Gingerbread etc

[robinmckinley]

 
I have Peter’s head cold. I feel like boiled death: grey and mushy. Unnnnngh. I’ve known for about twenty four hours that it was coming but I was managing to ignore it, through a powerful combination of self-delusion and headmistressyness (‘McKinley! Pull yourself together and do something!’*). This afternoon it knocked me down and sat on my chest

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[pameladean]

Some things calm down after menopause. Sometimes. I'm actually getting my brain back. Also, hot flashes actually diminish. I didn't believe this, in fact. I figured I was just stuck. But they do. Or they can. It's better to have the brain back, though. That part was no fun. You sound like you have more of yours than I had of mine, but it may not feel that way.

P.

[robinmckinley]

I'm actually getting my brain back.

************* YOU ARE???!???!?!!?!!!!! OH GODS, THAT'S THE BEST NEWS I'VE HAD . . . well, since all this started, anyway. I'm finding it fairly nightmarish. *****Golly**** I hope this is going to be the case for me too. And listen, one of the reasons something like the blog works for me is because when I space out it *doesn't necessarily show*. When you're hanging on a bell rope . . . it shows. When you're having a conversation . . . it shows. I've never been much of a Public Appearances author, but I will say here that one of the reasons I don't *mind* having hellhounds keeping me at home is because *I don't trust my brain any more.* I made it through Wiscon a few years ago, but that's before the spaced-out moments were this bad.

I don't have savage hot flashes per se--I get sort of general hormonal rages, when everything swells up and hurts. The hot flashes aren't themselves nearly as gruesome as the bloating and aching.

[blackbear88]

For what it's worth, I thought you "made it through" that Wiscon very well--it was one of my favorite Wiscons. Your GOH speech was highly entertaining. :)

My mother spent the better part of her menopausal years crying; nearly every dinner ended in tears for a while there. I have hormonal issues as it is, and I can't even imagine how fun this is going to be when it happens to me... I may have to up my flood insurance.

[robinmckinley]

It may not take you that way; maybe you'll be LUCKY like me and turn into Rabid Bitch on Wheels . . . with lashings of bloat and throb. And I mean 'lashings'. Arrrgh. Who INVENTED this system?!? Women's female bits are the strongest argument I know for a MALE god.

[blackbear88]

Hooray! And this is nearly precisely my gingerbread cookie recipe, only with less flour, more water, and no cloves. :) I think I will have to test drive this tomorrow--will let you know how it comes out!

Where’s my medal?

It's in the mail. Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery, it will come disguised as a bill from the phone service. Don't be fooled.

[robinmckinley]

I'll put on the list my FAVOURITE gingerbread-cookie-to-cut-out recipe for posting some day. There's a little *envelope* clipped to that page in my notebook which is full of years of sticky patterns/stencils for cookies they haven't invented cutters for yet. MOST of them are identifiable as what I was trying to draw. . . . :)

It's in the mail. Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery, it will come disguised as a bill from the phone service. Don't be fooled.

************* LOL!!!!!! Thank you, I needed a good laugh!

[blackbear88]

LOL!!!!!! Thank you, I needed a good laugh!

You're welcome! After reading today's post, I can see why. Bleah--head colds, the utter bane of existance. I always get them in summer for some reason, so I can't even curl up and look out at the weather and think "oh well, at least I'm cozy." No, it's "Dammit, it's beautiful out, and I--agh--god---SNNNRRKKK!!!"

All right, I'm off to test drive your gingerbread. I may substitute brown sugar and add cloves, we shall see. Hope you're feeling better by the time you come round to unscreening these!

[blackbear88]

Gingerbread a success! Though a bit dry, I think this was due to my running a bit short of molasses and not compensating with enough moisture from another source--I added a splash of hot water, but I think it ought to have been 2 splashes....or more. But flavor was excellent, and I've got plenty left over for snacking. :)

[robinmckinley]

Oh. They are? Oh. I thought my footnotes were always weird.

Hot lemon tea. Yes. Sigh.

[robinmckinley]

No, you're absolutely right. ARRRRRRGH. I *think* I've now fixed it, but I am going to tell you IT WAS A VERY NASTY FIFTEEN MINUTES because if there's a way to get my funny extra symbols out of lj I don't know what it is, so I was having to cut and paste rows of them from Word and then cut the rows up and move them around . . .

It was going to happen some day (me messing up the match). I hope it doesn't happen again . . . at least not till I'm OVER this cold. :(

[dameruth]

RE: egg whites, you can get dried, powdered egg whites in a can, to be reconstituted with water -- salmonella-free, lacks a little of the texture of fresh, but still handles well enough for a lot of recipes. It's especially good for making crystallized flower petals and such. Dunno how it would work in this recipe, but I might give it a try at some point.

[vikkik]

"So I did. I’ve been having a weird little spasm of wanting to have a, you know, life, like most people do, or at least do the sorts of things other people do-you blog people are not blameless in this regard-so tonight, honking rather^, I rang up and booked tickets to THE GOLDEN COMPASS next week, Fairport Convention^^ about a month from now, and Steeleye Span-yessssss! For those of you following the comments-the end of April. "

Mwahahahahahahaha! Does this make me officially a bad influence? ;-) I succumbed and bought Steeleye tickets too, so I shall watch out for someone in green velvet trying to smuggle in two helhounds under her skirt.....

Believe it or not, I had the same thing with phone and broadband this time last year. Phone died just before xmas, but the broadband managed to hang on until New Years and then died...

And is molasses the same thing as black treacle? Because I may be FORCED to make gingerbread tomorrow now....

[robinmckinley]

Mwahahahahahahaha! Does this make me officially a bad influence

[vikkik]

"Mwahahahahahahaha! Does this make me officially a bad influence? ;-)

************* Oh, definitely! :) I also re-subscribed to their mailing list which I had let lapse because I am a twit. Anything that isn't on direct debit is in danger."

Excellent! I've always wanted to be a bad influence!!

"************* I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT BROADBAND DYING."

I'll be quiet, and cross body parts that it doesn't!

"************ I think so. It will certainly have the same kind of flavour. My whole/health food shop carries actual real live (organic) Blackstrap Molasses. But if black treacle is what you've got GO FOR IT."

Okay, gingerbread here I come....

"************** I was planning on coming as Boadicea, with hellhounds drawing my chariot. :)"

*sniggling wildly at this image (and the thought of the reactions from the theatre management!)*

(Oh, and to translate, a sniggle is a cross between a snicker and a giggle...)

[robinmckinley]

(LJ is yanking me around again. Not fair in my weakened state. But if some of this comes through twice, well . . . )

Excellent! I've always wanted to be a bad influence!!

&&&&&&&&&&&&& Very happy to fulfill lifelong ambitions at so little trouble! :)

(Oh, and to translate, a sniggle is a cross between a snicker and a giggle...)

&&&&&&&&&&& Oh, I like sniggle! I will (try to!!) remember!