Tuesday

[nightdog_barks]

Overcast and very damp -- 55 degrees, with 86% humidity. It may have rained a little overnight but it's hard to tell.

Need to do some housecleaning today. Can't remember any dreams, but I did wake up knowing that "ladles" are standardized units of measurement (like cups and tablespoons) in some yet-unknown ficverse. Mmmm-kay.

More coffee is in order, I think.

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[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

More coffee is always in order.

Guh.

I slept well, at least I thought I did. So why I found it almost impossible to get out of bed, I don't know.

Sometimes that seems to happen if I'm fighting off some sort of bug and don't have other symptoms yet. Eh, we'll see.

Oh. I need to jot down a couple lines before I forget them. And then go downstairs and get More Coffee.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I need to go to the grocery store for what my mother used to call "a shirt tail full of groceries," and then do some more baking. Otherwise I intend to putter around the house. :)

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Oh, a shirt tail full of groceries is a wonderful phrase! And I think puttering around the house is on my agenda also.

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

I walked to the post office to send out those commissions, 'cause it's GORGEOUS out and how could I not?

Stopped at the coffeshop on the way home, bought a raspberry-white chocolate scone which may or may not turn out to be a good idea, and am heating some soup so I can have that and the scone for lunch before dashing out again.

Just had to come up here and let my buyers know the shipping cost on their drawings so I could get paid. So that I too can fill my shirttails full of groceries.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

It's a sharp day over here - dry and cold with few clouds and a reasonable amount of wind.

I made some small raisin/rosemary loaves for work on Sunday, and this morning one of my co-workers told me he'd taken one home and had it for dinner. The whole loaf, with a bit of butter and jam. It still makes me grin to think about it.

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Hm. I've never heard of combining raisins and rosemary, but now that you mention it, it does sound like a fabulous idea!

My scone from the neighborhood coffeehouse (an independent, not a chain) is delightful. I begin to understand what all those UK people are on about. :-)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

The raisins were mixed into the bread, with the rosemary sprinkled on top. It made for a good contrast, and the combination would probably go well in more traditional dessert fare.

Independent coffeehouses and tea shops are the best.

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

I could see the ladle being a unit of measurement in some of the more isolated areas of that Guildverse of yours.

Or in the Kalandar-verse. Or ... :-)

[takes-a-fairy.livejournal.com]

*waves and smiles sheepishly* Hehe...late again!

However, I actually managed to get alot done today. Still procrastinating on the sink full of dishes though. Most of what I got done was letter-writing, mailed stuff, made exchanges at the store, library returns, etc. Now, I'm just tired and hungry.

I picked up a sinful Apple Fritter and am about to go consume my dinner and have it for desert. I have not had a fritter in eons/years. I have been a good girl about pastries and decided to try one again. Had a donut awhile back and wished I hadn't. ICK! I hope I have the same reaction to this thing because then I won't want them anymore, ever again.

I have recently begun referring to this phenomenon as "Egg-Nog Syndrome".
I have a friend she knows who she is who once really loved egg nog so much that she became physically ill from over consuming the stuff at one time, if I recall correctly. Now she can't drink it anymore. Hence the invention of the syndrome name. I do not want anymore regular donuts ever. =D

Food and faux coffee is in order. *toddles off*

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Heh. It was me with the eggnogg, and I was still in grade school at the time, so just to clarify: it wasn't alcoholic and I didn't get my eight-year-old self wasted.

I didn't realize you got sick off a donut. Poor girl. I'd be rather upset if I couldn't ever have another Krispy Kreme Original Glazed.

[takes-a-fairy.livejournal.com]

Heh! You so often manage to tell on yourself. Unless people on here know the egg nog story no one would have known to think you had been nogging alcohol at the age of eight. hee

Well, thankfully this was not a Krispy Kreme which is made much better. I have no idea what that was. It was either a grocery chain model or Dunkin Donuts variety...but while I did not puke I wished I had have because it would have been over with much faster. It was the feeling of "urgh & queezy can I please throw up already feeling" for several hours along with plugging the proverbial plumbing. I think I ate glazed glue or something!

Right now I am heating my dinner and then a fritter desert with hot cocoa. We're back in the 40's tonight! *\o/*