Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Voting Day


7 am
                Everyone already left – K to go vote and then to work and G to the farm to make pies. So now my lovely Tuesday begins. I am feeling kind of crappy, so I hope writing will help, then I can actually meditate and feed buns and what not. I woke up feeling pretty decent and then for some reason Mom’s finances came to mind and suddenly I could feel myself get panicky. So I guess at some point today I need to sit myself down and face those papers. And it is cold this morning, which always makes me feel anxious. Our new housemate is not as easy about her room being chilly as our previous one was. Now, to be fair, we are charging her more, so she is paying  $500, so it is certainly reasonable that she would expect to not be frozen out. But that room is big and thus kind of hard to heat. I have suggested that she keep her room door open which will help if I have a fire going. I am also just going to have to have the heat on more than I would prefer. And maybe tonight when K gets home and I have a car I will go out and buy some window plastic and we can put that up.
                I should think about food which usually makes me more cheerful. Well, except that last night was once again the fish and rice and frozen vegetables night at our house since K cooked. I did not like it at all. And now we have a big carton of left over rice – some weird kind that did not taste good. I think I will just serve it to him every night for a while until it is gone. I have the casserole I made Sunday, but I think I will have that tomorrow when I am not home all day. Today I should make something else. Maybe a nice sweet potato soup and K can have his rice with it, since in his mind soup is not a “meal.” That will be a good thing to look up. And salad. My sauerkraut is doing well. I took one of the “batches” (they are small, just a jar for each) and rinsed it since I really added too much salt to them. I think it is still fermenting just fine. And once fermented, it seems to work to rinse at that point, too, to get off the excess salt. Speaking of salt, yesterday was our urine lab, and in solidarity I took the 10 salt pills (that were so hard to come by) along with half the students. I felt really sick at first, but I think that was just from taking the pills and drinking all that water. After that I felt ok, but my lips were really chapped. Not sure if it is all out of my system by now. But I am not exactly craving salty sauerkraut. Oh, I did put the little ice-cream freezer into the freezer and so I may also make some frozen yogurt later.
                And, of course, I must vote today. Yes, I feel guilty that in spite of all the emails I never did anything about helping w the Warren campaign. And today it is freezing cold and I do not want to stand around with a sign outside, or figure out where they are making calls to remind people to vote. And I can’t even offer a ride to anyone since I do not have a car. Well, I will go in after a bit, once the early am rush is over and before the lunch rush begins. And maybe I can get my friend to come out and have some tea.
                 I’ve been thinking longingly about that Temenos gift certificate I have…. But when the heck could I use it??? Not this weekend, this weekend is Mom’s big play performance that I must figure out a way to go to. Next weekend is Hartsbrook fair. Then there is Thanksgiving, which will also be complicated – maybe K and I will go have dinner with Mom, then we will come home and L and G can cook their TG meal here.  Then we are into December. Maybe the first weekend of December I could go…….. gotta think about that one.


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