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Jul. 21st, 2016 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI wrote about 850 words last night. Sadly, none of it was on the WIP Big Bang story. I’m still trying to find my way into the next scene and am really not sure where to start. I think I need some transition to indication the passage of time because this scene only makes sense a good bit later on than the previous one.
I’m at nearly 4000 words towards my goal of 10000 words for the month. I don’t know that I’ll make it to my goal given the amount of time left and how much trouble I’m having, but I’m doing better than I did the last time I did Camp NaNo.
Our requests for absentee ballots are in the mail. Hopefully having put them in the same envelope won’t be a problem. I don’t see why it should be, but the whole process is hedged about in rules that make very little sense.
It’s supposed to get very, very hot today. It’s not terrible outside yet, so I’m debating trying to get dressed and go out for a short walk because it’s only going to get worse. It’s about 80F right now and expected to get up to about 95F. It seems like we always get weather like this for Art Fair. There’s generally at least one severe thunderstorm during Art Fair, too, so I’ll be waiting for that.
I kind of want my library holds right now because I’ve finished the CDs and DVDs. I’m just not willing to go downtown to get them during Art Fair (not to mention while I’m still hoping that the repair technician from AT&T will come).
I definitely have to freeze more of the pulled pork. I’m simply not getting through it very rapidly. I also need to come up with different ways to eat it. Right now, I’ve got plain, as a sandwich, on a salad, and on a baked potato (with some sort of vegetable mixed in, too). I suppose I could melt some cheese on top of it, but that doesn’t seem like much of a change. Maybe mixed with canned soup? I’ve got a can of French onion soup, and that’s 90% broth, so adding something wouldn’t make too dense a meal.
After I post this, I’m going to start going through a bin of papers and assorted crap that’s been sitting in the living room for several weeks. The cleaning lady specifically asked me to go through it this week, and she’ll be back in three hours and expecting that to be done, so I’d better get cracking. I don’t think it will take more than half an hour. I’m planning to pull it over near the couch so that I can sit there while I sort. Otherwise, I’d have to either bend over the whole time or sit on the floor. Neither of those options are things I can sustain for more than about ten minutes at a time.
I’ve tried a couple of tea samples recently.
Stash’s Jasmine Blossom green tea has traces of a not green tea flavor that I assume must be the jasmine. I suspect that the water I made it with was too hot because I ended up with more bitterness than I expected, not as much as if I’d used boiling water but some. I only had one bag, so I can’t experiment to see if it’s better made differently.
I also tried Stash’s salted caramel mate herbal and black tea. I didn’t sweeten it, and I think it might have been tastier if I had. It wasn’t terrible as it was, but nothing makes me want to try it again except the realization that I’ve got an entire box that I have to do something with.
The single bag samples I have left aren’t really things that appeal to me for various reasons. Some of them are things I’ve tried before. At least one is something I’m allergic to. One is a mint green tea blend, and I’m not sure mint is wise for me given the reflux. The others are various pure black or green teas that will all taste pretty much the same to me as any other black or green tea.
I think I’m going to focus for a while on using up some of the boxes of tea that have been sitting around. I’m not actually sure what all is buried in the pile of boxes next to the stove or hidden in the cupboard. I’m probably going to use up the stuff that isn’t caffeinated first. I’m not tired enough most of the time to think that adding caffeine will do anything (and when I am that tired, I don’t think the caffeine actually does anything except checking off a box on the at-least-I-tried list), and I don’t think that I want anything that will dehydrate me in this hot weather.
I’m at nearly 4000 words towards my goal of 10000 words for the month. I don’t know that I’ll make it to my goal given the amount of time left and how much trouble I’m having, but I’m doing better than I did the last time I did Camp NaNo.
Our requests for absentee ballots are in the mail. Hopefully having put them in the same envelope won’t be a problem. I don’t see why it should be, but the whole process is hedged about in rules that make very little sense.
It’s supposed to get very, very hot today. It’s not terrible outside yet, so I’m debating trying to get dressed and go out for a short walk because it’s only going to get worse. It’s about 80F right now and expected to get up to about 95F. It seems like we always get weather like this for Art Fair. There’s generally at least one severe thunderstorm during Art Fair, too, so I’ll be waiting for that.
I kind of want my library holds right now because I’ve finished the CDs and DVDs. I’m just not willing to go downtown to get them during Art Fair (not to mention while I’m still hoping that the repair technician from AT&T will come).
I definitely have to freeze more of the pulled pork. I’m simply not getting through it very rapidly. I also need to come up with different ways to eat it. Right now, I’ve got plain, as a sandwich, on a salad, and on a baked potato (with some sort of vegetable mixed in, too). I suppose I could melt some cheese on top of it, but that doesn’t seem like much of a change. Maybe mixed with canned soup? I’ve got a can of French onion soup, and that’s 90% broth, so adding something wouldn’t make too dense a meal.
After I post this, I’m going to start going through a bin of papers and assorted crap that’s been sitting in the living room for several weeks. The cleaning lady specifically asked me to go through it this week, and she’ll be back in three hours and expecting that to be done, so I’d better get cracking. I don’t think it will take more than half an hour. I’m planning to pull it over near the couch so that I can sit there while I sort. Otherwise, I’d have to either bend over the whole time or sit on the floor. Neither of those options are things I can sustain for more than about ten minutes at a time.
I’ve tried a couple of tea samples recently.
Stash’s Jasmine Blossom green tea has traces of a not green tea flavor that I assume must be the jasmine. I suspect that the water I made it with was too hot because I ended up with more bitterness than I expected, not as much as if I’d used boiling water but some. I only had one bag, so I can’t experiment to see if it’s better made differently.
I also tried Stash’s salted caramel mate herbal and black tea. I didn’t sweeten it, and I think it might have been tastier if I had. It wasn’t terrible as it was, but nothing makes me want to try it again except the realization that I’ve got an entire box that I have to do something with.
The single bag samples I have left aren’t really things that appeal to me for various reasons. Some of them are things I’ve tried before. At least one is something I’m allergic to. One is a mint green tea blend, and I’m not sure mint is wise for me given the reflux. The others are various pure black or green teas that will all taste pretty much the same to me as any other black or green tea.
I think I’m going to focus for a while on using up some of the boxes of tea that have been sitting around. I’m not actually sure what all is buried in the pile of boxes next to the stove or hidden in the cupboard. I’m probably going to use up the stuff that isn’t caffeinated first. I’m not tired enough most of the time to think that adding caffeine will do anything (and when I am that tired, I don’t think the caffeine actually does anything except checking off a box on the at-least-I-tried list), and I don’t think that I want anything that will dehydrate me in this hot weather.
