(Xposted from twitter and facebook)
This morning, I shit you not, Oli managed to set my alarm clock back an hour.
Not the alarm. The clock time.
(He likes to turn on the radio to wake me up…)
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We have been experimenting with mug cakes. Have you encountered these? They’re essentially tiny, single-serving cakes cooked in the microwave – theoretically in a mug.
Last night we made this one, an applesauce cinnamon cake. I added in 1/2 T of wheat bran for fiber, but it really did then need a little extra liquid. I think my homemade applesauce is cooked down more than store-bought, as well.
That being said, while a bit dense, it was super tasty. After a veggie-heavy dinner, one serving was easily split between the two of us.
Tonight we did this one, chocolate on top of chocolate.
I swapped out 1/2T of the flour for more cocoa, subbed out 1/2T of milk with egg whites, and did my standard chocolate-plus-one of subbing out some of the vanilla with Patron XO Cafe and adding in a 1/4 teas of espresso powder. When we do it again, I’ll add in 1/8 teas of salt, too, but with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, this was ~delicious~.
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The problem I’m facing as I look at “I want to and physically need to lose weight, stat,” is that there is very little I find as pleasurable and/or as comforting as food, specifically, sugar and fat, so all my relaxation/comfort is based around food and/or sloth. I have no self-stress-relief (Except walking) or self-reward that doesn’t involve either curling up and doing nothing or eating or both.
And yes, Feast Day is not the best day to be thinking about it.
But I want to lose 4 lbs by Jan 1st and 10 by Mar 1, 20 by June 1st… So I need to DO something.
And I don’t know how to make myself STICK to it.
Hunh.
I wonder if I could use Habitaca (sp?) just for that…
Edited to add:
Things I am going to do include – Going back on weight watchers (the old system). And using a spreadsheet so I can play with numbers. I like playing with numbers.
Giving myself different goals. Goals I can measure quickly – like points in/exercise out – and then weight goals.
Going back to stepping on the scale every day. Every. Single. Day. And writing it down.
Starting Sunday.
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It’s Thanksgiving day in America, and so I ask the indulgence of my international friends while I give thanks.
I am, as always, grateful for my husband. I’m grateful for good friends and for loving family.
I’m grateful for modern medicine, for the internet, for running water and electricity and microwaves and food processors, without which cooking today’s feast would be much more time-consuming & difficult.
I’m grateful for Terry Pratchett, may his name always be spoken, and Robert Heinlein, may he find his way home, for Jim Butcher and Elizabeth Bear, CS Lewis and Lewis Carroll and J.K. Rowling… and Tom Baker.
I’m grateful for public libraries and school libraries and Mrs. Thayer, who didn’t know what to do with me so sent me to the library. I’m grateful for Mr. Lynd, who put up with me, and every teacher and professor who made the effort.
And I am grateful for readers, for people who seem to enjoy my stories, so that I can keep telling them.
Happy Thanksgiving, my friends.
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Having a 10,000-word project (novella), a 6,000-word project (Edally), and a 4,000-word project (Ghost) in a month and a 25K goal for the month only works if you have less than 5K additional work.
Patreon is approx. 2.5K now.
There’s that commission you just finished, that was ~3K this month.
Then there’s the 6K submission story…
Math is one’s friend.
(also, I need to leave at least 1.5K for fun projects, and since I really want my “fun” to run about 10-20% of my wordcount, I need to allow for that, too. That means for a 25000 work-wordcount goal, I need to write ~27,700-31,250 words).
Conclusion: I need to shrink my project goals per month. Or increase my wordcount by 10-25%.
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When I wrote this for Capriox_B &
talikan yesterday, I told Cap I was having trouble keeping Addergoole and other inappropriate things out of it. So here’s the speech, with a few [additions]. All my love to both of them once again.
Capriox_B and I grew up just a few blocks from each other – so close that when her cows get out, they trim my parents’ bushes!
And yet we didn’t meet – didn’t even know each other existed – until we happened on each other in an online forum. [Mei-Lin Miranda’s, as a matter of fact. And from there to Twitter and Strong Heart and the Addergoole game, to Howard and Magnolia and Christmas Eve at Tim Horton’s, and tends of thousands of words of online roleplay…]
Life is funny like that. An icon on a screen, a name on a road, and all of a sudden, I’m surrounded by goats, hanging out with someone that, by chance and coincidence, has turned into one of my best friends.
And when you’re friends, you want your friends to be happy. Really, truly happy.
So when Cap brought talikan to meet me – brought him for me to check out – I took it seriously. So I watched. And I was very pleased to see that yes,
talikan makes my friend very very happy.
He was clever enough to fit himself into her life. He was smart enough to ask her. And he was fast enough to beat her to the punch.
And so we are lucky enough to be here today, to be witness to – and a part of – their happiness.
<3<3<3
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This weekend, I went on a wine tour (my first like official, someone-else-drives, lots-of-people wine tour) for a co-worker’s birthday, and she took pictures of me I actually like!
And thus my thornewrites (twitter) and Patreon have shiny new pictures of me.
In blue, of course. Because blue.
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Because it seems like the only way I actually write things down is if I blog it, sigh.
If for any reason you happen to want to be in on the “pain” filter, comment here. I don’t expect it will be very exciting. 😉
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