I feel like ass. I want to sit in a hot tub for an hour to soothe my muscles. I would want a hot tub in my dream house (if the house was big, and not mini). I’ve been drinking loads of tea, sleeping a lot, taking lots of Vitamin C, and eating oranges. I’m also keeping a hankie with me at all times. That way I don’t waste a ton of tissues.

I was browsing recipes on allrecipes.com, and I found this food related survey. I love food!
1. How do you like your eggs?
Scrambled. Usually I just cook them, and fold them in half like it’s an omelet, but there’s nothing in it. I eat only egg whites because I am lame.

2. How do you take your coffee/tea?
I don’t drink coffee, and I only enjoy herbal tea. I drink it hot. Oh, but I LOVE a small coffee coolata made with skim milk from Dunkin Donuts.

3. Favorite breakfast food:
I’m sure all of you know the answer to that already! Honey Bunches of Oats with sliced banana and skim milk.

4. Peanut butter: Smooth or crunchy?
Smooth. I like Skippy.

5. What kind of dressing on your salad?
Light Honey Mustard

6. Coke or Pepsi?
I like Diet Coke because it has more caffeine, but Diet Pepsi tastes better. My all time favorite would be Diet Pepsi Max for the SUPER amount of caffeine.

7. You’re feeling lazy, what do you make?
Depends if it’s lunch or dinner. I’ve been having soup for lunch lately. I’m off my English Muffin kick. For dinner? Probably pasta.

8. You’re feeling really lazy. What kind of pizza do you order?
Normally just plain, but lately I’ve liked them with peppers.

9. You feel like cooking. What do you make?
Some kind of pasta or a delicious soup.

10. Do any foods bring back good memories?
Uhh. Maybe Kraft Macaroni and Cheese cause we ate it as kids. Other than that, not that I can think of right now cause I’m sick.

11. Do any foods bring back bad memories?
Chocolate and peanut butter together (like Reese’s). I got sick on a chocolate and peanut butter rabbit one Easter. Can’t eat them since that.

12. Do any foods remind you of someone?
Cabbage and Cream Chicken on Toast reminds me of Alissa. Turnovers remind me of my mom and sister. Coffee rolls remind me of my dad.

13. Is there a food you refuse to eat?
Nope. I’ll try anything unless it’s a weird Fear Factor-like food.

14. What was your favorite food as a child?

Hamburgers, I think. That’s what I would always order at restaurants. So much so that Dylan would always bug me about it.

15. Is there a food that you hated as a child but now like?
Um… I don’t remember. I’d have to ask my parents. I’ve been eating a LOT more vegetables lately. I wasn’t veggie crazy as a kid.

16. Is there a food that you liked as a child but now hate?
Uhhhh. No?

17. Favorite fruit and vegetable:
Fruit - I love them all!!! Apples, grapes, oranges, bananas. Vegetable - broccoli!!

18. Favorite junk food:
I like a lot of sweet things, so I try not to keep them in the house. Non dessert? Salsa and chips, maybe.

19. Favorite between meal snack:
fruit

20. Do you have any weird food habits?
I cut my PB&J sandwiches in half, so there are two triangles. HAVE to? No. But I do.

21. You’re on a diet. What food(s) do you fill up on?
Soup and my spinach salads

22. You’re off your diet. Now what would you like?
Cereal. But no diet could keep me away from that.

23. How spicy do you order Indian/Thai?
not spicy at all, I get acid reflux.

24. Can I get you a drink?
Red wine if I feel like it

25. Red or White Wine?
Red for cancer fighting properties, but if I want less calories, white. Again, I am lame.

26. Favorite dessert?
In an ideal world, yogurt with berries and granola. Yuuuuuum.

27. The perfect nightcap?
Wine? Probably nothing, though

Oh how I love food.

At Thyroid Cancer Support Group last month, one of the members mentioned something about Stowe Hope Weekend.  It sounded neat, so I wrote it down and researched it a bit more.

Stowe Hope Weekend is an entire weekend in Stowe, Vermont for cancer survivors and their families and care givers.  It is a weekend for these cancer patients to spend time together, learning about their diseases.  It is the first weekend in May every year, and for first time attendees, staying at the hotels in Stowe is absolutely free.

I registered today, and my mom and I are going early Friday morning May 1, and staying until Sunday afternoon.  Our room is absolutely free for both of us (and my dad may come too, he’s not sure yet), we just had to put up a $50 deposit (to say we’re definitely coming).  Then, once we check in, we have the choice of getting the money back, or donating it to the weekend’s non profit organization so that they can use the money to fund next year’s event.

We are lucky enough to stay at a Bed and Breakfast, which my mom loves.  It is much more personal than a hotel, but because we’re staying for free, I doubt breakfast is included.  We will have the host family to chat with, so that is a nice touch.

Friday afternoon there are events and seminars that are for cancer patients only (my parents would just explore Stowe or hang out in the hotel or something).  On Saturday, there are various workshops to attend all day long.  There are four sessions, two in the morning, and then two after the lunch break.  Last year, there were several workshops that were dedicated specifically to thyroid cancer.

The only thing that we have to pay for is food.  I’m just planning on bringing a cooler and having milk and cereal for breakfast, and then rolls, deli meat (or PB & J if I want meat free), yogurt and fruit for lunch.  Then we can just go out for dinner on Friday and Saturday.  Friday night there is a “dessert and discussion” that you go to for specific cancers, but thyroid isn’t one of the ones listed.  So I don’t think I’m going to go to that  (I think it costs money).  Also, I bet the dessert won’t be awesome fruit salad or rhubarb pie, and really, are there better desserts out there?

I am very very excited to go, and I think it will be a lot of fun.  It will also be a nice little vacation before I have to start my low iodine diet, and prepare for my radiation treatment in late May (or early June, I might push it back).