Name that rash!!

This showed up on Chance's foot mabye 3 weeks ago. Started out as pin-prick like rash maybe 20-30 spots and has morphed out to this blobby thing. Doctor said it didn't look contagious, and it really hasn't spread out that much either, but a small patch of it has cropped up on his bum cheek. Ranges in colour daily from barely pink to deep purple. Cortisone cream (ratio-ectosone/betamethasone nor emo-cortisone) doesn't cut it and neither does the other stuff we got, Protopic (tacrolimus ointment). Chance says it "hurts" every now and then and I see him rubbing/scratching it occasionally, but it doesn't seem to be crazy itchy. Will go see the doctor again Feb. 18th.

I am almost considering putting Windex on it (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)!

Yum!

Have been on kick of baking lately, kinda.

Have made so far:

Muffins: Orange date bran, peanut butter bran.
Loaves: Cream-cheese nut bread, cranberry-apricot.
Bread: Whole wheat traditional (kneaded), buns, and no-knead whole wheat-sesame-oat.
Cupcakes: footballs for Superbowl.

That's all I can think of so far. Oh, also I made a fantastic sweet potato curry soup (pureed leftover roasted sweet potatoes and mixed with chicken stock, sauteed onions and curry paste) and some "leftover soup" - used up some ground beef that had used for tacos and also red pepper chili sauce that was leftover from a pork chop dish I made, mixed with canned tomatoes and sauteed onions, celery, carrots. Oooh, also I had fantastic cranberry-chili meatballs this week.

I think I love food too much.

The first 2 pictures are of Chance eating breakfast under the table. He's gotten really difficult in the mornings and for a while we tried just going with the flow but we were inching back every morning by a few minutes -- he just kept toeing the line on everything, from pamper changing to getting dressed to eating breakfast to getting coat on, etc. This AM we laid the law down, he had a time out in his chair for kicking me while getting his pamper changed and then he ate breakfast, etc. relatively well. We got out of the house 7 minutes faster than we have all week. Hm.

Interesting Article

A facebook friend linked to this article...

Today at work I made an executive decision to go down to the 20th floor (reception) and read a paper and sipped a cup of coffee while I waited for 2 sets of business partners to show up for a meeting. It was amazing what that 5 minutes to myself felt like. Later this evening I realized I had forgotten to phone a friend back who had called me earlier in the day and immediately felt guilty, but not really sorry for taking that 5 minutes for myself.

Can't sleep

Woke up with leg cramps and having dreamed that Chance was on the brink of falling backwards down our long set of stairs. Terrible stomach lurch-y feeling. Got up and started doing some research about home renos -- with new budget announcement, some of the big projects we have been thinking about all of a sudden come with a 15% tax break. Hmmm.......