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kaberettA little while ago now, we ran out of angry with which to annoy the water. The place that sells more food-grade angry is (1) only open on weekdays, and (2) about halfway between us and Whipsnade Zoo -- and so we eventually mustered the wherewithal to pick a day for A to book off work so we could go on an Adventure.
(Today was also shaping up to be a not-great day pain-wise, so I decided I was going to Take Painkillers Damn It and duly did so. A few of hours into poking around the zoo, I began to notice that I was wilting; a few of minutes after that the alarm for Hey You're Due Another Dose went off. I took it. Twenty minutes later I was surprised to catch myself perking up significantly -- because it hadn't felt as though I was in pain, and it didn't feel like I was in less pain, even: it was just that I had been very tired and wanting to stop and rest and not doing a great job of keeping up conversation, and then all of a sudden I noticed that none of those were, any longer, the case. So: hurrah for painkillers that work!)
We did not get rained on. We met, among others, the Marabou storks; a fantastically rubbish burrowing owl; the rest of the owls; the baby white rhino; some teenage flamingoes who looked like they'd managed to find a can of paint to dip their front halve into while their tails remained baby-grey; A Parrot; the butterflies; the Fishes including the Ray; Several Lizards; and Many Snails. We also visited the baby elephant; the baby giraffe; the Asian Short-Clawed Otters, who were a small screaming squirmy knot; the goats.
And then we came home again and I caught up with day 6 of the Migraine World Summit, which included an extremely interesting, informative & encouraging talk about what to do if the new CGRP-targeting therapies don't work for you, including lots of explanatory neurobiology that I found Really Very Helpful Indeed; I turned the one remaining slice of beetroot bread into breadcrumbs for the purposes of making a smitten kitchen cookbook recipe ("courgette-stuffed courgettes with sorta salsa verde"), and was very startled by just how much it managed to look like mince; while we were waiting for that to finish baking we played Fluxx and word games and generally had a lovely evening.
I hope you too have had good days!
(Today was also shaping up to be a not-great day pain-wise, so I decided I was going to Take Painkillers Damn It and duly did so. A few of hours into poking around the zoo, I began to notice that I was wilting; a few of minutes after that the alarm for Hey You're Due Another Dose went off. I took it. Twenty minutes later I was surprised to catch myself perking up significantly -- because it hadn't felt as though I was in pain, and it didn't feel like I was in less pain, even: it was just that I had been very tired and wanting to stop and rest and not doing a great job of keeping up conversation, and then all of a sudden I noticed that none of those were, any longer, the case. So: hurrah for painkillers that work!)
We did not get rained on. We met, among others, the Marabou storks; a fantastically rubbish burrowing owl; the rest of the owls; the baby white rhino; some teenage flamingoes who looked like they'd managed to find a can of paint to dip their front halve into while their tails remained baby-grey; A Parrot; the butterflies; the Fishes including the Ray; Several Lizards; and Many Snails. We also visited the baby elephant; the baby giraffe; the Asian Short-Clawed Otters, who were a small screaming squirmy knot; the goats.
And then we came home again and I caught up with day 6 of the Migraine World Summit, which included an extremely interesting, informative & encouraging talk about what to do if the new CGRP-targeting therapies don't work for you, including lots of explanatory neurobiology that I found Really Very Helpful Indeed; I turned the one remaining slice of beetroot bread into breadcrumbs for the purposes of making a smitten kitchen cookbook recipe ("courgette-stuffed courgettes with sorta salsa verde"), and was very startled by just how much it managed to look like mince; while we were waiting for that to finish baking we played Fluxx and word games and generally had a lovely evening.
I hope you too have had good days!
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Date: 2023-03-15 07:21 am (UTC)Hooray for zoo and painkillers!
squash!
Date: 2023-03-15 08:46 am (UTC)I've made them at least twice, though for some weird mental block about "whole [pseudo]grains are Healthful and also can qualify something mostly composed of them as a Main Dish in a way breadcrumbs ...don't? even though whole bread slices with Stuff can a Main Dish make?" reasons I've only done it with the recommended quinoa subbed in for panko in the filling.
And I like them. (I also recommend, although it is subtle, the summer squash pizza on her website. For flavor it does Need like half the cheese to be proper (if possibly in my case domestic) Gruyere/similarly strongly flavored instead of mostly just cheap Swiss though...)
...also I am reminded that I could go to my own somewhat local zoo and avail myself of the access I currently have to it... Animals!
Am glad painkillers worked well for you despite pain per se not being the salient expression of what was going on, and hope the Migraine Summit info will continue helpful.
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Date: 2023-03-15 06:57 pm (UTC)*snorts* you are excellent at describing and we love it.
Hooray for the painkillers helping you & hooray a nice day. Sounds lovely.
-Wolf (sa/they) & Doom (he/him)
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Date: 2023-03-15 10:19 pm (UTC)Hurray for zoo and hurray for animals and hurray for painkillers that work and alarms that remind you!
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