Things that don't suck...
Nov. 14th, 2004 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikActually, most things don't suck. I just spent too much time this last week being stressed out and high strung. (I hate being high strung.)
My Christmas cactus is in bloom. It's really lovely. Actually, half of it has opened half the buds that have formed, so I think I can expect that it will continue to be in bloom for a while now.
I made bread pudding last night. It's not quite up to Victor's, but it was the first go of a new method, and I think I can see where to go from here. For additional amusement value, I have an idea for how to make an (equally rich) vegan bread pudding, should I ever be so inclined. (Since the bread pudding I was making is basically bread soaked in custard, and then baked, working around the lack of cream and eggs is kind of silly, and kept me giggling to myself through the whole first bit. And I still think it will work, and taste pretty good...)
I also fired up the oven and made bread last night. Even if the heat control wasn't what it should have been, I feel like just doing that knit together some bits of my idenity that were feeling a little unravelled.
While I still don't have a car, I have also managed to fail to buy a car that sucks, or for that matter an SUV that just sucks gas. I've had ample opportunity to do either...
And I did decide to go for the project that might be and awful can of worms, but will almost certainly give me some room for original work. Which is really the right thing for me to do, even if it's not a particularly safe choice from either a grade or sanity standpoint.
Taiji at Artspawn. With M & B taking a break, and K recovering from surgery (and the other K having disappeared), and D-M attending the Tuesday classes anyway, I've been kind of thinking of putting the Saturday classes on hold... but I'm really glad we haven't. Sometimes it's that basic stuff that I need to be reminded of. I am tight on time, and this is a priority.
Oh, and this stupid knot in my left leg/butt/hip that's been getting worse actually got a bit better. Apparently, it responds really well to hardcore forced stretching -- the kind I was kind of backing off from, because I was afraid of hurting it. I don't think this will cure it, but it will probably get it back to where it's not taking a bite out of my practice. And at least I won't be losing ground on flexibility.
My Christmas cactus is in bloom. It's really lovely. Actually, half of it has opened half the buds that have formed, so I think I can expect that it will continue to be in bloom for a while now.
I made bread pudding last night. It's not quite up to Victor's, but it was the first go of a new method, and I think I can see where to go from here. For additional amusement value, I have an idea for how to make an (equally rich) vegan bread pudding, should I ever be so inclined. (Since the bread pudding I was making is basically bread soaked in custard, and then baked, working around the lack of cream and eggs is kind of silly, and kept me giggling to myself through the whole first bit. And I still think it will work, and taste pretty good...)
I also fired up the oven and made bread last night. Even if the heat control wasn't what it should have been, I feel like just doing that knit together some bits of my idenity that were feeling a little unravelled.
While I still don't have a car, I have also managed to fail to buy a car that sucks, or for that matter an SUV that just sucks gas. I've had ample opportunity to do either...
And I did decide to go for the project that might be and awful can of worms, but will almost certainly give me some room for original work. Which is really the right thing for me to do, even if it's not a particularly safe choice from either a grade or sanity standpoint.
Taiji at Artspawn. With M & B taking a break, and K recovering from surgery (and the other K having disappeared), and D-M attending the Tuesday classes anyway, I've been kind of thinking of putting the Saturday classes on hold... but I'm really glad we haven't. Sometimes it's that basic stuff that I need to be reminded of. I am tight on time, and this is a priority.
Oh, and this stupid knot in my left leg/butt/hip that's been getting worse actually got a bit better. Apparently, it responds really well to hardcore forced stretching -- the kind I was kind of backing off from, because I was afraid of hurting it. I don't think this will cure it, but it will probably get it back to where it's not taking a bite out of my practice. And at least I won't be losing ground on flexibility.
