Just tired ol’ me
So I got this book, and combined with the amazing inheritance of canning jars I received a few weeks back, I now have the beginnings of a pantry full of easy-to-make dinners in jars. Today I made 2 each of 5 recipes from the book, following a trip to Winco yesterday in which I scored oodles of bulk foods and inexpensive spices. (Your whole world opens up when you start experimenting with spices. I’m rather appalled now, that I was well into my thirties before I discovered this. I blame my sheltered-in-all-the-wrong-ways upbringing.) Winco even has TVP in their bulk foods bins!
My garden is actually growing stuff! I will be having a nice 3-day weekend this coming Memorial Day weekend; I’m planning on getting some tomato seedlings planted. Most of the seeds I planted directly seems to be doing very well. The spinach is coming up nicely, as are some of the lettuce varieties I planted, and the potato & pea plants are starting to grow like crazy!
The flip side is that almost all the seedlings that I started inside have suffered badly after transplanting. I’ll just keep researching, and doing my best to apply what I learn. I did get some strawberry plants from my late grandmother’s garden, and today I noticed an actual strawberry is growing! I wasn’t sure they would set fruit after being dug out of the ground and put in a planter, but they seem to be just fine.
But most of my weekend will be spent (hopefully!) enjoying the company of my husband, who will be starting his “2 weeks in the summer” part of Naval Reserves duty as of June 1st. I need to get a bunch of cleaning & organizing done too… there are lots of ideas and plans percolating in my head regarding that. [insert maniacal laughter here]
As of last weekend, we are minus one reptile buddy. Nobody died, but unfortunately as Sebastian grew up she became the unfriendliest of kingsnakes (as in “aggressively striking and biting at the slightest movement, and absolutely refusing to let go once she sank her teeth into you”), and after much contemplation, Anxiety (aka Baby, as she’s more often called at home these days) decided to let the pet store where we got her find a new home for the little biting fiend.
I profoundly wish I could take an actual vacation. The last couple of times I took a few days off from work, I did a bunch of housework but didn’t get as much accomplished as planned, since I was unfortunately felled by migraines. (It seems that I get migraines more often than not on my days off — how terribly perverse!) But I’m really, really, really freaking tired these days. And it’s not from lack of sleep… I only have part of a clue as to the reasons why, and no real handle on potential solutions. I think sometimes you just have to resign yourself to less-than-optimum circumstances until other opportunities present themselves. And at the moment, just getting one foot in front of the other is about all I can handle without imploding.
