It's Memorial Day, wooh!
This is kind of an off holiday for me, since it kind of does the same thing as veterans Day, only for a country I don't actually belong to, just live in.
Anyway - I have the day off, which is nice, as it meant I had more weekend to do stuff in, including get caught up on sleep. Sorta. this would have worked out better if I'd slept better last night, but this was apparently not meant to be.
I have done a lot of things this weekend though!
I made a cake! It is a midnight cake (dense dark chocolate cake) with raspberry jam and boiled icing. it is pretty danged delicious!
I also made soup, but there are no pictures of that, and did a bunch of writing. Yesterday I had my friends![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
malkontent and his wife (who doesn't have a convenient handle or I'd use it - I'm trying to not define/identify people *only* according to their relationships) come over to do craft stuff - but really to meet the greyhound I am dogsitting this weekend for some friends of friends. I'm actually the third-tier dogsitter. Some friends of mine are looking after the dog - they had to go away and left him with a mutual friend, who also had to go away, and so he is staying with me until the first friends get back tomorrow. I might have met one of the owners before at some point, but only in passing. But their dog is a total sweetie. His name is Red and he is 13 and he is made of skin and bones and love and laziness. He is also apparently afraid of thunder, which will be interesting as we have a big front coming through today. I gave him some melatonin, and I'll put the TV on later if he is still too scaredy. he also has a thundershirt, which he is half wearing now, since he wouldn't get up so I could put it on right. I hear some distant thunder, but so far he seems fine. The bigger front is still to come though.
Red on his giant dog bed
The craft day also let me get more done on my Firelight vest - we'll see how that all works out for me in the end. I'm a little concerned, to be honest, that I have been a little too accidentally liberal with the pattern :| I'm so ready to be done with it, but I don't want to start anything else until I've finished it at this point.
Anyway, I have stuff I still want to do today, and some things I have already done so.... list time!
-Walk dogs
-Preview Episode of Edward Teaches History
-Do a journal update
-Put in some laundry
-Do some writing
-Read the Ficthropology article and take notes
-Record the new Ficthropology episode tonight
-Eat something other than cake.
ETA - I remembered - make pizza!
ETAII - And then I remembered I was out of flour -_-
Not an overwhelming list, really, but I am probably forgetting something...
This is kind of an off holiday for me, since it kind of does the same thing as veterans Day, only for a country I don't actually belong to, just live in.
Anyway - I have the day off, which is nice, as it meant I had more weekend to do stuff in, including get caught up on sleep. Sorta. this would have worked out better if I'd slept better last night, but this was apparently not meant to be.
I have done a lot of things this weekend though!
I made a cake! It is a midnight cake (dense dark chocolate cake) with raspberry jam and boiled icing. it is pretty danged delicious!
I also made soup, but there are no pictures of that, and did a bunch of writing. Yesterday I had my friends
malkontent and his wife (who doesn't have a convenient handle or I'd use it - I'm trying to not define/identify people *only* according to their relationships) come over to do craft stuff - but really to meet the greyhound I am dogsitting this weekend for some friends of friends. I'm actually the third-tier dogsitter. Some friends of mine are looking after the dog - they had to go away and left him with a mutual friend, who also had to go away, and so he is staying with me until the first friends get back tomorrow. I might have met one of the owners before at some point, but only in passing. But their dog is a total sweetie. His name is Red and he is 13 and he is made of skin and bones and love and laziness. He is also apparently afraid of thunder, which will be interesting as we have a big front coming through today. I gave him some melatonin, and I'll put the TV on later if he is still too scaredy. he also has a thundershirt, which he is half wearing now, since he wouldn't get up so I could put it on right. I hear some distant thunder, but so far he seems fine. The bigger front is still to come though. Red on his giant dog bed
The craft day also let me get more done on my Firelight vest - we'll see how that all works out for me in the end. I'm a little concerned, to be honest, that I have been a little too accidentally liberal with the pattern :| I'm so ready to be done with it, but I don't want to start anything else until I've finished it at this point.
Anyway, I have stuff I still want to do today, and some things I have already done so.... list time!
-Preview Episode of Edward Teaches History
-Do a journal update
-Put in some laundry
-Do some writing
-Record the new Ficthropology episode tonight
-Eat something other than cake.
ETA - I remembered - make pizza!
ETAII - And then I remembered I was out of flour -_-
Not an overwhelming list, really, but I am probably forgetting something...
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