4th day of spring break
Apr. 10th, 2004 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartSo, this was another "restful" day. *g* I went all creative today.
Warning: utterly boring domestic report below!
First, I put the icing on all those cookies (some 30+ individual pieces of them - I never do things by halves). So now I have rabbit cookies with chocolate icing and sugar flower eyes, other rabbit cookies with punch-flavoured icing (rabbits in Barbie pink are a strange view) and chocolate eyes, and lamb cookies with marzipan-flavoured icing, which is at least white. The rabbit cake has chocolate icing, too. They all look very pretty.
Then we arranged the Easter decoration on the coffee table of the living room, Mum and I. We put willow twigs ("Palmkätzchen" for those who understand German) in a vase and hung my hand-painted eggshells onto them. We put the other eggs (hard-boiled and chocolate ones) under this eggshell-tree, and also the chocolate rabbits and lambs and the cookies and all that stuff. It looks like a pretty shop window. Am very proud, even though nobody sees it but us.
After that, in a fit of adventurous spirit, I decided to cook Shepherd's Pie. Yes, finding my English cooking book had a strange influence on me. So, I made Shepherd's Pie. I used pork, as it was the only meat in our freezer after the six weeks of Lent spent on vegetarian diet. And as we don't have Worchester sauce, I simply put Balsamico and garlic paste into the filling. It was still rather good.
Mum liked it very much. She said, it's just like "Kleingehacktes" (don't ask), with the only difference that meat and mashed potatoes aren't served separatedly. *g*
Actually, I think she's right, but only because I used pork. Although "Kleingehacktes" is usually made of beef, I think? Oh, well, never mind.
However, the trifle turned out delicious. Next time I'll put some jelly directly on the biscuit pieces, though. Not that it was dry - Granny's recipe guarantees success, no matter what - but it'll be even better so, I think.
During all this, Mum wiped the corridor, did the laundry (well, the washing machine did, but still...) and washed her hair. She planned to give me a haircut today, but we were just too tired for that. But we'll probably do it tomorrow.
After that, I was quite dead, so I sprawled out on my bed and transcribed some dialogue from the B5 episode Grey 17 is Missing, as I needed it for the next part of Still Not in Kansas. Then I typed up the whole chapter and posted it to Memory Alpha, hoping that the majority of the group members, who are native speakers, will spot any nonexistent English words I've created by hearing something wrong.
It's a damn hard thing to understand Claudia Christian, I tell you! And unlike Trek, B5 has no episode transcripts floating around the 'Net. Nobody cares for the pains of us, poor foreigners. :((
Then I sorted through my older notebooks (hand-written ones) and discovered a few dark and smutty pieces I've completely forgotten. I don't know whether to be glad or ashamed...
Then I typed up some fragments to both Alternate Caretaker and Alternate Resolutions and uploaded them to the Memory Alpha Files section, just in case my computer gets strange ideas.
So, this was my day, basically. I don't know where the strange urge comes to make such detailled reports for myself. I hope it goes away, soon.
(\_/)
(. .) HAPPY EASTER HOLIDAYS!!!
=°=
(") (")
Edit: Awww, my poor Easter Bunny turns out rather mutilated in the final version! Alas, I don't know how to fix it...
Warning: utterly boring domestic report below!
First, I put the icing on all those cookies (some 30+ individual pieces of them - I never do things by halves). So now I have rabbit cookies with chocolate icing and sugar flower eyes, other rabbit cookies with punch-flavoured icing (rabbits in Barbie pink are a strange view) and chocolate eyes, and lamb cookies with marzipan-flavoured icing, which is at least white. The rabbit cake has chocolate icing, too. They all look very pretty.
Then we arranged the Easter decoration on the coffee table of the living room, Mum and I. We put willow twigs ("Palmkätzchen" for those who understand German) in a vase and hung my hand-painted eggshells onto them. We put the other eggs (hard-boiled and chocolate ones) under this eggshell-tree, and also the chocolate rabbits and lambs and the cookies and all that stuff. It looks like a pretty shop window. Am very proud, even though nobody sees it but us.
After that, in a fit of adventurous spirit, I decided to cook Shepherd's Pie. Yes, finding my English cooking book had a strange influence on me. So, I made Shepherd's Pie. I used pork, as it was the only meat in our freezer after the six weeks of Lent spent on vegetarian diet. And as we don't have Worchester sauce, I simply put Balsamico and garlic paste into the filling. It was still rather good.
Mum liked it very much. She said, it's just like "Kleingehacktes" (don't ask), with the only difference that meat and mashed potatoes aren't served separatedly. *g*
Actually, I think she's right, but only because I used pork. Although "Kleingehacktes" is usually made of beef, I think? Oh, well, never mind.
However, the trifle turned out delicious. Next time I'll put some jelly directly on the biscuit pieces, though. Not that it was dry - Granny's recipe guarantees success, no matter what - but it'll be even better so, I think.
During all this, Mum wiped the corridor, did the laundry (well, the washing machine did, but still...) and washed her hair. She planned to give me a haircut today, but we were just too tired for that. But we'll probably do it tomorrow.
After that, I was quite dead, so I sprawled out on my bed and transcribed some dialogue from the B5 episode Grey 17 is Missing, as I needed it for the next part of Still Not in Kansas. Then I typed up the whole chapter and posted it to Memory Alpha, hoping that the majority of the group members, who are native speakers, will spot any nonexistent English words I've created by hearing something wrong.
It's a damn hard thing to understand Claudia Christian, I tell you! And unlike Trek, B5 has no episode transcripts floating around the 'Net. Nobody cares for the pains of us, poor foreigners. :((
Then I sorted through my older notebooks (hand-written ones) and discovered a few dark and smutty pieces I've completely forgotten. I don't know whether to be glad or ashamed...
Then I typed up some fragments to both Alternate Caretaker and Alternate Resolutions and uploaded them to the Memory Alpha Files section, just in case my computer gets strange ideas.
So, this was my day, basically. I don't know where the strange urge comes to make such detailled reports for myself. I hope it goes away, soon.
(\_/)
(. .) HAPPY EASTER HOLIDAYS!!!
=°=
(") (")
Edit: Awww, my poor Easter Bunny turns out rather mutilated in the final version! Alas, I don't know how to fix it...
