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Last year: "Look! A flower!" I said. "I must take a picture!" |
She was too late. This morning, I'd given in to my curiosity and stopped at 7-11. Deciding that tea was a better test than coffee - since I've been drinking a lot of tea lately, and they actually had good tea to choose from - I put one packet in the tea, and a handful in my pocket to try later with coffee, if the tea test panned out.
It's not exactly like sugar, but it's a heck of a lot closer than Sweet'n'Low or Equal. I think I'm sold. Given K.T.'s warning, though, I don't think I'll taste it directly, or switch to baking with it (though maybe the stuff they make for cooking with is different, since it's less concentrated). I'll be sure to let you know how the coffee experiment pans out, at least.
I'm in a darn good mood today! Carrie wrote to tell me that my worries yesterday were completely groundless (I hadn't realized she would actually follow that link in my .sig!) and I'm wearing a great "autumn" outfit, including my perky yellow shirt that I just adore and always brightens up my mood.
Also, last night I finished the Christmas stocking I've been working on for the past couple of days. That's it to the right, there... Isn't it hideous? Well, the shape is good, though the toe is too pointy - but I figured out what I was doing wrong toward the end, so I'll know how to correct it next time. (Or, as Matt suggested, just leave it pointy. It's not like anyone's going to actually wear the thing, and a longer toe will fit more presents. Maybe a long pointy stocking toe will be my hallmark.) But the colors are awful. That's because this was a "practice" stocking, made from leftover yard in my workbag. So the green is sortof pale and blue-ish, and I'm using tan instead of white... But now that I know I can do it (this was my first-ever crocheting project that involved strange shapes) I'll probably go out this weekend to buy some nice yarn in Christmas colors. I'm pretty proud of myself.
Tonight, Matt and I are meeting K.T. and Kevin, and possibly Braz and Kris, to go pumpkin shopping. K.T. says she knows of several "pumpkin patches" near where she lives, and she was thinking we could go and pick out pumpkins, then maybe carve and roast pumpkin seeds.
I'm not sure about carving - I don't know if a pumpkin will last until Hallowe'en if we carve now. Besides, I haven't picked out a pattern yet, and I tend toward elaborate patterns that might get messed up in the ride home. But roasted pumpkin seeds sound pretty good, so maybe what we'll do is go back to K.T. and Kevin's and watch them carve their pumpkins, and while they carve, we'll prepare the seeds from their pumpkins. (Picking pumpkin seeds out of pumpkin guts is a pretty tedious, time-consuming process.) And this time I'll remember to keep a closer eye on the roasting seeds, so they don't burn. Yum!
Note to self - jot down the roasted seeds recipe in my Palm so I have it close by.
Yep, I'm just convinced it's going to be a fantastic day!
Word of the Day: hallmark - a distinguishing characteristic, trait, or feature; a mark put on an article to indicate purity, origin, or genuineness
News of the Weird: 101 Things To Do With A Coffin
-- A coffin company eager to sell more merchandise has come up with 101 uses for a wooden coffin.
Your Coffin Company builds and sells home decor items such as bookshelves, coffee tables, wine racks and entertainment centers -- all made out of coffins.
2:15 pm - Yeah, I'm having a good day. I'm playing in an online game that my office-mate Mike wrote and is currently being beta-tested. I turned in my orders and actions for this turn today, and Mike was so overcome by my deviousness that he had to get up and walk around before reading the rest of them - and then he laughed himself silly reading the second half. It was a good feeling.
It's an absolutely stunningly beautiful day outside, and I keep inventing excuses to go to the office's other suites, just so I can go out. Walking back from one of these "errands" my self-esteem - not usually very healthy or vocal - suddenly woke up and started singing. I am beautiful! I am intelligent and fun and sexy and a great person! My husband is lucky to have me! (I'm lucky to have him, too, but those moments of carolling joy were focused the other way.) Wow, what a great feeling. It was like getting a sudden dose of energy, like I had not a care in the world - my thoughts and emotions were as bright and beautiful and sunny as the weather.
I hope I can hold on to that for the rest of the day. The rest of the weekend.
Heck, let's make it the rest of my life.
- nothing
Current Projects:
- little crafty things
Diet Progress: 15 lbs lost (okay, so some of yesterday's was water-weight... I'm not sweating it.)
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