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nineveh_uk) wrote2021-02-14 07:18 pm
nineveh_uk) wrote2021-02-14 07:18 pm
Weekend ups and downs, and cake rec
I know, I thought on Friday afternoon after a busy (half) week of work. I will do the hoovering know, removing the infuriating bits of navy fluff all over the carpets, and then I will not need to do any housework over the weekend and can luxuriate in time and do art and write fic and maybe even review it. And I did hoover, and then spent the entirety of Saturday feeling rubbish, watching skiing, whinging at antisoppist, re-watching a rom-com with frequent pauses, and worst of all not having any cake/ I needed cake, but I had no cake and could face neither making nor going out into the cold to purchase it.
Happily today I felt brighter and therefore did some art, wrestled 500 words of fic into submission** (though not without taking some punches), and most important of all, made Nigella Lawson's emergency brownies. Inevitably I slightly overcooked them*, so they are not as squidgy as they might be, but they are very acceptable. I also have squirty cream kept for such emergencies, and am going to learn from this and ensure that tomorrow's supermarket order contains adequate amounts of cake-like substances so I am not left clawing the pantry shelves and finding only out of date KitKats. And tomorrow heralds the end of the cold weather so I can stopped feeling constantly pinched and actually leave the house, hurray!
*I do this with brownies and thus set the timer very conservatively, but they were not parting from the side of the tin like the recipe said they would, so I let them carry on a bit. Mistake.
**That venerable sub-genre, Prince Jing finds out.
antisoppist, re-watching a rom-com with frequent pauses, and worst of all not having any cake/ I needed cake, but I had no cake and could face neither making nor going out into the cold to purchase it.Happily today I felt brighter and therefore did some art, wrestled 500 words of fic into submission** (though not without taking some punches), and most important of all, made Nigella Lawson's emergency brownies. Inevitably I slightly overcooked them*, so they are not as squidgy as they might be, but they are very acceptable. I also have squirty cream kept for such emergencies, and am going to learn from this and ensure that tomorrow's supermarket order contains adequate amounts of cake-like substances so I am not left clawing the pantry shelves and finding only out of date KitKats. And tomorrow heralds the end of the cold weather so I can stopped feeling constantly pinched and actually leave the house, hurray!
*I do this with brownies and thus set the timer very conservatively, but they were not parting from the side of the tin like the recipe said they would, so I let them carry on a bit. Mistake.
**That venerable sub-genre, Prince Jing finds out.
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