Mostly food
I can barely update one journal--two is not going to happen. euphrasyne_diet will bite the dust as soon as I download what I need off lj.
Last Friday, Amber knocked over the x-mas tree and broke the stand. Most of the ornaments remained intact. Yesterday, she was trying to put a jingle bell on the cat and knocked a crystal bowl off my dresser. When does it end? Can I have things after she goes to college or is she just going to show back up with grandkids to kill my things?
My mom is moving this weekend. I'm supposed to go look at a rental today for her. :) I know where Amber will be when I have this baby...who will probably be named Ivy something with an R. Ivy Rose, Ivy Raine, .... something like that. Although I love Gabriel, I just don't like the ah sound in Gabrielle. And Gabby is right out.
I've lost some more weight; I cannot decide if this is good or bad. I'm big to start with, so I know my doctor doesn't care--she told me so at the begining. That puts me at 5 months and +3 pounds since baby. I must have actually lost more, b/c my belly is huge and I look like a cow. Moo. I can hunch over, but I can't bend at the waist. This means that I get stuck everytime I sit on the couch. It is not funny!!! Everyone keeps laughing at me.
Yesterday, my breadmaker went kaput. The new shipped today. :P I had a Breadman Ultimate. My new one is a Breadman Corner Bakery. I was sincerely tempted by a Zojirushi, but I mainly just make dough or dipping loaves anyway...so no real advantage to the horizontal pan.
I actually cooked yesterday. ::shock:: I made pot roast in the crockpot, a cake, and biscuits. OK, the crockpot thing was one of those frozen dohickies.
I was out of eggs, so I made a very interesting cake: Combine 1 box of BC black walnut cake mix with 1 can of soda and bake. It actually wasn't bad. I used just over a cup of Sams Choice cola from a liter bottle. I made peanut butter frosting for it b/c even dog food would taste good with peanut butter frosting. Eggs were 1.86dz today--the .12 worth of soda made the cake very cheap compared to eggs, oil, etc...
The biscuits were very interesting. Elton said that they tasted a bit like my cornbread. I was almost out of every flour buy soy, sour cream was going bad, and cheese is on the edge...so I made use it up biscuits. Combine 1 1/4c white flour, 1/4c wheat flour, 1/2c soy flour, 2 t baking powder, 1/2 t baking soda, 1/2 t mustard powder, pinch turmeric, pinch dried pasil, pinch sage. Mix in 4 T really butter, 1 c shred cz, 1/2 c runny sour cream, 1/2 c full fat bulgarian style buttermilk. Pinch off and pat into 12 biscuits b/c there is no flour to roll them out. Bake 450 15m. They were very large and very good--heavier than usual, but still fairly light.
Thank You Global Warming. Sunday I wore a sleeveless shirt to teach advent crafts, and yesterday I picked two windowsills full of tomatoes and bell peppers while admiring my neighbor's reindeer display.
Last Friday, Amber knocked over the x-mas tree and broke the stand. Most of the ornaments remained intact. Yesterday, she was trying to put a jingle bell on the cat and knocked a crystal bowl off my dresser. When does it end? Can I have things after she goes to college or is she just going to show back up with grandkids to kill my things?
My mom is moving this weekend. I'm supposed to go look at a rental today for her. :) I know where Amber will be when I have this baby...who will probably be named Ivy something with an R. Ivy Rose, Ivy Raine, .... something like that. Although I love Gabriel, I just don't like the ah sound in Gabrielle. And Gabby is right out.
I've lost some more weight; I cannot decide if this is good or bad. I'm big to start with, so I know my doctor doesn't care--she told me so at the begining. That puts me at 5 months and +3 pounds since baby. I must have actually lost more, b/c my belly is huge and I look like a cow. Moo. I can hunch over, but I can't bend at the waist. This means that I get stuck everytime I sit on the couch. It is not funny!!! Everyone keeps laughing at me.
Yesterday, my breadmaker went kaput. The new shipped today. :P I had a Breadman Ultimate. My new one is a Breadman Corner Bakery. I was sincerely tempted by a Zojirushi, but I mainly just make dough or dipping loaves anyway...so no real advantage to the horizontal pan.
I actually cooked yesterday. ::shock:: I made pot roast in the crockpot, a cake, and biscuits. OK, the crockpot thing was one of those frozen dohickies.
I was out of eggs, so I made a very interesting cake: Combine 1 box of BC black walnut cake mix with 1 can of soda and bake. It actually wasn't bad. I used just over a cup of Sams Choice cola from a liter bottle. I made peanut butter frosting for it b/c even dog food would taste good with peanut butter frosting. Eggs were 1.86dz today--the .12 worth of soda made the cake very cheap compared to eggs, oil, etc...
The biscuits were very interesting. Elton said that they tasted a bit like my cornbread. I was almost out of every flour buy soy, sour cream was going bad, and cheese is on the edge...so I made use it up biscuits. Combine 1 1/4c white flour, 1/4c wheat flour, 1/2c soy flour, 2 t baking powder, 1/2 t baking soda, 1/2 t mustard powder, pinch turmeric, pinch dried pasil, pinch sage. Mix in 4 T really butter, 1 c shred cz, 1/2 c runny sour cream, 1/2 c full fat bulgarian style buttermilk. Pinch off and pat into 12 biscuits b/c there is no flour to roll them out. Bake 450 15m. They were very large and very good--heavier than usual, but still fairly light.
Thank You Global Warming. Sunday I wore a sleeveless shirt to teach advent crafts, and yesterday I picked two windowsills full of tomatoes and bell peppers while admiring my neighbor's reindeer display.