carry on, cancels out

So for the past couple of months, my favorite radio show (The Jay and Kevin Show) has been saying carry on, cancels out.  Like seriously, at least once a morning every day.  I didn't know where they had picked up the saying until the other day when they were talking about their favorite you-tube videos of the year, which is where they apparently had picked up the phrase.  So I decided to watch it and see why it had stuck.  Funny.  Just really freaking funny my friends.  So here it is to brighten up your day the carry-on-cancels-out video.  Enjoy.

A little home-cooking

I guess I'm finally feeling better because yesterday I got the bug to cook dinner for Katie and mom.  And not just any cooking.  I decided to cook my first turkey. 

Now I know, turkey is not a particularly difficult meal to make - other then the whole not over-cooking it thing, but for some reason I just felt a little like it was a right of passage.  Turkey is one of those foods that feel very adult to make, like the first time you make a souflee (haven't done that yet), or the first time you host the family Christmas dinner. 

I found a delicious recipe for a herb-crusted turkey that I think turned out pretty delicious.  It had fresh sage and rosemary, garlic and ground mustard amoung its many ingredients.  I would be happy to pass on the recipe if anyone wants to give it a try.  It was awesome!

What to do while you're sick?

Sorry for the lag in posts, not much to report when you've been sleeping your days away trying to recover.  I actually am at school today, so I feel like that is a huge accomplishment for me.  I'm still not 100%, but I'm feeling a ton better.  Now to get rid of this disgusting cough!

While recouping, I spent a lot of time watching tv and reading, although the reading was hard up until last week as I usually couldn't keep my eyes open long enough to get more then a chapter done.  I did manage to finish a couple books though.  My favorite from the recovery period was Water For Elephants.  I honestly don't know why it took me so long to read this.  It's been on my reading list for ages! If you haven't checked it out, do so immediately.  It's a story told from alternating time periods: The narrator in the present (93 years-old), and at the turn of the century (when he's 23) and joins a traveling railroad circus as the veteranarian.  I'm not sure which parts of the story I liked better.  You ache for him at 93 fighting to be treated like a person instead of an patient, and you want to see what happens to him at 23 as he tries to move on after the death of both parents.  Great story line, and fun to read about the circus (alot of the circus stories Gruen includes are actual stories from her research). 

I also read a really clever young adult book called The Grimm Legacy about a girl who works in a library that checks out items instead of

books.  You can check out anything: rugs, clothes, records, tea cups.  Most stuff are ordinary everyday objects, but they also have special collectionslike the Wells Collection which has objects based on the novels of HG Wells, and the Grimm Collection which has magical objects based on the fairy tales of the Grimm's brothers and other fairy tale writers.  To get an object from the Grimm collection, you have to give something up.  Elizabeth gives up her sense of direction, and doesn't get it back when the object she borrows comes back and the magic is gone.  She and her fellow library pages have to figure out what's going on with the magic in the Grimm Collection before it's too late.  It was a really unique take on a fantasy book.  Lots of action and twists for our characters on their adventure to save the collection!

Mending?

Sadly, I'm still fighting whatever has attacked my system, but I'm definitely feeling better.  I even have long stretches of the day where I don't cough at all.  Of course, I'm still having sessions where I cough so much I throw up, so I'm not sure it's much of a trade of.  Dr. Decker put me on some antibiotics on Wednesday, and that seems to have helped quite a bit.  I'm not spending as much time sleeping, and I actually had enough energy to leave the house a couple times this weekend.

Mom, Katie and I braved the Home & Garden Show yesterday.  It was actually pretty lame, but it was nice to do some walking, my first real exercise in two weeks.  And there was a guy there from the Spokane Valley Fire Department (yes he was a hot fireman) with some info on plants that help reduce chances of fire, so I grabbed some literature on that for camp, and his card.  Maybe I can come up with some good questions for him...

Today, I felt good enough to keep my massage appointment, 80 minutes of bliss and pain.  I managed not to cough until the very end, so I felt good about that.  And I followed up with a little grocery shopping.  The three of us even went out to Applebee's for dinner since it's Sunday, and I don't have to fast on Sunday's from my Lenten discipline of no restaurants or eating out/ ordering in.  It was a nice treat, although I'm still worried I may pay for it later tonight since I haven't eaten much real food over the last two weeks.  Actually, that may be the only good part of this sickness.  A kick start to my diet.  I think I've lost about 10 pounds since I got sick.  Well, that's all my excitement for now.  Send up some prayers for a quick recovery my friends.  I'm really sick of being sick (and so are mom and Katie)!