Croix Parler

[Croix]

I'd like to use this pace for miscellaneous matters that don't fit elsewhere or you think I might help

Thanks

Croix

[mmMekitty]

Hello Croix,

I had forgotten that I had a 6-cup cupcake baking tray made from silicon It is very much like the old cupcake tins, which you might still be able to get in the larger muffin size.

Anyhow, I went & bought a set of individual silicon muffin baking dishes, or cups or whatever they are called. These have ruffled sides like patty cake paper do. II wasn't sure how they really would work, but they do. They didn't get floppy or melt while baking. The mmMuffin-cakes came out easily - barely missing a crumb! Admittedly, I also had smeared them with some margarine & dusted them with flour to be sure. It is good that they remain flexible so if necessary, I could loosen the sides to remove the cooked mmMuffin-cakes.

I began my 'special diet' today.

I made up some stew/soup today, using a liquid chicken stock, peeled potatoes, carrot (from frozen, which have no peel anyway), the tips from cauliflower & brocolli, & of-course, chicken pieces. I don't expect this sounds exciting, but it was quite edible, even though I cooked the veg longer than I usually like, to ensure they are really, really soft. I made enough to for two meals, but now, I'm feeling hungry & it's not even been 5 hours (as I write this).

For a scan tomorrow at 11am, I have to fast. I think even if I have a meal between 3-4 am, I'm going to be hungry by 9am.

I've got so used to having breakfast, I really don't like to have to skip it. For this scan I am only allowed sips of water, just to wet mouth, no swallowing. (What do I do, spit out into the street while riding in my support worker's car?)

& next Wednesday, for lunch I am permitted clear liquids....except I will be given lots of an awful liquid to drink & then be going back & forth to the bathroom. Hmm, wonder if I will sleep?

I don't know what time the procedures are to be done, but I hope it's early Thursday morning, so I can get some solid food into me again, sooner rather than later.

Hugzies,

mmMekitty

[mmMekitty]

Hi again, Croix,

When I first arrived in Australia, our neighbours had a wood stove. The Mrs would chop the wood which had been delivered, into smaller chunks.

My parents were shocked to realise they would have to use an outhouse. It was in the next year or two, when we, & other people in the area, got indoor toilets & outhouses disappeared. 

Keep warm, maybe beside the fireplace, you, Mrs C, Sumo, oh, what's you dog's dame again? Him too. Rugged-up altogether, with the Pesky Penguins, Inebriated Kiwis, yeah, everyone .... 💤, maybe.

What will happen to mmMarshmallows when I try to bake them in my mmMuffin-cakes? Will the cake mixture absorb the melted mmMarshmallows, or will they hold up to baking? Maybe both, just in a state of uncertainty, like Schrodinger's Cat? How many lives &/or unlives has Schrodinger's Cat? 

Making sure I was spelling his name correctly, I have discovered there is: Schrodinger's Cat Burglar video game. Since I can't see to play most games anymore, maybe this one will be one I can play?

Hugzies,

mmMekitty

[Croix]

Dear MK~

I had a look at the Schrödinger's Cat Burglar video game and I'm afraid I doubt you would enjoy it, although the characters' conversations are in text balloons they disappear quickly and refer to visual situations, not ideal. The game also requires a 3rd party platform called 'Steam" in order to run on a PC. Disappointing, sorry about that.

Yes, Mrs C, Foxy Dog, Sumo Cat and probably sundry penguins and inebriated kiwis are all snug and warm, with a strong cold wind gusting outside. Sadly Ms C has to lug in the wood (but not split it) as I'm unable to do so, she says it's worth it though as the fire warms the whole house, heat pumps only warm a room.

Plotting how to give me a hard time would be much more fun, particular if you can rope in ER and Paws  🙂

With the number of lives, I guess zero, nine or ∞ depending on your perspective(s).

Although the sound of marshmallow is delicious perhaps the marshmallow might be added after to prevent the 'glug' factor.

Yes I'm glad to say outhouses are a thing of the past in most places together with cut up squares of newspaper on a string. I remember building one for my in-laws over ½ a century ago when I met my first wife. The hard part always was emptying the bucket 🤢

Have not heard from LRK for a while

Croix

[mmMekitty]

Hi Croix, Mrs C & Menagerie, )with apologies to Foxy Dog, for forgetting his? name). I will try to do better).

LRC/LRK is in hiding, because I suspect, wishing to know nothing about my procedures next Thursday & also, not enjoying this Special Diet either. It's not that bad, I keep saying, we're not starving or anything.  The fish I bought turned out to be rather thin fillets, so two or three is required to satisfy us. It's true, though, we're not liking the V8 juice - 'cause maybe it has some V8 juice from a real V8 engine in it.

