(1) Hair appointment went well. Masked, alone with a careful hair dresser. Glad it's over though.
(2) Made the lasagna for Christmas night. I used an old online recipe that I printed 10 years ago. It's still available and I checked it while the sauce was cooking -- only to find comments ALL said, do NOT add the large amount of salt to the sauce. Ugh. It is salty. I changed my printout. I wonder if I made it that way before. I feel about 50/50 confident that this will be good. Heading to the freezer today. Lasagna is my archenemy, my achilles heal, my pain in the arse.
(3) "Finished" the book for JH bookclub. Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing (group authors??) My only regret ... reading it -- pow (!!) Lordy, it dragged and was one HUGE cliche. It also tried hard to give a message of women's power and choices, etc but fell very short in meeting that message. I super skim read the last 1/3 of the book (only because of bookclub). I kept waiting for it to pickup or change tone ... but nope. That seriously clogged up the reading works.
(4) Costco is postponed until tomorrow. Hubby has a big conference call at exactly the time I need to go. No big deal to switch up days.
(5) I ate too much cheese while making the lasagna. Rookie mistake that I seem to like to make over and over as a veteran. I didn't have anything made for me to eat for dinner and the kitchen was flat out a wreck from lasagna making. I tasted the cheese to test the moisture level (sounds necessary, right?!?!) and was off to the cheese races since I was super hungry. My dinner was cheese -- only cheese. How's that for healthy?!?
(6) Next week is cookie baking -- all week. (REMEMBER to have good food on hand!!) Cookie dough is a former lover of mine and I don't need to fall into those arms again. WAIT for the cookies. WAIT for Christmas (or at least eat in a civilized manner -- not stuffing my face at the counter). Eat too many and feel like crap. Eat a few and enjoy. Sounds simple -- yet, it will be a focused effort to remember what I really want, not what I think in those tired moments staring at dough.
(7) Today is a hodgepodge of things. Re-pot a couple of my plants, organize my bookshelf and take the dogs for a "sniff" walk at the park (if it warms up enough). All this, AFTER a treadmill run -- that will help the cheese blues.
(8) Adding ONE thing for today -- printout cocktail recipes for Christmas Eve and put them in old frames I'm not using. Everyone can bartend their own drinks this year. Cosmo, Old-Fashioned, Moscow Mule. I'll be having the SeedLip version of a Cosmo. I think they'll enjoy that :)
That's all from here. Have a happy day and stay well.
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