1. My accuracy gets a lot better when I sight down the shaft of the arrow instead of just watching where the tip is pointing. At least, I think it does. My arms were wobbly today by the time I started doing it consistently, so the results were not super-spectacular ( Read more... )

+ I successfully strung and test-drew my bow today! Now I just need to ... get arrows. A project for Monday ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to a bread bakery I'd been meaning to visit, and it was Traditional Rye day, so obviously I had to buy a loaf of fresh-baked rye bread, and then also obviously I had to go to the grocery store for suitable lunch meat to eat on it.  But for whatever reason the grocery store didn't have the kind of ham I like, so I resorted to buying ( Read more... )

Words today: 531 ( Read more... )

1) Peanut butter pancakes. Delicious and surprisingly filling.

2) The knitting continues: I am now on the third skein of the scarf (although the skeins are pretty small). ( It actually looks like a scarf now! )

And two related points:

1) I am on the verge of living the xkcd cartoon here. I have just realized exactly how easy it is to make sugar cookies from scratch. And then eaten a lot of sugar cookies. A lot2) The face a doctor makes when you go in for a first appointment and she's taking your medical history, and you mention that your parents ( Read more... )

Things about my life in the last week or so:

1. I baked ( kind of a lot. )

The thing that got me out of bed this morning (well, after I'd gotten out of bed once already because I neglected to exclude audiobooks from "shuffle songs" on my iPod, and suddenly realized that a) I was listening to what sounded like the climax of an Eighth Doctor adventure and b) I hadn't heard this one yet and didn't want to be spoiled) was the ( Read more... )