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Feb. 26th, 2014 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesIt really ought to be Friday, only it isn't. It REALLY ought to be next Friday, only it isn't. I would settle for it being today with weather I could walk home in without feeling like it's a penance, only that's not going to happen for at least another two and a half weeks. And people wonder why I hate the month of March?
Anyway, I'm taking a week off in two weeks, and the temptation to run off to somewhere warm is pretty strong. Unfortunately getting to anywhere south of the polar vortex seems to be more trouble than I'm willing to go through. Either you leave the night before and get there the next morning, or you spend a lot of money, or you leave ridiculously early in the morning, and so forth. I could stay in Boston and just not go to work for a week, but that's not quite as much fun as going somewhere. I suppose I could go to a travel agent, but that would require me to know where I want to go, and I'm not even that far along yet.
I have discovered skyr, which so far is the only nonfat yogurt-like substance that comes close to being what I want out of a nonfat yogurt-like substance. It's got the texture, without having a pantload of sugar (or artificial sugar, which is worse) and glue in it. Fortunately it's not one of those horrendous expensive things I get addicted to; it's nice to know it's there, but I don't have to keep buying it. It was on sale last week, which is why I was willing to try it. We won't mention the chocolate bars that were also on sale, but since they're good chocolate bars, I've been able to not eat a whole one in a single sitting. And I managed to make black bean soup that gets better when I put not-quite-enough pasta into not-quite-enough soup.
I haven't been able to write anything for several years now, but last weekend I ended up at Newbury Comics in Harvard Square (not really on purpose, but I had a serious case of the fidgets), and went on a used-DVD binge. One of the DVDs in question is the first Captain America movie, and the plot bunnies are starting to wake up. Nothing concrete yet, but at least it proved that the plot bunnies are still in there somewhere. I was sort of wondering about that. Now if they'd just let me finish the long CSI epic I was writing when they went into hibernation...but I'm still not sure that's ever going to happen.
Anyway, I'm taking a week off in two weeks, and the temptation to run off to somewhere warm is pretty strong. Unfortunately getting to anywhere south of the polar vortex seems to be more trouble than I'm willing to go through. Either you leave the night before and get there the next morning, or you spend a lot of money, or you leave ridiculously early in the morning, and so forth. I could stay in Boston and just not go to work for a week, but that's not quite as much fun as going somewhere. I suppose I could go to a travel agent, but that would require me to know where I want to go, and I'm not even that far along yet.
I have discovered skyr, which so far is the only nonfat yogurt-like substance that comes close to being what I want out of a nonfat yogurt-like substance. It's got the texture, without having a pantload of sugar (or artificial sugar, which is worse) and glue in it. Fortunately it's not one of those horrendous expensive things I get addicted to; it's nice to know it's there, but I don't have to keep buying it. It was on sale last week, which is why I was willing to try it. We won't mention the chocolate bars that were also on sale, but since they're good chocolate bars, I've been able to not eat a whole one in a single sitting. And I managed to make black bean soup that gets better when I put not-quite-enough pasta into not-quite-enough soup.
I haven't been able to write anything for several years now, but last weekend I ended up at Newbury Comics in Harvard Square (not really on purpose, but I had a serious case of the fidgets), and went on a used-DVD binge. One of the DVDs in question is the first Captain America movie, and the plot bunnies are starting to wake up. Nothing concrete yet, but at least it proved that the plot bunnies are still in there somewhere. I was sort of wondering about that. Now if they'd just let me finish the long CSI epic I was writing when they went into hibernation...but I'm still not sure that's ever going to happen.
