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cjsmith ([personal profile] cjsmith) wrote2006-01-08 07:24 pm

Still more things off my plate (Sunday), and it's not enough

Filed every @#$!ing piece of paper on my desk. Pulled out my eyeglass prescription (which had been filed properly) and put it in the car in case I get a wild crazy notion to get new glasses. Did laundry. Ran a load of dishes.

Read Stiff. FASCINATING book. Not for the squeamish, and some parts of it were a little hard for an animal lover like me to take, but I'm very glad I read it. Right up there with Dead Men Do Tell Tales.

(Oh, and some interesting things on my plate. Tried a new thing in the crock pot: chicken, soy sauce, ginger, sesame, white wine. Decided against orange peel when sniffing it next to sesame. In retrospect, too much soy sauce and too much wine. Salty-tangy! But the sesame and the ginger were good.)

Utterly failed to:
- do anything useful with the Fortune magazine
- finish updating my Quicken information
- finish my Piper Warrior ground review form
- fly at all
- do a single thing toward swimming, eg find out how much it would cost to join my local Y
- clear out the dangerously full mail drawer
- hand-wash the hand-wash dishes (I'll do that tonight)
- do anything for work, where whether or not I am behind I feel like I'm WAY behind. Tomorrow is going to suck.

Ooooh! Can I borrow it!

[identity profile] allanh.livejournal.com 2006-01-09 06:01 am (UTC)(link)

"Stiff" sounds really icky! Can I borrow it? Please, please?

Re: Ooooh! Can I borrow it!

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-01-09 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
Absolutely! And Joe and Jen will want it eventually, too, whenever the twins let them have enough "down time" to read for pleasure. I do want it back eventually, but "eventually" can be long.

Re: Ooooh! Can I borrow it!

[identity profile] allanh.livejournal.com 2006-01-09 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
I'll probably breeze right through it. :)

Re: Ooooh! Can I borrow it!

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-01-09 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
*nod* No surprise. I did. I figure Joe&Jen are allowed to take longer! ;-)

Re: Ooooh! Can I borrow it!

[identity profile] psi-star-psi.livejournal.com 2006-01-09 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I will certainly be interested in reading this at some point. I've enjoyed Mary Roach's columns in Reader's Digest.

Re: Ooooh! Can I borrow it!

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-01-10 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Coolness! You're on. Next transfer will be (some or all) Good Eats DVDs returned and this book heading your way.

[identity profile] ericainohio.livejournal.com 2006-01-09 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I've not read this, but my good IRL friend [livejournal.com profile] cinnamonduff recommends this icky book as well:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399151346/103-6612517-5764653?v=glance&n=283155

And hey, good job on gettting that stuff done! You're moving along, even if you didn't get it *all* done. Don't be too hard on yourself.

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-01-10 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my, that does sound fascinating!

Thanks. I just feel like I'm running downhill ahead of an avalanche... *sigh* at least it hasn't hit me yet!

[identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com 2006-01-10 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Orange and sesame do go together pretty well in stirfries, but I've never tried them in a crockpot-type recipe so I can't say whether they'd work there.

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-01-11 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh cool, I wasn't completely off my rocker when I pulled it out of the spice cabinet. :-) Maybe next time I'll give it a try!