random thoughts – Day 1,944 – (Sunday) – dance and food

Red, itchy, and swollen.

Saturday’s wasp sting became Sunday’s red, itchy, swollen palm pad, knuckle, and space between the pinky finger and ring finger. It’s the same hand with the tiny bone chip in the pinky side of the wrist which also swells, and overall, it’s a very weird sensation from fingers to wrist bone. My medical studies (i.e., five minutes of Internet search and reading) reassure me that the rash, itching, and swelling are all elements of a normal reaction. 

In other news of the unusual, we had a rehearsal for an upcoming performance with the Sunday dance group. We don’t usually dance in the summer, but this year the troupe is performing at events in July and August and slipping in rehearsals when we can. The drive was easy and the rehearsal went well. On a sad note, it was probably our last time dancing in our beautiful practice space in Townsend because the building was sold recently. Luckily, we have found a new practice space in a nearby town.

Matzo brie
comfort food.

The afternoon's lunch was a treat I was introduced to during marriage number one. I loved going to New York to visit the in-laws and eating my mother-in-law's cooking including noodle kugel, stuffed breast of veal, and matzo brie. Matzo brie (eggs scrambled with broken up matzo cracker) is easy enough to make and the dish I resort to on occasion. 

Today was one such matzo brie comfort food day, partly due to the deliberate skipping of grocery shopping and attempts to reduce the plentiful pantry reserves in preparation of moving. There will be a lag between the moving cube being picked up and it being unpacked, and the previous practice of building the pantry reserves has been thrown into reverse.