Done yesterday (20120101 Su - New Year's Day)

[mdlbear]

It was a good day, though slightly strange, and very much a day "on the River".

Most of my mindspace was taken up with working on another "difficult" email. The word is in quotes not because it wasn't, but because that's really an understatement. But she asked what it would take, for the sake of our old friendship. N and I had to give it all we had, and we did.

The day was well-spend indeed, but draining. As you may know, I'm not very good at "feeling" my emotions; I mostly have to go by the physical symptoms. I can tell you that I felt a heck of a lot more exhausted after hitting the "send" key than I did after my 3-mile walk in the afternoon. (It was perfect walking weather, BTW.)

I finished the day by making crab lasagne for chaoswolf's last dinner at home. A pound of crabmeat, a box and a half of rice noodles, a quart and a half of cottage cheese, two pounds of grated cheese, and a quart and a half of bechamel. Go me! (Next time I'll go back to ricotta, though; the cottage cheese is a little too moist.)

Only one link: Public Domain Day 2012: Five things we can do in the US. It celebrates the works entering the public domain this year. But not in the US, thanks to the latest extension our idiot congress passed. Opposite of progress.

0101 Su
  * up 7:50; W=199; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, exercise
  @ Public Domain Day 2012: Five things we can do in the US
  * Crab lasagne
  * walk:  3 miles on Los Gatos Creek trail.  Perfect walking weather.
  * finished another difficult email.  A day well spent, but really draining.
    % drained.  Physically is what I really notice; but it must be a symptom
      of the emotional exhaustion.  I hope it gets through.
  * 15min:  remove some obsolete items from Dog/notes

Comments

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

I wonder if cottage cheese would drain like yogurt does... cottage cheese is probably healthier than ricotta

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Might. That's a ma-hu-ssive load of lasange...

[mdlbear]

It fills a large aluminum (disposable type) baking pan -- makes about a dozen large servings (the width of the pan X the width of a noodle). Of which there are currently two left. Next time we'll get 1.5lbs; the crab got spread a little thin.

Worked out to about $5/serving, which isn't bad. Just kind of alarming if you're at the checkout stand with all the ingredients.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

Hey, since you did the work of adding me on DW (thank you!) I added you there, and I'm going to drop the LJ side, since I'm pretty sure everything you post originates on DW now.

[mdlbear]

OK with me, though I find that almost all of my comments still come from LJ. YMMV.

[ravan.livejournal.com]

When I do lasagna, I do half and half ricotta and cottage cheese. That way it is neither too dry or too wet, and it cuts the expense a little.