{"id":8042,"date":"2022-07-12T19:33:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2022-07-20T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T07:16:22","slug":"how-sweet-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/how-sweet-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW SWEET IT IS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at me posting again! Whee! Russell helped me add a Contact page last night, and we fixed some formatting issues on the About page, and he added a captcha safety measure to the comments form so that I don&#8217;t get bombarded with spam. I don&#8217;t expect I will, regardless, as I don&#8217;t link to my blog much or advertise it publicly, but you never know.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>We had a cake party at work this afternoon, and I&#8217;m still on a sugar buzz. Helen, who is a friend, and the Marketing Director&#8217;s assistant, took it upon herself to organize a fun activity for the beginning of the summer. A lot of people are already on vacation but we still had an excellent turnout. She sent out info and invites a few weeks ago, inviting those in the office to bake\/bring a cake today at 2 pm. If you wanted to come eat cake, but not bring one, she asked that you simply swished a donation to the charity of your choice instead.<\/p>\n<p>Last week it was the 8th floor (Segment Marketing, Solution Marketing, Product Marketing, Digital Channels, etc.) and today it was the 7th floor (Communications, Marcom &amp; Events, Partner Marketing). We had tiger cake, chocolate chunk brownies, kladdkaka (brownie pie), frozen caramel cheesecake, white chocolate cake, chocolate-dipped coconut tops, salty caramel brownies, Swedish princess cake, and my fruit pizza. I asked Helen who had the most cakes, us or the 8th floor, and she said we had more by a mile. &#8220;We win!&#8221; I shouted. We also had ice cream and two bowls of fresh fruit. Yum yum.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t try everything because I would be in a sugar COMA instead of a sugar buzz right now, but I had a tiny slice each of the white chocolate cake, the caramel cheesecake, my fruit pizza, and a salty caramel brownie. My fruit pizza was a favorite and there was only a tiny bit left which I brought home to share with Anders. Three people asked me for the recipe, which I will give them, but as it includes almond extract, which you can&#8217;t easily find in Sweden, I say good luck to them. If they make it, it will be good, but it won&#8217;t be DELICIOUS like mine. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>It was like Pie Night only with cakes, and in the afternoon, and at work. Mmmm pie! And since I made Fruit Pizza, which I always make for Pie Night, it was basically exactly the same, only I didn&#8217;t have to host it.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Karin&#8217;s birthday. She&#8217;s turning 23, can you believe it? We are going to her place after work to bring her presents, and then going to Mat &amp; Destillat for dinner, and then possibly to V\u00e4stra Hamnen in Malm\u00f6 for &#8220;the best gelato&#8221; (according to Karin) at her friend&#8217;s brother&#8217;s ice cream place.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>I had another appointment with a physiotherapist this morning, but it was a different one than the lady I saw the first two times since she is now on vacation. This one was the ergonomist who comes to Axis to check our seats and desks and sitting arrangements. She&#8217;s coming tomorrow to work to check mine. She did basically the same things that the first one did: same exercises and discussion, and she pulled on my neck several times which actually felt really good. I still have pins and needles in my hand, worst in my fingertips, but it&#8217;s very slightly better than it was before my first appointment last week. I&#8217;m taking ibuprofin 3x daily and doing sets of exercises. And she recommended that I get another MRI scheduled so that it&#8217;s possible to see if there is any difference from the one I had in 2017. So, I called my health insurance after I got back to work, and they got me a doctor&#8217;s appointment for August 4 (first available), because it&#8217;s the doctor that has to give the referral for an MRI. Progress, but slow.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mood: buzzy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Music: Mary Lou Lord\u2014His Lamest Flame<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at me posting again! Whee! 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