I... overslept and refused to get out of bed safe in the knowledge that the student I was supposed to support wasn't showing up first thing, but still, in the end, dragged myself to the bus stop so I would be in work, just on the off chance that the office told me to go anyway (they didn't, they called me in to swap my thursday sessions over this ( Read more... )

The last few weeks have been a bit odd. Not always in a bad way, I've just not really had time for much, and my mind has been kind of wonky anyway. But I'm hoping things are now on the upswing ( Read more... )

Mushroom soup with ginger ( Read more... )

Today I made cake and drank cider. I wish I could say that actually there was more to it than that, but really, it is about it. I made a cake which I now don't want to eat (it was a test cake) and had cider with my dinner. And did some washing up ( Read more... )

I made frog cookies the other week, and I plan to make more, but here is the recipe, because they were pretty tasty.

( Lemon and lime frog cookies )

I'm hungry again. In fairness, I haven't had any breakfast (apart from a cup of tea) and dinner was a long time ago. There is however, no food that I want to eat in the house. I'm used to there being loads of leftovers after xmas, but since dad and Kay didn't do xmas dinner, there aren't any leftovers. There are also no seasonal boxes of biscuits, ( Read more... )

Well I'm not wanting to maim anyone who comes near me now, although I'm still not fond of people in general. We'll see how this goes ( Read more... )

And god is it boring. This morning I've filled 2 boxes and packed my sewing machine away. I have more to do, and I think dad wants me to do a tip run before I go gaming tonight. I may just shove it in the car and do it in the morning ( Read more... )

Dad came and took the first lot of boxes away yesterday. 1 box of DVDs, 2 of kitchen stuff, 1 of cookery books, 1 of his and 5 of my books. I didn't realise I had quite that many books (I kept finding more as I was packing) and the boxes probably should have been packed a little more sparsely, as they were fucking heavy. The bookshelves have also ( Read more... )

I made these earlier in the week, and they're excellent. And very morish.

( Peanut Butter Cupcakes )