Today, in Questionable Use Of Time

[rikibeth]

 I'm not doing NaNoWriMo. Not really. Not by the rules. But I have a story I'm working on for the Speak Its Name Advent Calendar, and I have a number of other things I want to write (mostly for open calls, but also one short fanfic I got bunnied for last night) -- so I'm sort of wondering if I'll write 50,000 words this month. One of the open calls

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[eglantine_br]

I got a little writing done-- a very little. Maybe more later. I have to get some food into my house. No choice about that.

But, oh, I wish I had a stand mixer! I mean of course you have a stand mixer. And you deserve one, and I bet you use it a lot, and know all kinds of things to make with it. But I have a terrible case of stand mixer envy...

[rikibeth]

I turned a very ugly wedding gift crystal punchbowl into a stand mixer, twenty-one years ago. The mixer has outlasted the marriage

[eglantine_br]

Maybe, (is dubious...)

[rikibeth]

There's a small issue with the reality of buying one today over buying one 20 years ago, too. I have the low-end, tilt-top KSM45, the 4.5 quart model, when most serious people will covet the 5- or 6-quart model with the lever that raises and lowers the bowl, and for which you can get a copper bowl liner for whipping egg whites most effectively, and a water jacket for the bowl to chill it for whipped cream, and the "professional" models with the more powerful motors

[eglantine_br]

Good advice. I did not know that about the gears, but am not surprised. If I ever do get one it will surely be on Ebay.