Note: Due to some unknown WiFi issue today, I cannot properly format captions and spacing in the text. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Last night, we’d planned to go to dinner at Havana Country Club, but when it was raining with lightning and high winds, we realized it wouldn’t be safe to make the 15-minute golf cart ride in such awful conditions. Instead, we decided to order takeaway from the Chinese restaurant we love, Sunrise Asian.
Yesterday, I received a coupon as an Amazon Prime member for free delivery from Grubhub for the next 12 months. What a deal! I’d signed up for the coupon but didn’t realize we’d be using it so soon. After placing the order, as shown below:
Roast Pork Fried Rice Quart $8.70+
Sweet and Sour Pork Quart $10.85+
Shrimp Egg Foo Young Omelet with shellfish. $13.95+
Steamed Shrimp with Mixed Vegetables $16.95
Total cost: $64.03
- This seemed expensive for getting takeaway, but we’d ordered enough to last two nights. My steamed dish was small, so I ate all the prawns and left half of the vegetables. This morning I cooked eight jumbo prawns that I had in the freezer and added them to the leftover vegetables to have plenty of that dish with the other half of the egg foo young (I don’t use the sauce). Tom eats pork fried rice and sweet and sour pork.
- Today is easy when I only have to wash and dry the bedding. Tom always helps re-making the bed. We didn’t walk this morning since Tom likes to watch CBS “Sunday Morning,” it was sweltering outside after the show ended. The temperature is only about 88F, but the dew point is 80, higher than we’d experienced in South Africa, and the pollen count is high today.
- Yes, the Covid headache returned after I stopped taking that drug that caused me to have Afib, only days before we left South Africa and ended up in hospital. After another incident on the plane, lasting six hours of sheer terror on the 17-hour flight, I went on a rampage trying to figure out what caused the Afib.
- When this literature on the antihistamine noted many cases of Afib for women over 60 years old, I immediately stopped the drug and have not had an incident since. However, a week later, the Covid induced sinus headache returned with a vengeance. I found the nasal rinse I’d used in South Africa, Neilmed Sinus Rinse, on Amazon and had it delivered the next day.
I started using it immediately, and now my headache is almost completely gone. It’s hard to describe how excited I am to have this under control. Paying attention to the pollen count through Accuweather helps me stay inside on days when there are warnings for those with allergies.
Avoiding allergy issues supersedes the need to walk outside on those days. By frequently moving around the house, I can get in many steps in one day, making up in part for not walking outdoors today. In any case, I am feeling great today, the best I have felt since we arrived six weeks ago.
Hopefully, this week, we’ll hear something about our passports. We are planning some activities for this week, which we’ll report as we go. On Sunday, our cruise friends, Lea Ann and Chuck, will be arriving to spend one night with us. We plan to dine next Sunday night in Spanish Springs at Amerikanos Greek Restaurant, which should be fun.
We love Spanish Springs, but it’s too far for us to get to drive by golf cart. As mentioned, we’ll save going there when our friends are here to visit, and we can all ride in their vehicles. Tom and I discussed that we would try getting there using the golf cart at some point. But it has to be on a clear and sunny day with no rain on the horizon.
That’s it for today, dear readers. Thank you for continuing with us during this relatively quiet time. We’re having a great time, but there aren’t many exciting photo ops, and thus, we’re sharing old photos from ten years ago on some occasions.
Be well.
Photo from ten years ago today, June 11, 2013:
- What a view of Istanbul! For more photos, please click here.
