Following my long tradition of not observing federal or religious holidays in the least, I spent today tying up various loose ends and being generally productive.
I made whole-grain waffles with red raspberry compote for breakfast, and then got started on the mostaccioli recipe from this month’s issue of Gourmet, in anticipation of tomorrow’s Green & Black’s inter-agency bake-off. Making those little cookies was more of a task than it needed to be, since I neglected to get the Frangelico yesterday, and had to dart out to buy it. Appropriately, the end result tastes a lot like the Green & Black’s Maya Gold bar.
I properly installed last.fm on my computer, which is something I wanted to tinker with years ago, but never got around to, especially after I couldn’t get it to work on my Mac. Now I can share my esoteric music interests with the whole internet. As well as the fact that yes, repeated playback of “Valerie” by Amy Winehouse accounts for a solid 40% of this week’s iTunes activity.
I also swept, scrubbed, and dusted the entire apartment, filed a drawerful of paperwork, and washed massive amounts of dishes. Certain pots/pans/containers were used and washed up to three times over the course of the day. (My desire for a dishwasher only grows.)
