I Told You...

12 days and no post. I warned you about my major suckage. Anyway, the sourdough was a total bust. It didn't rise. I made the dough in the breadmaker and maybe that was a factor, no idea. Never say die, I will try again. The starter smelled like starter and was frothy and gross looking, so I will try it one more time, this time I will knead by hand. My stomach is upset today, I am making a batch of seitan and being a couch potato.

Ugh. And Yum (I have iced coffee!)

Daylight Savings Time. My nemesis. Don't get me wrong, an extra hour of daylight is spiffy, but ever single year this damn time changes screws me up for at least a week. I am so tired today. Hubby tweaked his back so he is not in the best of moods, and is bound to be crabby when he gets home today. The Girl is home sick with the flu, but apparently not that sick as she is already asking if she will be well enough to hang with the friends this weekend. Not minding missing school though. Kids, bleh. The sourdough starter is doing great, I've remembered to feed it every night and am going to continue to do so for another day or two, I want a decent quantity of starter to stash in the fridge. Bread making will probably not happen until next week though. Yesterday was spent running kids around, sick kid, well kid, doctor trip, pharmacy trip, blah blah blah. Today will be spent doing laundry, and if I can manage to get conscious firing up the sewing machine, and making Isa's Snobby Joes for dinner. I LURVE me some lentils. Oh, and making BitterSweet's Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars. Scroll down for the recipe. If you haven't made them yet you should, very very easy and yet tasty recipe. My only changes to it are to add about a 1/4 cup of cocoa powder to the batter (family of chocoholics, besides me the vanillaholic), and I don't use vanilla soy milk as I think it's disgusting so never buy it. I use 1 TBS of vanilla instead and plain soymilk. SOOOOOOOOO yummy. I've been known to whip up a batch of these at 8 PM. The prep time is all of 5 minutes. I think I can handle that today. Tomorrow is The Boy's field trip to the DuPage Children's Museum. If you see a tall tired looking blonde-dreadlocked pierced nose mom with a cute little boy, it's probably me. Unless I have an unknown twin that will be at the DuPage Children's Museum tomorrow... I tend to stick out like the proverbial sore thumb. Someone remind me to take my camera. See you there!

Sewing Overalls

Got all my pieces cut out and Fray Checked the edges with plans to Fray Check the seams after they're sewn. Now just to figure out how the heck to put them together... I'm at the staring at them hoping for inspiration phase. Pattern is Oriettacat's, and it's a great pattern as are all her patterns, the problem lies with me and my complete lack of sewing skills. If it's not a simple construction I do a lot of aimless staring at the pieces before taking the plunge. I may add a pic if my attempt isn't too pathetic.

The Art of Blogging or Not Sucking Ass

And lets just be perfectly frank here, I suck ass. I'm a craptacular blogger. I do it rarely, get bored with it for months at a time, forget my password and start new blogs, blah blah blah. So the old one I had is now poof. I did download it though in case I decide to stroll down memory lane. Whatever. If you're reading this please don't expect much. I'm a bad blogger. Admitting it is the first step of recovery though, right? Ha. Not.
Dinner tonight is about as blah as I am: Baked tofu marinated in soy sauce, rice vinegar and maple syrup, mashed taters and some steamed broccoli I think. Take a picture? Why? More later, could be 6 months later, we shall see.