Can't sleep. Remembered that I hadn't posted for Saturday, so here we go ( Read more... )

Today I gave blood (though my blood pressure was almost too low) and had a fancy lunch at Abruzzi. Then I crashed *hard* until dinner, which was late. Then we made doughnuts. The first time for any of us! They turned out really well. I mostly supervised and rolling them in sugar as they came out of the oil ( Read more... )

It's been a good day - I'm updating early because Nary is getting in tonight and I know I will probably get distracted and forget, otherwise :P ( Read more... )

...I am approaching my 4th decade on this planet and apparently still get confused by daylight savings time. I was really convinced it was fall - this should tell you how tired and out of it I was by last night. So basically I went to bed at my usual time and tonight I'm up way late :p I slept well, but slept almost until noon, which was awkward ( Read more... )

I was supposed to do a few things today! I did.... some of them ( Read more... )

I made macarons! Almond with raspberry cheesecake icing. They turned out okay - I was pretty impatient with them, and my tools were not ideal. So they were too soggy in the middle. But they were damned delicious, and I have a few idea what to do differently if (when) I try them again. I blame #yuletide for getting me thinking about ( Read more... )

Today I filled in for a class, giving a tour and showing people the database at my old work ( Read more... )

Diablotin was today! I didn't get to do my scene because of some timing things - one of the players has been super sick, and it was his only chance to go to urgent care, so we told him to go go go! We did do a big group scene, which was good, which, after we got though all the plot relevant stuff, ended with one of the guy characters asking her ( Read more... )

I just had a stress dream about some non-local friends. They had bet and been befriended by this person who was just completely taking advantage of their kindness and generosity in ways that seemed subtle but were really glaring from the outside, and I just didn't know what to do. I have no idea were this dream came from ( Read more... )

I've barely been online enough to answer comments from yesterday, and I'm writing this on my phone. Whoops ( Read more... )