krasota ([personal profile] rootofnewt) wrote2002-02-13 01:18 pm

had a yummy birthday.

despite having an echocardiogram done, getting out of the cardio's office late, and taking forfuckinever to drive home (and we had the HOV lane advanatages), all ended well.

jeff was waiting for us (he'd driven in before rush hour got nasty to avoid sitting in non-HOV hideousness. i felt bad that he'd waited for so long (it was 7 before we arrived--we also needed groceries, so we'd stopped at whole foods), but he was okay.

he brought me a birthday cake! first time he'd ever made carrot cake, so he was kinda worried (for no good reason--it was yummy).

anyhow, i got busy in the kitchen. i made a cheese, pasta, and root veggie casserole, salad, etc... jeff and i snacked on sushi (veggie) while boy helped me by cutting veggies. then we all sat down to buffy.

the casserole was little dry--i'll try less tapioca flour next time. i'm trying to find cornstarch replacements. obviously a 1:1 substitution won't work, but now i know. :) the casserole was still edible.

we watched a bit of the olympics, i made a cream cheese frosting for the cake, and jeff and i feasted on smurfy-blue carroty yumminess. it was a wonderful smurfday cake.

it was nifty.

i need to get showered and dressed soon. it's CT scan day. i'm not too worried, i just hope the tech can find a NON-bruised spot to insert the IV dye. i can actually still see the spot i had done a little over a month ago for this same procedure.

the doc said i'm looking great and seem to have a lot of energy. i told her i have as much as any PWC can have and that i'm actually doing okay so long as i get 8-13 hours of sleep a night and sometimes take a nap. she looked concerned, but i reminded her, once again, that i have CFIDS. this is normal. and this is LUCKY. i drove myself to her office, parked a block away, and walked in on platforms. i'm doing pretty damn well.

[identity profile] d00k.livejournal.com 2002-02-13 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
hello...good to hear that you seem to be doing well considering...happy birthday. love ya

[identity profile] mactavish.livejournal.com 2002-02-13 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
Arrowroot is an effective cornstarch replacement. :)

[identity profile] krasota.livejournal.com 2002-02-13 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
yep, it is. i'm out and the store was out, too.

so i improvised. ;)

Yay!

[identity profile] klwalton.livejournal.com 2002-02-13 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
Glad you had such a great one!
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Yeah!

[identity profile] chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com 2002-02-13 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
so glad to hear the birthday thing went well and you're getting around all right. The dinner sounds mahhhhvelous. So you birthday'd with Buffy hunh? And you were able to leave the house afterwards? No vengence demon curse? ROFL....

happy belated birfday :)

[identity profile] tiggy.livejournal.com 2002-02-13 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
hope you had a good one!!
(sounds like you did besides the pooey dr. stuff and the icky drivin' stuff :))

[identity profile] absinthea.livejournal.com 2002-02-13 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
*muah* Happy VD darling! What a week for you...b-day and VD all in the span of 72 hours!! WOO!

[identity profile] ismene.livejournal.com 2002-02-13 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! MM cake. Mm cake with Spike...cake on Spike....*looks distracted*

[identity profile] riotkat.livejournal.com 2002-02-14 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Happy borthdya, and go jeff for baking!

[identity profile] sabethea.livejournal.com 2002-02-14 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
sounds like a good day :)

i made an orange cake today and dedicated it to your birthday (not that i was using you as an excuse or anything....)

[identity profile] krasota.livejournal.com 2002-02-14 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
glad i could be of use. ;)

sounds yummy.