a great time was had by all! Except Crowley, who would like to let everyone know that his humans abandoned him and there has never been a cat so neglected or unloved. I will make a post about everything soon, and catch up on reading, but for now I'm simply tired. I need to go grocery shopping tomorrow, but once I do that I'm going to be at home for a while, and will happily not be budging.
I'm happy to be back in my own space, even though the camper is technically my own space. But I have my shower, my normal bed, and my kitty, so it's all good.
I'm happy to be back in my own space, even though the camper is technically my own space. But I have my shower, my normal bed, and my kitty, so it's all good.
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1. What were some of the smells and tastes of your childhood? This is a difficult one, because I feel like my sense of taste and smell was pretty underdeveloped until I was an adult. I have also always been far more visual than anything, so I remember images and scenes rather than taste or smell.
2. What did you have as a child that you do not think children today have? Unstructured time.
3. What elementary grade was your favorite? UGH none of them. School was an unrelenting hell.
4. What summer do you remember the best as a child? In a lot of ways, time in my childhood is not linear. I feel like I don't remember that much, and what I do is sort of lumped together. I spent a lot of time outside, though. I'd take a book outside and read under a tree, or just hang out in our fairly big backyard.
5. What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self, and at what age? Stop trying to get people to like you. They aren't going to, and you're wasting your energy. Just do your own thing, it'll get better later.
2. What did you have as a child that you do not think children today have? Unstructured time.
3. What elementary grade was your favorite? UGH none of them. School was an unrelenting hell.
4. What summer do you remember the best as a child? In a lot of ways, time in my childhood is not linear. I feel like I don't remember that much, and what I do is sort of lumped together. I spent a lot of time outside, though. I'd take a book outside and read under a tree, or just hang out in our fairly big backyard.
5. What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self, and at what age? Stop trying to get people to like you. They aren't going to, and you're wasting your energy. Just do your own thing, it'll get better later.
We'll be firing up the smoker today and smoking a pork loin, along with a few pounds of chicken legs. The pork is a gift for Fox's parents, and the chicken will feed us while camping. Obviously we're going to have a little tonight, but I also need to spend today and tomorrow getting us packed to go.
I'm relieved to no longer need to spend the day in the kitchen. For a while it was fun to show off with some of my most elaborate recipes, but it gets tiring after a while, especially when you can't rely on anyone to help with either prep or cleanup. Fox and I typically do something a little special, but no blockbuster dinners. The main thing we both like about the holiday is dressing, so I'm probably going to make us a pan of sausage dressing when we get back home. Being able to just chill on the back deck with a THC drink and watch the smoker is a nice change from spending three days prepping a meal that will get eaten in half an hour.
Our only real problem is that we were out yesterday and the truck threw a code. We suddenly lost most of our engine power and it went into "limp mode," which we found meant that a throttle sensor was (most likely) not functioning. It took the rest of the afternoon, but we got a replacement throttle body, and tried to get a replacement accelerator pedal but the part wasn't right, so we had to just do without. Fox is going to do the work today and we'll see how that goes. We can clear the code by just shutting the truck off, but as you can imagine, it's a problem if you're trying to haul a camper. And of course it happened right on the day when we can no longer cancel or modify our reservations without a fee. We were out last night until almost seven getting the parts in a panic before everything shut down.
But we got to do some trash picking, and got the north half of our mile of highway cleaned. We'll do the south half after we get home. I didn't see anything of particular interest, but I picked up my first vape cartridge within five minutes of starting. Actually that was the only one I found - there were a bunch of White Claw cans and several Jim Beam bottles. A mower had gone through, so I had a lot of little pieces of styrofoam.
The temps are dropping right now. It's going to get cold tonight. YAY :D
I'm relieved to no longer need to spend the day in the kitchen. For a while it was fun to show off with some of my most elaborate recipes, but it gets tiring after a while, especially when you can't rely on anyone to help with either prep or cleanup. Fox and I typically do something a little special, but no blockbuster dinners. The main thing we both like about the holiday is dressing, so I'm probably going to make us a pan of sausage dressing when we get back home. Being able to just chill on the back deck with a THC drink and watch the smoker is a nice change from spending three days prepping a meal that will get eaten in half an hour.
Our only real problem is that we were out yesterday and the truck threw a code. We suddenly lost most of our engine power and it went into "limp mode," which we found meant that a throttle sensor was (most likely) not functioning. It took the rest of the afternoon, but we got a replacement throttle body, and tried to get a replacement accelerator pedal but the part wasn't right, so we had to just do without. Fox is going to do the work today and we'll see how that goes. We can clear the code by just shutting the truck off, but as you can imagine, it's a problem if you're trying to haul a camper. And of course it happened right on the day when we can no longer cancel or modify our reservations without a fee. We were out last night until almost seven getting the parts in a panic before everything shut down.
But we got to do some trash picking, and got the north half of our mile of highway cleaned. We'll do the south half after we get home. I didn't see anything of particular interest, but I picked up my first vape cartridge within five minutes of starting. Actually that was the only one I found - there were a bunch of White Claw cans and several Jim Beam bottles. A mower had gone through, so I had a lot of little pieces of styrofoam.
The temps are dropping right now. It's going to get cold tonight. YAY :D
The isoenzymes and liver alkaline phosphatase tests finally came back with the most confusing results possible. ALP is still high (20 points or so over the high end of normal) and everything else is within range. No bone enzymes. No hepatic enzymes. No anything. So my ALP is just high because of ... reasons? I'll be curious what the doctor has to say about this, because the general feeling I get from PubMed, NIH, and the other websites I've been reading this morning is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The only two potential culprits I can think of: Collagen can sometimes cause weird liver readings, but usually also causes high bone isoenzymes. The other is that people with B or O blood types (I'm a B+) can have high readings after consuming "fatty" meals. I can't currently find much about that because Google results immediately devolve into blood type diets. So I'm not sure if we're talking about all fats, animal fats, what the thresholds are, or anything useful like that.
Now that all the results are in, my body finally was able to "stand down," so I've been dealing with stress release symptoms all morning. That's finally calming down so I can go start cleaning up the camper, doing laundry, and generally getting us ready for our trip. Yesterday was a wash because I got my flu shot earlier in the day and it hit me pretty hard, so I didn't do much besides nap and sit around. I feel better this morning, so yay.
The only two potential culprits I can think of: Collagen can sometimes cause weird liver readings, but usually also causes high bone isoenzymes. The other is that people with B or O blood types (I'm a B+) can have high readings after consuming "fatty" meals. I can't currently find much about that because Google results immediately devolve into blood type diets. So I'm not sure if we're talking about all fats, animal fats, what the thresholds are, or anything useful like that.
Now that all the results are in, my body finally was able to "stand down," so I've been dealing with stress release symptoms all morning. That's finally calming down so I can go start cleaning up the camper, doing laundry, and generally getting us ready for our trip. Yesterday was a wash because I got my flu shot earlier in the day and it hit me pretty hard, so I didn't do much besides nap and sit around. I feel better this morning, so yay.
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