Training Log Archive: Yukon King

D working today, just ordered food for Christmas II & am vastly overstimulated by visits to Jamie O's & Emeril's websites - decided to deploy JO's south-of-France influenced (flavor topnotes smokey salty pancetta w/ touch of sweet apricot-lemon-nutmeg) turkey stuffing into a butterflied rolled turkey breast, & did not see exact suitable EL pumpkin tart recipe, but his ingredient lists inspired concept of walnut-oat shortbread crust under a layered thing of maple-date puree under standard pumpkin behaving like a creme caramel in terms of melting graduated layeredness...aaaahhh!!
how this relates to orienteering rather escapes me at the moment...

C • how bout "good food is good... 2

wild cold wind, met Tiffy & Dallice fleeing inside, went over to creek to hide in forest, much better. Met Tischa who slobbered G-dog, brought home a sequoia cone to play with.

36.67 moderate yowza in tooth...T3's? yowza. Reading TG's article on mapping on WoO for Friday morning horizon-expansion.

D*mn !!! those T-3's are so good. NO pain. Anywhere. what a miracle. I am definitely rationing these puppies out like the gold bars that they are, I can see why they are prescription. Yum. Now I shall walk the dog in painlessness.

most of this was actually assoc w/ train to P/U meds etc, only short "utility" walk w/ G-dog cuz dad-in-law called us to go see the crane across the way get taken down from his condo, then have dinner & watch Ratatouille (which was great movie) G had a fabulous afternoon & evening in Alf's place having him feed her potato & generally spoil her rotten. They were so cute looking out the window together at the crane.

this was way too much - started out really fun, downtown to Christmas-shop, have tea & scones, flirt w/ policemen (B has Blonde Superpowers), & scamper around in the snow...then P/U meds, then race off in slushy snow to find out I need a root-canal next week but can't take advil for the next 5 days, arggghhh. And two dog-walks in cold rain. Too much walking, really tired, trying to figure it all out. Next week I am resigned to being a pawn in hands of medical professionals five days in a row. Try max tylenol tonight. Enbrel put off til later, arggghh...

down stairmaster to look at the devastation of Green, met Tischa the black chow mix almost immediately & pee'd our pants w/ sheer joy. back up the creekside bikepath, cut across the woods back to stairmaster. also trip to corner grocery. Deep dusk by 4pm.

tried out the joints, no loss anywhere, in fact left supine twist is almost flat!? tree, triangle, mountain, bridge, westward bend. Felt strong for first time since early October. That's a long time. Trying Jamie's fazzoletti w/ maybe too much whole wheat flour, Meg's basil chiffonade, maybe sesame scented sweet potatoes. Fairmont breakfast blend is great - weasel some more for Christmas II ? Finished Tey mystery, started a british comedy.

NB TRENDING UP BEFORE ENBREL START FRIDAY DEC 14...?

overall, major fun was had, & general consensus was the island family get-together was great. I've managed to confirm that the scale is NOT broken, it CAN register weights other than 61.2, you just need to throw alotta chocolate at it. Fine imported San Francisco champagne-flavoured chocolate. Two more Christmases to go. uh-oh...

also forgot to log (contributing) Marble Slab event from last week - "birthday cake" flavor ice-cream (white) with fresh strawberries & raspberries mashed in. after coconut-milk laced thai food. am I dedicated to testing that scale or what...

up to Highgate, over to Station Square & back on train.
then G n me went down to the parkway to look at Green's construction site, met Bao & Happy, played w/ a Skanky, Manky lil orange ball. Dark & dreary all day, unsettling. polenta & italian sausage for dinner, I can do much better...

Another beautiful pink and purple sunrise over Sidney Spit. Another great desultory coffee-suckin', smart-talkin', book-readin chitchat w/ family...
wandering the docks at Shoal Harbor looking at possible charters.

Lil bit of snow falling in the morning !! so nice to be inside!
Tulista at night, & around the block at parents' house.