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Dec. 7th, 2015 04:04 pmThe Week That Would Not End finally ended, but not without a hassle. I had 36 hours of something or other that made my stomach object to anything more complicated than water. I didn't feel that bad otherwise, so I sang the concert anyway. (Yes, I know, thou shalt not do that. But I'm not sure it was infectious, and besides, the concert was the last chorus activity until late January.) Next semester, Mozart's Solemn Vespers of the Confessor and something Schubert.
This here week is supposed to be less about "go to work, and cram every single other thing in your life around the edges of going to work". So far it still feels crammed, though. Partly because I didn't do laundry until yesterday, so the drying rack I finally took down on Thursday after putting it up last Saturday is up again. I refuse to live with a permanent drying rack taking up space in my kitchen, so it's coming down again tonight and staying that way until the weekend, when the whole laundry issue rears its ugly head again.
In the process of making clean-out-the-freezer soup, I discovered a forgotten bag of chicken breasts that I should probably make soup stock out of. Problem being, chicken breasts make fairly poor stock even when not frozen for ages (being boneless, and white meat), so I really need some turkey parts to go with them. Last year, between Thanksgiving and Christmas was turkey parts season, and I could get necks and wings when I wanted them. Not so much this year, apparently. And I'm out of celery flakes. I guess that means I have to buy celery. I like celery flakes because they don't turn liquid in the bottom of the refrigerator and then I have to clean up a mess. But since it took me until yesterday to get to the Walgreens in Brookline Village, and I could have done it any time from Tuesday onward, a trip to Penzey's will probably take me until February to get around to. (And I don't want to go from Brighton to Arlington Heights in February. Too much waiting for buses involved.)
This here week is supposed to be less about "go to work, and cram every single other thing in your life around the edges of going to work". So far it still feels crammed, though. Partly because I didn't do laundry until yesterday, so the drying rack I finally took down on Thursday after putting it up last Saturday is up again. I refuse to live with a permanent drying rack taking up space in my kitchen, so it's coming down again tonight and staying that way until the weekend, when the whole laundry issue rears its ugly head again.
In the process of making clean-out-the-freezer soup, I discovered a forgotten bag of chicken breasts that I should probably make soup stock out of. Problem being, chicken breasts make fairly poor stock even when not frozen for ages (being boneless, and white meat), so I really need some turkey parts to go with them. Last year, between Thanksgiving and Christmas was turkey parts season, and I could get necks and wings when I wanted them. Not so much this year, apparently. And I'm out of celery flakes. I guess that means I have to buy celery. I like celery flakes because they don't turn liquid in the bottom of the refrigerator and then I have to clean up a mess. But since it took me until yesterday to get to the Walgreens in Brookline Village, and I could have done it any time from Tuesday onward, a trip to Penzey's will probably take me until February to get around to. (And I don't want to go from Brighton to Arlington Heights in February. Too much waiting for buses involved.)
