Preparation is important

[wiseheart]

Because if you start baking unprepared, it takes twice as long.

I've baked another 4 sorts of cookies today. Unfortunately, yesterday I was too dead from the aftereffects of my booster jab that I didn't make the usual preparations: like grinding and chopping nuts and the likes. So I was baking from 10am to approximately 4pm. Fortunately, at least the cookies turned out well enough. Tomorrow I'll decorate the one kind that needs decorating and prepare things for the day after when I'm planning to bake two more batches. In any case, I've reached the middle of my way (paved with cookies) leading to Christmas. ;)

Arm is still a bit tender and achy. Aches sometimes radiate to other body parts, but it doesn't last, thank God. I've developed a bit of a red patch around the place of the jab, but it was the same after the second jab (and that was Sputnik), so I'm not particularly worried. Time, patience and regular icing will take care of it.

Mum, of course, has no aftereffects at all. Clearly, the elder generation is made of sterner stuff. Today she got an official letter from the city government, asking her if she'll accept some cash and an official greeting in January, when she's turning 90. (All people turning 90 get this in Budapest.) I liked the expression "people in a lovely age" - it is nice.

Comments

[meathiel]

People in a lovely age sounds good ...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it? They even created a word for it that normally doesn't even exist in Hungarian, but I like it very much.

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's why I haven't yet started baking- I am totally unprepared! People in a lovely age is a nice expression for very old age!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I like it, too. It's so friendly-sounding towards old people who're too often brandmarked as "old hags" or something like that.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

do you have a food processor? that's good for chopping large amounts of nuts!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I have an electric chopper but it capitulates when facing nuts every time. They go under the blades, the whole thing stops and starts warming over, so I returned to the chopping board and the big knife. (Whoa, that sounds positively bloodthirsty, doesn't it?)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That is such a nice phrase.

My arm is somewhere between sore and itchy — I am resisting the urge to scratch it!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me, too. I don't want to make it even worse by scratching.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yay for halfway thorough!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It has something to do with the light at the other end of the tunnel. 🤭

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I'll bet

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It all comes down to the right perspective. ;)

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

That gift is such a sweet idea. Ninety is definitely an age to celebrate.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Poor Grandma, she so hoped she'd reach one hundred — but she died four years before reaching her goal.

[medievalrosalie.livejournal.com]

Glad you're both doing well with the jab. The older generation are made of incredibly stern stuff. We see that all the time in the Emergency.