For how long, I don’t know, so a-blogging I go, helped by actual sleep. In fact, I got more that 4 hours, yay. UNfortunately my last dream before I awoke was of my mother coming to me, very upset, after she got a credit card bill that I’d racked up of $1k. It was a nightmare – how sad is that?
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I’ve been riding the Exhaustion Train of late. Stress at work with customers throwing me under the bus, regular stress at work, money stress – o, the money stress. All I can say is thank the gods for food stamps, I wouldn’t have made it through the month without them. In addition, Mr Oro built a website for me for work, so that was extra money in, too. Went on bills, natch, but still, it’s progress of a sort.
With all the stress comes bad eating and depression. Been eating far too much wheat, but, y’know, pasta’s cheap. And the caffeine! It used to be that I never drank or ate anything with caffeine after 2pm as it would keep me up late at night. Now I could drink coffee before going to bed and I’d be fine.
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I totally failed NaNoWriMo. I got one sentence written, then got sick, then everyone else got sick, then had extra hours at work, it was awful. On the plus side, my wood stove kept me unbelievably toasty. In fact, it’s warming the whole house, even the upstairs. Fab. Here’s an easy, tasty, nutritious, and warming soup for when you’re feeling poorly:
ingredients:
pumpkin, squash, sweet potato, potato, parsnip
stock of choice (I like chicken)
butter
leek or onion
garlic
carrot
thyme or ginger, black pepper, salt
1) peel and chop root veggies or roast them and scoop flesh, or use canned (don’t care for the texture of canned, but it’s quick!)
2) saute leek or onion in butter, add chopped garlic and cook 1 minute
3) add root veggies raw or cooked
4) add stock, simmer until veggies are cooked
5) add ginger OR thyme, black pepper, salt if needed (prolly won’t be with the stock)
6) zhuzz in blender or mash to desire consistency
7) nom
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Remember when I was talking about watching the BBC on my pc? Mr Oro has finished his program, you can find it here. It’s called SelekTOR and you can find the instructions here (sorry, it’s illegal for Mr Oro to have instructions in the USA, but if you have questions about configuration, please don’t hesitate to ask).
Oro out
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