My curry bread ended up a complete disaster. I made the dough saturday night in the breadmaker, but was too tired to finish so I left it in there overnight. Too much fermentation! It stunk like bad alcohol. And like an idiot, I thought I could bake the smell out. I ended up with foul-tasting curry bread and a stinky house.

After that miserable failure, I went back to my swatch knitting. Swatch ended up being just about the right size wide, but half an inch short. Am now re-knitting a switch on a bigger needle size. Hopefully this works. Otherwise this yarn I bought may be useless.

When ben woke up, we watched ponies. I love pinkie pie's back story. She corrupted her entire puritan pony family! For a cutie mark episode, this one was quite fun.

A bit after lunch time, ben and I went food shopping. Large quantities of food were bought. Now I can make tasty things all week.

Since passover starts tomorrow, I made matzo ball soup for dinner.
Vegetarian Matzo Ball Soup
I attempted to make a vegetarian version so it wouldn't count towards our two meats a week rule. It was edible, but I really wouldn't call it matzo ball soup. You really notice the lack of chicken fat. I tried putting a little bit of butter in (totally making it not kosher! ha!), but it didn't help at all.

For some reason the matzo balls came out super dense. That has never happened before. Normally they are wonderfully light and fluffy. I wonder if it's because I used really old mix.

After dinner, ben and I took a food coma nap. I got up around 10 to prepare the ingredients for ben's dinner tomorrow. He has to work tomorrow and then go in again tomorrow night, so he needs to eat and sleep as soon as he gets home. I'm making slow cooker chili so that dinner will be ready as soon as he walks through the door.
A canopy at one of the stations broke and fell onto the tracks last night on the blue and yellow line. Unfortunately for me, the blue line shares track with the orange line, so my trains were totally backed up as well. It took me forever to get home last night.

The trains were running really far apart, so when they arrived, they were already full. Your trains had to pass before I could squeeze myself into one. Then we frequently got backed up in tunnels or at stations, waiting for the backed up trains in front of us to move. I think I sat at ballston for at least 15 minutes.

Thankfully a very nice person gave me their seat when they saw I couldn't reach a pole and am too short to grab the ceiling ones. Nice people are wonderful.

Eventually I did get to my stop. I had missed my bus, as well as the one after it. But I was able to catch a bus after that and meet ben at the park and ride. (He is my hero.) It was a very long ride though because it was pouring. The driver couldn't safely go at pull speed, so we inched along the highway until the rain finally let up just before our exit. Isn't that always how it goes?

Ben and I then went to costco. We were out of many essential things like toilet paper and hi-chew. Now we are fully stocked once again. This has to last us until we move.

When we got home, we watched a movie called Tideland. It's the first film I've ever seen where the director appears before the film and warns viewers that they would likely hate the movie. Just as he predicted, I did not enjoy it. I don't like sad movies and this one was very sad. It's about a little girl who's parents die and she's left alone in rural texas with only her decapitated doll heads and her creepy neighbors for company.

I wish netflix would send me the movies I want. They all list a really long wait for them. I suspect they don't actually have the movies. They are big liars to even offer them!
holytoastr: (angry gir)
This whole google buzz thing has me stressed out. It's opt out rather than opt in and I feel like I can't find all the places this thing touched and messed up.

I don't mind sharing things when I have control over who sees what. I do not appreciate google throwing open the doors to everyone I've ever emailed. Believe it or not, google, there are things people don't want to share with the world!

I think I have myself opted out now, but I can't figure out how to tell for sure. It's making me extremely uncomfortable.
Ok, I took a picture of the terrible beach dress.

Beach dress in progress

There's a terrible bulge under each armpit. And if you look down the center, the center fans at the top do not line up with the fans below it.

To fix both of these problems, I would need to rip everything apart. I definitely can't wear it the way it is now though. It's embarrassing. :( I wish I had noticed how bad the first row looked back when I had just started. I sorta hoped it would fix itself out as I went along. Instead, it became more obvious.

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The ugly cucumber and the cherry tomatoes were delicious. I had them with dinner last night. It made me a little sad though, because I had ambitious plans of fresh salad all summer from my garden.

As it is now, there are plenty of cucumber blossoms but no cucumbers growing. And there are several handfuls of green tomatoes ever so slowly ripening on the vine. In a couple days I should have enough again to garnish a salad. None of the lettuce survived.

One day when I have a house, I will have a vast garden. And it will be delicious. Until then I have to settle for what I can manage.
How I fail at life: Our light went out so I bought a new one, the brightest one they had on the shelves. And it's too dim for this room. :(
holytoastr: (angry gir)
I missed the bus. :(
holytoastr: (angry gir)
Tomorrow night I am going to the fancy 60th Anniversary dinner for work. I needed to get a nice dress for the event. I figured a simple black one should be good enough.

Why do none of the stores in the mall sell a simple black dress? Everything was prom dresses! Ok, I lie, one store had a simple black dress. For $150. I nearly cried.

I gave up extremely frustrated and went home to repair a non-fancy black dress I have. I'm not going to look nice but at this point I don't care as much. If they want me to look nice, they are going to have to pay me more so I can afford overpriced dresses.

I think one of my next sewing projects should be a simple black dress for occasions like this.

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