Not feeling so oosewifely today. I did my 30 minutes of cleaning (laundry, dishes and microwave) and have made a vague attempt at my Bible study homework, but that’s it. On the other hand, I made carrot and pumpkin soup for lunch and have started some hot cross bun dough for tomorrow. I’m also soaking a bunch of grains for multi-grain bread, and am endeavoring to sprout some buckwheat. For all I know it’s heat-treated and as dead as six thousand tiny doornails, but we will see. Sprouting is one of the things the cool kids do, and I feel I should try it.
I’m about to go into town and do some shopping. I want to buy some bling for the couch cushions, and I unwisely spent a lot of time on sewing blogs over the weekend and now want to make thousands of cute garments for the baby. Unfortunately my enthusiasm for sewing is always greater than my talents, time or money… I was all fired up to make the couch cushions, and now I’m halfway through the first one I’m going ‘Ooh, shiny!’ at pictures of babies wearing cute wintry hats.
I also gotta return my library books and get some groceries. Tonight’s dinner is burritos, and I’m planning to use a tortilla recipe which contains fine cornmeal; but when I looked in the pantry I discovered the whole jar had been infested with weasels.
Later…
Oops. Town took longer than I expected, and by the time I got home it was getting dark. I prevailed upon Helpdesk Man to start the mince for dinner while I attacked the garden, and successfully got my 30 minutes in before the sun went down. (Mostly mowing, but I also planted some snow peas, harvested some tomatoes and turned the compost).
We then made dinner. The tortillas were surprisingly good! Cornmeal makes a weak and feeble dough, but the taste is nice, and differentiates the tortillas from chapattis. As would the weasels have done, but I used fresh cornmeal. Anyway, what with a lateish dinner, baking my hot cross buns, zig-zagging the edges of my new fabric and the baby throwing up on my side of the bed, it was ten before I got around to working on my article. Which I have now done. Whew.
So, I completely forgot to mention that tomorrow is the start of Script Frenzy! My sister, whose name I will not mention because she hasn’t given me permish to blog about her - you may call her Nimbus Nose - is cowriting with me; we’re attempting a musical based on the book of Esther, which should prove very interesting, in that we a) are living in different cities, b) have never penned a musical before, and c) have never collaborated before on anything more creative than watching M*A*S*H* when we were supposed to be homeschooling ourselves. So just to make my life more interesting, for the next month I will be writing half an off-Broadway (very off-Broadway, being New Zealand and all) musical extravaganza. K? It’s got a harem in it.
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