KK Where did you go?
Hello Everyone!
I am sorry that I have not had a post since the 17th. My mom’s birthday was on the 20th, she turned 71. Since I didn’t get to spend her 70th with her, I wanted to make sure that I spent this year with her.
So, while I was visiting her, and staying at a friend’s house, I fell down a flight of wooden stairs my first morning there.
I discovered that I don’t bounce like I thought. I have been home since Friday evening and living in my bed for most of the day. When I finally get up, I am in the shape of a 90° angle. I ended up with a red swath about 2.5 inches wide and probably 5-7 inches long and a bruise(s) so deep from where I landed that it is still developing on my back. I spend a couple hours on the couch, laying down, watching Netflix until I am burned out. This has also led to a relatively sad diet. Oh, and no coffee for the last 3 days – I’m out of milk. Going to the grocery store sounds like too much work.
I have one rib that is more painful than the rest, but I don’t think it is broken, just very deeply bruised. This is the second time I have fallen this year (remember my ice slide) and it is not fun.
Today I am feeling a little bit better and a little more concerned about my very sad diet. So, I am making a potato soup that starts with a traditional mirepoix (carrots, celery, onion) with garlic, three different colored potatoes, fresh rosemary, and turkey stock. I will add some brockwurst and spinach later. Now that the potatoes are cooked, I will blend some of it, to give it some thickness, then add in the brockwurst and the spinach (or I have some tatsoi outside – maybe that would be yummier).
Well, I feel better now that I have let you all know that I didn’t drop off the face of the earth. In the event that you are interested in the recipe, drop me a line! You know I enjoy sharing. 
P.S. – for those of you that have left comments and awards that I haven’t answered yet – I will, please be patient with me.
I love you all!
KK
Sorry to hear about the fall. Hope you are healed soon
Hi
How have you been? Haven’t heard from you in a while hope all is going well. I am getting better, slowly. I can tell I’m at the fidget stage, the brain is starting to get up and running and the body says “yeah, right.”
Drop me a line sometime!
Glad you are feeling better and cook soup again. Chin up and wishing you well! ~Hugs Ute x
Awww – thank you. I just want you to know that I cannot cook bacon without thinking about you!
That is sweet, and I have to confess I haven’t made the soup yet you wrote for me. I have printed it out and put it in my selfmade cook book, I am struggling with an awful cold at them moment, so soon I shall attempt it….. I will let you know
Ute!
No worries, get better. The soup can wait (although it might make you feel better –
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Take care of your self, get better and we’ll talk about soup making when your feeling up to it. BTW – I made more bacon last night
Nice, so you thought of me…….
Cooking bacon will forever be linked to you in my mind. Isn’t that funny how we do things like that?
So true, surely when I do the soup, you will pop into my mind….. let’s hope I don’t burn it…..
Well, if you do, think of it this way, blame it on the sassier part of my personality coming out!
K.K. , you never can be left alone…l
Please ,recover soon !
At least not in that house! I am doing better and I will talk to you soon. Hope you are doing well and are not so busy.
Take it easy on yourself and heal quickly! xo
Thank you – it is going slowly but that is ok. Thank you so very much for the get well wish!
Wow – that is a set of stairs! I hope you are ok and recover fast. But don’t worry too much about your diet – recovery food whilst lying prone on the sofa is an essential part of first aid! Trust me, I’m (not) a doctor.
How are you doing? It is nice to see you. You know, I can’t look at your gravatar or see your name without thinking about coffee! With Utesmile it is bacon. (Oh, dear, someone help me, I am truly a foodie.)
I agree – it’s knowing other people are naughty too that almost ‘gives us permission’. If it makes you feel better, on my diet yesterday I had a diet shake for breaky and lunch. In between, I had 3 crumpets dripping with butter and blueberry jam, 4 kids lollies and for dinner, sausage and egg.
Oh – and did I mention the little bag of chocolate chips, meant for adding to cake recipes. Well, what can I say, it was the only chocolate I can find.
And I am not even recuperating. No excuses here.
Do you think my diet will work this time?
Haaaaaaaaaaaaa! I just love it. Here’s one for you. So I have to take medicine for the cancer and the medicine I take for the cancer gives me a troublesome side effect. So now I also take a medicine for the side effect. Except somewhere in there one of the two medicines wakes me up in the middle of the night and I EAT. Sometimes I don’t know what until the next am. I have consumed bags of chips, cookies, made popcorn and brought it to bed, peanut butter and who knows what else. It is way to dangerous to have any fun food in the house, because I’ll eat it when I’m asleep and won’t even get the chance to enjoy it!
A secret sleep eater! Wow, I’m now imagining waking up to crumbs in bed and knowing I would be blaming Mr G. Maybe you should out out bowls or ready prepared cucumber sticks and lettuce. I could probably diet if I didn’t know I was doing it.
Now that’s an idea! I think it’s really the crunch I’m going for, so I could pre-make celery sticks with peanut butter and leave them in the fridge. We could call it the Sleeper’s Diet. I bet we’d make a mint.
There would be so much health and safety red tape we would have to start it as a secret diet to spread the word. Sleep dieters revolution.
Well, you never know, red tape, healthy and safety be hanged, we just might start a revolution. Tonight before I go to bed I am having peanut butter on toast. Maybe that will do the trick!
KK, ouch! The picture of those stairs truly covers a 1000 words. Glad you are feeling better – didn’t it hurt to pick stuff from the garden or, maybe you had it on hand. Glad you are back online. Best ~ Huntmode
Hi!
Ow, ow, ow, still owing (truly a big baby). Good question about the garden! I have a very interesting set up where I am – the garden is above waist height (take a look here – third photo http://wp.me/p2zGQ7-10A). So no problem there. This year I am thinking I should level the dirt, but I will need help with that.
I’m going slow, still spending a lot of time sleeping, and things are still painful but not as bad. I really hurt one of my ribs – but will not worry about it until I see my doc on the 7th. If there is still a problem then, I can tell her.
So nice to see you! Hope you are doing well.
Yikes! All the best wishes for a speedy recovery. Those steps really do look tricky.
Oh Jody, it was awful and I was so scared. Going up the stairs, you can put your whole foot on the stair – like normal. I didn’t think about it. So, when I started down, I put my foot down the way you normally would. Except, the stairs are so close, you can’t. In order to go down the stairs you have to place your entire foot sideways.
I was staying a couples of nights to test the place out. I’m so glad I did. There is only the bedroom upstairs. I don’t want to be in a position where I have to get downstairs quick and I don’t remember. Or, I have a guest over and they forget too.
I’ve been home bound for almost a week now, laying down, taking it slow.
Thank you for your well wishes. I’m simply going to continue to take is slow.
I hope you are doing well, I love seeing that you have come by, it always makes me smile!