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What a difference 24 hours can make. Today, although I am dehydrated, I feel otherwise totally normal. So this is what normal feels like. Nothing much to say here, other than I’m fine (I know both sets of parents read this blog and as parents are wont to do, they’d worry if nothing was posted in a few days after posting about a bad fever).

Though I’m still marveling about how yesterday’s fever robbed me of all memory of the feeling of normalcy. Glad to have it back today. I can’t wait to go for a run tomorrow now.

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It’s been a long year for us. Just long. We could use some good things to happen soon. Just sayin’. So when we found out that a friend/mentor was opening her own restaurant on Orcas Island, we decided that we had to take a trip. So on Thursday, we took one night and went to Orcas Island.

Orcas is one of the San Juan Islands. There are several, but honestly I don’t have time to go look up how many of them there actually are. Busy week ahead and I’ve got at least 3 blog posts to write on Cook Local. So for now, we’ll just say that Orcas is one of the islands, and it’s very pretty.

We’ll have a detailed post on Allium (the restaurant) over on Cook Local tomorrow or Tuesday, and I do hope you’ll read it. The dinner we had there was simply one of the best we’ve ever had. Here’s a slideshow of the photos we took and while you can view them within this blog post, I urge you to click over to Flickr (just click on any of the photos) to see the descriptions. Unfortunately I can’t see a way to show the descriptions in this slideshow on the blog. Otherwise you’ll just be looking at a lot of photos of food without knowing what the food even is.

More blogging soon, I hope. I really don’t mean to ignore this blog, I just don’t have the time any more.

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I’ve discovered the secret to making sure that I’m not flat on my back once a month with cramps. Bee pollen. 1 tsp a day.

No, I’m not doing cartwheels, but I’m also not rocking back and forth in the fetal position moaning for one day a month. Two months in a row so far.

Oh, and there’s nothing wrong with men TAKING bee pollen. It’s supposed to do lots of beneficial things. But I just wanted men to be warned that we’d be talking about female shit here.

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Just testing a few things for eventual use on Cook Local. Don’t mind the mess.

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