Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Food, food and more food ... thank Goodness

 


I rarely order Aldi to be delivered but it was free Instacart delivery and I figured what the hell. I ordered the four things I needed then browsed the app and found some cool things. One of which, free frozen pizza. Say what? I am not kidding. Yesterday the new Red Baron Crunch time was absolutely free at Aldi. I thought for sure no way will I get one, by the time my shopper gets there surely they’d be sold out, they weren’t.

I don’t eat frozen pizza but my grandson loves them and he gave this a semi thumbs up but it needs more sauce. Hey, it was free.

Things have been going good. I think this cycle I’m feeling it a bit more than last one. Background nausea which is made better by ginger. Very mild but I am seeing a correlation between the evening nausea and sleep. The two days this week I am feeling it were both days I had a hard time sleeping and had to be up early.

I have to find something to help me sleep at night. I do fine if I don’t try to go to bed before 3 am. But I just can’t fall asleep before that even if I get up early and skip a nap. My damn internal sleep clock.

On a positive note I am cooking again. Even if I don’t eat it, the smell of food isn’t getting me sick. I still avoid cooking mid cycle just to be safe. I eat what people bring me during those days, something from the freezer and an easy meal.

Tonight I made a ham. Yeah, a ham. Like it was a freaking holiday. Who makes a ham in the middle of the week? Me. Why? I was talking to my daughter yesterday about when I would go to my mother in laws for Christmas and I loved her ham and the homemade school buns made by Aunt Dorothy. She was a lunch lady back in the day and the buns were amazing. Ham on this bun with a slice of tomato.

There was a bake sale at the polls today and what do I see? Homemade Buns. They looked and smelled exactly like I remembered. Well, I had to go find a ham. I did.

Look how awesome these buns look! The ham looks like ham.

But I have a ton of ham I’ll be sharing with my daughters.

Other than another treatment coming up, I think I really am growing some hair. I have more white peach fuzz on my head and six hairs on my arm. Yay progress. Here’s to Santa bringing me a GI Jane look by Christmas.