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Archive for March 28th, 2005

Trying to be Sane and Healthy

Monday, March 28th, 2005

soupWell, I’m trying to be my own best friend, I guess. Last night we had my famous Easy Pumpkin Soup (click link for recipe) for dinner. Thank goodness it is so easy and so fast to make. I make it when I just can’t deal with cooking.

It’s so good, we ate three portions between two of us. Then I made from-scratch applesauce spice cake. But I forgot the sugar until it had been in the oven just long enough to get warm, thus too late to mix in sugar at that point.

Brian was sure he would like his cake better without any sugar. I am absolutely sure that something more than no sugar at all and less than the cup it called for, would be better than how it tastes right now. Ugh. Like a spiced biscuit but without salt *or* sugar. I don’t like fussing in the kitchen, but I was craving something sweet so I put the cake together while stirring the soup. And then this!

This morning I crumbled some of the cake into a bowl, sprinkled brown sugar on the crumbs, crumbled more on top and repeated the sprinkles. Then I ate it with a spoon. Still more like biscuits than cake, but significantly more edible. What an odd breakfast! I hope I don’t repeat this one again!

It is clear that I’m just plain needing to rest more right now. It’s thawing season. That means it’s mildew season. I lose energy and need lots of sleep during thawing season. Last night I went to bed before 11pm (this is a good 2-3 hours before I usually sleep) and slept first until 5am when I woke and was sort of wired for an hour. I was smart enough to not get up, and I read a book until I was tired enough to sleep again. Until 11am. Amazing, but I needed it.

Since I work Monday from 3:30-8:00pm, it was OK to sleep in, as far as my schedule goes. I need to baby my body this week, because we have the big concert in Ann Arbor next Sunday! I want to be in top shape for that concert! I am doing my best to fight the allergies and stay away from Brian’s germs so I can sing my heart out this weekend.

I’m recycling a photo (from 2002) of the beautiful soup. It just takes too long to make the pictures pretty, and I lost too much time sleeping. (I know, this is a high-class problem.)