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thistlechaserBeing sick is getting really, really old. This is day four of not being able to swallow. Every time I lie down, stuff backs up into my throat which of course makes me have to swallow, which hurts as bad as heck. I'm very ready to go to the doctor on Monday.
I've been trying to avoid dairy food, since that'd just make me more stuffy = more painful swallowing, but man, I never before noticed how my diet revolves around dairy. I had some soup on Thursday and yesterday I had nothing but tea and a bit of chocolate. Today I was hungry so I gave in and had some pizza. Oh, and some apples, but that totally didn't work out:
Someone posted an easy recipe for baked apples: Just slice an apple, toss in a couple spoonfuls of brown sugar and cinnamon, then bake at 350 for ten minutes. I had apples I needed to use up, and I figured that would be soft to swallow, so I tried making it. Blech! They tasted like nothing (even though I thought I put too much brown sugar and cinnamon in), and were soggy, droopy apples. Blech.
Didn't walk yesterday or today, but I'm tired just from walking around the apartment so I don't feel too guilty. In retrospect, walking Thursday in the rain when I was sick was probably a bad idea. I'm stupid, yes.
In anime news: Infinite Ryvius is rocking my socks. I've watched 15 eps in, what, two days? Totally Lord of the Fly-ish, very very very cool. Because a certain someone kept poking me to try it again, I downloaded Cowboy Bebop to give it a second chance. Watched one ep. Was majorly "eh" about it. Hated most of the music (especially the opening theme), hated the character designs, was eh about the art, and yawned through the story. Will give it one more chance before deleting it.
When I saw it available for downloading, I grabbed a copy of Pimsleur's Comprehensive Japanese (Pimsleur is supposedly the best way to learn a language outside of a classroom). Unlike German (the only other language I ever studied), Japanese feels like nothing more than random syllables strung together in a totally nonsensical way. It's interesting, but really hard; instead of memorizing just vocabulary and grammar rules, you need those two plus extra stuff. Like "ka" added to the end of a word to make it into a question. ...or maybe it wasn't ka. I've forgotten already! Heh. And you could add some other sound to the end of a word to make it a negative. (Yes, I need to listen to lesson one again.) Boy, I'm glad not to be learning this in a classroom. If anyone else heard all the mistakes I make, I'd die of embarrassment!
I've been trying to avoid dairy food, since that'd just make me more stuffy = more painful swallowing, but man, I never before noticed how my diet revolves around dairy. I had some soup on Thursday and yesterday I had nothing but tea and a bit of chocolate. Today I was hungry so I gave in and had some pizza. Oh, and some apples, but that totally didn't work out:
Someone posted an easy recipe for baked apples: Just slice an apple, toss in a couple spoonfuls of brown sugar and cinnamon, then bake at 350 for ten minutes. I had apples I needed to use up, and I figured that would be soft to swallow, so I tried making it. Blech! They tasted like nothing (even though I thought I put too much brown sugar and cinnamon in), and were soggy, droopy apples. Blech.
Didn't walk yesterday or today, but I'm tired just from walking around the apartment so I don't feel too guilty. In retrospect, walking Thursday in the rain when I was sick was probably a bad idea. I'm stupid, yes.
In anime news: Infinite Ryvius is rocking my socks. I've watched 15 eps in, what, two days? Totally Lord of the Fly-ish, very very very cool. Because a certain someone kept poking me to try it again, I downloaded Cowboy Bebop to give it a second chance. Watched one ep. Was majorly "eh" about it. Hated most of the music (especially the opening theme), hated the character designs, was eh about the art, and yawned through the story. Will give it one more chance before deleting it.
When I saw it available for downloading, I grabbed a copy of Pimsleur's Comprehensive Japanese (Pimsleur is supposedly the best way to learn a language outside of a classroom). Unlike German (the only other language I ever studied), Japanese feels like nothing more than random syllables strung together in a totally nonsensical way. It's interesting, but really hard; instead of memorizing just vocabulary and grammar rules, you need those two plus extra stuff. Like "ka" added to the end of a word to make it into a question. ...or maybe it wasn't ka. I've forgotten already! Heh. And you could add some other sound to the end of a word to make it a negative. (Yes, I need to listen to lesson one again.) Boy, I'm glad not to be learning this in a classroom. If anyone else heard all the mistakes I make, I'd die of embarrassment!
