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I'm still alive!!!
Oct. 2nd, 2006 12:52 pm...but computerless, alas. No word yet. I grow weary of waiting.
Let's see.... this weekend went pretty well, all things considered. I didn't get out to a friend's handfasting due to being only slightly under the weather, but enough so that I felt giving the newlyweds illness as a wedding gift was a definite faux pas. Instead I stayed home, cleaned my house, hung out with my kids, was exposed to the pitiful animated feature "Doogal," and cooked so that I'd have lunch for the next week. The recipes are included below the cut (as inspired by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iamnikchick.
High points of the weekend:
1) I took Rosie for a walk using the "gentle leader" head harness, and it worked! She wasn't pleased with it, but accepted her fate after a) I figured out how to actually tighten the muzzle part and b) we put it back on for the 5th time. She can't pull with her shoulders and neck muscles and set the pace with this harness, so it's easier on me (if less enjoyable for her). It works, though, and I don't have to worry about her choking herself. I'm very happy. I gave her many dog biscuits.
2) I started to be able to tell I'm losing weight! Yay me!
3) I cooked! I cooked rather a lot, actually. And I could still stand at the end of Sunday, though my back was really sore. That's far better shape than I would have been in for similar activities this time last year -- usually a day of extended cooking is enough to send me straight to the chiropractor. Yesterday it was just sore muscles. Great progress.
4) I have hobbies! I have survived not having a computer at home, in no small part to having my stained glass area set up and my knitting to fall back on. My couch is full of folded clothes (I'll put them away tonight, really), I've cut glass for two Christmas presents, I've only got a night or two left on Alisdair's scarf, and I have a surprising amount of good food waiting for me.
5) I really am a writer. I've gotten so desperate to write that I'm... *gasp*... writing by hand. In a notebook. With a pencil. I'm so out of practice at it that I don't get very much done at one go, but I'm doing it anyway because the book in my head Will Not Shut Up. I want my computer back. *whimper*
Only a week and a half left until unemployment. Good vibes are appreciated, starting now. Thanks.
( Recipes behind the cut... )
Let's see.... this weekend went pretty well, all things considered. I didn't get out to a friend's handfasting due to being only slightly under the weather, but enough so that I felt giving the newlyweds illness as a wedding gift was a definite faux pas. Instead I stayed home, cleaned my house, hung out with my kids, was exposed to the pitiful animated feature "Doogal," and cooked so that I'd have lunch for the next week. The recipes are included below the cut (as inspired by
iamnikchick. High points of the weekend:
1) I took Rosie for a walk using the "gentle leader" head harness, and it worked! She wasn't pleased with it, but accepted her fate after a) I figured out how to actually tighten the muzzle part and b) we put it back on for the 5th time. She can't pull with her shoulders and neck muscles and set the pace with this harness, so it's easier on me (if less enjoyable for her). It works, though, and I don't have to worry about her choking herself. I'm very happy. I gave her many dog biscuits.
2) I started to be able to tell I'm losing weight! Yay me!
3) I cooked! I cooked rather a lot, actually. And I could still stand at the end of Sunday, though my back was really sore. That's far better shape than I would have been in for similar activities this time last year -- usually a day of extended cooking is enough to send me straight to the chiropractor. Yesterday it was just sore muscles. Great progress.
4) I have hobbies! I have survived not having a computer at home, in no small part to having my stained glass area set up and my knitting to fall back on. My couch is full of folded clothes (I'll put them away tonight, really), I've cut glass for two Christmas presents, I've only got a night or two left on Alisdair's scarf, and I have a surprising amount of good food waiting for me.
5) I really am a writer. I've gotten so desperate to write that I'm... *gasp*... writing by hand. In a notebook. With a pencil. I'm so out of practice at it that I don't get very much done at one go, but I'm doing it anyway because the book in my head Will Not Shut Up. I want my computer back. *whimper*
Only a week and a half left until unemployment. Good vibes are appreciated, starting now. Thanks.
( Recipes behind the cut... )
