new hobbies.
The summer, yeah, it destroyed my will to leave the house. and all that. It's like, I went to work, and on Mondays we picked up our CSA share, and sometimes we went out to dinner, and sometimes there was food shopping, and sometimes there was other shopping, and Bill's band played a few shows, but we didn't do a ton of stuff.
Shortly before the wedding I got a lot more interested in cooking (it may have had to do with buying onions and fresh garlic - Bill would never buy onions and used minced garlic from a jar. But it turns out onions are e-fucking-ssential and fresh garlic actually tastes good). So the CSA stuff made me really work on those skills.. So much produce we wouldn't have bought from the store normally, now what do I do with it? I have now made enough tomato sauce to make up for my previous 28 years of eating Prego. We made soups and things. My greatest love, though, is galettes and rustic tarts and other kinds of pastry-based baking that don't need special pans (thx to smittenkitchen for recipes and inspiration). I took some to a cookout, and I've fed them to Bill's band, and everyone seems pretty happy.
A yoga studio opened up in a strip mall about four minutes from my house. They started classes in early August. Bill drives past that mall every day, so he noticed the sign going up. I started going in the middle of the month, slowly increasing my attendance until I got up from one beginner to two regular level hatha classes in one week. This week I am going to try out vinyasa. It has been extremely helpful for my brain to remember that it controls a whole bunch of muscles and that those things need to move and that we can all be friends. It is also rather relaxing. I do have some trouble with the spiritual aspect, so in the beginning when they tell you to dedicate your practice to something, it's usually like, "the cracking sound my elbow makes" instead of "deepening my sense of inner peace and aligning my chakras" or whatever. I have trouble being serious ever, so hey.
Shortly before the wedding I got a lot more interested in cooking (it may have had to do with buying onions and fresh garlic - Bill would never buy onions and used minced garlic from a jar. But it turns out onions are e-fucking-ssential and fresh garlic actually tastes good). So the CSA stuff made me really work on those skills.. So much produce we wouldn't have bought from the store normally, now what do I do with it? I have now made enough tomato sauce to make up for my previous 28 years of eating Prego. We made soups and things. My greatest love, though, is galettes and rustic tarts and other kinds of pastry-based baking that don't need special pans (thx to smittenkitchen for recipes and inspiration). I took some to a cookout, and I've fed them to Bill's band, and everyone seems pretty happy.
A yoga studio opened up in a strip mall about four minutes from my house. They started classes in early August. Bill drives past that mall every day, so he noticed the sign going up. I started going in the middle of the month, slowly increasing my attendance until I got up from one beginner to two regular level hatha classes in one week. This week I am going to try out vinyasa. It has been extremely helpful for my brain to remember that it controls a whole bunch of muscles and that those things need to move and that we can all be friends. It is also rather relaxing. I do have some trouble with the spiritual aspect, so in the beginning when they tell you to dedicate your practice to something, it's usually like, "the cracking sound my elbow makes" instead of "deepening my sense of inner peace and aligning my chakras" or whatever. I have trouble being serious ever, so hey.