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dragonlady7Small-batch Vanilla Cupcakes-- makes 6. I did, and frosted them with a cocoa-less version of the frosting in the comments (I cut out the cocoa, cut the milk down to about 2 tsp, added a bit more sugar, and used Bailey's instead of Kahlua).
We had those to commemmorate Paul Newman, though we couldn't think of a way to make them relevant.
My back has been intermittently better and awful. I wish I could figure out what was awesome and what was awful and what the correlation is there. The Tiger Balm patch helped a lot initially, and since then it's mostly OK except once in a while I just get a big knife stuck down my shoulder blade. WTF, mostly.
Moving my arm is bad and moving my head is sometimes bad. Who knows?
Watched Sean of the Dead (Shawn?) last night, and was highly amused. I've heard the title a lot but never knew anything about it. Finding out that it was a comedy/drama horror flick helped. Sort of recognizing the neighborhood it's set in was a bit jarring.
We had to put the subtitles on, though. I normally don't have a problem with British accents, but these were the really mumbly sort, and also the TV's built-in sound system isn't very good it seems. Rather muffled.
Weird to have a TV in this house, though.
Got little else done this weekend. I did find out about a really cool craft project thing-- Dreadnought, of the Boston Derby Dames, is doing some sort of thesis and so is collecting quilt squares contributed by members of derby leagues across the country. So today I put together the first experimental version of my roller derby embroidery idea, and I'll work on it tonight during practice.
During practice?
Yes, my neck and my foot are both too bad to skate. I'm pissed, but know I'll only make things worse if I don't stay the fuck off my foot. There's evident tissue damage at the top above where the smallest three toes attach-- it's warmer to touch, and very slightly swollen, and I've narrowed down what of the range of motion hurts the most. It's one of those tendons that goes down the top of the foot, the ones visible through the skin-- the last of them is damaged slightly. It's healing, and improves by the day, but lets its fury be known in no uncertain terms should I do anything so foolish as land wrong on that foot, flex my toes a certain particular way, or put tight shoes on. Since skating involves all three of those, I realize that I must not do it.
Also I can't lean forward and hold up my head, because of the pinched nerve.
I'm a fucking basket case.
It doesn't help that I'm an exercise addict and haven't had any in basically two weeks. Just shifting heavy boxes-- nothing cardio, nothing sufficient to give me any endorphins. I feel wretched, fat, icky, and generally pretty down on life. I know what will make it better, but I can't think of any workout that doesn't involve the neck or foot in any way. Boo. Though I feel like a good workout would work out some of the kinks.. we'll see. I hope I can skate Tuesday-- that would help a lot.
Hm... maybe I'll splurge and use another Tiger Balm patch. That would make sitting and working on embroidery quite a bit easier... Hmm....
We had those to commemmorate Paul Newman, though we couldn't think of a way to make them relevant.
My back has been intermittently better and awful. I wish I could figure out what was awesome and what was awful and what the correlation is there. The Tiger Balm patch helped a lot initially, and since then it's mostly OK except once in a while I just get a big knife stuck down my shoulder blade. WTF, mostly.
Moving my arm is bad and moving my head is sometimes bad. Who knows?
Watched Sean of the Dead (Shawn?) last night, and was highly amused. I've heard the title a lot but never knew anything about it. Finding out that it was a comedy/drama horror flick helped. Sort of recognizing the neighborhood it's set in was a bit jarring.
We had to put the subtitles on, though. I normally don't have a problem with British accents, but these were the really mumbly sort, and also the TV's built-in sound system isn't very good it seems. Rather muffled.
Weird to have a TV in this house, though.
Got little else done this weekend. I did find out about a really cool craft project thing-- Dreadnought, of the Boston Derby Dames, is doing some sort of thesis and so is collecting quilt squares contributed by members of derby leagues across the country. So today I put together the first experimental version of my roller derby embroidery idea, and I'll work on it tonight during practice.
During practice?
Yes, my neck and my foot are both too bad to skate. I'm pissed, but know I'll only make things worse if I don't stay the fuck off my foot. There's evident tissue damage at the top above where the smallest three toes attach-- it's warmer to touch, and very slightly swollen, and I've narrowed down what of the range of motion hurts the most. It's one of those tendons that goes down the top of the foot, the ones visible through the skin-- the last of them is damaged slightly. It's healing, and improves by the day, but lets its fury be known in no uncertain terms should I do anything so foolish as land wrong on that foot, flex my toes a certain particular way, or put tight shoes on. Since skating involves all three of those, I realize that I must not do it.
Also I can't lean forward and hold up my head, because of the pinched nerve.
I'm a fucking basket case.
It doesn't help that I'm an exercise addict and haven't had any in basically two weeks. Just shifting heavy boxes-- nothing cardio, nothing sufficient to give me any endorphins. I feel wretched, fat, icky, and generally pretty down on life. I know what will make it better, but I can't think of any workout that doesn't involve the neck or foot in any way. Boo. Though I feel like a good workout would work out some of the kinks.. we'll see. I hope I can skate Tuesday-- that would help a lot.
Hm... maybe I'll splurge and use another Tiger Balm patch. That would make sitting and working on embroidery quite a bit easier... Hmm....
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Date: 2008-09-29 01:24 am (UTC)Though I cringed when they started throwing records. Won't anyone respect the vinyl anymore?!?!