I had a super day

Otto was here at 10:00am and as he walked behind me he could tell I was having trouble with my right shoulder area so he concentrated on that. It was really the only area bothering me and I felt for the first time that I didn't desperately need the massage, I could just enjoy it. He said too he could tell the muscles in my lower back area had loosened up. My sciatica is not bothering me. It has taken a year. I will not be here in two weeks so he is coming on the Tuesday before I leave and I will be in good shape for my trip, which will be a busy one.

I made changes in my afternoon and let the craft ladies know I would see them next week. I confirmed Ziomara would be in the yarn shop and invited Emilio to join me and headed to Cartago on the 1:15pm bus. Emilio was already at the yarn shop so I headed right there. We had a good visit. I am concerned with Ziomara. She has so much worry and stress in her life right now she is going to make herself sick. I delivered the guayaba jelly for her husband, Douglas, and some Papaya Raisin bread for her. 

The timing worked out great because I really need berries, hopefully strawberries, for tomorrow's cooking lesson and the markets are about the only place to get them. The cupcakes tomorrow are Strawberry White Chocolate where you use yogurt instead of oil or butter. I go with flavored and it really adds flavor to the cupcakes.  Anyway, I was able to get strawberries, mora, tangerines, an orange for the zest and some of the biggest grapes I have seen. We stopped and had lunch at the usual place in the market. I had chicken Casado and Emilio had Tripe Soup to which he added juice from pickled vegetables to spice it up. No, I didn't try it.

From the market he headed to the train to San Jose and class and I headed to the bus with a stop in a really great looking bakery. I bought two small loaves of bread. One is crusty and plain and the other is frosted and fruit topped. So often the baked goods are a disappointment but these are really good.

When I was sick the doctor gave me a different med to help with my diabetes and it seems to work really well. I called and left a message for him because I wanted to know if that was something just for while I was on the antibiotics or if it is something I can switch to for all the time. He called tonight and said I could definitely switch to it and he thought it would do a better job for me. Tomorrow I will go to the pharmacy and see if I can get more. In between the senior center craft event in the morning and the cooking lesson in the afternoon. Now that I don't need to go to the feria on Saturday I will spend that day making jelly. I need to pick up more mango but they are too heavy to cart from Paraiso. I will just get them here. The best would be if I can also pick enough guayaba for another batch. Right now I am having toast with mango/strawberry jelly. That is pretty good also. To think I had never made jelly before moving here and now I make all kinds!