Recipe: Pan Seared Tuna w/Pepper

Tonight's dinner: Fresh Tuna courtesy of Mike Robbins.

Cut into steaks.
Marinated in teriyaki and sake. About 30 minutes.

Pan seared in olive oil, coated heavily with coarse ground pepper.

For the last few minutes of cooking, poured in a little of the marinate and let it boil off. Re-peppered the top of the steak after I poured on the marinate.

Side of fresh green beans from Pop's garden, steamed, with a lil olive oil and salt. YUM!

(photo found on web, just representing the peppered tuna)
I ate mine before I thought about posting it, lol

Animals an' things.

Life...keeping me busy, which is a good thing I guess.

Puff, our adopted kitty, has gone diabetic. Diagnosed a few months ago. I've learned out to test her with a glucose meter, which I was doing twice a day. She was getting insulin twice a day, but currently her numbers have dropped lower, so I'm only giving her one dose a day now. Changing to a protein diet appropriate to a carnivore was the ticket. Minimal carbs. No veggies. It's possible that in time, she'll go off the insulin entirely!

Mojo the shiba inu must have been feeling left out. He's developed a problem with conjuctivitis in one eye. Medication has helped, but it's been stubborn about clearing up.

Risa...I was just posting in another blog about her. An incident that happened several years ago. I'd never realized until that happened that "crawling away to die" isn't just an expression.

Several years ago my labrador had a bad reaction to Rimadyl, and was vomiting severly. We didn't realize this at first. She was sick in the morning, seemed fine when hubby checked on her in the afternoon, but when we got home, I found multiple spots where she'd been sick. And no sign of the dog. Risa is usually right by the door when someone arrives. No dog. Didn't come when called. Searched the house, couldn't find her. Panic. I sent the kids outside to search the street, thinking maybe she'd somehow slipped out during the afternoon. While they did that, I searched the house again. Finally found her, in my daughters room where she never goes (except for an occasional forage run to see if there are any snacks in there).
She'd climbed up on the bed, then gone off the other end into a corner that only had about 12 inches of space between the end of the bed and the wall, where my daughters stuffed animals got piled when she slept. Risa had wedged herself down into the pile. This is a 90 lb lab. She was in pulmonary distress due to dehydration and the medication. We rushed her to the ER and thankfully, she recovered.

If she'd had outside access to woods...we never would have found her in the same scenario. She'd hidden herself away to die.

Another favorite, this one remixed by the artist himself, just for Trueblood. Cry Little Sister "Bloody Swamp Version" by G Tom Mac



I've always loved this piece and normally, I don't like remixes, but this one is a stunner. Just fabulous.

A very bluesy rendition of Radiohead's "Creep", as performed by a homeless man. I sat here with tears rolling.

Mustard sings Creep from Rex Kramer on Vimeo.

From this post:
http://thenorthelevation.blogspot.com/2009/12/listen-homeless-man-covers-radiohead_17.html

Down she goes

Bethany's been getting her hip worked on in physical therapy to strengthen it due to muscle/tendon weakness that was causing hip pain. That's been going well and she only had one appt. left this coming Wednesday.

This past Friday she was trying to change a light bulb that was a bit too far out of her reach, overstretched on the step ladder and wham, fell off it. She only fell about a foot and a half or so, but she hurt the right foot. This is the one she had previously had surgery on to repair the stretching from repeatedly rolling the ankle.

She wrapped it up and iced it here and there over the next two days and tried to keep off it as much as possible. Sunday she decided it was more than just a pulled muscle and off we went to the ER at SOCH. Diagnosis: a fracture in the right foot. Now she has a matching set...since she fractured the other foot in pretty much the same place back in 2007 on her senior trip. No weight bearing until further notice, so she's back on crutches again.

She's miserable and complaining about being broken. I told her that she might want to consider getting those fractures repaired, since we already know that the left foot involved a piece of the foot detaching that really should be reattached. It's probably the same situation with the right one. Already made the appt. with the foot and ankle doc to follow up on the ER visit.

Joy.

I hate October 17th

Galt Aureus - Album: Citadels
"Coming Down" by Saher Galt

Missing Dad! This date will always suck.

I know it will get easier as each year passes. It's better this year than last year, but being sick at the same time really bites.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Asperger's makes life interesting

It also makes life difficult. Xander needs to be exercising and so do I, so I purchased Zumba.com dvd set. It's fun and I'm going to like doing it.

He had a meltdown over even the thought of using a dance/exercise method. He told me he couldn't do it, I tried to coax and when I turned around to talk to him again he was gone. Didn't answer when I called, wasn't in his room or the bathroom or the back yard when I went looking. Finally found him in my room sitting on the floor in the corner, hiding like one of the dogs does during a storm and looking no less panicked than they do.

We've settled on me doing Zumba during our exercise periods with him doing regular exercises. I'm looking into a dvd/online home school martial arts class for him that might be more his speed.