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Jan. 30th, 2005 10:09 pm* I have a sneaking suspicion that half my friends list has flown off to go skiing for the week without bothering to say goodbye. Rat bastards.
* The gremlins who live to make my life unpredictable have been causing a localized pain in my back the day after an upper-body workout. After living in denial of this for a few weeks ("maybe if I'm really careful about my form it won't happen this time...") I realized that, like an allergy sufferer, I'll just have to cut out one thing after another until I find out what it is. Ignoring back pain is stupid. So yesterday I skipped my prime suspect, the over-the-head tricep extensions I've been doing for years, and did dips instead. No pain so far today, so that was probably it. It's probably a good thing, since it forced me to finally find the dip station at McGym, and I generally think body-weight exercises are great.
* My first-ever sourdough bread is done. It's about halfway between dome-shaped and pancake-shaped, which I'm pretty sure is because I left it in sponge form for about 12 hours too long. Ohhhhh yes, mistakes were made. And there's a lot of flour on the crust. However, the texture and taste of the bread inside is fantastic, so maybe I'll make it again after all.
* Speaking of food, Family Fun is my new secret source of recipes. I was reading it in McGym last week because there was nothing else to read, and three of its four recipes looked oddly good, so I tore out the pages and took them home. Shocker: all three of them were good! Especially this incredibly easy black bean soup recipe... ( Black bean soup. Give it a try. )
* Yesterday was the first anniversary of our condo closing, which makes today the anniversary of our moving in. Ha... I was tired a year ago right now!
* The gremlins who live to make my life unpredictable have been causing a localized pain in my back the day after an upper-body workout. After living in denial of this for a few weeks ("maybe if I'm really careful about my form it won't happen this time...") I realized that, like an allergy sufferer, I'll just have to cut out one thing after another until I find out what it is. Ignoring back pain is stupid. So yesterday I skipped my prime suspect, the over-the-head tricep extensions I've been doing for years, and did dips instead. No pain so far today, so that was probably it. It's probably a good thing, since it forced me to finally find the dip station at McGym, and I generally think body-weight exercises are great.
* My first-ever sourdough bread is done. It's about halfway between dome-shaped and pancake-shaped, which I'm pretty sure is because I left it in sponge form for about 12 hours too long. Ohhhhh yes, mistakes were made. And there's a lot of flour on the crust. However, the texture and taste of the bread inside is fantastic, so maybe I'll make it again after all.
* Speaking of food, Family Fun is my new secret source of recipes. I was reading it in McGym last week because there was nothing else to read, and three of its four recipes looked oddly good, so I tore out the pages and took them home. Shocker: all three of them were good! Especially this incredibly easy black bean soup recipe... ( Black bean soup. Give it a try. )
* Yesterday was the first anniversary of our condo closing, which makes today the anniversary of our moving in. Ha... I was tired a year ago right now!
