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Healthy Foodage and Paralysing Messes
Jan. 25th, 2004 12:56 amSo today I made fresh "gumbo" vegetable soup. Because I wanted to make it, and because I wanted to make something, and also because we were in need of some healthier food and something homecooked. Not that I've even slacked off on the cooking that much lately, but the veggies have kind of dropped by the way once or twice when I was in a hurry. Another trigger I guess was the burger I had Friday from Wendy's, that made me regret it through stomach cramps and other fun stuff later that evening. Blergh.
Aside from the soup I made 'southern biscuits' to eat with the soup. I'd wanted to do something like (herb) rolls or savoury scones or such, but didn't have the ingredients, nor the inclination to go to the store at that time and battling the brutal cold to do so, so I made those instead, with the recipe from the self-raising flour pack. They were pretty good. And even after the cooking the kitchen is now relatively orderly, which is nice, and a little unusual for me ;) I don't mind a little organised chaos, but sometimes it gets to be too much, to the point that it's almost paralysing. Which is what's happening with my desk.
My desk is so cluttered that I don't really feel like I can tackle it, it's just intimidating. Intimidating to the point that it just puts me off actually working on anything. Maybe I'll just grab a box, shove all the loose stuff in it, wipe it all down with a cloth, and then slowly start sorting through the box and organising where what goes etc.
I'm also good and bored with my site layout, of both the journal section and the main site (being that each has its own layout). I'm not sure if I want to incorporate the journal back into the main site, rather than have it in it's own little space with it's own design and all... I think I might just do that. And now would be a good time to overhaul the Greymatter to Movable Type, it's got more features I want, and is updated more frequently. So this should give me stuff to do for a while, get out of what has felt like a creative rut, or not even a rut, just an absence. Looking at various arty people's blogs has helped, sometimes just looking at all kinds of pretty and interesting things kick starts it again.
Aside from the soup I made 'southern biscuits' to eat with the soup. I'd wanted to do something like (herb) rolls or savoury scones or such, but didn't have the ingredients, nor the inclination to go to the store at that time and battling the brutal cold to do so, so I made those instead, with the recipe from the self-raising flour pack. They were pretty good. And even after the cooking the kitchen is now relatively orderly, which is nice, and a little unusual for me ;) I don't mind a little organised chaos, but sometimes it gets to be too much, to the point that it's almost paralysing. Which is what's happening with my desk.
My desk is so cluttered that I don't really feel like I can tackle it, it's just intimidating. Intimidating to the point that it just puts me off actually working on anything. Maybe I'll just grab a box, shove all the loose stuff in it, wipe it all down with a cloth, and then slowly start sorting through the box and organising where what goes etc.
I'm also good and bored with my site layout, of both the journal section and the main site (being that each has its own layout). I'm not sure if I want to incorporate the journal back into the main site, rather than have it in it's own little space with it's own design and all... I think I might just do that. And now would be a good time to overhaul the Greymatter to Movable Type, it's got more features I want, and is updated more frequently. So this should give me stuff to do for a while, get out of what has felt like a creative rut, or not even a rut, just an absence. Looking at various arty people's blogs has helped, sometimes just looking at all kinds of pretty and interesting things kick starts it again.
