His BP came back up yesterday to the low 100s/60-something, which is good. He may end up going to the infusion center on Friday afternoons to get a bag of fluids before the weekend starts, since it's been 2 weekends in a row that his BP has dropped so low. It's a little difficult for him to get all the hydration he really needs.

He is losing some weight, but not a lot at this point. We had salmon and roasted broccoli for dinner, so that was aggressively healthy for him, and he ate it all. (He ate more than me, actually, since Zepbound has really made my portion sizes smaller.) And we've stocked up on Boost Very High Calorie drink, which I think he should just use in lieu of milk and make a nice chocolate malt with some Graeter's.

Boost Very High Calorie drink, which I think he should just use in lieu of milk and make a nice chocolate malt with some Graeter's

Breakfast of Champions!

I'm back in NY. I left a list of stuff for my son to do while I was gone. 14 items, both home and work stuff. How many did he do? Zero. He's 33 years old and is gaming 18 hours a day. At 33 I was working 18 hours a day building the business that in theory he should take over. Let's just say we need to go in another direction.

Brendon did come up with a good plan for housing him when I return to Florida. My brother was living in my mom's old place. It is titled to the 4 siblings. Right now, my SIL and my 36-year-old nephew are still there. We all told them no rush, of course. SIL wants to move to north Florida, where two of her daughters and a bunch of grandkids live, and she can get a much cheaper place. Nephew loves his job and was going to stay in the area. We talked to SIL about buying out my sibs and moving my son in there with Joe. Joe was paying my brother rent, so he and my son could do the same with me. My sister lives a few miles away and is working on prepping her house for sale since she will have to move into assisted living, and my husband and the "boys" had already planned on doing the manual labor there.

Anyway, still some details to work out, but the cousins get along great, and Joe will be a positive influence on him. SIL loves the plan. It is 2 hours away, which is fine. If we need him to come over to do work stuff on our coast, he can bunk on the couch for a couple of days. His cousin has a great job as an electrician, programming security systems, and has been promoted several times.

When you are doing all the paperwork, they had a desk sized iPad called a Docupad, so you just signed off on things there and they email you the documents.

They had that when I got my Subaru Impreza in 2019. The sales guy would click a button to swivel the content around so it would be right side up for me to read and sign. They’d he’d swivel it back so he could read it to set up the next part. It felt very Star Trek-y in an “everything’s on a monitor” kinda way.

Laura, I’m glad the housing situation is looking good for your son.

BP~ma for Tim.

I’ve reached the, “Oh, god, no one is ever going to hire me and I’ve never actually had a marketable skill in my life,” stage of unemployment. Can’t say I love it.

That is a most stressful stage, Calli. Job~ma headed your way.

{{{Calli}}} You are full of skills! The job market is extremely weird right now but you are a great hire

It is a very stressful time in the market Calli. I do not blame you one bit. (And do not believe you are unemployable!)

Calli you are awesome! You will be hired!

Dana and PM thanks for letting me know about Taskmaster on YouTube. We will be watching more. It's such a low stress funny show. We can put it on and laugh at the antics of comedians who are almost entirely unfamiliar to me .

I got up this morning and actually took my ADHD medicine on my day off and I have been low key stressing about grocery prices and trying to be better. My weakness is not being as frugal as I can at work. I looked through our pantry and found we have these big bags of split peas and a small one of lentils

I found a recipe for caramelized onion and lentil croquettes and tried it. All industrious and everything. They taste ok but they are kind of a disaster. I didn't drain the lentils enough so when I pureed them they were too soft. And the recipe called for fresh bread crumbs which was a mistake. So I kept addon bread crumbs and frying them and they taste ok but a little oily and fall apart

I'm going to try again but with dry bread crumbs . Also the only seasoning was salt and pepper so I added seasoning. I think maybe if I tried this puree with a falafel recipe that might work better. Also baking it. but the ingredients are simple enough and M loved it so I don't feel bad experimenting if it doesn't quite turn out

I’ve reached the, “Oh, god, no one is ever going to hire me and I’ve never actually had a marketable skill in my life,” stage of unemployment. Can’t say I love it.

Ah Calli... I thought my last job hunt would take three months. It took six. I applied to hundreds of jobs, got one interview, and its the wonderful job I have. I think that's just the nature of the beast sometimes, hang in there!

Thanks, y’all. I’ve applied for 79 jobs and had 7 official interviews, plus 2 “tell us more” phone calls. So it’s not entirely shouting into a void. But it does feet a little tiresome. On the upside, my sour dough skills are growing by leaps, bounds, and microbes.

That actually sounds like a good response rate!

And askye I hope you are able to tweak the recipe to make it work because "caramelized onion and lentil croquettes" sounds delicious