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stunt_muppet) wrote2019-09-29 01:53 pm
stunt_muppet) wrote2019-09-29 01:53 pm
It is time! To be a slime!
I am sick.
Fiance gets colds more frequently then I do and I generally manage, through fastidious hand-washing and withholding smooches until he's stopped coughing, to dodge whatever it is he brings home. I did not manage it this time. I am now on Day 5 of being full of goop and sounding like Tom Waits and right when I keep thinking I'm beating it it rolls back on in.
Worst part was I wasn't sick enough to skip work on Thursday and Friday (though I wasn't especially productive either), but I was sick enough to miss out on an outing I had planned today.
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Fiance and I did go back to our local Renaissance Fair on Saturday, which was one of the two things I was supposed to do this weekend and which probably did not make my sinuses any better given how dusty it was. I've already been a couple of times this year and the part that I like best about Renn Faires are the artists and craftspeople selling things, so I've more or less seen everything new and made most of the purchases I can afford/have room for. Fiance is more into the dressing-up aspect of it, and I am as well, but my "costume" is a bit cobbled together and I've been hesitant to make the investment to make it more complete.
Plus, I went in costume for the opening weekend this year and that was the weekend I thought I'd lost my engagement ring and spent an hour bawling on my friends' shoulder while a crowd of other people looked for it, and I was so ashamed at being emotional and not helping to look that now I'm nervous to bring my costume back out in case anyone recognizes that I was The Crying One.
(We did eventually find the ring - someone found it in the same place we lost it and contacted the Fair lost and found and we got it back the next weekend - which of course made me even more embarrassed about having a meltdown about it. I've been drinking less at Fair after that weekend.)
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As a way to mitigate my own stress about environmental news, I've been looking at more vegetarian or low-meat recipes, and as a birthday gift my brother got me Jose Andres' Vegetables Unleashed cookbook to aid in my ventures. It's a fantastic book, full of stories and scrumptious-looking photographs, but there's the small hiccup that the average recipe in the book requires a) a grill, which I don't have, or b) two to three hours of prep time, which I rarely have. There are some that could be doable on a weekend that I'd like to try, though. And for all its elaborately-prepared recipes the book also showed me how to cook corn on the cob in the microwave, so that was a timesaver on its own.
I've also been using bok choy more in stir-fries and as a side dish (since the grocery store near me has it in stock now) and while I greatly enjoy its flavor I do not enjoy that cleaning and slicing it takes approximately a year. Am I being finicky and over-trimming it? Is that what's going on?
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I have been good about keeping hydrated and eating easy to digest things but if my throat is still gross by the end of today it may be hot toddy time.
Fiance gets colds more frequently then I do and I generally manage, through fastidious hand-washing and withholding smooches until he's stopped coughing, to dodge whatever it is he brings home. I did not manage it this time. I am now on Day 5 of being full of goop and sounding like Tom Waits and right when I keep thinking I'm beating it it rolls back on in.
Worst part was I wasn't sick enough to skip work on Thursday and Friday (though I wasn't especially productive either), but I was sick enough to miss out on an outing I had planned today.
---
Fiance and I did go back to our local Renaissance Fair on Saturday, which was one of the two things I was supposed to do this weekend and which probably did not make my sinuses any better given how dusty it was. I've already been a couple of times this year and the part that I like best about Renn Faires are the artists and craftspeople selling things, so I've more or less seen everything new and made most of the purchases I can afford/have room for. Fiance is more into the dressing-up aspect of it, and I am as well, but my "costume" is a bit cobbled together and I've been hesitant to make the investment to make it more complete.
Plus, I went in costume for the opening weekend this year and that was the weekend I thought I'd lost my engagement ring and spent an hour bawling on my friends' shoulder while a crowd of other people looked for it, and I was so ashamed at being emotional and not helping to look that now I'm nervous to bring my costume back out in case anyone recognizes that I was The Crying One.
(We did eventually find the ring - someone found it in the same place we lost it and contacted the Fair lost and found and we got it back the next weekend - which of course made me even more embarrassed about having a meltdown about it. I've been drinking less at Fair after that weekend.)
---
As a way to mitigate my own stress about environmental news, I've been looking at more vegetarian or low-meat recipes, and as a birthday gift my brother got me Jose Andres' Vegetables Unleashed cookbook to aid in my ventures. It's a fantastic book, full of stories and scrumptious-looking photographs, but there's the small hiccup that the average recipe in the book requires a) a grill, which I don't have, or b) two to three hours of prep time, which I rarely have. There are some that could be doable on a weekend that I'd like to try, though. And for all its elaborately-prepared recipes the book also showed me how to cook corn on the cob in the microwave, so that was a timesaver on its own.
I've also been using bok choy more in stir-fries and as a side dish (since the grocery store near me has it in stock now) and while I greatly enjoy its flavor I do not enjoy that cleaning and slicing it takes approximately a year. Am I being finicky and over-trimming it? Is that what's going on?
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I have been good about keeping hydrated and eating easy to digest things but if my throat is still gross by the end of today it may be hot toddy time.
1/2 since I'm grabbing computer time in the morning.
Everyone at the fair was so, so kind and generous when I first lost the ring, too. So many people were just passing by and stopped to help look, got me glasses of water when I was crying, everything. There's one of the vendors that my friend runs the counter for who let me stay up on the couch in their booth until I felt well enough to go back to the car and reassured me that people go through the fairgrounds during the week with metal detectors specifically to turn lost jewelry and keys into the lost and found. He even gave me a silver ring from his stock - as a gift, he wouldn't take money for it - so that "I would still have something for my ring finger". I was absolutely blown away by how good everyone was to me.
I'll have to post the links for a few of the regular vendors at our fair, but if I had the space for it I would own so very many art glass and stoneware mugs. I can't always afford the jewelry or ironwork on display there (or, for the ironwork, I'd have no place to put it if I could), but I can afford mugs and there are so many pretty ones every year.
Re: 1/2 since I'm grabbing computer time in the morning.
It's wonderful that people were so kind, especially the one who gave you the silver ring, oh my gosh! That's beautiful. And I'll look forward to taking a look at any links you post.