Remember last year I told you I was no longer taking over-the-counter pain meds for headaches? Yeah, about that. Apparently I decided to punt on that today. I've had an entire week of migraines (which doesn't happen very often) so I am frustrated and pissed and also beyond grumpy (pls send Ts&Ps to my spouse). This morning I woke up with no headache (for the win) but a really bad, stabbing pain in my left shoulder (trapezius, I think) and neck.
I've told you before that neck/shoulder pain is often a migraine pre-cursor for me, but after six days in a row of taking migraine meds, I really didn't want to take them again. Not only because I just didn't want to, but because I don't want to run out before my next refill date. So I tried stretching, I tried icing it, I tried meditating, to no avail. So about an hour ago I thought fuckit and took three advil, an extra-strength tylenol, and an aspirin. I feel better. Maybe not 100%, but better. (Also a Diet Dr. Pepper. I mean. It was an emergency.)
In other news, I've been on a cooking binge. Starting a couple of weeks ago, suddenly nothing in the fridge sounded good for breakfast or lunch. I still have not solved this problem, especially not for breakfast, but I've been making big pots of various things for lunch. I don't usually cook for lunch, but if I make a big pot of something and it lasts for several days, I can live with that.
One of the things I tried was the famous Marry Me Chicken recipe (there are a million versions out there, that link is to the one that popped up first in a google search). But I did it in a crockpot using chicken thighs. It was OK. I thought the flavors would transfer, but it was very bland. I kept adding tomato paste and salt and lemon juice and even a half a teaspoon of brown sugar but could not perk it up. Did not stop us from eating it, but can't really recommend.
As we've discussed ad nauseam, I'm not all that interested in cooking, so now I'm trying various different kinds of veggie soup-- the kind where you sauté onions and celery, then dump in a bunch of veggies and enough broth to cover, then cook the snot out of it. Kidding. Simmer for a couple of hours on the back of the stove. These have been good, but so far nothing that I'm excited enough to share.
It has occurred to me that I might be becoming vegetarian in my old age. I'd never be 100% vegan, and probably not even 100% vegetarian (vegan is no animal products at all, vegetarian is no meat/poultry/pork/fish but you still eat animal products like eggs, cheese, yogurt, and honey). I think I'm too old to be 100% anything, actually. But more and more often meat just doesn't sound good. That might be part of why the Marry Me Chicken recipe didn't work for me.
And finally-- my Wordle streak was up to 178 days or something like that (173?) until I missed curse/nurse/purse last weekend, dammit. I'm considering skipping every Sunday so that I don't feel pressured to do it every day, as I sometimes did before that. Right. Like that's going to happen.
I am possibly overthinking this. ha.
Anyway. I don't know why I thought you'd want to know all this but here you go.
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