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May 09, 2005

Weekends, Colds and Doctors Appointments

Friday night after work I went to the Idle Rich Pub with friends and had a munch needed beer. I had been mentioning to quite a few people that I needed a drink for sometime and it finally came Friday night. All in all, the end of last week was pretty good. I found snow cones and a paycheck on Thursday, got a Beer Friday, and Saturday I went apartment hunting, found a cheap place to get my car washed and detailed, and went to Tannah's to work on her office. Then I went home and colored my hair. I accidently fell asleep that night before my hair was completely dry and I woke up Sunday morning with a full-fledged sore throat. I made it to work Sunday evening and brought home 3 bowls of soup to doctor myself with. Later that evening I slathered my neck, chest and nose with vicks, wrapped myself up in towels and attempted to sleep.

Today I got to sleep late and went to the Neurologist at 9:30am. It was a typical new patient appointment.. but was followed up by my "begging for drugs" before I left. The prescription for two of the three medicines I take for migraines have run out of refills and I timed this appointment just in the nick of time. After the appointment, my throat still bothering me I decided to stop and get lunch before I headed to work. I ate lunch at El Fenix. The soft sour cream chicken enchilada, cheese enchilada, rice and refried beans felt really good on my sore throat.

I got to work and "TheExcelLady" was apparently sick today because she wasn't here when I got here at 11:53 and hasn't shown up yet. So what did I do for the past 6 hours? Send emails, read the news on the internet, read blogs and back-blogs, wrote a formula on my excel time - spreadsheet since I found out that the comptuer system rounds our time to the nearest quarter hour. Sound like fun? Actually I'm really bored and really getting tired of being bored. If they want to pay me to sit here they really need to pay me more.

I am supposed to have class at 7pm but I am probably not going to make it. I went online and checked in at CareNow which is a doctor's clinic that has hours until 10pm. You check in online and then they call you when they are ready for you to drive to the clinic. They called not long after I checked in to confirm the phone number, etc. and said they would call back when they were ready for me. So, until then I will just sit here some more, and help make up for the time I missed this morning at my other doctor's appointment.

When I get out of my doctor's appointment, I will am planning on going to the drug store to refill all my drugs and then going home to make my favorite sick food. I know its weird stuff, but I love it. When I was a kid, my mother couldn't get me to eat chicken noodle soup for anything.. and I wasn't that fond of bread either. So she started making Tuna Noodle .. and I started eating both.

Tuna Noodle starts off with an envelope/package of Liptons Chicken Noodle Soup, made according to the directions on the box. Then in another pot, make a roux with butter and flour. Once that has had a chance to cook together, pour the prepared chicken noodle soup over the roux and bring to a boil (the roux makes it thick, for those of you who dont cook much.) As it is heating up to a boil, dump in a can of tuna and mix it all together. After it boils, bring it down to a simmer for about 10 minutes. When ready to serve, place a couple of slices of bread on a plate and cover with the tuna/soup mixture. YUM! It is some good sick/comfort food and I cant wait to get some to eat tonight.

Well, I'm tired of sitting here. I guess I'm gonna move on to the car and start heading towards the doctor's office. Maybe if I'm close by when they call then I can get out of there faster and get home and in bed earlier. I may even get home in time to lay on the couch and watch one of the last episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond and one of my favorite shows - Two and a Half Men.

Night.

Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at May 9, 2005 05:42 PM

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