This is how I need to start thinking of things:
"I don’t want it to be that if I eat healthy and exercise but don’t lose weight, that I’ve failed. I want it to be that if I eat nutritious food and exercise regularly, I’ve succeeded, whether I lose weight or not." See post here (great blog in general, by the way)
I'm posting that to remind myself where I really need to focus my thoughts.
I made strawberry jam today from berries I picked myself. It's the first time I've made it all on my own (I used to stir the pot for Mom...), and I'm sitting in here listening to the lids POP as they seal and giggling with each one. I wasn't completely convinced that I could do it, and it was an amateurish effort, but those pops mean that I may have home made strawberry jam to eat this winter. Yay!
Queen of Wands on ebay. Tempting. I love the kitty strips, and I've had the tech support one hanging up in every cube I've had.
I slept sooooooo well last night. The night before I woke up 4 times, and once I was so itchy I thought I must be getting a rash. So last night, I took an antihistamine before going to bed, and voila, 7 hours of solid sleep. And no itchiness and no sniffling in the morning. Guess it's time to admit that I do have allergies.
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I have purse pattern ideas floating around in my head...but I need a protractor to draw them out. This may mean a trip to the campus bookstore at lunch. I mean, I know I have one somewhere, but I don't want to wait.
So I dropped my WoW account for a bit. It got boring again, and even Scott wasn't playing, so I was lonely. We gave LotR Online a try, and that looks pretty cool, so I guess I'll be playing that for awhile. It's an awful lot like WoW, but the new character classes are a lot of fun, and I got to run around Bag End like I was thinking of buying the place :-D
I have an Ubuntu server! I'm sooooo thrilled. Now I just have to figure out how to use the thing. I took ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
bugfish's advice and installed the desktop over the server, and that's easy enough to use--just boot up. But how do I access the server piece?
Must work on homework before I can play, must work on homework before I can play...
A new bit of javascript code. Normally I'd separate out the css, js, and html, but I was putting together this demo for a coworker who's new to all this.
So here's the Spitfire kit I bought myself the other day. I'm so excited. I've never put together a model before, but it doesn't look too bad. I need to buy some sand paper. I should probably not be set loose in Hobby stores. It was all I could do not to bring home a train set or an RC car.
Want! So cute
Seriously, I realize many of my journal posts are about shopping...it's a convenient place to record my non-Amazon wishlist stuff :-) And this t-shirt is too cute not to share.
On a related note, I'm reading the entire backlog of Questionable Content comics. Recent discovery for me, and I LOOOOVE it. One of the characters reminds me of one of my friends. I'll leave ya'll to guess who reminds me of whom (lol, might be an interesting Rorshach test)
Well, this makes the trekkie in me giggle with glee. I love that website; it's just too bad I don't wear t-shirts much anymore.
I can't decide how to finish this quilt. It's sat for a year now, waiting for me to make up my mind. What do ya'll think?
The pictures below show some border options I'm auditioning, but they don't seem right, somehow.
I'm thinking of just taking the whole top to a fabric store and looking for an eye-popping fabric for a border. But I just can't decide.
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For today's potluck, I bring you Apple Sauce Bars
I made homemade apple sauce to use in these, so double Yumm. I'll have that for lunch for a few days. I love homemade apple sauce SOOOO much, I can't believe I've gone that long without making it.
Amazing, creative giftwrapping
(somehow I can SO see bugfish getting into this)
Cake Wrecks
Not Always Right
Craftster
CraftStylish
Two Lumps
Travel Channel (because I'm going to enter to win that trip to the Azores as many times as they'll let me)
Got any favorites to share?
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chipperfrom the train wreck that is Sandra Lee.
Take Chocolate Orange Mousse with Raspberries.
It sounds good. I'd try it. But then you read the ingredients list. Whipped cream, Grand Marnier and fresh berries? Sounds awesome. But then, instant chocolate pudding mix AND pudding cups? The hell?
Now, I'm ok with instant pudding mixes for a weeknight dinner type dessert. It's what I grew up with. And you want to fancy it up a bit with some likker and real whipped cream, why not? But what the heck do you want to throw pudding cups into the mix for?!? (Please imagine an indignant snort here)
I'm a bit of a food snob these days, and on weekends I like to bake from scratch (I got Alton Brown and Dorie Greenspan books for Xmas, woot!!!!) but I'm not against some supermarket shortcuts, I just can't understand what Sandra Lee is thinking with half her "recipes". Half the time she makes things needlessly complicated and MUCH more expensive.
Check out these cupcakes. They must cost $12-15 to make 6, and I can't imagine that combo of chocolate/cherry/peppermint/cinnamon tasting anywhere near good.
I brought some Rum Caramel Corn and some sugared almonds in to work this week; they went fast :-P
The caramel corn is sooo addictive, I had to get it out of the house. I'm making Molto Mario's basic tomato sauce tonight--we want pasta!
May make some fudge tomorrow. We'll see. Scott has a work Christmas party, so I may take the chance to make a dinner all for me...stir fry with tons of veggie, or mac'n'cheese.
Also, I'm thinking of buying a web cam. It'd be a nice way to keep in touch with the folks. Have any of you used one?
Dessert this week:
panna cotta with raspberry sauce
(note the pretty christmas dish. they make me so happy)
I started this about 2 years ago, but then ran out of steam. I finished it last week while on Thanksgiving break. It'll go on the couch for movie nights.
This is a from scratch spice cake with apple butter filling and cream cheese frosting.
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