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Gallstone pain

  Last few days I been having more pain from my gallstones.  I have not had a lot of problems from the gallstones.  Just very mild pain in that area. 
  I did a post “Foods to avoid with gallstones.”  I eat all the wrong foods and I have not been paying any attention to that list of foods to avoid.  I think I am starting to pay the price.
 

  From that post here are the foods I should be eating:

“Foods to Choose

• A diet high in fiber-rich foods is one of the best ways to prevent gallstones or a painful attack. Among the best choices are: fresh fruits and vegetables, especially broccoli, spinach, carrots, beets, apples, lemons and watermelon; low-fat, low-cholesterol proteins such as turkey, chicken and fresh fish, and foods with high levels of calcium, magnesium and potassium, including baked potatoes, brown rice, yogurt and soaked or sprouted grains…”

Read more: Foods to Avoid With Gallstones | eHow.comhttp://www.ehow.com/facts_4826361_foods-avoid-gallstones.html#ixzz1MPXL8n2v

 

  I am going to try and do better.  I do not want gallstone pain. 

Bourbon Whiskey

  I saw a show yesterday on Bourbon whiskey.  I do not drink.  I have never drank. 
But I watched all of the show.  It was very interesting.
  Makes me want to try Bourbon whiskey. 
  But with my family history I should not be drinking.

“Bourbon is a type of American whiskey – a barrel-aged distilled spirit made primarily from corn. The name of the spirit derives from its historical association with an area known as Old Bourbon, around what is now Bourbon County, Kentucky (which, in turn, was named after the French House of Bourbon royal family). It has been produced since the 18th century. While it may be made anywhere in the United States, it is strongly associated with the American South in general, and Kentucky in particular…”

Lab work and lunch at the mall

  I did not have anything to eat or drink after about 2300 hours last night. 
  I took the bus to the mall and had my lab work done about 0930 hours and got to the mall just in time for the food court to open.
   See the photo to the left.  That is what I had to eat.  The rice was not good.  Two out of three of the meats were excellent.

    I did not go to Radio Shack at the mall.  I know I would have spent money on something if I had gone.
  Of course when I got home I went on line and ordered $88.00 worth of stuff from Amazon.

  Yesterday I made rice with the rice cooker.  It was good.  Russ would not eat any but Dar and Jimmy both had some rice.

  I got a deposit in my banking account today for $39.99 and that was from the adult video adv that I have on the lower right hand side of ShowMeBlog.

  I got a $10.00 scratch off lottery ticket today.  It had about seven numbers that were my “winning” numbers and then there were 30 numbers to scratch off.  I did not get one number. 
  I also got a $2.00 Texas Power Ball ticket for tonight.  The cash jackpot will be $37 million dollars.  The chance of me winning tonight is 1 in 175.2 million.  I do not think I should hold my breath. 

   I got an email yesterday from AVS software.  They reset my number and now all of their programs work.  I am glad they fixed it for me.  I do like their software and I think it is a pretty good deal. 
   I need to make sure that if I format or change computers that I don’t lose there software again.  The last time I had their software working was in 2009.  It is 2012 now!
  

  Tomorrow is the day that I hook up the pacemaker machine and call in the data to the doctor’s office.  I plan to do a video of doing it for YouTube and I will post the video here.
  This will be the first time I have done it from home.  I think the device will work with the Charter phone service.  Before I had Skype and it would not work and I used the phone line at the apartment office.

Rice day

  Darlene and Jimmy went to Walmart and they will be home soon.  They pick up stuff for me at Walmart.  So I will get some rice today and I can start to use my rice cooker.
  Russ likes rice and I may get him to try eating it.  The only problem is I think he will give it one try and if it is not good he will never eat it again.  You do not get a second chance with him.

  I have a rice cooker cookbook and it has 250 recipes so I got lots of ones that I can try. 

Sylvania Rice Cooker

  I got a 6 cup Sylvania rice cooker from Walgreens.  It was only $16.00 for it. 
It is very simple and basic but I will see how it works.

  I will get some rice today and see if I can make good rice.

Food Network

  I never watch the Food Network.  I do think often that I would like to learn to cook. 
I went to the Food Network web site and it looks good.

  I am looking right now at a recipe for slow-cooker Texas chili.  I have a slow-cooker. 

  I do not have any of the ingredients that I need.  I just got stock up on some of the stuff so that I have it here.  Then I could try and cook something. 
  I have no brown sugar, no Kosher salt, no vegetable oil, no onion and no clove garlic, green chiles, cumin, chili power, tomatoes etc. 
  I guess that gives me something to do.

