8:45 am
Ran first this morning. And I did a big run – I’m trying out the option of doing a whole hour instead of half. Mainly because two people have both said that if I want the endorphin thing to kick in I have to go longer and harder. Well I can go longer, not sure I do so well on the harder. Still it is ok. I’m listening to a good story called Astrid and Veronica (or it is the other way around, not sure). Trouble is that it is about two Swedish women, and I hope I don’t get hopelessly confused with the book I am reading, Jenny which is about a Danish (?) woman in Rome.
Now I am feeling guilty. It is one of G’s rare days off, and she has just cleaned the kitchen, and is now cleaning her room. Oh well. I do plenty, though cleaning is not at all one of my fortes. Later today I will probably go help a fellow fair committee member write checks for all the fair people waiting to get their award money. And I have a bunch of phone calls to make which I always kind of dread.
Yesterday I actually managed to write my sister a letter. It was a bit of a fiasco because I first wrote it on the computer, and then the computer ate it. Something to do with my trying to use a letter template (didn’t work) and then trying to save it. It disappeared. So I ended up writing another by hand. And it came out pretty well. I “need to” get back to writing. This morning I even started composing an essay/letter/editorial, call it what you will, about global warming/climate change. Because the fact is that I am really terrified about it and the impact it will have on my children. There was (yet another) report about, this time, pine trees in Yellowstone that are all dying from a disease that is spreading because of the warming conditions. I saw a woman who has been involved in some of the 350 stuff in town. She is planning to join the action being planned in DC for the end of the summer, and she asked if I was going to attend. It is a thought. I need to find out more about it. There is some sort of worldwide action called for once again for October and there will be a meeting next week about it. Trouble is that the last two were an awful lot of work and I can’t see that they made any sort of difference. I need to be careful not to bite off too much this year. But I also want something to happen that is at least noticeable.
I am eating some of the bread I made yesterday. It did not turn out very well. I think that maybe using the whey was not a good idea. Or maybe the problem stemmed from the fact that I forgot to add yeast at first and then added it later and tried to rescue it all. Because the loaf that I made by hand (not using the breadmaker) with the whey seemed like it was turning out ok. Things just kind of fell apart when I combined the two batches. They didn’t rise so well. Maybe I should think of another use for the whey. Maybe I could use it for making some rice or some Quinoa. Neither of which I will do today, it will be too hot. We had to turn on the AC last night because our renter was too hot up in his room. I can’t exactly tell him “no, suck it up” the way I can tell the girls and try to tell K. One big advantage to K of having a renter – it means I allow the AC to be turned on. I turned it off this morning, and our renter will be at school all day, but I suppose it will need to go back on tonight. I will need to meet K in town this afternoon to drop off the car, and I think we will eat out somewhere there. It will be cooler. I need to think a bit about where will be cool, serve beer (a requisite for him) and not too expensive (my preference). I think he wants to go to the Brewery, so I guess we can do that. And just get sandwiches or salads. That shouldn’t be too much.
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