Sizzling Saturday
Aug. 25th, 2007 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badseed1980It is HOT today. It's 90 now, and it's expected to reach 95, with a heat index of 101. Ugh. I am therefore spending the day mostly indoors, which I don't want to do. I do, however, need to get some cleaning done. So in a few minutes, I will put on WGBH (A Celtic Sojourn) and startg on my room.
Breakfast/lunch today was a salad of slightly wilted kale, corn cut from the cob and sauteed in butter-flavoured cooking spray, vidalia onion, chopped yellow tomato (thank you, Boston Organics!), sliced cuke, torn fresh basil, and just a little bit of prosciutto (about one paper-thin slice), torn into bits and with the fat rind thrown out. Had that with a basically fat free balsamic vinaigrette, and it was simply to die for. Yum. I think I've been a little bad with the maintenance, so I am trying to be slightly diet-y today. I am also finally acquiring a taste--yes, me acquiring a taste over time!--for raw tomatoes. I can't eat them plain yet, but some balsamic and basil makes me happy. That will probably be what I eat to accompany leftover pasta for dinner tonight.
I picked up my knitting last night for the first time in ages. Like, over a month. I'd been working on a gorgeous sock, but the ball of yarn got tangled--thin yarn, center-pull ball, it was hopeless. So I got a new skein of the yarn (couldn't get the same colour, so I have to start over) to get going on those again. However, I couldn't find my swift for winding it (I will work from the OUTSIDE end!!!), and didn't feel like winding that much yardage without mechanical help. It wasn't too much of a pain to hand-wind my Malabrigo skein into a ball, though, so I did that and started getting some work done on my pretty scarf. Yay! Hopefully in cleaning my room, I'll find the swift. I want to bring already-cast-on socks to Stones so my hands will be busy on the drive.
Tonight, after a fairly early dinner, I intend to hit the laundromat. I need to get my clothes clean before I can pack for Stones, and doing that in the relative cool of the evening will be far more pleasant than during the day, seeing as it isn't air conditioned. I reckon the temperature in that place today will be well over 100. Ick. I should try to get cast on for my sock by then too, so I can work on it there to distract me from the heat.
Breakfast/lunch today was a salad of slightly wilted kale, corn cut from the cob and sauteed in butter-flavoured cooking spray, vidalia onion, chopped yellow tomato (thank you, Boston Organics!), sliced cuke, torn fresh basil, and just a little bit of prosciutto (about one paper-thin slice), torn into bits and with the fat rind thrown out. Had that with a basically fat free balsamic vinaigrette, and it was simply to die for. Yum. I think I've been a little bad with the maintenance, so I am trying to be slightly diet-y today. I am also finally acquiring a taste--yes, me acquiring a taste over time!--for raw tomatoes. I can't eat them plain yet, but some balsamic and basil makes me happy. That will probably be what I eat to accompany leftover pasta for dinner tonight.
I picked up my knitting last night for the first time in ages. Like, over a month. I'd been working on a gorgeous sock, but the ball of yarn got tangled--thin yarn, center-pull ball, it was hopeless. So I got a new skein of the yarn (couldn't get the same colour, so I have to start over) to get going on those again. However, I couldn't find my swift for winding it (I will work from the OUTSIDE end!!!), and didn't feel like winding that much yardage without mechanical help. It wasn't too much of a pain to hand-wind my Malabrigo skein into a ball, though, so I did that and started getting some work done on my pretty scarf. Yay! Hopefully in cleaning my room, I'll find the swift. I want to bring already-cast-on socks to Stones so my hands will be busy on the drive.
Tonight, after a fairly early dinner, I intend to hit the laundromat. I need to get my clothes clean before I can pack for Stones, and doing that in the relative cool of the evening will be far more pleasant than during the day, seeing as it isn't air conditioned. I reckon the temperature in that place today will be well over 100. Ick. I should try to get cast on for my sock by then too, so I can work on it there to distract me from the heat.
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Date: 2007-08-25 09:47 pm (UTC)Heck, I was thinking that some gazpacho would be excellent right now. :) But I don't want to go back out there, much less spend any more money, so maybe I'll just wait to do gazpacho another time.