but isn’t Monday your Firday? Same thing, then.
Since I am still recovering from Teh Sick[sup]TM[/sup], I’ve asked my friend to pick me up a few things
f: what do you need?
me: a big bag o’ cough drops, some wonton soup if the take out place is open when you go,
f: anything else?
me: a bottle of Amaretto
f: A BOTTLE OF AMARETTO???
me: yes - to soothe my throat at night and to help me to sleep.
f: take Robitussin[sup]TM[/sup]!
me: yuk.
and we laughed, and she’s bringing me the Amaretto
Evening all. So we have word from the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs that Ramadan will start tomorrow - woo and hoo! Yeah, well, not really … but anyway. Every year, the bank where I work gives each and every employee (over 100 of us) the equivalent of US$265 in shopping vouchers to buy food and stuff for Ramadan, so we did a massive shop today and got $300 worth of groceries for $35! Now that I can get on board with! 
So, after the big shop, I got my first Ramalamadingdong contribution prepped and in the freezer, ready to be fried tomorrow afternoon - Strawberry Cheesecake Spring Rolls! Very easy actually, once you get past the fiddly spring roll/egg roll wrappers:
Ingredients
1 pack spring roll/egg roll wrappers (you will need about 15)
1 8oz. container of Philly Cheesecake flavour cream cheese
6-8 strawberries, sliced (about 1/8th inch slices)
1 egg, beaten with a little milk
Icing/powdered sugar, for dusting
Method
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rosie, I have some very nice homemade orange-coffee liqueur that would take the edge off your cough quite nicely!
If you’re interested in my ongoing weather misery, today’s heat index was (and still is, at 6pm) 124°F/51°C, thanks to humidity over 70%!
omg Dotty - those spring rolls sound teh YUM
as for the liqueur, I’ve placed a cup under the CD slot, so pour away
I hate red tape. I have long since been approved for intermittent FMLA, and have no where near approached my maximum allowed hours. But because I have been sick for more than 5 work days, I am required to file for short term disability. Which also means I cannot return to work with out HR having already received a release from my doc, which unless he faxes it today, means I cannot go back until I have it. grrrrrr
{{Gotti}}
Those sound great, Dotty!
Hope you feel better soon, rosie! And that all the red tape gets untangled.
Yay for a little-more-than-half day at work today. We only have two more weeks of summer hours before back to full-day-Firdays! :eek: Where did the summer go? (Although I really am looking forward to fall. But still… wasn’t it just spring? And why are there leaves falling already? It’s August!)
Well, no surprises. They took him off the vent, and he went quickly.
It’s tough dealing with situations like this - If someone breaks a leg or even has a heart attack, there’s a roughly 99% chance that you can say “Get well soon” and they will. Someone has a major stroke and there’s a big dark dead area on a head CT showing a big dead brain, there is no “get well” - just a brain stem reflexively trying to keep the body alive. At best, there’s hoping that they had an advance directive describing their desires regarding “heroic measures” and prolongation of life.
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Sorry for your friend’s passing, gotti
{{gotti}} - mortality sucks.
Yes, 'tis I, home early - well, actually on time. Turns out my product wasn’t as horrible as the long check-time was suggesting. Most of what he gigged me on was verbiage and some labels. So it was more about the presentation rather than the actual analysis, so I’m much relieved.
On top of that, the product review scheduled for noon was resked for Monday, so I had leisure to get it all corrected and sent back for re-check. And I don’t have to work this weekend. YAY!! I may go over to daughter’s school and help her set up her classroom. Or not. We’ll see.
Huzzah for getting home on time!
VunderKind and I went to a 2 vehicle, 10 :eek: patient wreck today. Injuries all around, but nothing major. We also have the medical standby at the local football game tonight.
Story to come…
Howdy Y’all! Four down and one to go. Tomorrow is TGIS!
{{{gotti}}}
I hate work more today. So does everybody else there. Things should settle down in a couple of weeks and we’ll all be back to hating it less. Or storm the place with pitchforks and torches. Plans are still kinda up in the air on that.
