Weekend accomplishments
Saturday I'm going to count leaving the house as an accomplishment, because it was the first truly cold (by southern standards) day we've had since January or February, and part of me wanted to stay in bed and read and drink hot chocolate.
But I got up, made breakfast for the 'rents and myself, then after I showered I found a couple geocaches in Rayne. They were in a park and a parking lot, very boring, and I decided to focus on caches that seem like they might be more scenic: more out in the country, or in cemeteries. I love a cemetery cache; I wish you could filter for them on the app.
I skipped the carwash because I went on Thursday during my lunch break. One of the neighborhood cats that sometimes sleeps on my car at night (I have seen little paw prints on my hood and windshield more than once) puked up a gnarly hairball on the roof the night before, and I had to get rid of it as soon as possible. Cats!
I went to the grocery store, then came home and bullied Mom out of bed so I could wash and change her sheets. After supper I watched the last couple episodes of Angelyne, which I enjoyed more than I thought I would. It showed who she really was, while also portraying her how she wants to be seen, so it seemed like a fair compromise. Supposedly Angelyne got paid $1 million for her life story, I guess she can stop selling merch out the trunk of her car if she wants to.
Sunday I made breakfast sandwiches for the 'rents and I out of tater tots that I stuck in the waffle iron, egg, turkey bacon, and colby-jack cheese.
I changed and washed my bedsheets, did a load of towels and one of clothes, baked a cake, made some cheese and fruit plates for football, then read and had some wine.
For supper I made chicken soup with dumplings:
Dessert was another Snacking Cakes recipe, brown butter cake with walnuts and white chocolate:
After supper I watched a couple episodes of Ancient Apocalypse, mostly because David kept asking me about it. I don't necessarily think Graham Hancock is a total crank; I mean the guy that theorized plate tectonics was laughed at, too. And there's no real explanation for Gobekli Tepe that lines up with academically accepted human timelines of civilization. But I think he places too much stock in things that are just human archetypes. I mean I don't think it's particularly mind-blowing that most ancient peoples had flood myths and built pyramids and whatever. People's brains work more or less the same, underneath whatever culture's been piled on top. Two people more or less simultaneously invented television!
I guess my line is, don't bring the Bible up as proof of anything, and I'll at least hear you out.
Also, Atlantis wasn't real, it's just a place Plato made up to make a point about hubris or something.
I was going to post a photo of my cross stitch progress, but Flickr is having some kind of tantrum and refuses to upload it.
But I got up, made breakfast for the 'rents and myself, then after I showered I found a couple geocaches in Rayne. They were in a park and a parking lot, very boring, and I decided to focus on caches that seem like they might be more scenic: more out in the country, or in cemeteries. I love a cemetery cache; I wish you could filter for them on the app.
I skipped the carwash because I went on Thursday during my lunch break. One of the neighborhood cats that sometimes sleeps on my car at night (I have seen little paw prints on my hood and windshield more than once) puked up a gnarly hairball on the roof the night before, and I had to get rid of it as soon as possible. Cats!
I went to the grocery store, then came home and bullied Mom out of bed so I could wash and change her sheets. After supper I watched the last couple episodes of Angelyne, which I enjoyed more than I thought I would. It showed who she really was, while also portraying her how she wants to be seen, so it seemed like a fair compromise. Supposedly Angelyne got paid $1 million for her life story, I guess she can stop selling merch out the trunk of her car if she wants to.
Sunday I made breakfast sandwiches for the 'rents and I out of tater tots that I stuck in the waffle iron, egg, turkey bacon, and colby-jack cheese.
I changed and washed my bedsheets, did a load of towels and one of clothes, baked a cake, made some cheese and fruit plates for football, then read and had some wine.
For supper I made chicken soup with dumplings:
Dessert was another Snacking Cakes recipe, brown butter cake with walnuts and white chocolate:
After supper I watched a couple episodes of Ancient Apocalypse, mostly because David kept asking me about it. I don't necessarily think Graham Hancock is a total crank; I mean the guy that theorized plate tectonics was laughed at, too. And there's no real explanation for Gobekli Tepe that lines up with academically accepted human timelines of civilization. But I think he places too much stock in things that are just human archetypes. I mean I don't think it's particularly mind-blowing that most ancient peoples had flood myths and built pyramids and whatever. People's brains work more or less the same, underneath whatever culture's been piled on top. Two people more or less simultaneously invented television!
I guess my line is, don't bring the Bible up as proof of anything, and I'll at least hear you out.
Also, Atlantis wasn't real, it's just a place Plato made up to make a point about hubris or something.
I was going to post a photo of my cross stitch progress, but Flickr is having some kind of tantrum and refuses to upload it.