{"id":2766,"date":"2012-03-24T16:26:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T23:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icalltheshot.wordpress.com\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2012-06-24T21:39:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T21:39:56","slug":"a-wild-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/?p=2766","title":{"rendered":"A Wild Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Yesterday was pretty much a wild ride with that sore throat.\u00a0 From feeling like I was hit in the head to the food choices I made, depending what my body told me to eat.\u00a0\u00a0Everything was a bit out of whack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Breakfast was a baked potato.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Lunch was a bowl of cooked carrots, mashed with some sharp cheddar cheese added to the blend.\u00a0 Does that look like baby food or what?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/icalltheshot.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/24\/a-wild-ride\/sony-dsc-706\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2767\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2767\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/icalltheshot.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/07075.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">But it sure did\u00a0slide down nice &#8216;n easy.\u00a0 There was something about the warmth with the cheese added to the carrots that made this the best lunch ever.\u00a0 Does this mashed carrot concoction sound good today?\u00a0 Maybe\u00a0not. \u00a0I would prefer the carrots whole today, please.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Dinner was completely off the cuff.\u00a0 I had thoughts whirling around all afternoon of how nice a warm batch of chocolate pudding would taste and feel going down the sore throat.\u00a0 The more I thought about it, the more I knew just what to make for dinner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Chocolate and Cherry Gelatin Pudding<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Ingredients:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">* Chocolate JELL-O <em>brand<\/em>\u00a0Sugar Free Cook &amp; Serve Pudding\u00a0(small box &#8211; 4 serving)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">* Sugar Free Cherry Low Calorie Cherry Artificial Flavor Gelatin (small box &#8211; 4 serving)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">* 1 1\/2 cups of water<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I use less water than the 2 liquid\u00a0cups\u00a0like the pudding calls for.\u00a0\u00a0I like this particular consistency thick.\u00a0 Plus I wanted to eat it warm and didn&#8217;t want it too runny.\u00a0 So 1 &amp; 1\/2 cups of water is all I use for both packages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">With medium heat and a constant stir with a whisk, bring the mixture to a solid boil, turn off the heat, pour the mixture in a container, let\u00a0stand in the fridge maybe 10 min.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Then\u00a0eat the whole thing while it\u00a0is hot.\u00a0\u00a0Did that ever\u00a0hit the spot once again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I had a lot of water throughout the day, took my vitamins and shoved a yogurt and a 1\/2 banana into my system as snacks.\u00a0 And what do you know?\u00a0 I woke feeling like a brand new person today.\u00a0 Makes me happy it didn&#8217;t last long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">My eating habits are still a little quirky today, but I&#8217;m beginning to feel like my old self.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I was well enough to run some errands with hubby.\u00a0 When we returned home, I had the desire to stomp in the garden for a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">We&#8217;re beginning to see lots of new changes in the landscape here at the new place.\u00a0 This week, our rose hedge came alive with loads of rose buds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">To brighten up the family room, I brought in my favorite bud vase and added some buds\u00a0from the garden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/icalltheshot.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/24\/a-wild-ride\/sony-dsc-707\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2770\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2770\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/icalltheshot.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/07092.jpg?w=332\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Makes me happy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Until next time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Blessings &#8211; Debbie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was pretty much a wild ride with that sore throat.\u00a0 From feeling like I was hit in the head to the food choices I made, depending what my body told me to eat.\u00a0\u00a0Everything was a bit out of whack. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/?p=2766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-delish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xHQP-IC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}