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Okay.
So, a few days ago, I made a strawberry-rhubarb custard pie with a merengue top.
Left-over from that, I have (a) two custard cups with merengue tops, which will be eaten for dessert tonight, and (b) about a quarter of a cup of already slightly sugary (mostly strawberry) juice, which came form the thawing-the-strawberries process before I made the pie.

Today, I have:
Tidied up at least some of the master bedroom
Done three loads of laundry
Stripped the bed
Talked to the landlord
Contacted Ti Kanna about gardening at her place
AND
Made two kinds of jelly.


The Jelly started out as strawbery-rhubarb jelly (see above, re: juice). However, in order to bring it up to half a cup, I added a couple of tablespoons each Apple Juice and Red Wine. And a few drops of white wine vinegar. And a sprinkling of cardemom and cloves. And a sploosh of vanilla.

And I got my half-cup of jelly. Except that I actually had more than that, but not enough to do a full cup. So I added another few tablespoons each of Apple Juice and Red wine, threw in a sploosh of red wine vinegar, and added a sprinkling of cinnamon and cloves.
And I got another half-cup of jelly.


So that worked out. They both taste like candy (that's 1:1 sugar ratios for you...) but they worked out well, I think. They're cooling on the rack right now.

I used the last teaspoon or two of the second jelly (I had just a little more than half a cup on that one), mixed with about half a cup of red wine, as a sauce/glaze for the chicken that is now quietly baking/roasting in the oven (I greased the dish with olive oil, so we'll see how this works out). My plan is to serve it with a salad of baby potatoes, baby tomatoes, and cucumbers, possibly in a yoghurt dressing or some kind of vinegrette. Anyway, we'll see.


TTFN,
Amazon.

It is not quite 8am.

I have:
Made cranberry tea (which I plan to be drinking all day)
Taken the polish off my toenails
Left a note for the (theoretically impending) UPS delivery-person
Fixed my silver sandal (judicious application of hot glue to re-attached the insole)
Emailed a copy of my Harvest Erotica Reading piece to the ASL Translator
Checked the mail box


The mail box contained a number of Wonderful Things including:
My September Omikuji letter
A delivery notice saying to come and pick up (yet another) parcel - I love picking stuff up from the post office! It's like it's my birthday, but it lasts for a week! ;-)
A greeting card (from Ghost's mom, as it turns out, whom we'll be seeing tomorrow afternoon on our way to Toronto)
AND
Not two, but THREE, imps courtesy of Green_Dreams.

YAY! :-D

I'm very curious about this "Smoking Plum" that she included. It sounds delicious. :-D


So I'm going to toss on some perfume (WHEE!) and then put the laundry in and print out a copy of "Wolf and Scarlet".


Tralala! We're going to Harvest! :-D

So, I stopped at the pharmacy today. To pick up hair dye.

Which, as it turned out, was on sale for $7/box. O.O

So I now have enough hair dye to keep me in the dark-red-spectrum for the next six-to-nine months. (That's three boxes, fyi. I don't re-dye *that* often). I'm thinking I'm going to use one of them this weekend, but beyond that we'll just have to see. :-)


In other news: I have submitted three pieces to Stone Telling in the hopes that they want them. (Here's hoping).


I've got a two-page list of Things To Do -- most of which arent' going to get done today, but a lot of which need to get done before the end of the month (mostly RHO stuff on that count).

I'm looking forward to Commodorified's Food Security Blog Carnival (happening late next week, iirc) and need to sort out what I'm going to write about that.


Tonight, however, Ghost and I are going for dinner and Harry Potter at her NPPP's house. So that should be fun. (I'll have to remember to dress warmly, as her place is pretty cold).


Anyway. That's where I'm at.


TTFN,
Amazon.

It's 10am! Whee! :-D

Have updated Urban Meliad (gardening post) and VoicesofVenus blog (talking about this month's feature performer, Oni the Haitian Sensation).

Have also sent out the FB event for the show and FB-messaged the new (tied) winner at CapSlam to see if she wants to attend.


Now to upload the poster to my thumb drive and get stuff printed. :-D


Tuesday = Postering (VoV) and Flyering (RHO) at Carleton U and U of O.


Today is brunch with the family followed by Market Strolling (I hope the weather holds up well).



TTFN,
Amazon.

I'm waiting for the thunder (Oh, there's the rain).

This afternoon, I'm going to dye my hair while the rain pours. Hopefully it'll be done (or done enough) by the time my hair's been rinced that I'll be able to take a stroll up the street without getting totally soaked.

I'm loving that my heat is off and my balcony door is open (or was until just now -- the wild wind was blowing the spray into my living room. Big rain. Big wind. Come storm, come). YAY SPRING!!! :-D


Have a potential modeling client (new gallery in the neighbourhood is looking to do lifedrawing classes in the space, and gave me a shout. YAY!)


NOTE: Transgender Feminisms Call for Submissions. Folks may want to check this out.


Still to do: Bank, phone Raynedaze, dye hair, bake, make quinoa salad with white beans.


- TTFN,
- Amazon.