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A slight cold and my calendar (okay, not my calendar per se but That Which I Track On the Calendar) have joined forces to encourage me to be lazy, grumpy, and to try to stay away from everyone until the mood passes. For their own protection, mind you. I try to reflect, when these hormonal swings happen, that I had more than 40 years of extreme-pain-but-not-moodswings and once again I am imbued with sympathy for anyone who has to go through PMS on a regular basis. Howtheheck do you keep your friends? Thank goodness this is only a temporary phenomenon.
I hibernated at home, either in the waterbed or bundled up at the kitchen table reading. The best I can say that I've accomplished is the big (BIG) pot of turkey gumbo on the stove. It seems to be one of my better batches so I'm looking forward to being able to eat some of it after the tummy pain passes. Arni, with a kindness born of husband-kind, brought home Fazoli's twice-baked spaghetti & meatballs and two boxes of fruity candy, fruit-flavor indulgence being something that I crave when I'm feeling yucky. I'll eat the gumbo later - the institutional spaghetti was exactly what I wanted for my abused tummy.
I spent the last two days reading a series of murder-mystery books by Lyn Hamilton featuring a protagonist who is an antique shop owner but who seems to get sucked into situations about items from ancient cultures. A story surrounding an artifact from Viking-era Orkney was the first one I read and now I've taken a cultural tour of all sorts of places - Tuscany (Etruscan stuff - yay!), Tunisia, Easter Island, Ireland, China... easy reading and a fun 'review' of what was my favorite pastime as a kid, learning about ancient cultures. She's avoided the 'standard' ones, for which I give thanks. Or maybe those are the novels that our public library doesn't own.
Anyway.
It was a nice break albeit one forced on me by a non-cooperative body. Tomorrow I get to go return one ILL book (The World of Roman Costume) and pick up a bunch more and somewhere in there, read the two I already have from Monday (Vikings in the Isle of Man and The Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century)... Anglo-Saxon Appetites: Food & Drink and Their Consumption in Old English & Related Literature by Hugh Magennis and "Feeding a City: York" (subtitled "The Provision of Food from Roman Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century" edited by Eileen White should be two of the books waiting for me at the library. I'm really looking forward to reading those! And hopefully with a nice, clear head so I can take nice long-lasting notes.
In other news, I'm doing repairs on Arni's garb and getting ready to make some new stuff for him for the new year. That, too, is something I've been looking forward to doing.
I hibernated at home, either in the waterbed or bundled up at the kitchen table reading. The best I can say that I've accomplished is the big (BIG) pot of turkey gumbo on the stove. It seems to be one of my better batches so I'm looking forward to being able to eat some of it after the tummy pain passes. Arni, with a kindness born of husband-kind, brought home Fazoli's twice-baked spaghetti & meatballs and two boxes of fruity candy, fruit-flavor indulgence being something that I crave when I'm feeling yucky. I'll eat the gumbo later - the institutional spaghetti was exactly what I wanted for my abused tummy.
I spent the last two days reading a series of murder-mystery books by Lyn Hamilton featuring a protagonist who is an antique shop owner but who seems to get sucked into situations about items from ancient cultures. A story surrounding an artifact from Viking-era Orkney was the first one I read and now I've taken a cultural tour of all sorts of places - Tuscany (Etruscan stuff - yay!), Tunisia, Easter Island, Ireland, China... easy reading and a fun 'review' of what was my favorite pastime as a kid, learning about ancient cultures. She's avoided the 'standard' ones, for which I give thanks. Or maybe those are the novels that our public library doesn't own.
Anyway.
It was a nice break albeit one forced on me by a non-cooperative body. Tomorrow I get to go return one ILL book (The World of Roman Costume) and pick up a bunch more and somewhere in there, read the two I already have from Monday (Vikings in the Isle of Man and The Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century)... Anglo-Saxon Appetites: Food & Drink and Their Consumption in Old English & Related Literature by Hugh Magennis and "Feeding a City: York" (subtitled "The Provision of Food from Roman Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century" edited by Eileen White should be two of the books waiting for me at the library. I'm really looking forward to reading those! And hopefully with a nice, clear head so I can take nice long-lasting notes.
In other news, I'm doing repairs on Arni's garb and getting ready to make some new stuff for him for the new year. That, too, is something I've been looking forward to doing.
