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Jun. 1st, 2016 10:54 amCordelia is having issues with her cucumber slices ending up dried out and bitter by the time she gets to lunch time. I can’t figure out a way to stop them drying out, and I’m not certain that it’s not actually a problem of us picking bad cucumbers. She thinks it’s not that because she’s happy enough to eat the slices right after she cuts them. We’re substituting sugar snap peas. They’re more expensive, but we only have about a dozen more lunches to make.
The shirts I ordered from blair.com arrived yesterday. Sadly, although they fit, I can’t wear them because both bra straps and about the upper inch of my bra show because the dratted things have scoop necks. I’ll have to send them back. They’ve got a tunic t-shirt (which, weirdly, is not longer than the regular t-shirt) for twice the price that might be better in the neck/chest/shoulders. It seems to have most of the same color options. And let’s see… There’s a t-shirt for about the same price that has a better cut neck but comes entirely in prints and colors I don’t like. They’ve also got polos that I could try, but they also cost more, and I’ve had poor luck with polos— I’m afraid of getting that bumpy cotton knit fabric because I find it very, very unpleasant. (I don’t even like hugging Scott when he wears it.) There are also less than a dozen colors to choose from there. The stuff that looks best in terms of collar cut is all long sleeved.
I’ve emailed the company to find out how to go about returning these shirts. Looking at their FAQ, I will have to pay $10 on top of the shipping I paid to get the shirts in order to return the dratted things. That’s not enough to make keeping them a good idea. It’s just enough to make me angry.
The energy audit guy says that our house is fairly tight. There are some issues with Cordelia’s closet, but I suspect that that’s largely because there’s a pipe running through the closet and up into the attic and out the roof (all of the plumbing for the shower is in that closet, too). He said that, given that, insulation is likely to help us a lot.
He also asked if I grow sage for religious/purification reasons. I told him that I grow it because it overwinters, can deal with the low levels of sun, smells nice, and is great to cook with. It’s pretty, too.
Scott had to be ready to go in early this morning for work, but they turned out not to need him. I stayed up past 11:00 in the hope that they would call and tell him he could wait for his usual time, but they didn’t. He had to get up at 2:00 and call them.
The FDA has a recall out of certain brands of flour for possible E. coli O121 contamination. I have no idea if the all purpose flour we have is part of it because we always move it from the package into a heavy duty plastic bin and throw out the container. Scott goes back and forth, depending on which is currently cheaper, between Gold Medal (recalled) and King Arthur (not recalled). The chain of logic for the recall is pretty tenuous— 50% of people who were part of a recent E. coli O121 outbreak remembered making and eating baked goods, and 'some' reported using these flours. I suppose it’s a good idea to be extra cautious. I’m just thinking that we’ve already baked with the flour we’ve got without issues, so maybe we’re okay?
Scott bought a new kind of coffee creamer. It is terrible. It is also, sadly, expensive and of a size to last me the better part of two weeks. This is going to make my morning coffee challenging. It took me nearly half an hour to drink my coffee this morning.
I wrote about 100 words last night, right before I went to bed. It’s not the next thing that should happen in the story, but I was having trouble getting that bit to work. Skipping around isn’t my usual method of writing; I can think of only one other piece (still incomplete) in which I’ve done it. Me doing it now isn’t a great sign, but I’m still hopeful that I can pull this off.
The shirts I ordered from blair.com arrived yesterday. Sadly, although they fit, I can’t wear them because both bra straps and about the upper inch of my bra show because the dratted things have scoop necks. I’ll have to send them back. They’ve got a tunic t-shirt (which, weirdly, is not longer than the regular t-shirt) for twice the price that might be better in the neck/chest/shoulders. It seems to have most of the same color options. And let’s see… There’s a t-shirt for about the same price that has a better cut neck but comes entirely in prints and colors I don’t like. They’ve also got polos that I could try, but they also cost more, and I’ve had poor luck with polos— I’m afraid of getting that bumpy cotton knit fabric because I find it very, very unpleasant. (I don’t even like hugging Scott when he wears it.) There are also less than a dozen colors to choose from there. The stuff that looks best in terms of collar cut is all long sleeved.
I’ve emailed the company to find out how to go about returning these shirts. Looking at their FAQ, I will have to pay $10 on top of the shipping I paid to get the shirts in order to return the dratted things. That’s not enough to make keeping them a good idea. It’s just enough to make me angry.
The energy audit guy says that our house is fairly tight. There are some issues with Cordelia’s closet, but I suspect that that’s largely because there’s a pipe running through the closet and up into the attic and out the roof (all of the plumbing for the shower is in that closet, too). He said that, given that, insulation is likely to help us a lot.
He also asked if I grow sage for religious/purification reasons. I told him that I grow it because it overwinters, can deal with the low levels of sun, smells nice, and is great to cook with. It’s pretty, too.
Scott had to be ready to go in early this morning for work, but they turned out not to need him. I stayed up past 11:00 in the hope that they would call and tell him he could wait for his usual time, but they didn’t. He had to get up at 2:00 and call them.
The FDA has a recall out of certain brands of flour for possible E. coli O121 contamination. I have no idea if the all purpose flour we have is part of it because we always move it from the package into a heavy duty plastic bin and throw out the container. Scott goes back and forth, depending on which is currently cheaper, between Gold Medal (recalled) and King Arthur (not recalled). The chain of logic for the recall is pretty tenuous— 50% of people who were part of a recent E. coli O121 outbreak remembered making and eating baked goods, and 'some' reported using these flours. I suppose it’s a good idea to be extra cautious. I’m just thinking that we’ve already baked with the flour we’ve got without issues, so maybe we’re okay?
Scott bought a new kind of coffee creamer. It is terrible. It is also, sadly, expensive and of a size to last me the better part of two weeks. This is going to make my morning coffee challenging. It took me nearly half an hour to drink my coffee this morning.
I wrote about 100 words last night, right before I went to bed. It’s not the next thing that should happen in the story, but I was having trouble getting that bit to work. Skipping around isn’t my usual method of writing; I can think of only one other piece (still incomplete) in which I’ve done it. Me doing it now isn’t a great sign, but I’m still hopeful that I can pull this off.
