clean(s)ing continues..
clean(s)ing continues..
nothing about my digestion today. Well other than i weighed myself again today and i am down to 186, but my waistline is still holding steady at 37” and change. One thing that I’ve noticed: Large shirts fit me now. Increasingly my XL shirts look like fashions from Omar the Tentmaker.
On Saturday, i did a little cleaning action on the piano and the bookshelf near it. Got both cleared off. Michelle can play the piano now, but her hands are out of shape for such a thing. Practice could help, looking forward to hearing the results.
Yesterday i was stir crazy in the house, so we took a drive. First to Boulder, to buy the last ingredient for a cordial that we are making. The cordial is called “Aphrodesia”. For those who don’t know what a cordial is (and that would have included me a couple months ago) it’s a mixture of spices in brandy. My friend Dana in Detroit turned us on to it, and it reminded me a bit of Damiana Lite. The last ingredient we needed was black cardamom, we ended up having to go to an Indian grocery store to find it. what fun it is to learn how to make a new concoction.
Having fulfilled that mission, we decided to drive up boulder canyon. But i didn’t really feel like going to Nederland, so I turned off on the first turnoff i could. A long mountain drive later, a while after the road turned from pavement to washboard dirt, we ended up in Gold Hill. This is an interesting little place, a little hamlet composed, seemingly, of log cabins. I’m talking like 30-50 houses within a mile, but way way up in the mountains. We stopped into a pottery shop to look around and ask directions for the other way back to boulder that i knew existed. Te guy at the shop told us the right way, that it took us into Boulder via Mapleton (so if you ever want to visit gold hill, just take mapleton towards the foothills, and keep going) I asked the dude if they got snowed in frequently. He said yes, but in a nice way. Guess when you have that many people all living close together in a blizzard there’s a bit of comeradery. I couldn’t help wondering how the underground economy worked in a place like that.
when we got home I decided to burn some cardboard boxes that had filled up the firepit after last weekend’s clean sweep. Well, once you get a fire going, it seems a good idea to keep it going, and before i knew it I’d cut down a half dozen dead sumacs from the hedgerow and tossed them into the fire. I started pulling bindweed from around the pit, and it got hot enough, and i was sitting close enough that my face was a bit flushed (read: light 1st degree burns)
After this, decided to do something with my hair. The last time i felt like i wanted to “do something with my hair” i ended up with a mohawk. This time i decided to dye it blue. I’d gotten the dye a week or two ago, and checked with boss man to see if he’d care.. he didn’t, but said he’d laugh at me. Well he’s on vacation this week so he won’t see it until it’s much more faded than today. But what the heck, it’s cheaper than a corvette.
Last week i got my new hat (think i mentioned it here already), but i didn’t like how it looked all brand new, so i tossed it in the washer. One wavy brimmed hat later, i have my hat, but i realize that it’s probably almost out of season.
Oh yeah, it’s chilly now. Yea fall!! (there’s a theme like that going in many of my friends’ LJ’s, had to put in my $0.02)
This evening we went to idaho springs to sit in the tubs, still more cleansing and detox. Damn, i’m hungry, and almost broke down for some of them yummy chicken fried elk steaks at Tommyknocker’s. I was a good boy, however, and didn’t do that, but I’m not sure it wasn’t just because someone else was driving. Sitting in the tub was very gratifying.
Oh, talked to mom.. she’s got two more chemo treatments after this week (she’s counting it as 2 more, seems better.) ANd for the first time, i asked if she’s eaten any of the brownies. Nope, despite she’s losing a lot of weight because of lack of appetite. I told her that she should eat the brownies, but she said that she didnt have much pain. I said that they’d give her more appetite, end of lecture. (don’t wanna push this on her, right?)
anyways, this was originally supposed to just be something to have under my new userpic. Hope y’all like it.. (the pic, that is)