Tests and birthdays and yummies

'Course, the tests aren't academic, either.I head to Touro Hospital tomorrow to have an echocardiogram and a pulmonary function test. The PFT is something I'm supposed to have done MINIMALLY once a year, but since I've lived here for a year tomorrow and I didn't think to have one done before I moved . . . . Well, you know. ::shrug:: The echo is to give my new doc a basis to work off of. I told her some docs like to do the occasional echo on MD patients and my sister had an inconclusive "enlarged" heart when she died. She had listened my ticker and said the rhythm was steady, but we might as well do it. Here's hoping my pump works properly. Afterwards, Ashley and I are headed for the Quarter to wander and buy pralines from Green Pirogue. Poor girl hasn't had any.

Speaking of living in NOLA -- I can't believe it'll be a full 365 days tomorrow. Man, time flies. A year, and I STILL haven't started on my research. I suck.

Was making a meatloaf for supper tonight (and by definition for lunch and supper for the next three days AT LEAST), and Ashley asked me if I was getting excited for my birthday. I shrugged and said, "Sure, but it won't be any big deal. I won't be doing anything." Apparently I was wrong (silly, silly me), because she proceeded to inform me that she was making me supper and then she and her hubby and I were going to "do something," and there also "might be a surprise but I'm not telling you anything about that." I refrained from telling her she makes me supper every night. ::grin::

Oh yeah -- pop quiz. What do you get when you combine tofu, cocoa powder, chocolate soy milk, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and almond extract and blend it all until smooth? Give up? A TRULY YUMMY dessert that tastes almost exactly like pudding but has less fat and LOTS of protein. I know, I was skeptical when Ashley brought it over, but that stuff was MMM MMM GOOD!! That girl's a freaking WHIZ in the kitchen.