How is it April already?

[wiseheart]

picowrimo is over for the time being, and I'm missing it already. Putting up the daily posts, reading everyone's entries, their reports about what they did or did not manage to write on any particular day gave me something regular to do - and inspired me to actually work on my dratted stories. Also, it was a pleasant distraction, and I could really use one.

So, on the first pico-free day in a month, I went on doing some (hopefully) paid translating, as well as started translating Chapter 3 of "The Billion Year Voyage". It was a comparatively short day, as I've offered to cook lunch and also baked some buns to use up the old instant yeast I found in one of the spice cupboard drawers. Alas, the "best before" date had been September 2017, so the buns had gone up about 4 millimetres or so and are heavy enough to use them in a gun. But I'll slice them thinly and toast them, so they'll do well enough, I think.

Other than that, I chatted on the phone to three (ex-)colleagues - not the same three as yesterday! - and continued re-watching Blood Ties. To my slight disappointment I found that it had lost some of its appeal during the years in-between. Not even Kyle Schmid appears as attractive as I used to find them when the series was new.

Comments

[meathiel]

I loved "Blood Ties" back in the day. Sorry it doesn't hold up.

[artemis10002000]

Ah well, I guess that old yeast really tried its best... Nothing to be done about it, at least you have buns even if they are hard. We're all getting an opportunity to be using up our old stashes now, huh?

The other day, I made chocolate chip cookies with ancient baking chocolate. Fortunately, it was still good.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Now that you remind me, I've got some ancient chocolate chips in the fridge...
I didn't intend to make buns today, but I forgot to buy bread yesterday, so toasted pebbles it will be tomorrow. *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I believe my main problem is with the sound quality. Either the DVDs have poor sound or my hearing has gone worse than I feared. I even put on the German dubbing, in the hope that I'll understand the dialogue better that way, but even so, it was a real struggle sometimes.

Or my telly is ailing. It has seen Granny, after all, and Granny died in 1996.

[artemis10002000]

Yeah, sometimes you gotta!

Looks like it might be time for chocolate cookies for you, too?

They had plenty of eggs when I was shopping so now I'm planning to finally make eggnog, as well as bake a cake (just a plain one) tomorrow.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Do you find baking so relaxing, too?

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Staying busy is key now. I'm not sure how it got to be Wednesday already!

[artemis10002000]

Yeah, baking is definitely one of my relaxation things.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Heavy buns! Good to know you've prepared ammunition for the zombie apocalypse!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They have a distant likeness to Dwarf bread, but sliced and toasted they weren't so bad. But they would have served better als self-defence weapons indeed.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

My colleagues complain that time has slowed down for them. I for my part experience the opposite.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I've heard that is very much the case.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

I actually spent time last week going through canned goods in the pantry and throwing out any that were out-of-date. Tucked in one corner was, embarrassingly enough, a can of soup best used by April of 2004 :o( Perhaps, it is good I am not a baker, heheh.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Apparently, you've beat me in the hoarding capacity, hands down. Of course, I don't even have a pantry....