I got up bright and early this morning to go to my CD 3 blood draw/ ultrasound. I was having pain off and on all weekend, so I knew the cysts were still hanging around. Getting put on birth control after the past month of craziness didn’t sound all that bad. Especially considering my next period is due right around when we’re supposed to close on the house. Yuck.
So I dragged myself in and got poked and prodded a little more. Imagine my surprise when the nurse announced I am cyst free! 🙂 She said all the pain was probably just my body working to getting rid of them. I’m relieved that we don’t have this hurdle to jump over anymore. We can move forward with a monitoring cycle and (hopefully) get to the bottom of this. No birth control. Unless we feel like it. 😉
I’ll update on my blood work later. They were checking base hormone levels and ovarian reserve today. I still think it’s amazing that they can do that. 🙂
Honestly, I feel rather ambivalent towards the whole ordeal. I know these are good things, but they don’t feel like they’re “good news” necessarily. Just information I didn’t have before. Maybe I’m finally learning to exercise caution when it comes to my emotions. That isn’t entirely a bad thing.
Anywho….
The weekend was good. I spent a good chunk of it trying to distract myself from my period starting.
My goal with the garden this year is to not let anything go to waste. Last year, I wasn’t ready for the huge amounts of fruits and vegetables that the garden ended up producing. I’m sorry to say that some of it went bad before I could figure out how to use it. I canned a lot of tomatoes and jalapenos last year, and plan on doing the same this year, but I also wanted a little variety. I got this book on modern canning for Christmas this, and started utilizing it over the weekend.
Friday, I oven dried a big batch of tomatoes. It only got to 85 degrees out that day and it was supposed to be the coolest day we’ll have in a while, so I wanted to have the oven on all day while it was relatively cool out. They turned out nice and caramelized. I stuck them in freezer safe jars and froze them to use later.
Next, I added to my already impressive zucchini store, turning 4 zucchini into 14 cups of frozen pureed zucchini. I currently have 22 cups of zucchini hanging out in my freezer. I need to find more zucchini recipes. The 2 or 3 dishes I use zucchini in are getting very worn out.
Yesterday, I canned apple jelly using the apples from the funky apple tree in my mother- and father-in-law’s back yard. It came out really yummy and tastes like candy apples. Definitely not bad for my first try at jelly. It’s not as clear as it was supposed to be, but I used cheese cloth instead of a jelly bag, so that’s probably why. I’m curious if I let it gel too much or not enough.
I’m a little afraid to open one of the jars. 😉 I suppose too runny or not runny enough, it should taste the same.
Canning foods makes me happy. They typically last for long amounts of time, which is probably why I prefer it to cooking in general. A complicated dinner is gone after a few minutes, but home preserved foods last throughout the year.