Happy birthday wonderful Witch of the Web! I hope work is smooth and uneventful for you and you've got some lovely warm goodies lined up for the weekend.
I'm looking forward to being done with THE DOOM THING and just enjoying a couple of weeks of normality without that bastard thing weighing on my entire soul. Plus a dinner with some awesome people next Friday and maybe birthday treats in the coming weeks!
Beyond that it's a bit murky but things are definitely going to change
I'm ahead of schedule on work but so behind on my thesis, lalalala... At least I'm winning at something in life. Had a wee chat about options after and there's some leeway for working remotely but it depends on what comes in. Boss is very sympathetic to my wanting a break from Melbourne to help reset things. It's just that the next few months are very uncertain in terms of workload so, we'll have to see.
Might be an ad-hoc/super part time thing while I'm away which is good enough at this point.
As much as I look forward to being free from landlords, the prospect of digesting these kinds of unfathomably large numbers as a single person is also daunting. Ouch.
Sometimes I wish I wasn't into gardening, pesky expensive thing to be involved in if you want even a little handkerchief of usable land...
Vegetable and bean stew for dinner last night and for lunch today. My musical contributions are... not very welcome in the office. But the stew is so full of goodness! 2 carrots, 1 large swede, 1 small parsnip, 1 whole leek, a small stick of celery, tomato paste, and just 1 medium potat. But like 2 cups of dried kidney beans. I'll just have to go on strategic breaks...
Today was meant to be a uni work day but I genuinely couldn't get up until 11am, it's effing miserable out there, and Sox has been glued to me ever since, so I'm taking that as a sign to cancel my vague offer to help a relative tomorrow and use that to get on with my writing instead. Maybe I'll do some more reading this arvo though.
I'm also not normally much of a soup person, but this weather definitely calls for one. I'm thinking kidney beans, leeks, carrot, tamatah paste and the orzo lying around in the cupboard. Maybe some roast fennel.
Yeah, I've put in a splash of vinegar and that's helped a bit but I don't want to put any more and risk the flavour changing altogether. I think after I add the carrots I'll add another tiny splash and hope for the best
Aaaargh, I should've remembered to check the metric measurements for tablespoons on Nagi's recipe.. 60 ml instead of 45 ml of soy sauce later I have a super salty dish 😖 adding potatoes won't work so maybe I'll have to steam some carrot and throw that in to spread it out a bit more. I did think it seemed like an awful lot of sauce, should've trusted my gut!
E: added a tiny splash of vinegar and a touch more sugar and two carrots and it's passable now.
Long catch-up with a friend, swung over to the Asian grocers on the way back, got home to wee and now supposed to hop across the road to get some veggies but the cat has decided this is the perfect time to nest on my lap and I'm loathe to dislodge her furriness.
Gonna make a homely saucy broccoli stir-fry with vegan chicken a la this recipe with some jasmine rice. Blob out in front of the TV. Should vacuum the unit but I'll put that off to tomorrow...
To be fair, I don't usually like eating in bed either. What I really would have liked was someone to transport me to the couch, blankets and cat and all, and then served me an omelette.
I'm now finally up and about as I have to meet a friend shortly. I'm leaving the split system in the living room on so that it's not as much of a depressing, dark icebox for sox (who is currently perched on the window sill with the least uninteresting view). And for me, when I get back and steel myself to vacuum the floor.
It's raining and cold and I'm nice and relaxed in bed with a cat warmly snuggled against my feet. All I need is for someone to bring me a nice fluffy omelette for breakfast...
I'm so annoyed that I can't find the heating pad I bought for her years ago - I think it was one of the few things I didn't give to her owner when I moved house. I might get one of those cheap ones for her and give that to her owner when he gets back.
Most days I'm home well before it gets dark but next week I might have several long days. I think I'll make a note to keep the bedroom lamp on at all times
I'm having the opposite problem I think - I'm very much a side sleeper and my right shoulder has been a lot more sore since I started using a soft mattress topper about 20 months ago. I feel like it's because there's not enough support. Dunno...
I'm still safe and warm in the uni library greedily using up their heating. My bedroom heater will click on very soon (to help make it less miserable for poor sox who is also in the dark), but the rest of the house will be rather sad. I'll be booted out of here in 45 minutes and home is just a 5 minute drive away so hopefully I can rescue the place from being too much of a freezing prison.
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Happy birthday wonderful Witch of the Web! I hope work is smooth and uneventful for you and you've got some lovely warm goodies lined up for the weekend.