We had major thunderboomers here last night too. Looks like more tonight. Yay! I sleep so good durin’ a big thunderboomer.
Ok, I think it’s teevee veg time before beddy bye.
Nitey Nite Y’all!
More hugs for gotti and DH. Sorry about your friend. 
Added your recipe to the blog, Dotty. I’m sure will be wishing you an Eid mubarak very soon. Hope Ramadan flies by.
Bobbio: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Yay for no work on the weekend, FCM! I’ll be doing some work, but it shouldn’t be too bad, I hope.
Hope the red tape gets out of the way quickly, rosie.
Glad you missed out on the tornado, Pie, even if you were stuck in the hall. And :rolleyes: on the security at the YMCA.
I’ve been contemplating what to have for dinner. I’ve already eaten an orange and graham cracker fish. Should have something else. Potatoes, maybe.
Finished my hand warmers, just need to deal with some ends. Am making nice progress on my pretty variegated scarf. Guess I should think about what else I want to do tonight. It’s Firday!!!
GT
Big hugs to gotti and DH.
I’m getting ready to leave to go out to dinner to celebrate a friend’s birthday.
I’m glad you don’t have to work this weekend, FCM.
Hope the red tape gets cut fast, rosie.
Time to go. I have to fight another friend of ours for the front seat of my own friggen’ car.:rolleyes:
Well, turns out I do have to work tomorrow. Daughter wants me to come to her classroom and help her set stuff up. Looks like all of us will be helping out for a few hours. What the heck - it’s supposed to rain all day anyway.
Wonder how long I can sleep in tomorrow - past 6:30 perhaps?? We shall see.
Well - the Amaretto is certainly helped - well, I’m still coughing, but I don’t care nearly as much 
Home, back to work at 0600 tomorrow.
{{{{gotti}}}}
Hope you get the red tape fixed soon, rosie.
VBob, :eek: indeed.
Were those CLOWN CARS?
So, I had to go to the endodontist yesterday for an x-ray to determine whether a cavity-bearing molar would be pulled along with my wisdom teeth in early September, or root-canal’d and crowned. Unfortunately, while standing in the waiting room after the x-ray and making an appointment for the root canal, SOMETHING went wrong.
In the space of two minutes I went from “tired” to “extreme fatigue, nausea, full-body shakes, convulsions, headache, and general misery”. It seemed like a blood-sugar crash, which should have been easily dealt with via Gatorade and laying in bed. I felt shitty all afternoon and evening and had to miss the live, one-time-only RiffTrax screening of Plan 9 From Outer Space, which I had been planning to go see with Ed.
Today, though, I still felt bad, so I went to the doctor’s. They took my blood pressure. You know what’s scary? Seeing the nurse do a double-take, make an “oh-shit” face, and say in her best professional-calm voice “that’s REALLY low!”
:eek::eek::eek: It was 67/34. :eek::eek::eek:
The docs immediately went into panic mode and I got swarmed with medical-types. IV’s were put in both arms and they pumped about 2 liters of intravenous fluid into my arms in about 15 minutes to bring be back from certain doom. That brought my BP up to 120/80 and they released me, and then I went to Taco Bell.
I feel reasonably functional now, though, and hopefully I’ll still be OK tomorrow because IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!!! :):p:D
Yay! I got a happy-birthday phone call from Jasmine at 12:02am! I feel special! 
**Moonie!!! **:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:Take care of yourself, please!!!
ETA: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Sleepy. Off to beddie bye.
GT
Oooh, Moonie, you beat my 6/4! The number we get in Europe is 1/10 of the one in the US, different units. The pharmacist who took it thought the machine was broken, as she was used to seeing very high BP (it was Germany), not very low (which isn’t so strange for Spain). Actually, I have a theory that all those studies about “the mediterranean diet being good for lowering BP” have never, ever, taken into consideration that there’s genetic components giving people from mediterranean countries low BP…
It’s sunny. I’ve been thinking of taking a walk through the Botanic Garden, but yesterday it was sunny too and I came back from a walk around the garden with my allergies going full blast and then some, so I guess no more gardens for me.