Many doings
As usual, a busy weekend. Friday afternoon I stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few things with the intention of making cake, but that evening we went to the First Friday Art Walk, as the weather was gorgeous. I was tired and achy and cranky, but we were there for about an hour and saw some nice stuff. No cake-making after all as there just wasn't time.
Saturday morning was the usual yoga class, then I ran a couple of short errands (public library and AAA) before going to the day spa for four hours. Bliss. I decided that I like massage better than having a body wrap, though, although certainly my skin was softer than it had been in years (since early childhood, I bet). This was a different place from the one I'd been to before, and I liked it. It was also a bit less expensive, not a bad thing. *g* Saturday night we finished off nearly all of last week's leftovers (exception, some wild rice mix). And I made the cake! One-bowl chocolate cake, and since SO doesn't like peanut butter frosting (or thinks he doesn't), I found a recipe for mocha frosting in The Joy of Cooking which turned out pretty well.
Sunday I had my usual "big breakfast", started some laundry (3 loads total), posted my DD fic (link below), and then did the shopping that of course I couldn't do on Friday. After that I cooked: beef stew for me to bring for lunches this week, chicken-grilled veggie pasta salad for SO ditto, the vegetarian nasi goreng as planned (for Monday and Thursday at least), turkey burgers for SO and a beef burger for me (for Sunday; will cook more of each Wednesday and Friday for dinner those day), plus herbed oven fries. Sides this week: green beans, grapefruit, broccoli, salad, and/or carrots.
So basically the fridge is stuffed so full that to get anything out requires effort. Oh well. This is mostly because of the extra room taken by having stew and pasta salad for lunches; deli meat in the meat drawer just doesn't take up space the same way.
Also cleaned both the bathrooms and did a little tidying up, in anticipation of my dad's visit Tuesday night, and talked with my mom for about an hour (while cleaning the bathrooms - yay for speakerphone capability).
Long day at work today. Tomorrow morning I'll make up the bed for my dad, do some final cleaning (vacuuming mostly, if SO doesn't get to that today), and vote before coming in to work. I'll be on campus from about noon to 4:30 or 5, as I have a seminar in the afternoon - had to swap my afternoon desk shift for a Wednesday one to get to that, but either way it was going to be an afternoon-only work day.
I'm irritated right now because I'm going to have to talk to one of the student workers; not quite to the level of actual reprimand but zie has apparently been doing stupid things like breaking pens so that other employees get ink all over their hands, thinking it funny. And this is a grad student. There have been other things too, like not following procedures correctly, and not bothering to learn how to do something the right way when hir attempts didn't work. Clearly zie needs to be reminded that this job is not guaranteed to continue after this semester!
LJ is being wonky again (another DDoS attack maybe?) so all the above links to recipes may be down at the moment. It took me ages to get the pages to load so I could retrieve them. Furthermore, the cross-posting feature from DW doesn't seem to have worked, so I'm going to try to manually cross-post this one. Bah.
The fic I posted yesterday was the Harry-with-many-partners-and-many-kinks one that I've mentioned, written for the daily_deviant, so it's only there at IJ until next month. The theme this month was "bad porn" and I went with the "Harry Does Hogwarts" prompt:
Saturday morning was the usual yoga class, then I ran a couple of short errands (public library and AAA) before going to the day spa for four hours. Bliss. I decided that I like massage better than having a body wrap, though, although certainly my skin was softer than it had been in years (since early childhood, I bet). This was a different place from the one I'd been to before, and I liked it. It was also a bit less expensive, not a bad thing. *g* Saturday night we finished off nearly all of last week's leftovers (exception, some wild rice mix). And I made the cake! One-bowl chocolate cake, and since SO doesn't like peanut butter frosting (or thinks he doesn't), I found a recipe for mocha frosting in The Joy of Cooking which turned out pretty well.
Sunday I had my usual "big breakfast", started some laundry (3 loads total), posted my DD fic (link below), and then did the shopping that of course I couldn't do on Friday. After that I cooked: beef stew for me to bring for lunches this week, chicken-grilled veggie pasta salad for SO ditto, the vegetarian nasi goreng as planned (for Monday and Thursday at least), turkey burgers for SO and a beef burger for me (for Sunday; will cook more of each Wednesday and Friday for dinner those day), plus herbed oven fries. Sides this week: green beans, grapefruit, broccoli, salad, and/or carrots.
So basically the fridge is stuffed so full that to get anything out requires effort. Oh well. This is mostly because of the extra room taken by having stew and pasta salad for lunches; deli meat in the meat drawer just doesn't take up space the same way.
Also cleaned both the bathrooms and did a little tidying up, in anticipation of my dad's visit Tuesday night, and talked with my mom for about an hour (while cleaning the bathrooms - yay for speakerphone capability).
Long day at work today. Tomorrow morning I'll make up the bed for my dad, do some final cleaning (vacuuming mostly, if SO doesn't get to that today), and vote before coming in to work. I'll be on campus from about noon to 4:30 or 5, as I have a seminar in the afternoon - had to swap my afternoon desk shift for a Wednesday one to get to that, but either way it was going to be an afternoon-only work day.
I'm irritated right now because I'm going to have to talk to one of the student workers; not quite to the level of actual reprimand but zie has apparently been doing stupid things like breaking pens so that other employees get ink all over their hands, thinking it funny. And this is a grad student. There have been other things too, like not following procedures correctly, and not bothering to learn how to do something the right way when hir attempts didn't work. Clearly zie needs to be reminded that this job is not guaranteed to continue after this semester!
LJ is being wonky again (another DDoS attack maybe?) so all the above links to recipes may be down at the moment. It took me ages to get the pages to load so I could retrieve them. Furthermore, the cross-posting feature from DW doesn't seem to have worked, so I'm going to try to manually cross-post this one. Bah.
The fic I posted yesterday was the Harry-with-many-partners-and-many-kinks one that I've mentioned, written for the daily_deviant, so it's only there at IJ until next month. The theme this month was "bad porn" and I went with the "Harry Does Hogwarts" prompt:
- Notches on a Broomstick [Harry/many, NC17, various warnings incl. chan]: Shortly after his first foray into sex, Harry decides he wants to sample it in all the Hogwarts Houses.