Fighting The Urge

I'm fighting the urge to write a friend a little to often than I should so I'm going to post to my blog. The first thing I'm going to do is post my picture with a dear friend of mine from the Mint Hill Games that were back in March.

I am feeling very poorly. I missed work at one job last night. I'm going to drag into my other but better paying job this morning. I've got regular medicine that I'm taking.

It would help if my head didn't feel like it was going to explode. Let's have a pity party.

Adventures In Apple Sauce

One of my hobbies is that I like to can (processing food to eat later on). This year I decided to do apple sauce. I've not canned apple sauce before. So it's a new adventure with much peril (to my kitchen... it's a mess). The first batch, I will not do again the same way. I decided I would remove the skins after I cored them and cooked them. Nope. Not again. I'm going to have to peel the beasts so that I can make this go by a little fast because it's hot to take the apple peels out. I'm having to wait until they cool which is time consuming.

I can't make my food mill work. If I could make it work... that would be 90 percent of the battle. Live and learn. There are things I'll do with tomatoes when I can them that I didn't do the first time.

Why do I do something so out dated? Because despite the mess, the pain in the tush the processing can be, and yes the initial expense, it's one of the most relaxing things I've ever done. I love doing it. And at the end of the day, when my perfectly sealed quart jars are lined up in a row, I feel an enormous sense of satisfaction and pride for my accomplishment. And I am not contributing to more waste in the landfill... my jars are reuseuable for the next time I want to can. Which in the end makes it actually cheaper than going to the grocery store.

While I can

It's time to write an e-mail... while I can. Sleep has been wonderful. And I will have three very well rested days ahead of me before being deprived again. My new schedule isn't working as well as I like but I will survive. Even with the sleep deprivation I still am happier with my work situation than I have been in months.

Though I must admit I'd like to work only one job full-time than two part-time jobs. Plus I'm worried because I start back to school in a few weeks and I'm not 100 percent sure I know what I'm going to do with juggling the two classes on top of all the other things that I have obligations to.

It's irritating my mother because I'm taking the Scarlett O'Hara approach with the "I'll think of it tomorrow". Wouldn't it be nice to suddenly become independently wealthy? LOL! It would certainly fix a lot of problems in my existing life.

Pita did her cute thing by stealing the straw out of my drink and playing with it. She LOVES straws. One straw equals many hours of delighted playtime. I'm trying to get my mind to hush so that I can get a few more hours of sleep. I'm really needing to get a second mp3 player. One for my "other" music and one just for mediation and getting me to sleep.