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Tasks and diversions
Oct. 8th, 2024 07:10 pm1. I have to view this tutorial every time I change the duvet cover because, even though I've completed the process successfully many, many times, some part of my brain insists that it defies all the laws of this physical world. And I still can't do the "grab the end and stuff it in without tearing stitches around the zipper and then turn it inside [rightside] out" move without rewatching the eldritch child who does it so effortlessly in the vid. But I got it done all by myself, and as always the result is much neater and nicer than when the spouse and I try to stuff the duvet into its cover as if it were a pillow going into a pillowcase.
2. A pal sent me this link, thinking (rightly) that it would strike a chord deep in my editorial heart.
3. I baked from scratch (The Joy of Cooking's apple cake Cockaigne) for the first time in a long time. This may not sound like an achievement, but believe me it is. I didn't have any AP flour (only whole wheat), but the end product is perfectly respectable. (And with four cups of apples to its name, I can tell myself that it's healthful despite the eggs and the butter and the sugar.)
4. The cleaning person was here today, thank goodness. I'm not sure how two clean and tidy adults living in a minimalist home can produce so much dust and hair and general human detritus in the space of two weeks, but evidently we do. We swiff and wipe the place down between cleanings, and yet by the time the cleaner gets here it looks like some kind of galactic debris field. I'm going to blame the dust on the endless construction that's taking place on three sides of our condo. The hair I can only attribute to the residents (gotta say, it's a bit unnerving to see how much we shed).
If I still had cats, I'd shamelessly blame everything on them, but alas.
2. A pal sent me this link, thinking (rightly) that it would strike a chord deep in my editorial heart.
3. I baked from scratch (The Joy of Cooking's apple cake Cockaigne) for the first time in a long time. This may not sound like an achievement, but believe me it is. I didn't have any AP flour (only whole wheat), but the end product is perfectly respectable. (And with four cups of apples to its name, I can tell myself that it's healthful despite the eggs and the butter and the sugar.)
4. The cleaning person was here today, thank goodness. I'm not sure how two clean and tidy adults living in a minimalist home can produce so much dust and hair and general human detritus in the space of two weeks, but evidently we do. We swiff and wipe the place down between cleanings, and yet by the time the cleaner gets here it looks like some kind of galactic debris field. I'm going to blame the dust on the endless construction that's taking place on three sides of our condo. The hair I can only attribute to the residents (gotta say, it's a bit unnerving to see how much we shed).
If I still had cats, I'd shamelessly blame everything on them, but alas.
