Bibliomama

1. New recipe: I made this sauce for the edamame for book club, and I've made it twice more, for edamame and to put on coconut rice. It somehow adds up to more than the sum of its parts, and I had a giant jar of sambal oelek in the fridge that I've barely used. 2. So we did go from this to this on the last freaking weekend of March, which if you ask me is exceptionally rude, but we fared much better than cities more south than us, and this fortunately proved unnecessary.  Matt left for Montreal on the train Saturday morning (his flight left from the Montreal airport that night). Lucy and I did a bit of this. Then some yoga Is this puppy pose? I had been looking forward to a quiet weekend after a few busier ones. It was mostly nice, although I felt a little out of sorts on Sunday with the freezing rain warning. I tried not to worry before there was anything concrete to worry about, but I am bad at that.  I didn't sleep well Sunday night - my shoulder hurt a lot, which was pr...

 1. Monday work was good. I went to Costco after to get some stuff for book club which was yesterday (Thursday). I still forget I have a membership and find going there kind of panic-inducing, and a thing which happens quite often happened, which is that I couldn't find the Gyoza pork dumplings I bought last time and really liked. I bought chicken and vegetable potstickers instead, and they were good, but whyyyyy Costco why, I hate change in all things, even dumplings. I also got spring rolls and edamame because the book was Japanese, and I don't always match the food to the book, but I do if I can because it amuses me. I made quinoa bowls for dinner, of which I was ridiculously proud. My ADD brain makes it really hard to do something with this many steps - I order them but almost never make them. So Sunday I made stir-fried lemongrass chicken and instant pot Mongolian beef for the week, and then Monday I cooked the edamame, sweet potato, lime cilantro black beans and quinoa an...

 There's no way i can convey the enormity of the exuberance and energy and obvious hundreds of hours of work that were on display, although anyone who has ever worked on something like this or been close to one knows. Every year the arts and science students put on a musical that is related to their program - past productions were called Feel the Fission, An Inquiry Line and Project Sassafras, among others. It's student-written - this year Eve's housemate Lauren was a co-writer. They write the script, then find songs to base the parody songs on, then music students arrange the songs and write choreography. The band conductor was only in second year! Then they work on it for hours and hours and hours, all while carrying heavy course loads. Eve said in second year that she didn't think there was any way she could do the musical with her workload. In third year I told her to do the musical even if she had to drop a course. She told them she didn't want a lead, but then...

 March Break was super relaxing up front and enjoyable but not remotely relaxing at the end, which was a little backwards but what can you do, the Arts and Science Musical waits for no woman.  Monday a group of us had lunch at a fun local Indian place. Two of us work in schools so were off for March Break, two of us work for Investors Group people who were off for March Break, and two of us are self-employed law practice people. Plus there was Tony, as long as his boss doesn't read this blog he's good.  Tuesday I had a chill reading and yoga day and went to the chiropractor. I have thrown chiro, physio and massage therapy at this neck and back thing for years now, and I am starting to think I've gone as far as I can go addressing this structurally and my next step should be better drugs. Then we went to bar night and I had TWO drinks, because it was NOT a school night. Wednesday I got a pedicure. No matter how much I scrape and slather my feet, they are icky, and I think ...

Yes, I inadvertently took an extended break, and I'm not even sure I can finish this and publish it before we leave for Hamilton (I did not), and no one remembers this anymore, BUT, my Vitamin-D warnings shall not be impugned, Vitamin D toxicity IS a thing. Is it rare? Yes. Do I gulp down Vitamin D supplements like candy without a care? Yes. Is the warning on the Corona Sunbrew bottle almost certainly an ass-covering measure that is nearly unnecessary? Also yes. And the treatment for Vitamin D toxicity, usually caused by taking too many Vitamin D supplements is to.... stop taking the supplements. Drink responsibly - you won't get drunk, but you might get hypercalcemic! Whew. Glad I got that off my chest. A couple other niggling details - the Corona sunbrews were being consumed not by people who don't drink alcohol, but by people who are endeavouring to drink less alcohol - my only quibble was that, if I was trying to drink fewer beers (I never drink a lot of beers because ...