Welp sick in Bittersweet

Its been over 18 months since the last time I can remember being sick. I remember when i tested positive for covid but had no symptoms. But i dont get sick often. Im overdue.

L was sick all week well for two weeks really. Pretty sure it was covid. I kept him home while feverish and sent him to school after that which is what the CDC says to do for all viral flus including covid.  It took me a couple weeks to start feeling sick. No one else is so there is that.

I dont feel SUPER sick either. My head hurts, stuffy, a light cough sometimes. No fever so technically I can go to work tomorrow. Im debating. I may, Depends.

I had to do a little bit of weekend cooking. I had cream cheese about to go bad so i made a cheesecake. I did get mad because Tony wanted a graham cracker crust and I didnt have anything prepped and my head is starting to hurt more, I was like I can do it without but he really wanted it. So I had to make the crust. I got really miffy about that. 

I also had gotten a bunch of bananas on sale and needed to get them whipped and frozen. The wont last another couple of days before they are bad.  I got some soopercubes and oh my god im in love. They are silicone freezer cubes in measurements. You freeze your food in it then pop them out of the mold and into the freezer bags for storage. So I have 4 2 cup molds. I took out the turkey soup I made for Thanksgiving left overs and put the banana in it. Now i have 8 cups of banana frozen perfectly for bread ( two loaves per cube) and A baggie left over which if i was feeling better, i would have just made bread today. But fuck it. Im not. 

I do have 10 lbs of apples I need to do, but I dont think i have it in me. Im not hungry, but i ate a banana anyway. I was going to make ready to go pie filling ( dice season stew freeze) so all i have to do is dump a frozen cube in the pie plate/crust and its ready to bake. But i just feel run down. They will keep. If they dont, its a wasted 10 bucks. Ive been putting it off for a couple weeks because I didnt want to peel 10 lbs of apples. Even with the little roundy peeler. I should have done it last week. I was planning on apple pie cinnamon rolls this weekend. Yeah its not happening. Those are energy intensive plans. Freezing banana puree and cheesecake isnt ( its not, the kitchen aid does all the work. I just dump shit in it and blend, then dump into a pan... even the crust is just dump the crackers into my ninja blender cup, blend, microwave butter and suger. Mix and press, its not hard) 

The last thing I did was throw together a sourdough starter. Had to get another one going. I think the last time, the problem I ran into was too much starter and keeping it going. From what im reading, You should start with a tablespoon of flour and 1.5 of water. I put it in a broken handled coffee mug and put a bag on it, Sourdough starter, DONT TOUCH. lol. For my mother in law who likes to mess with shit that isnt hers. 

A couple co workers asked me when im putting out a cookbook. I actually have been making these pretty recipe pages as i go along making and adapting recipes.  A few others ask me where my tiktok of all this shit is lol. Soooo. im going to try that. My granola bar video has a few hundred likes. Considering i never post anything, dont hashtag anything. Dont bother trying.... not too bad lol. Maybe when I feel better ill try. 
For Christmas, i want to get some small canning jars and make home made instant pudding mix for some coworkers. I was thinking it would be a nice gift for people. I usually knit or crochet things. But ive been working on this amazing gingerbread blanket and im kinda yarned out right now. 

Im sad that I missed the parade of lights last night. I felt too crappy to go out. 

My meds are wearing off and T is hogging the bathroom like a man. So I cant go get more dayquil. Shit makes me feel better. 

Oh yesterday we took Ch to the store. After a year of only wearing black. he wanted blue jeans and band tees? ok... We made himn try them on. Skinny ass kid wanted 36 32s. he fits a 28 32, but compromised and let him get 30s. They are too big but he wants them baggy. He even picked the super cheap blue jeans ( 16 bucks a pair at walmart? ....) Then he got 4 band tees. Now he wants some new shoes. He bought red ones a while back and wont wear them. Anyone know how to dye red shoes black.... Shoes are expensive to just not wear a pair because they are red. Especially big shoes like this. They were $75 and we tried to argue against the red. Now here we are. and i dont want to be like tough shit wear the red. Because hes wearing his old shoes and I caught him with tape and superglue trying to fix the sole but still wont wear the red. I would rather just dye them another color and maybe he would be ok with it. 

I got a wild hair and felt better post meds and made Irish Soda Bread in my Dutch oven. I read to put yeastless breads in a Dutch oven to trap the moisture because it makes the crust thinner and more evenly cooked. I almost put it in the cast iron but thought I would try it this way. 
T started a loaf of regular bread in the machine. 

I saw some of my green apples are bad. Sadness. Oh well. I dont have it in me to do THAT Much. Im going to go back to reading my book and debating on work tomorrow.