I was mostly out of commission yesterday.
It wasn’t the leftovers of birthday night – which was full of many delicious enchiladas from Barrio!
It was the 10am upper endoscopy. My third in three years to monitor my heartburn condition. Usually they’re no big deal. Hooked up to several monitors – they spray the back of your throat with a numbing concoction – then some drugs that make you pass out for about 15 minutes.
Yesterday the pass-out drugs didn’t work. So I was awake for the whole thing. Rolled on my side – a mouth guard (with a hole in it) strapped around my head – I gagged and coughed the whole time as they kept saying “breathe through your nose” (which didn’t work). I could feel the tube in my stomach as they took biopsies. Thoroughly gross and upsetting.
So I slept yesterday afternoon away.
The highlight of the day was making Indian-spiced chili. Another recipe from 660 Curries – this one was a vegan bean chili with a fresh curry spice mixture – and several cups of pulsed pinenuts/cashews/pistachios (CC remarked earlier how low-fat it was – until it was time to add the equivalent of three cups of peanut butter!).
While it was cooking I wondered if it would even vaguely remind us of chili – but the potential downside was a huge pot of curry, so I wasn’t worried.
Not surprisingly, it was delicious. The kidney beans and bits of tomatoes grounded it in the “chili” tradition.
Almost no plans this weekend. Pizza night tonight. Watching The Wire. Going to Home Depot – we bought Maggie an indoor litter box but she refuses to use it because the gravel base is unsturdy. I’m hopeful that swapping the gravel with Astroturf will convince her to revisit the contraption!
It wasn’t the leftovers of birthday night – which was full of many delicious enchiladas from Barrio!
It was the 10am upper endoscopy. My third in three years to monitor my heartburn condition. Usually they’re no big deal. Hooked up to several monitors – they spray the back of your throat with a numbing concoction – then some drugs that make you pass out for about 15 minutes.
Yesterday the pass-out drugs didn’t work. So I was awake for the whole thing. Rolled on my side – a mouth guard (with a hole in it) strapped around my head – I gagged and coughed the whole time as they kept saying “breathe through your nose” (which didn’t work). I could feel the tube in my stomach as they took biopsies. Thoroughly gross and upsetting.
So I slept yesterday afternoon away.
The highlight of the day was making Indian-spiced chili. Another recipe from 660 Curries – this one was a vegan bean chili with a fresh curry spice mixture – and several cups of pulsed pinenuts/cashews/pistachios (CC remarked earlier how low-fat it was – until it was time to add the equivalent of three cups of peanut butter!).
While it was cooking I wondered if it would even vaguely remind us of chili – but the potential downside was a huge pot of curry, so I wasn’t worried.
Not surprisingly, it was delicious. The kidney beans and bits of tomatoes grounded it in the “chili” tradition.
Almost no plans this weekend. Pizza night tonight. Watching The Wire. Going to Home Depot – we bought Maggie an indoor litter box but she refuses to use it because the gravel base is unsturdy. I’m hopeful that swapping the gravel with Astroturf will convince her to revisit the contraption!
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