Knee Update, Fic non-update, BSG, and Pie (Yeah, Rambly)

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I went to the doctor today and he drained another 3 ccs of fluid out of my knee.  This time out of the left side of my left knee instead of the right side which he did the last two times.  Then he shot it full of cortizone and did an ultrasound treatment.  It was extremely painful this time and I've had ice on it ever since.  I might even have to take a hydrocodone tonight.  I'm trying not to since I want to be able to write tomorrow. *sighs*  I have a massage scheduled for tomorrow and she is going to do the majority of the work on the muscles surrounding the injury.  Damn, but I hope we don't lose our medical come January.  I can't afford to still be injured if that happens.

No writing today though I did at least open Leap of Faith and stare at it for a bit, before deciding to watch the Battlestar Galactica mini-series (the remake) instead.  (Next bit may be spoilery for anyone who hasn't seen BSG and intends to ever watch it and NO ONE SPOIL ME by leaving comments and telling me what happens in future episodes.)  Six is really made for sex, isn't she?  They didn't really even try to make her much more dimensional than that.  Baltar is skeezy.  I love the fact that Starbuck is a girl and has bigger stones than almost everyone else (except maybe Laura Roslin and Adama).  Makes me wonder if the fanboys hated her for not being a man, though.  Like the ones who hated Rose and RTD because they brought romance to Doctor Who.  I was not happy about Sharon being what she is.  I really like her.  I totally ship Duella (sp?) and Billy.  And oh, my gosh, Helo is Ballard from Dollhouse.  I don't know if I like Sharon better with the chief or with Helo.  Mostly I just like Sharon.

I think I'm still too exhausted from the sinus infection (it's gotten worse, but I've got anitbiotics now) to write and I poured everything I had this week into Not a Monster so...still, LoF is my intention for tomorrow and this weekend if I start feeling better. 

I also went to two grocery stores to find the "safe" ingredients to make a pumpkin pie for Tobias to take to school tomorrow for their class party.  They get one because they earned 25 house class points.  Because of his allergies we can't just get a store bought pie and the one I make can't have cloves in it.  We can't use regular ready-made graham cracker crust and the only graham crackers that don't have something he's allergic to in them are Annie's Bunnies, so we had to smash up a cup and a half worth of little bunny graham crackers (which is not that easy, especially compared to soft regular crackers) to make a crust from scratch.  And I found organic pumpkin (only ingredient:  pumpkin) without unnamed spices in it.  Still, it's worth it.  Rose and Tobias helped me do most of it because I was out of it.  I was basically adult supervision.  There was left over filling so I got a spoonful.  Soooooooooo good and the only custard type pudding I like.  The kids devoured the rest.

Then Rose made dinner and helped T with his homework.  I felt like total fail as a parent today, but considering they are the ones that infected me with this sickness in the first place, I suppose I shouldn't feel awful about it if I have to go down for a day or two.  Rose is fourteen and she does get a good allowance and I was making dinner every night the year I turned fourteen because Mom was taking care of Grandma in the early stages of her Azheimer's.  And I got a good allowance and didn't resent it, so...I don't know.  I wonder if Mom ever felt guilty about it?.  I'll have to ask her.  Probably not, though.  Mom doesn't tend to feel guilty about any of her parenting choices.