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Panya / שיינא / יפה / سها AntiZionist. AntiFascist. AntiAI. Autistic. Disabled. Syncretist. Nerd. Helper. Maker. Foster. Adopt, don't shop. Spay & neuter your pets. 🌈 she/they/elle/ielle See also: Bio.Link

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My scintigraphy (gastric emptying study) yesterday morning was overwhelmingly positive, with 53% remaining in my stomach when it's supposed to be less than 10%. So I'm finally getting the gastroparesis diagnosis that we've suspected for years. Yay! 🙃 Bill said that he's getting me this "Radioactive Eggs Survivor" shirt [see photo]. 😆 [Side note: that was the first time I've had eggs in years, as we stopped buying them when the prices went up.] I'm having another esophagram on Monday – the first one being way back in 2000! – so I'm apparently collecting all of the radiation for myself. ☢️

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Happy 45th Birthday to me! 🎉🥳🎊🤪

This year's birthday cake, partially decorated by my spouse. 😍

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I used a pattern from 1936 to crochet the top of this hat. I like the shape [it's similar to knit berets that I wear frequently] but I have to dye it now, because these lighter gray shades make me actually look like the anemic Victorian street urchin that I apparently am on the inside. 🙃

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Happy Yeeterus Day to me! 🤣 It's the second anniversary of me yeeting my useless uterus (i.e. having a hysterectomy) and my husband brought me this cake. 🤭 He tried writing the words, but it was somehow worse than last year's attempt, so he scraped off the gel and bought these candy pieces instead. He remarked that the eyes resemble ovaries. 😆

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Happy International Rescue Cat Day from me and my rescue cat Mallaidh! 🐱🐈💛 Next month will be the 14th anniversary of when we adopted her from our local shelter where she'd been born and lived for the first 10 months of her life. 😻

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I LIKE BIG BUNDTS AND I CANNOT LIE!

Happy National Bundt Day!

On my list of to-make Bundts, nearly all of them were very similar to those I'd made on previous Bundt Days [I like what I like, and this is my 16th(!) year participating], so I decided to make a savory Bundt this year to be different.

I ended up looking at a bunch of recipes like this, but based mine mainly on this one from Burcu at AlmostTurkishRecipes.

Here's what I used to make this Ispanaklı ve Feta Peynirli Kek:

1 lb (16 oz) baby spinach, puréed (made almost 3 cups)

1 bunch flat leaf parsley, puréed (made almost 1 cup)

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 tspn baking powder

1 tspn kosher salt

1/2 cup vegetable oil

3 large equivalent vegan eggs

1 lb feta cheese, crumbled

1/2 can (3 oz) black olives, sliced

sesame seeds

After I sprayed the pan with baking spray, I coated the inside of the pan with sesame seeds.

I baked it at 325° for ~65 minutes.

It's dense [which we all know I love], and tasted great with the roasted garlic compound vegan butter that I made to go with it.

As always, thanks to Mary the Food Librarian for coming up with the concept of I Like Big Bundts! Her listing of previous Bundt Day posts is here.

Go make a Bundt!

[panyav]

Only the second needle I've ever broken, in 35+ years of stitching. 🪡 I think this time I'll invest in some nickel-free needles, because we all know that I don't need any *more* rashes. 🙃 [Well-used needle threader from a @/needle_or_thread kit. 🌼] ☆ • ☆ • ☆ #FreePalestine #CrossStitch #XStitch #CrossStitching #XStitching #stitching #embroidery #broderie #PointDeCroix #tatreez #kufiya #keffiyeh #DMC #DMCThread #PerleCotton #EmbroideryThread #EmbroideryFloss #handstitching #handmade #handicraft #handcraft #crafting #craft #needlecraft #CrossStitcher #FiberArtist #TextileArtist #HandicraftsByPanya

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One of our fosters had a ruptured abscess yesterday, so they went to the shelter overnight to wait for the vet today. They have FeLV - a virus that acts like leukemia [explains what happened to poor little Soïg]. Now they're going to a medical foster before hopefully recovering enough to go to a rescue.

Besides their abscesses and arthritis, Sabine and Lucien seem fine (i.e. stronger), so they'll likely survive to be carriers.

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We lost one of our fosters very suddenly today: Franklin a.k.a. Soïg

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Happy Beltaine! 💚🌸⚘🌼 ☆ • ☆ • ☆ (Illustration by @nikitina.north ) #holiday #Beltaine #Beltane #Bealtaine #Bealltainn #Boaltinn #Boaldyn #CalanHaf #CalanMai #MayDay #MidSpring #Syncretism #Syncretist #Druidry #Druid #Witchcraft #Witch #Wicca #Wiccan #NeoPaganism #NeoPagan #ModernPaganism #ModernPagan #ContemporaryPaganism #ContemporaryPagan #EclecticPaganism #EclecticPagan #Paganism #Pagan #WheelOfTheYear https://www.instagram.com/p/CdCJZEypKGW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[panyav]

Happy Birthday to Me!

The present I received today: 3 foster kittens! 🐱🐱🐱

[panyav]

Early Morning Craft Time!

🙃 Looks about as good as any last-minute, made-from-trash craft [specifically made from a candy wrapper, the cardboard from a pack of underwear, and the orange masking tape usually reserved for Halloween] is going to look when you only have one eye open due to a massive migraine after only 3 hours of sleep because a horny robin won't stop attacking your bedroom window at 6am and the cat who is watching him keeps getting startled every time he throws himself at the window and shakes your pillow which wakes you up further when all you want is blissful, pain-free sleep after running errands and getting a mammogram and a 💉 the previous day... 😭

Hopefully, these janky snakes will scare him away from the windows above the bed, and he won't simply switch to the other window in the room. 🤞

[panyav]

This video from Charlie Nebe (YT: CharlieNebe & GetTheeToTheStitchery, IG: GetTheeToTheStitchery) almost perfectly describes the way my autistic brain functions.

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Taking a photo of anything when you have a cat

...😸☕️🍫

Even though there are no foodstuffs here that interest her, Mallaidh still needs to check both of my hands, just in case, because she knows that I was just in the kitchen. 😂

This 👆 was the [general] photo I was trying to take: my hot cocoa with Dandies marshmallows - that I buy specifically to make microwave s'mores - if I don't use them up fast enough [which is rare 😋] then I tear them up and put them into my cocoa.

[P.s. Ignore the "bandage" on her leg; it's covering the wound she'd caused on her tumor by licking it too much. #SayNoToLaserPointers]

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[panyav]

Happy Ostara, and Equinoctial Earth Day!

[panyav]

Happy Yeeterus Day to Me!

🤣 It's the one year anniversary since I yeeted my useless uterus (i.e. had a hysterectomy) and my husband brought me this "lovely" cake. 🤭 There were... issues with the decorating. 😆 It's supposed to be my unhappy removed organs: right ovary, cervix, uterus, and left Fallopian tube flipping me off. 🖕😝

P.s. I'm still not completely healed internally: one of the issues being that the regrowing nerves - doc's best guess - are causing one of the incision sites on my belly to itch daily, sometimes with a visible rash. *My* guess is that the sutures that I developed an allergy to didn't dissolve all of the way, so I'm having a 24/7 allergic reaction. 😬 If so, not really sure what we're supposed to do about that... 🤷‍♀️