Sunday. Sunny and warmish, for values of +/-38F/3C.
Breakfast was peanut butter and semi-sweet chocolate bits in oatmeal and that? Was good. At this rate, I’m going to have to buy another bag of chocolate chips. Dinner will be leftover potatoes, some way or another.
Towels are in the dryer; half-hour with the Happy Lite has been had.
Today is a writing day, so I guess I’d better get to it.
Whatcha doin’ today?
It’s closing day of The Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco, where I’m debuting running an information booth. The front gate team began texting each other at 6am (California time, about 40 minutes ago) about the show being sold out (10,000+ tickets pre-sold). My admiration and my heart goes out to you enduring MRIs with claustrophobia (I’ve had but two in my life, never again would be just fine).
My extreme gratitude for the cat census, an excellent counter to my morning’s news (gonna be crowded) and a delight to see first thing upon rising. Breakfast shall include voice warmups, ginger tea, and a scone with clotted cream and lemon curd.
Today might be the calm before the storm. Yesterday saw the making of fudge and the baking of sugar cookies. The chocolate chip cookies and pound cake will be made on Christmas Eve. There’s work to be got through on Monday and Tuesday, plus a delivering of the car to a mechanic and the meeting with lawyers to review Things. Thus today is an isolated moment of calm in an insane week……fitting that it fall on Solstice. Thus, I shall finish up my mom’s knitted chapstick holder, line up new projects, and read. Happy Solstice to those who celebrate and Happy Holidays to everyone. May next year be a bit brighter than this year has been.
Peanut butter in oatmeal is excellent, not just for sweet oatmeals (fruit, chocolate, etc.), but savory oatmeals, if you like Thai peanut sauce. Mix 1-2 T peanut butter with powdered ginger a/or finely chopped garlic and either a squirt of sriratcha sauce or chili pepper flakes to taste. Add this peanut butter ball of spice to your mostly cooked oatmeal along with whatever chopped produce you’ve got in the vegetable drawer: broccoli, chard, green beans, peas, spinach, bell peppers, etc. Stir until the peanut butter’s melted and coated everything. Great on cold mornings or when you’re sick: it opens your sinuses, the ginger eases an upset stomach, and the oats will leave you feeling full for longer than anything else if your appetite is lacking or you’re feeling too lousy to cook 3 meals that day.