{"id":9201,"date":"2022-09-23T17:57:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T22:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=9201"},"modified":"2022-09-23T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T01:19:57","slug":"trying-to-get-to-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/23\/trying-to-get-to-the-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to get to the surface"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here we are on September 22<\/del> September 23, and I have not written anything since the 9th, when I was in Denver for Ethan & Megan’s wedding. Which was a lot of fun – here’s my favorite picture. The DJ did a trick to get everyone onto the floor, and I took a few picture before I joined them. In this one Megan and her mom are looking at each other.<\/p>\n

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Other stuff we did while we were out there included a trip to the Denver Art Museum, after a breakfast of empanadas at Maria Empanada<\/a> (as seen on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives<\/a>). We also got ice cream at the giant milk<\/a> can near Linger<\/a>, a kind of hipster small plates place about 2 blocks away from our airbnb that we’ve been to a few times, just not this trip. The restaurant is in a little strip mall with a health club and I think some other business, with some stairs going up, and there was a pile of puke near the bottom of the stairs, at a spot where I guess none of the businesses felt it was their responsibility, but I was ready to clean it up myself when it was still there at the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n

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Mark’s picture of me taking a picture of the Claes Oldenburg outside the Denver Art Museum<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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My cone at Little Man ice cream – raspberry peach sorbet over vanilla. 20 mins. in line on a sunny Sunday afternoon, but was worth it.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Little Man Ice Cream in Denver<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

My health app in the iPhone says I walked something like 16,693 steps that day, around 7 miles, which I have just learned wasn’t good for my bad knee.<\/p>\n

I finally got to see the physical therapist on Wednesday and I got a sheaf of exercises & stretches (now also in my phone) and a brace and instructions to take time-release Tylenol, instead of the Advil that was making my blood pressure go up<\/a>. I wore the brace on Wednesday and biked to work and home, and I also wore it Thursday and went for my regular 45 minute walk to Colectivo with Susan. And by the end of Thursday I was just about crippled and in pain. My leg hurt more than it ever had.<\/p>\n

What was not clear to me from the aftercare instructions I got from the PT visit was that I am supposed to be resting my knee. Today Mark and I were going to go to Chicago and see a symphony matinee and then meet up with John & Megan for dinner and stay over and maybe get breakfast at Little Goat on Saturday morning, in honor of Mark’s birthday that will be Sunday. I was all packed and getting dressed with about 5 minutes to go before we needed to leave, and Mark suggested that I just stay home and rest the knee. Which I was super unhappy about at first, and of course I unkindly thought that he just wanted me to stay home because I’d slow him down,\u00a0 but in the end I think it was all for best. I wouldn’t have been comfortable anywhere, and the hotel was pretty spendy.<\/p>\n

I cancelled everything and I called PT and they told me Mark was right – I do need to rest the knee. I’m on a program of no walks longer than 15 minutes and no biking until I go back to PT October 7. No yoga either – just the exercises & stretches they gave me. So I think that means I can drive to work and the Farmers Market and the co-op and the grocery store and walk small distances there. And I’m allowed to swim. I got website errors trying to check the West Y pool schedule on my phone but I’ll try on a real computer and see if that works better.<\/p>\n

I was going to go out and do a little grocery shopping for the recipe testing I’m doing for DCFM anniversary cookboo<\/a>k that Terese<\/a> is editing – I still have a pot roast and a cheese soup and a turmeric tea to test – bu I guess I’ll just do it tomorrow. Celebrate the first day of my confinement by being confined to the house. It’s kind of cloudy and chilly anyways. I haven’t been wearing the brace though. It just sems to make everything hurt more. I think it might be an instrument of torture.<\/p>\n

I did a bunch of grading and attended a meeting that I thought I would miss and also spent some time lying down with my leg wrapped up in a heating pad and reading a detective novel in my phone – Susan has got me hooked on the Elly Griffiths Ruth Galloway books<\/a>, and I love them.<\/p>\n

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I’ve read The Lantern Men, and The Night Hawks, and I’m working on The Stone Circle. These are all recent ones; I have the newest one The Locked Room, and earlier ones, The Janus Stone, The Crossing Place, and #1 The Crossing Places, on hold.<\/p><\/div>\n

And what else – I did the recipes for CSA last week and my big home made one was pizza<\/a>, crust and sauce. The one I made with fresh tomatoes in the picture was a little soggy on the bottom but was good reheated. I also put two of the crusts together for a bigger thicker crust and topped it with pizza sauce and sausage and peppers and goat cheese and pizza cheese (provolone and mozzarella mixed) and that one was really good.<\/p>\n

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And what else – I’m going to go put the squashes I got in CSA this week – and one I picked up at the food pantry on Tuesday – in to roast for a light dinner for my no-exercise self.\u00a0 And I think I’ll make batch of the Ovens of Brittany Sour Cream Apple Pie Bars, a.k.a. SCAP because I do have lots of apples.<\/p>\n

But I kinda feel like going and lying down again with Ruth Galloway.<\/p>\n

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So here we are on September 22 September 23, and I have not written anything since the 9th, when I was in Denver for Ethan & Megan’s wedding. Which was a lot of fun – here’s my favorite picture. The DJ did a trick to get everyone onto the floor, and I took a few … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,22,55,164],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ds83473gmail-com","4":"post-9201","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogpost","9":"post_tag-denver-co","10":"post_tag-kids","11":"post_tag-museums","12":"post_tag-weddings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9201"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9216,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions\/9216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}