No, really, I just liked the idea of a cat burglar video game, if only the cat is a burglar & no burglars are stealing cats from their nice homes. If they are in bad homes, then, I'd be up for rescuing them.

Unless the video game is especially designed for people who are blind or have a severe visual impariment, the text-to-speech readers will not be able to recognise the text content of the game. I used to play Sims games, & more & more often I would be pausing the game to magnify my screen to read text, or to visually search for objects I had to send my Sim to collect. This takes too much time. & I finally was magnifying so much it made the print too blurry.

Noe, print is all too blurry whether I zoom using the Windows Magnifier or the Page Enlargement Magnifier or both together. & even so, I've got my nose just about on my tv )large tv I use as my PC's monitor),trying to read text or find buttons my tech won't identify, or when I can't seem to get to what I want via my keyboard easily.

I'm not sure where Paws & ER are lately. I imagine they will turn up here, you know, in their own time. I do miss the graceful stingray making gentle waves upon your iceberg, & the happy clicking of Paws-paw's claws on the roof of the igloo. I can try to imitate them, but I don';t think it would be the same. Swimming around your iceberg & dancing on your igloo at the same time would be quite a feat, [LRC pokes head out from under bed  with quizzical interest, emjoi].

I messed up making MmMuffin-cakes with banana bits, broke a plate in the process, but somehow, my stoove-top mmMuffin-cake, though burnt, still tastes good. I have to clean my oven tomorrow. 

Hugzies,

mmMekitty

[Paw Prints]

Hmmmmm... I think I spy a mischievous Puddy Tat & a wascally Walrus.

I have been popping in from time to time & reading along, just not posting much as my mind hasn't been in a good place this past month or so.

mmMekitty I am also on a bland diet as I have had a few days where I couldn't keep anything down. You are right it does leave a lot to be desired 🙄 It has been donkeys years since I last had a Dim Sim, but despite my nausea that is what I have been craving for days.  After two days of managing to keep electrolyte iceblocks, dry toast & a little porridge down, today I remembered I had chicken breasts in the freezer so I have poached them & just finished eating a small portion. My conclusion is that at the very least poached chicken needs to be eaten between two slices of very fresh bread spread with with lashings of butter or with lots of other yummy fillings! Just by itself it is disappointing.

Oh yes I remember growing up with an outhouse & the night soil man coming around to empty the buckets each night.  Thankfully Croix I missed the cut up newspapers period, though I do remember Dad saying the pages from the ha'penny novels were softer to use.  Though thinking back the toilet paper at the time was pretty terrible, being shiny on one side & rough on the other.

I've been pondering your problems with what the penguins & kiwis leave behind.   Well it is cold enough there that it would all be snap frozen, thereby eliminating (no pun intended) any pong, so I think you have a wonderful little money earner.  Call it eco-friendly soil enricher, put lots of pictures of cute penguins on it & flog it off at ridiculously high prices as being finest quality & limited availability.  Just don't mention the alcohol content acquired from the kiwis contributions. 😉

I hope you have managed a hearty feed this evening mmMekitty.

Hugs

Paws

[mmMekitty]

Hello Pawsy-Paws. It is so lovely to see you here, wearing your wonderful winter coat. I know spring is just around the corner, maybe when some rain goes by, or dumps all over 

parts of this country .... hope it doesn't stay too long. However, way south of that weather, on icebergs off their main continent of Antarctica, for all practical purposes, winter lasts all year.

I am grateful you have reminded me of these perennial freezing conditions. I can't imagine how the fact had passed me by.

The kiwis' contribution -I was thinking biofuel. That, combined with the remains of my V8 juice, which I am certainly not going to finish drinking, & a car could run like it's got a V10 motor.

I anticipate getting back to eating a healthy diet, soon. I hope you can, too, Pawsy-Paws. I have more things in the cupboard that I haven't needed this week, but that won't stop me eating them. Just not every day. 

I'm craving my peas & corn, & bigger bits of broccoli with stems, tomatoes, NOT peeling my potatoes, having multigrain bread, too.... I must wait, though I con't want to. 

& making mmMuffin-cakes with wholemeal flour, mmmm, brown sugar? Adding nuts, banana bits, or maybe strawberry pieces? Or maybe make them like blueberry mmMuffins? 

I think I've thought of everything I want to take to hospital with me, (no doubt too much), & it's getting to be late., so "Goodnight", Croix, Pawsy-Paws, & everyone.

Hugzies,

mmMekitty

[Croix]

Dear Paws~

I'm glad to hear from you and appreciate you may not have been feelng like posting for a while, sometimes one can read and not realy think of anything ot say. 

Not being able to eat properly sounds horrible, I'm not sure whet 'electrolyte iceblocks' are,  they don't sound very tasty. I hope the nausea goes way soon and you can eat whatever you fancy.

