Monday, April 15, 2013

This and That (and why is it still winter?)

I've not been updating the blog the way I intended. At this point, at least until the snow is gone, I'm not going to hold myself to any set schedule because I just can't. I meant to write last week about how Sam is doing at school (good!), but I just couldn't wrap my brain around words. Remember how I said depression is like a fog that won't let me think straight? That's pretty much what's going on with me. I am scattered as all get out right now.

But I've been baking. I borrowed Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day from my mom and am slowly working my way through the recipes. I make a lot of boule, but I've also attempted demi-baguettes, ciabatta, light wheat, and oatmeal bread. I also borrowed a bread machine and made two loaves of old-fashioned white bread with that. As summer arrives, I'm going to quit using the oven as much so I'll be back to making bread in the crock pot or the bread machine.

I've also been crocheting. I finished blanket #3 and started on #4. Pictures, you know, eventually. (My house is too messy to take pictures at the moment. Sorry. I'll do my spring cleaning when it is actually spring.)

And aside from all the depression nonsense, I haven't been well, as in, not having a cold or illness of some sort, in at least 6 weeks. I have not had more than a two week break from being sick in roughly a year. (That's being generous...it feels more like a 1 week break, maybe. I honestly don't remember anymore what it was like not to be sick. I am starting to wonder if we have mold in our house or something.) I am tired of winter and I am tired of being sick all the time and dang it I am tired. This is my reality at the moment, and I don't like it, and I figure you all don't need to hear the same complainy thing from me three times a week, so there it is. See you when the snow melts. It's going to melt, right? It has to stop by like June, right? Sigh.

All winter I said to myself, if I can just make it to April, I'll be OK. Well, I did. And I'm not. April didn't hold up her end of the bargain. I know everybody else feels the same way, but that doesn't really make me feel better about it.

Oh, and happy tax day! We owed a ridiculous amount. Another sigh. But hey, free stuff!

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