Gather Ye Rosebuds

It's rainy.

And windy.

Generally icky out.

I leave for work soon.

Can't wait.

Bah.

I decided to make the tea journal on blogger to use the skin from Adagio. So I went to the pages, set it up, did a post and such, but just wasn't happy using blogger, so I deleted it. I mean, it looked fine and all; I just did not like the behind the scenes stuff. I also had immense trouble publishing the first post. If they come up with an lj skin or template, I will make one here. Or, if someone is good with code can look at the skins for blogger and convert them to lj, I could do that too.

Oh god, dinner was good! It was fancy, in a simplistic way. We had "Dinner For Two" from Bertolli. It is basically a frozen "skillet style" meal from the guys who make olive oil. We had the Roasted Chicken and Linguine variety...it was roasted chicken breast fillets, melted mozzarella cheese and zucchini paired with a mellow tomato basil sauce. Aside from it being high in sodium (tomato sauce and a little bit of preservatives as the last ingredients) it seems to be relatively healthy looking too. No funky ingredients til the preservatives near the bottom of the list. It was neat actually...the package had the linguine frozen into 4-5 little nests, the chicken and zucchini chunks, and the tomato sauce and mozzarella cubes. Heat in skillet for 10 minutes. Not only did it taste good, but it actually tasted like an authentic Italian dish (at least to me...Jan might argue otherwise :P ) and not just some ordinary frozen meal. I am going to try a few of the other varieties. Chas ate it, zucchini and all, because it was nicely balanced he said. Yay! He ate some veggies! :D

I also made garlic breadsticks from Pilsbury. I hadn't had them in a long time, and now I remember why...they're kinda weird. But they went with the meal well, so that is good. I'd rather have made some focaccia bread instead, but the mix I used to get is hard to find these days.

I think I will make some of the gingerbread tea now. I am loving my Adagio teas. I just saw on the website that they have Blogger skins...I am tempted to make a Blogger account just to use one of the skins...maybe like a tea diary. I may just set it up solo at first, and if someone wants to share the space, well, then I will share it gosh darn it, so long as it stays on the subject of tea (and not just limited to Adagio--I love other teas too!). So what do you guys think?

Dear adaneth,

You will submit to my will and come here for Glitter's wedding next month. I command it, thus it shall be done. :)

With much love,
Plunky

Yay! "The Penultimate Peril: Book the Twelfth" is out now!! First I must finish "The Subtle Knife" and then subsequently "The Amber Spyglass" to finish the His Dark Materials trilogy from Philip Pullman. Then I can to read the new LS book, though, to make it last longer, since the last book is not going to be out for another year, I should probably read the series from the start and build up to the new book. Oh the anticipation though!!! I have read them all up to this book, but it *has* been a while, and I did recently buy the first 3 in the box set. This would force me to get the others in the sets. I also have to read the 3 Doctor Who books Chas got me when he was in Victoria, and of course I need to re-read Harry Potter up to, and including, the latest, which I have already read. So many books. I am in for a long ride reading. :)

I should go to bed now, as I have to start getting up earlier in preparation for my new schedule next week. I have been uber lazy and going back to bed when I first wake up. It has to stop. I need to retrain myself to get up properly again or I am going to have issues with the new schedule.

Welcome franno to my little space on Livejournal.

Looks like I wasn't the only one who did not sleep well, if at all, last night. Yay.

Yeah, many of you ladies out there have heard this one before...

I really love my Lunapads, and the Lunaladies are absolutely fabulous! I have to say that they are probably the best company I have ever dealt with. I could go on and on (ok, so I have!) about why I feel like this. But anyway, I can't wait til I can get up to Vancouver to thank the ladies in person some day. :)

So, I kinda freaked outside tonight while waiting for Chas to get me. I kept thinking I saw Mr Raccoon from last night. And I had tested the middle door going back inside the vestibule lobby thing after I got outside. And it was locked. So I stood closer to the door on the other side of the vestibule lobby thing, because at least I can badge in to open the doors and go to safety if I need to even if they are locked otherwise. Only it is harder to see Chas coming from there. I think I should just have him pick me up on that side of the building at night. Just in case. At least for now.

I need to go to bed now. I am trying to be more aware of the time. I am also going to mantra that I will get out of bed when I first wake up in the morning, which is usually about 10, instead of going back to sleep, as I have been lately. It has never really worked before, but hey, making a mental focus can be a powerful thing. Going to bed earlier than I have been should help.

Hmmm, this has promise. I think I may do more research on it.