I have the opposite trouble, in order not to become a spherical walrus I have to diet, planning on getting  right down to humpty-dumpty shape. This is partly due to fighting greed 🙂 and partly due to not being able to do much exercise.

Your marketing idea for the residue scattered around the iceberg sounds pretty good. Do you think I should sell it still frozen or allow it to thaw? (I'm sure that pun was realy intended:) I"m not sure of the freezing point of alcohol anyway, probably very low. It might remain unfrozen anyway, that would certainly account for the inebriated kiwis never getting frostbite.

My in-laws place was right out in the country, no night-soil man to empty the bucket:( One think about newspapers and magazines. Once I visited a light house keeper's cottage, one that had not been used since the turn of the century. The walls were papered with layers of newspapers and illustrated magazines. It was fascinating to see a snapshot of 'Illustrated London News' and newspapers of the time. Frugal people light house keepers.

Croix

[Croix]

Dear MK~

We must have cross-posted, I was writing to Paws and saw your post pop up.  I'd not heard of V8 juice, in fact never heard of a V8 plant, sounds very exotic if unpalatable.

I hope you get to read this before you go into hospital, as I wanted to wish you as pleasant and brief a time as possible. I'm sure it is better to pack too much than miss something out.

I remember when Mrs C asked if she should take her phone in with her. She was going in for an operation and opted for an epidural rather than a general anesthetic. She was glad she did as she spent the same evening talking to all and sundry, instead of being bored witless on the ward. 

I'd go for the blueberry mmMuffins, a rare treat to look forward to. (I have heard of a blueberry plant so that's OK)

Croix

[Paw Prints]

Hello Croix & mmMekitty,

Croix these days you can get electrolytes in drink form, ice-block or I think even dissolvible tablet now.  They are a group of essential minerals we need, they include glucose, sodium, potassium & magnesium.  I can remember mum used to make us drinks with sugar, salt, cream of tartar plus bicarb soda to settle the stomach when we were ill as kids. The modern version do have flavouring added which makes them a bit more palatable.  Thankfully I feel much better today.

It is hard to get weight off.  I'm sure it has nothing to do with greed, limited mobility just makes it so much harder to not put it on in the first place, plus the weight makes it harder to exercise.  Some psych meds can also increase weight.

Oh yes!  mmMekitty I think biofuel is a brilliant idea.  We may need more Kiwis though & I fear the current iceberg might be a bit small.  Without letting a certain walrus catch on we clearly need to relocate everything to a larger iceberg so we can add to the igloo to fit the new kiwis in.  It will be easy to get a bigger iceberg, I know the whales 🐳 who helped to drag extra icebergs nearby a few months ago for the extravaganza found it such fun I'm sure they will be happy to do it with a larger one.  Apparently it can get a bit boring just swimming around all the time with not much to do.  We do need to think of a way to have a certain someone (Walrus) sleep through the relocation though or how to distract him so he doesn't notice he is being slid over.  I'm also thinking we will need a 3D printer to make model Kiwis to leave around NZ so they don't notice the drop in numbers there.  

mmMuffins with banana & walnut do sound very yum.  

hugs

Paws

[mmMekitty]

Hello Everybody!
I'm back with a brand-new whiz-bang 3D Printer I call the Click & Clone! It's so simple even your pets will be able to use it. Just Load the hopper with your favourite biomass, adding your least favourite flavours, such as V8 Juice, then, insert a sample of what you want more of, then click the 'Go' button & stand back as the clones begin to pop out.
Hurry, get your very own Click & Clone now - for free! (I've got lots because the first thing I cloned was my original Click & Clone.)

As you can see, I'm back. No mishaps, complications o anything too dramatic. But they did want me out yesterday, but my support worker could not be contacted. She was off having fun & stressful times with family & friends, well into the evening - footy, so, no, I had to stay & leave today as we'd originally expected.
I'd actually hoped for something which would explain what my digestive system is doing, & why bits f food sometimes get stuck in my throat, making me choke a bit sometimes.... so, I still don't know what's going on. I suspect it's kiwi & penguin feathers & LRC's brand new electric gflippers & wings set. I just knew that was a bad idea for a birthday prezzie, but the picture on the box looked so cute! LRC is zoomiing .above & below the water around Croix's iceberg ... & those birds better get hold of their own speed technology if LRC keeps catching them, or we'll be out of business before the Spring Equinox Sales begi.n

Back in my day, neighbours told us about putting out a bottle of beer at Christmas for the Sanitation Man, Milk Man, garbage men & anyone else who regularly delivered things to your house. &, yeah, they all were men.

As for losing weight, I've found it so hard with that goal in mind, I've decided my goal is to simply eat more healthily - you know, just keep trying to do that.

Hugzies, Croix, Pawsy-Paws & everyone,
mmMekitty