Had a nice Xmas today with two of my three sons. We FaceTimed with the third for virtual Xmas gift unwrapping. Earlier this morning watched the new Matrix movie with the son who lives with me.
Had way too much food and candy. My sister sent my oldest son and me a Star Wars themed Insta-Pot!!!! It was a great hit. Now I’ll have to figure out how to use it.
well, just got it. used it to make quick bone broth and then soup for mom while she was sick. haven't really had a minute or the inclination to do more. I made bone broth three times. i can't believe how good it is and how fast. I have friends sending me tons of recipes tho ... will let you know as I use it more.
M 20+ T25+ S ~15.5 (BD) BD 4/6/15 D 12/23/16
"Someone I loved once gave me A box full of darkness. It took me years to understand, That this too, was a gift." ~ Mary Oliver
One of our favorite things to do with ours is egg bites. Think handheld frittata. We have 2 egg bites molds (one makes bites that are literally bite size and the other slightly larger so you can get 2 bites from that). Spray the molds with cooking spray, fill each well about 1/3 full of preferred frittata fillings, fill to fill line with beaten egg. Easy, fast, freeze and reheat well so you could meal prep really easy with them.
Me 52, H53 Bomb drop 9/29/2014 Divorce from XH final 12/17/2014 Marriage #2 12/31/2019 5 adult (step)daughters (3 from XH's first marriage, 2 from current H's previous relationships) 6 grandkids
Woke up in the middle of the night from a weird dream about my exH. Weird first of all because I almost never recall my dreams, and I almost never have dreams about my ex. Weird also because he was speaking to me, which I generally avoid.
Anyway, in the dream he told me two things. One was that he had written a book about arthritis (NOT his specialty). I ordered the book later and it was clearly self-published, with terrible cover art.
He also told me that he was moving to L.A. That would be totally weird and unlike him!
Don’t know why the dream, except maybe that my middle son told me a couple days ago that my ex has developed diabetes. Which seemed odd at first, since he’s slim and athletic and by all accounts eats like a bird, but he does have psoriasis which increases your risk of diabetes.
It wasn’t here nor there - I mean, he’s a 45 minute drive away now, that would be 90 minutes, not much different. It was more that it would be weirdly out of character. He lives at the beach at his favorite surf spot. L.A. with its crowds and traffic would not be anywhere he would normally want to live.
For those who still doubt the need to get vaccinated or boosted, this is straight from the frontline hospital workers (also, pediatric hospitalizations in the under 5s who can’t get vaccinated have increased markedly): “ Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of critical care services and the Covid-19 unit at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center, said of the roughly 50 patients admitted to the hospital’s Covid unit in the last four weeks, 100 percent of them were unvaccinated.
He said patients who needed to be admitted typically have “shortness of breath, high fevers, being dehydrated like crazy.” He said those who are unvaccinated also “have more illness. What I mean by more illness is more pneumonia, not just a little bit of pneumonia, you have a lot of pneumonia.” “The people that are coming in unvaccinated have a much larger burden of illness in the lungs than those who are vaccinated,” he said.
Meanwhile, those who had received the booster shot were “almost back to normal” within several days, he said. Those who had not received the booster have tended to “still feel sick after a week, a week and a half or so,” he added.
Patients who have received the booster shot may still have symptoms such as a sore throat, a lot of fatigue and muscle pain, said Dr. Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. Those who are vaccinated but have not got the booster “looked worse, they looked like they felt pretty darn bad. But, again, they didn’t need to be hospitalized,” he said.
"I’m not seeing people who have got two doses and a booster and are coming in profoundly short of breath," he said. "It’s just not happening."
Those who are vaccinated but have not got a booster have shown symptoms such as more coughing, more fever and more fatigue than those who had received a booster, he said. Meanwhile, Spencer said almost every single patient he has seen who needed to be admitted was unvaccinated.”
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My sister sent my oldest son and me a Star Wars themed Insta-Pot!!!! It was a great hit. Now I’ll have to figure out how to use it. 