  I make chili sometimes and I even made it recently with my slow-cooker.  But I just toss in what I have and do not follow a recipe.  I think my chili is always good but it never taste the same.
 
  I would also like to get a digital rice cooker and food steamer.  I think about a 16 cub size would be good.  I like rice.  I have not done it recently but I used to make rice and I would spice it up with whatever I had around and I would toss in different things I had to the rice. I think it was good but again it never tasted the same.
 
  Russ and I for a time were eating a lot of rice.  I would get the rice in the boxes and make it and add whatever I had to it.  Russ has now gone to liking certain foods and most of them frozen.  I am not sure I could get him to eat rice that I made anymore.

  Dar and Jimmy are going to Kroger today.  She always goes to Walmart for food but today is going to try out Kroger.  She will pick up some stuff for Russ and I. 
  I like that Kroger store.  Jimmy used to work at that store.

Walmart’s Great Value Lasagna

  Well the Braum’s Lasagna was not bad but not great.  On a scale of 1 to 10 I would give it a 6.  If I had not had a much better tasting frozen lasagna I would have given it a higher rating.
  So far the best frozen lasagna I have had is the Walmart’s Great Value Lasagna.  I would rate it a 9 on the scale of 1 to 10.

  I did a search on the web and found directions on how to make your own “Meaty Cheesy Lasagna.”  I do not have ingredients around here.  I would have to make sure I make a point of getting what I need. 
  We have a big store close by but walking to it takes 15 minutes.  It is a down hill walk.  That is OK but coming back up the hill with a few things, we do not have a car, is a killer.  I feel like I am going to have a heart attack each time.  Sometime I need to walk down to the store with a long list of ingredients and then get a bunch of stuff and call a cab to bring me home.
  There is a small Mexican store close by here.  They have a big meat department.  I am going to have to see if I can find most everything I need over there and start making home made food.

Braum’s Lasagna

  I just put Braum’s Lasagna in the oven.  It has to cook for an hour and 30 minutes.  I think it will be good. Russ and I like lasagna.  I think it cost about $13.00 but I think it will feed four.  I will check and see if Dar and Jimmy want some when it is done.

  I made pork chops last night.  Russ would not eat any.  They were good.  I ate both of them.
I love pork chops.  I love bacon. 

  Well the 80 mg of Furosemide (water pill) is working.  I have more output.  The only problem is I am going all the time.  It is hard to get very far away from the bathroom.  I can not say the swelling is down a lot in my left foot yet.
  I took my first potassium pill today.  I got it down OK.

  I think Amazon will get some of my compression socks here tomorrow.  I will let you know how they work and how they feel.  I got a feeling it is not going to feel good.  I do not even like normal socks.  Of course normal socks cut into my legs big time because of the swelling.

  Back to the lasagna I am going to have soon.  I love the microwave but I cook the lasagna in the oven it is better.  But in the microwave it would be ready in 23 minutes.  In the oven it takes 1 hour and 25 minutes.
  The package says one serving is one cup!  I think I eat two or three cups.  I never measure calories or worry about them.  But one cup is 300 calories.  Are you ready for this?
  One cup of this lasagna is 1320 mg of sodium. 
  
  With that much salt you know it will be good.

  I just got an email from Dar.  She said that she and Jimmy both want some of it.

Manzana

  I am out of Coke.  I had to have something.  We had a bottle of Manzana (Spanish for apple) in the ice box.  I got it at the Mexican store.  Been there for some time.
  It is made by TopoChico.  (since 1895)
  It was very good.  Next time I get over to the store I will try and remember to pick up some more of it and I will try some of the other stuff that they make.

Going to BestBuy Today

  I am going to BestBuy today.  I know I bad mouth them often but they still get my business sometimes.
  I am going for Sodamix for my new SodaStream Jet device.  They sell the Sodamix.  I am going to get a couple of cola, a energy, a orange and zero cola. They are $4.99 each except for the energy one is $6.99 for it.

  Russell likes the orange.  Jimmy, my son, likes the energy drink.

  Since I am going to be at BestBuy I am going to pick up the Logitech Z313 speakers.  They are on sale for $39.99 and they been getting a pretty good review for low end speakers.  The plan is to use them on my computer but I may hook them up to my LCD TV and see how the sound on the TV set.

  It is 47 degrees right now and will get to 66 degrees today in Fort Worth.
  
  I would like a couple more bottles for the SodaStream but two of them are $20.00 and I will just make do with the three I have now.
  I hate to spend money for speakers because my hearing is so bad.  Sort of a waste.

  It is 2 AM.  I better get to bed.  I want to get to BestBuy early.