I had a day off on Monday, so I spent the day baking and brought some of the cookies into work yesterday to test on my co-workers. They're happy guinea pigs when I'm trying out new recipes - these were from a recipe in the Smitten Kitchen book, and they turned out well, although I'll probably take a minute off the cooking time for the next batch to ( Read more... )

I'm starting to count the days until my Christmas break. Due to my compressed work schedule and the plethora of federal and company holidays, I've managed to get a Christmas break that runs from 20th December to January 5th while only using five vacation days. In other words, I'm off work for nearly two and a half weeks over Christmas ( Read more... )

After a long, delayed, unpleasant flight yesterday enhanced by being unable to debark the plane for twenty minutes after we landed, I'm home ( Read more... )

I think that I may have finally mastered homemade potato crisps (chips). Nom ( Read more... )

Another busy week has passed me by. Argh on busy weeks ( Read more... )

Hello Internet! Why yes, it has been forever since I last updated this thing.

( Cut for babble amount life milestones )

I think LJ doesn't have my pretty Yuletide icon. Woe.

However, I have nominated for yuletide. It's a tough decision. This year, due to the fact that I'm always the only person who signs up or shows interest, I've not nominated Holby City. It seems silly to waste a precious nomination slot on something where I'm the only person who nominates ( Read more... )

The Doctor Who review will be coming. Probably tomorrow. It was rather excellent, though, and just a wee bit spooky ( Read more... )

There has been an overly-large chicken breast in my freezer since around two days before my mum went home in September. She was very good and packaged up the big pack of chicken that we bought in individual portions AND LABELLED THEM (so much unlabelled and undated mystery meat got thrown out of my freezer after her previous visit), but failed to ( Read more... )

It appears that my current main obsessions are cooking and knitting. It keeps surprising me because a few years ago I'd never have thought that I'd end up loving such domestic, home-making things. I'm not an artist, I never will be, but I consider myself to be creative and it appears that these crafts are the outlets I've found for that ( Read more... )