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Thankful Thursday

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It’s been a week since the surgery and B is doing fantastic. He’s doing mostly his normal chores just being more careful. So I’m so thankful he has a great response.

I’m thankful the drive to Palo Alto and back were uneventful (except for a few assholes) but mostly it went smoothly.

I’m very grateful for the Sheraton giving us a discount that was probably half of what the room rate was. When we’re down there next, if it’s a week that’ll add up but we don’t really have an alternative. An Airbnb would probably cost more.

I’m thankful my dentist appt went well too and is over.:) I do have a cleaning coming up so there’s that. 😦

As always I’m grateful to be able to swim and go for walks. I’d like to ramp it up some but honestly, it feels like this is the best I can do at this time. So I’ll take what I can do and not worry about adding to it.

I made the garlic confit yesterday but cooked the garlic too long and some burned so I just drained the olive oil into a jar to use and threw out the garlic cloves. It tasted good. ( the olive oil).

This is the homemade butter I made using heavy cream I had frozen. I made it in the Kitchen aid.

Whole Wheat Bread, and Saturday stuff!

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imageWell, first off I wanted to show a picture of some yummy whole wheat bread I made and homemade butter. I’ve really wanted a zojirushi bread machine forever. But I recently started using Jim Laheys no knead bread. It’s delicious and easy. But, I still wanted the Zojirushi  bread machine. But I have a kitchen aid, so I saw a great recipe on another blog and decided to go for it.

So as a special treat and I’ve wanted this forever, I ordered from Williams Sonoma , their gold or professional bread pan. So instead if spending $200 on the Zorirushi, I spent $25 on a great 1.5 loaf pan. Can’t wait to get it. Also, in the old hippy days, I always made fresh butter. So when I saw the blog on Tomato boots, I thought, yeah, baby(Austin Powers reference ), I’m gonna do that too. It was fun .

So, here’s the next thing, not so happy, but, it was June 15 2005, when I got the official diagnosis of multiple myeloma. I’d never heard of it, and truly was in shock. So, it’s been 8 years, I’m doing pretty well. When you have this cancer, you’re just always waiting for the next shoe to drop, or something like that. I get checked (with blood tests ) every month. I know eventually I’ll be back on chemo, but for now life is good, and I’m going to keep making bread!