Monday miscellany

in which our plucky heroine gradually improves...

My ravaged jawbone must be beginning to heal, as I have been sleeping through the middle of the night take medication alarms. Of course that means I now awaken desperately needing ibuprofen, but I'm taking it as a positive sign. The other small good news is that so far I am not being plagued by the acute sensitivity to cold/heat that occurred after the previous surgery (fingers crossed that this remains the case, because summer)

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~ creativity challenge ~
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I decided to take a short crafting break today and start making a new companion for Nandina. I've been fascinated for a while about the technique of "spun cotton" and thought that it might be a possible way to create alternative miniature doll/animal heads. For some reason, I want to make Nandina a fox-headed friend, and since I have all the supplies needed, this afternoon I began by sculpting a foil armature...

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I'm doing a bit better this go round at figuring out food with interesting flavors that doesn't require chewing. Still super annoying, but I am grateful that I have options. The basics are yogurt (mixed with a spoonful of whey protein and a spoonful of flaxseed meal, and sometimes a spoonful of fruit sauce), softly scrambled eggs, rice noodles cooked to mush, (with something added to them such as a spoonful of boil in bag Indian food mashed to a puree). Other flavorful no-chew meals are a few spoonfuls of five flavor eggplant, or tuna salad (sans any crunchy bits), or mashed veggies of one sort or another, roasted zucchini, or steamed sweet potato... Tonight I will cook up some fresh spinach, chop it very finely, and add it to the bone broth I made yesterday, and stir in some beaten egg, for a variation on egg drop soup. I rarely eat soy products, but decided as part of my grocery order that a container of Toby's Tofu Pate would be yet another different flavor, and I included a pint of ice cream, since I have been being very good indeed.

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beauty in the time of isolation:

Campsis radicans aka "trumpet vine"
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July SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	-	fabric stash sorted/culled	yard waste bin
2	-	lower L molar surgery	recycle bin
3	-	Nandina painted shoes	big bag of fabric
4	-	-	big bag of fabric
5	-	-	big bag of fabric
6	x	x	big bag of fabric
7	x	x	x
8	x	x	x
9	x	x	x
10	x	x	x
11	x	x	x
12	x	x	x
13	x	x	x
14	x	x	x
15	x	x	x

today's gratitude - homeostasis, ie the tendency of things to return to their normal state, as my body continues to do its very best to heal itself.