2002 Story Set
| May 19, 2002 Day 32 Friday May 17, 2002 9:40 AM Giant's Game OK. I blew it. I was to change my Estrogen patch last night and give him the shot tonight. Rats! I was too tired and on too many drugs myself. I had a bowl of Raisin Bran when I got up. Wandered around. Sat in the spa. Had my coffee. Had a Crystal Light. Starting watering cycle for back yard. Folded laundry. Coughed and hacked through the morning. 11:00 AM Kid up so I made eggs. Three eggs plus egg white and a SMALL slice of cheddar. Served with hot sauce. I have a little. Made buttermilk biscuits, 1/2 recipe. 1 cup flour, 1 Tblsp. sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, and 3 Tblsp. Crisco. Mix until grainy and add 1/2 cup buttermilk. Cook at 350. [Note: plus 1/2 teaspoon of salt!] Must drive to Redwood City tonight to drop him off at the train station to go to the Giant's game. Just him and one of the TNT team members. He will bring him home. Boy's night out. Let Doctor know I messed up. My son has no fever and feels fine. Oh no! I am still not quite with it! I forgot to put salt in the biscuits! I couldn't figure out why they tasted different. OK but different. Of course I use butter substitute and jam so who can really tell. My son complains that I have too much jam on them. "Eat them!" I say. I am counting down to taking a mass of pills at 12:20 PM and not focused. I may, because I am that obstinate, make another batch correctly. Face feels like I was hit with a ball bat. Probably the two runs to the hospital did not help. I slept last night. Forgot to bring dog in last night. Gave her a special treat today. A chew bone. Dog upset that I watered. She lays in a wallow she insists on right under my son's bedroom, in the flower bed, on top of a sprinkler head. She will be muddy tonight. 12:20 PM OK. Massive antibiotic down, all Rx down, all vitamins down. Did I take the iron pill? Can't recall. Ate second small biscuit with honey on it and had cup of Crystal Light. Took a shower since I was in the bathroom in my wet suit anyway. OF course I took my shower. The sprinklers are running and so is the dishwasher. Dressed in soft top and shorts (PJs really). Turned off sprinklers. Can't do gym or treadmill because head is fuzzy. Need to go back to bed for a bit. Long drive this afternoon. Nose stuffy. Vacuumed kitchen. 2:10 PM Kid is up and taking a shower. I've been in and out of sleep. Horrid headache. Left side of head hurts the most because I was flopped on that side. Set out front sprinkler. It's warm but you know a storm is cooking. Ground is dry. Thought I'd be nice and leave the sprinkler off while son in shower. Fixing coffee and will try Tylenol on the headache. Think it just has to run its course. Ears don't feel like full of cotton at the moment. Put clothes washed two days ago into the dryer. Has my son's pants in it. Good timing. Leave at 3:40 PM I think for Redwood City. Don't know how long it will take. Need to make train by 5-5:15 PM. Hope I don't get lost! 6:30 PM Back home and I start any interesting project. Round up all the bits and pieces of my writing. Stuff back to 1988, DEC Rainbow using WORDPAL (.cmp extension). Lots of things in handwriting too. Bits and pieces. Some things are missing. On the Syquest 200MB cartridges? Need those converted to DVD. 12:00 AM Waiting for the kid to get home. Gads! Have to stay dressed until he gets in here. He needs a shot and 4 pills. Game long over because it's already on the news. I made the lemon filling for a pie and tried playing at meringue earlier. Used too few egg whites (low peaks). Then Pie "melted" all over oven. (I have a liner.) Wonder if that was because I had no crust. I love lemon and I was on a sugar binge. Gak! Enough already! Ate half of it over the evening after being good and only having 1/2 sandwich. Son has sandwich and I sent him off with money. Now trying to stay awake. Shall I go to SVC meeting tomorrow? I should - and leave the boy on his own. But would he take his pills? Probably not. 12:30 AM Boy sitting and talking in the car outside. Went out in shorts and tank top, barefoot and nearly froze! What in earth! Had to retreat. 1:33 AM Gave boy his shot and pills, he had hamburger and fries from Jack in the Box and presented me with a baseball "ball" which he stuck on the truck's antenna. Adorable. |
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