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tea and radio
Jan. 5th, 2014 07:15 pm Day 5 - Today's happy place is tea. I contributed to a Kickstarter to fund a line of teas dedicated to S.J. Tucker's music. I've been sampling them this weekend. This has been a project OF WIN! I love tea and I love the blends so far. No complaints.
I also am starting to fall in love with the Welcome to Night Vale podcasts. The narrator is very soothing, so it's good fall-asleep sounds. It's also good for closing my eyes on the couch and listening to the radio news program of a town that I really never want to visit. It's funny and it fills a hole in my heart that's been empty since I stopped listening to small town AM talk radio every morning (high school).
In other news, the swelling in my ankle and foot's gone down quite a bit, but we're still not at zero. The bruising is really impressive - Monet would be proud of the color combinations I've got going on. Walking's easier, but we both agreed that I shouldn't go along on the Big Grocery Store Run Before the Freeze. All the walking on concrete floors would have been a Bad Plan.
Emi stayed home with me and we started to make strawberry muffins. These turned into strawberry bread because I didn't feel like dealing with the muffin tins. She thought the final product was good. I think it's only barely acceptable as a baked good, but it's vegan and gluten-free, so she can have it and seems to enjoy it.
Also, I've covered pretty much everything I can easily reach with my right hand with a henna design. It's an addiction, but now I have to wait for these to wear off before I can do more.
Yes, I tried using my left hand. No, that did not go so well.
Tomorrow we're looking at a high of negative twelve. This. Is. Ridiculous. I'm kind of scared to drive to work, since it's a 30 minute drive and if something happens, I could be stuck for a long time. I won't be going to dance and I've got vacation days and I can VPN to my desk, but maybe I should save that for when it snows ten inches and I can't get out of my driveway.
Blast. I need more tea and early bed. This cold, this injury, this forced immobility, this all makes me want to hibernate until June.
Blast.
I also am starting to fall in love with the Welcome to Night Vale podcasts. The narrator is very soothing, so it's good fall-asleep sounds. It's also good for closing my eyes on the couch and listening to the radio news program of a town that I really never want to visit. It's funny and it fills a hole in my heart that's been empty since I stopped listening to small town AM talk radio every morning (high school).
In other news, the swelling in my ankle and foot's gone down quite a bit, but we're still not at zero. The bruising is really impressive - Monet would be proud of the color combinations I've got going on. Walking's easier, but we both agreed that I shouldn't go along on the Big Grocery Store Run Before the Freeze. All the walking on concrete floors would have been a Bad Plan.
Emi stayed home with me and we started to make strawberry muffins. These turned into strawberry bread because I didn't feel like dealing with the muffin tins. She thought the final product was good. I think it's only barely acceptable as a baked good, but it's vegan and gluten-free, so she can have it and seems to enjoy it.
Also, I've covered pretty much everything I can easily reach with my right hand with a henna design. It's an addiction, but now I have to wait for these to wear off before I can do more.
Yes, I tried using my left hand. No, that did not go so well.
Tomorrow we're looking at a high of negative twelve. This. Is. Ridiculous. I'm kind of scared to drive to work, since it's a 30 minute drive and if something happens, I could be stuck for a long time. I won't be going to dance and I've got vacation days and I can VPN to my desk, but maybe I should save that for when it snows ten inches and I can't get out of my driveway.
Blast. I need more tea and early bed. This cold, this injury, this forced immobility, this all makes me want to hibernate until June.
Blast.
