Oh, Sue, so glad to hear good news! (Ditto re: everyone else's recent mammo follow-ups!)

I asked if he had a plan for the turkey breast "put it in a pan, cook it" ok.

I mean, you don't need much more than that.

Excellent news, Sue!

and will make an attempt at gravy

You can do it! Gravy's not that tricky. Just make a roux and add stock, seasoning etc.

How to Make a Roux: [link]

Don't be afraid to put a little brandy or bourbon in there. The alcohol will cook out and it will add depth of flavor.

Awesome, Sue.

Do you wear contacts at all, Steph? The last few years that I had FSA I used most of it up buying contacts - I wear dailies, so I go through them.

Great news, Sue. Fast results are the bestest.

Do you have a pulse oximeter? I feel like maybe you do.

We do -- it was a Covid-driven purchase.

We also bought an otoscope years ago that's surprisingly useful.

That might just be cool to have.

Do you wear contacts at all, Steph?

I really don't anymore. Because I thought of contacts, and then figured if I got dailies, I'd toss them in the closet and ignore them like the last box of dailies.

Yay Sue!

My cats aren't normally picky about their food, which is good, as at over $6/lb. their prescription chow is more expensive than most of the meat I buy for myself at the grocery store. (Little Britches threw over his regular canned wet food for it as soon as he got a whiff, and was zipping toward the big cats' food bowls like an arrow whenever he escaped the bathroom that first week.) But serving wet food to put meds in and while Molly's mouth recovers has been a learning experience.

Yay Sue!

He doesn't follow recipes at all just cooks stuff and sometimes it's good and sometimes it's.. creative.

:: intense flashbacks to Dad's cooking ::

If someone doesn't know that there are little helper elves behind the scenes in cooking shows who measure and prep all the ingredients, that someone maybe shouldn't be upset when the rest of the family won't eat the bran muffins they "enhanced" by throwing random things in. Dried pasta + raisins + chili flakes is a flavor experiment. Not a good one.

I really don't anymore. Because I thought of contacts, and then figured if I got dailies, I'd toss them in the closet and ignore them like the last box of dailies.

Thanks to WFH, I'm wearing my contacts more than ever. In the Before Times, I didn't really need reading glasses - and my last optometrist visit was on March 12 - so my glasses are still just distance, no reading, let alone reading + computer prescription. The work laptop is so bitty, I need readers now. So I wear contacts and throw on cheapo reading glasses with them to see the little stuff. When I wear my glasses, I can take them off for reading, but the laptop screen is so tiny I have to just about touch it with my nose to get close enough to read.

Dried pasta + raisins + chili flakes is a flavor experiment. Not a good one.

I could see raisins, if you like raisins (I don't). And maybe a tiny bit of chili, to enhance the flavor, maybe. But I just can't reconcile the dried pasta. Seems like a texture experiment on top of the flavor one. Just no.