The holiday weekend...

was long - that's about all I can say for it. It started early - I spent what seemed liked an eternity at the doctor's office on Wednesday and then all day Thursday at the hospital getting a blood transfusion on the outpatient surgery floor. They were very nice - but it takes forever to get two units of blood. I think I spent most of my time pushing the IV pump back and forth to the bathroom. They give you a shot of Lasix between units so you don't retain the fluid. Of course, I expected to feel seriously perky on Friday after having been a couple of quarts low on non-anemic blood - but no! I was still exhausted and so I spent Friday at home with Aggie & Monty and the last three Anne Rice books in my reading stash. By Sunday afternoon, after a brief trip to feed Petey at the office, I had finished reading Blood and Gold, Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle. I enjoy Anne Rice, not for the vampire stories per se, but for the way she writes and by the time I got to the last book, I was reminded why I never especially likes the volumes narrated by the Vampire Lestat - he tries to be too hip and way too flip. No wonder they cast Tom Cruise in the horrific movie version. Anyhow, I read myself silly and then baked some banana bread.

Banana bread is why Tim and I are the perfect match. I love green bananas - well, not green, but just barely ripe and past the bitter stage. When I buy bananas, I buy them green and eat two or three the first day before they start to turn yellow. When the yellow hits - they are all Tim's. He will eat bananas until the brown spots appear - yuck! After he's done with them, they're mine to make banana bread with. And so, since Tim's at our new home in Pennsylvania, I had three leftover bananas to make banana bread with. And it was good!