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[shanmonster]

Wow. I've been steadily tapering off my propranalol, and I've been feeling more and more energetic. I hadn't realized just how exanimate I've felt for the past few years until I suddenly became alive again. Before, breaking into a brief jog to get across the street in a hurry was a difficult task. But last night, I was zipping around, leaping across snowbanks without any effort at all. And yesterday at lunch, I was positively loquacious. I can't remember the last time I was so chatty. It was a couple of years ago, at least.

Yesterday, at long last, my student loan papers came in. It's about time. I've been getting pretty desperate for money. The other night, food stores were getting depleted. I looked at the canned "goods" in my cupboard. In an attempt at making do with what I had, I made sardine sloppy joes.

They really weren't very good.

So last night, in celebration of my forthcoming monies, I gathered my rolled nickles, dimes, and pennies, grabbed f00dave and took him out on a hot date. We went to the mall, where he ate McDonald's (yuck) and I bought a rice bowl at the Teriyaki place. Then I used my credit card to buy tickets for Big Fish, which is a damned fine movie, if a bit saccharine in the soundtrack department.

Then, with that same credit card, I bought groceries! Hoorah for edible food! I sang a made-up song about fresh fruit while walking to the grocery store, and bought some lovely green apples. Mmmm.... Tonight, I won't eat canned food. No sardines for me! Nosirree!

And today, I bought a bunch of abalone disks. They're gorgeous. They look like liquid peacock. No, not as in bird in a blender, you sicko.... I'd like to make myself a really splendid ring with one of them, and maybe a matching pendant, headpiece, or necklace. I'm not sure. But yes, I do want a ring. Maybe even one like I made today.



Yes, I finished something today. It's a silver and Nugold spinning U-shaped ring. It looks something like this, only the shank is sterling silver, and the top is a squat oval cylindar of silver and Nugold. The Nugold is textured. I can't get over how comfortable it is to wear, but it was a real bitch to construct. It's really fiddly to get a correct ring size, unlike a basic band ring which can just be hammered or cut down to the right size. With this style, the top of the ring needs to be resized in addition to the shank. What a pain in the arse. But it's so cool....

Comments

[nymphie.livejournal.com]

Love the ring. I thought Big Fish was good too :).

[fourcorners.livejournal.com]

Sardine sloppy joes???
wtf!?!?!?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Chopped onion, canned tomatos, canned corn, canned sardines, a clove of garlic, and salt and pepper. I served it over rice.

Not so very good....

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

Certainly creative, though! I fancy myself a rather good cook, but ingredient substitution is a mystery to me. Especially when one substitutes surf for turf.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

This was actually from a recipe I found online.

I'm very good at making up my own recipes from scratch, but a meal out of one can of sardines had me stymied. I tried to find a sardine chowder recipe, but had no luck. Surely, someone makes sardine chowder! I just wanted to find a precedent.

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

I have an extensive collection of fish recipes at home. I'll get back to you tomorrow with a suitable sardine chowder recipe, in case you ever find yourself in similar straits. :)

propranalol

[(Anonymous)]

hi. Your blog popped up when I went to look for "withdrawal from propranalol" on Google. I've now been on your site for more than an hour - have to keep sending my 11-year-old daughter AWAY from the screen - and tho' I haven't learned much about propranalol I have laughed hard.

Here's something to consider about propranalol. I was put on it in small doses 10 years ago to head off migraines, which I was getting at the rate of 1 a week. Now I'm heading fast toward menopause. Not much good to be said for this chapter in the life cycle ... except for this: Since things have been going wonky hormonally the ghost headaches I used to get (which I know would have been real headbangers without the beta-blocker) are all but gone. Apparently reduction in migraines can come with peri-menopause. Unless of course you get to have an increase in migraines instead.

Because my are on the wane my doctor has pulled me off the pro.. so I can lose some weight (apparently not a prob. with you!).

So... al you have to do is survive till you become a screeching permanently PMS'd rapidly wrinkling crow ... and you can safely dump the propranalol and the migraines.

p.s. good thing you eased off them. I went cold turkey and wondered each of the 5 next nights if this was the last time I'd be tucking my kids in.

best,
LEH in Toronto

Re: propranalol

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you were entertained!

It's nice to hear from someone else who was on this medication. I have gained quite a bit of fat, actually, since I started taking it. It all sits on my belly. I suspect it has something to do with the medication, since I am extremely physically active and don't eat very many high-calory foods.

I've been easing off for the past week and a bit, and so far, the migraines have not returned. Here's hoping they won't!

Toodles!