The Holidays loom ahead
And this is accompanied by the insomnia of doom. Which is very very irritating.
Because of a weird quirk of Sparkiness, sleep deprivation is also accompanied by the hyperactive libido. This is not a good combination
The UK has had our first "Black Friday" thanks to shops copying online retailers who are, in turn, copying the Americans. We are all reminded that copying the Americans is never a good thing.
Despite these.... distractions there have been lots of preparations for the 3 stages of the Holidays:
Stage 1: The Family, where I realise that a terrible apocalypse wiping out all humanity does actually have it's good points.
Stage 2: Good Friends: where I realise that some people surviving this apocalypse is not necessarily a bad thing, though we're all very inept at killing zombies (but we will have immense fun doing it
Stage 3: Beloved and I: where I realise that reducing the entire world to our silent house would be a wonderful wonderful thing
All stages require immense amounts of baking and freezing. In years past I used to cook a ridiculous amount and then spend all January trying to find more and more creative ways to use up the leftovers and resolving not to cook/bake/construct so much for the next year. But the last few years I've found more and more people eating my food in vast amounts so even greater preparations are needed
F have kindly volunteered to test all food in case it's poisonous. She's a generous, self-sacrificing soul like that.
At the moment this has meant everything that can freeze and cakes and puddings that will nicely preserve and age and get even better (full of boooooze) as well as vast and vats of soup to freeze because Beloved has become enamoured of soup. I don't know why he is enamoured of soup. I'm not even sure I understand enamouring of soup. I'm pretty sure being enamoured of soup is illegal or should be. I also have a creeping fear that he will suddenly decide he doens't care for soup any more (as is his wont) and I will have oceans of soup and nothing to do with it.
Also the enormous ham (which Beloved got as part of his much-to-be-regretted meat haul) was too big for my biggest pot. Yet Beloved insisted I not cut it up because it was so impressive (I think this is Silly as a bigger ham rather than 2 small hams simply means less yummy yummy glaze, but I humour him constantly because I a) love him and b) enjoy telling him he's being humoured). Cooking a ham in a pot that is too small for it proved to be an... interesting experience.
Beloved wants to try layering a boozy fruit cake with boozy cream. I told him no. I fear he may try it on his own.
Beloved wants a BBQ next weekend. In December. Yes he does. F agrees. We may need the booze ocean we have acquired
Because of a weird quirk of Sparkiness, sleep deprivation is also accompanied by the hyperactive libido. This is not a good combination
The UK has had our first "Black Friday" thanks to shops copying online retailers who are, in turn, copying the Americans. We are all reminded that copying the Americans is never a good thing.
Despite these.... distractions there have been lots of preparations for the 3 stages of the Holidays:
Stage 1: The Family, where I realise that a terrible apocalypse wiping out all humanity does actually have it's good points.
Stage 2: Good Friends: where I realise that some people surviving this apocalypse is not necessarily a bad thing, though we're all very inept at killing zombies (but we will have immense fun doing it
Stage 3: Beloved and I: where I realise that reducing the entire world to our silent house would be a wonderful wonderful thing
All stages require immense amounts of baking and freezing. In years past I used to cook a ridiculous amount and then spend all January trying to find more and more creative ways to use up the leftovers and resolving not to cook/bake/construct so much for the next year. But the last few years I've found more and more people eating my food in vast amounts so even greater preparations are needed
F have kindly volunteered to test all food in case it's poisonous. She's a generous, self-sacrificing soul like that.
At the moment this has meant everything that can freeze and cakes and puddings that will nicely preserve and age and get even better (full of boooooze) as well as vast and vats of soup to freeze because Beloved has become enamoured of soup. I don't know why he is enamoured of soup. I'm not even sure I understand enamouring of soup. I'm pretty sure being enamoured of soup is illegal or should be. I also have a creeping fear that he will suddenly decide he doens't care for soup any more (as is his wont) and I will have oceans of soup and nothing to do with it.
Also the enormous ham (which Beloved got as part of his much-to-be-regretted meat haul) was too big for my biggest pot. Yet Beloved insisted I not cut it up because it was so impressive (I think this is Silly as a bigger ham rather than 2 small hams simply means less yummy yummy glaze, but I humour him constantly because I a) love him and b) enjoy telling him he's being humoured). Cooking a ham in a pot that is too small for it proved to be an... interesting experience.
Beloved wants to try layering a boozy fruit cake with boozy cream. I told him no. I fear he may try it on his own.
Beloved wants a BBQ next weekend. In December. Yes he does. F agrees. We may need the booze ocean we have acquired