Pasta alla whatever

I’m having a bad pain day today: the little critters are back poking me in the feet with tiny pointy things, and have been since the early hours of this morning. I’m happy to rehome them, if anyone wants them. (The critters, not my feet, but I’m open to offers.)

Mum was also having a bad pain day, so almost the first thing I did when I woke up was to phone the GP surgery to get us on the call-back list. While waiting for the call-back, I did some work on my cookbook. It’s still at the very early stages, but at least I’ve done something towards making it a reality.

Before, during, and after that, I answered mum’s questions about her hospital appointment on Friday: when is it, where is it, what’s happening, why is it happening, what should she wear, will I be with her, how will we get there, and on and on and on.

Just as I was running out of patience, a joke on one of the quiz shows that play all day every day prompted mum to give a groan, a laugh, and a “how silly!” from mum. For that one brief moment, I could see the old mum and I nearly cried.

Also in ‘old mum’ was her complaint about a parcel containing some much-needed new clothes: mum wasn’t happy as there’s already “too much stuff” in my bedroom. Reminding mum that that ‘stuff’ is everything I own in the world goes no way to mitigating her criticism. Nvm, I’ll have the last laugh when I’m all bundled up in warm clothes come the winter.

Tonight’s dinner won’t be going in the cookbook. It was a thrown together pasta sauce of fried red onions, baby plum tomatoes, cajun spice, soya cream, and mozzarella, with the last of the pasta from the cupboard. It was better than I expected, but not remotely exciting.

I meant to follow it with a little trifle, but one lick of the plastic lid sent me running to the sink to wash out my mouth: the cream was off. 🤢

Instead I had Ben & Jerry’s chocolate brownie ice cream, and it was delicious.

Tomorrow should see the delivery of some more new meds for mum, but the discontinuation of the otc painkillers as the doctor thinks taking them everyday is contributing to mum’s headaches (medication overuse headaches). I’m not looking forward to explaining that one over and over again tomorrow. 😬