Weekend of not much accomplished..

[ianuk]

Well, the title is misleading. I did not accomplish all of the things I wanted but I was on orders from Mel to take things a bit easy since I hadn't been feeling right all week and it continued into the weekend. On the house front the family room and the front room are almost to the standard I like. I need to vacuum and finish dusting but its a vast improvement. Mel got some shop time in working on tool maintenance and he was much happier to have time in the shop. I got half way through the cleaning of my studio before I finally just stopped. I was tired, it was warm and well, I was running out of time to get to the house meeting. Things went very sideways for me on Saturday and I managed to only break one wine glass and spill a bunch of stuff thus mel telling me to take it easy.

I made banana bread with the standard recipe and then added chopped up figs and dried pineapple. It also had a partial fail. Mel watched me use the cake tester on it and it came out clean. I pulled the pan out and when it had cooled I flipped it to get the bread out and the middle sank and was undone by quite a ways. So, I got it back into the oven to finish baking. The top came out a bit browner than I like but it takes good. Looks bad but tastes good which I guess was par for the course. I made Porter Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream frosting. The nice thing is they are tasty...the bad thing is I didn't fill things well and they came out a bit odd shaped. The frosting was nummy and I got it from a cupcake cookbook I got for xmas from fibergeek and wow was that easy to do. Next time I will get fancy and use a pasty bag and frost them nicely. I do think I should pick up liners which would have made them a bit prettier and easier to deal with. I should have followed Top Ten Cupcake Baking Tips. So I will probably make these again this week. They are fun and it would be nice to bring them in for my one team at work. But I need another cupcake pan since having 1 breaks the rules and really, it makes more sense. Mel was all about having me make more of them plus with a baby I'm sure toddler years will involve cupcakes.

I didn't spin at all over the weekend and I kinda feel lame but again I was tired and knitting was more fun. I got the cuff done one of mel's mitts and I cast on for mel's dad's cowl. I had made him one for xmas but it was too small and he uses it as an ear muff. While practical, I really wanted him to have the cowl too so I cast that on as well. I'm very much with the really quick knit projects right now.

I picked up my bike on Friday and I didn't ride...I'm gonna fit that in this week some how. Maybe when I get home from the gym I'll take it around the block. I tried getting on it in shorts and flipflops and that was a fail...I forget I really need my shoes to give me the extra height. I did manage to take some pictures that I need to annotate for bertana when she and I were tweeting back and forth about my hands fitting my gear shifts. I couldn't describe what the issue was and pictures work way better. I hope to get that up today.

Today I start Stage II of my workouts. Lots of things I haven't done before in the gym. I'm okay with that. I've still been dropping weight...I'm down to 2 pounds from pre-pregnancy weight. I also am wearing pants I haven't worn since september and that feels fabulous. I' have missed my standard work pants and in the summer khakis versus jeans is way more comfy.

So it wasn't a bad weekend just didn't manage to get my studio back in shape or any fabric cut out. I still have some time for that but I don't want to waste time. I hope to work on the room throughout this week and get it in shape for some weekend sewing.

Man, this entry is random and bouncing around...I'm sorry.

Friday night we had a really nice evening with Tati and Mingo. We had homemade pulled pork sandwiches and then played Carcassone. Which is the precurser game to Settlers of Catan. It was fun and entertaining and we hadn't had a nice quiet evening dinner with them in a really long time. It was good for both of us. Benton was trying to screw his schedule up more by not wanting to nap or go to bed correctly. We learned that he doesn't get a blanket if we put him down still awake. He will invariably pull it up over his head and get frustrated that he can't get it off. So, we go and cover him up when we head to bed and that works well. Sunday he was much more his normal self. We could tell he grew cause his ducky jammies that he's wearing here at the retreat are now not quite long enough. He's lost a bit of his chins too so that shows he's getting bigger as well. He was a doll at the house meeting and ate really good and even napped a bit snuggled up with scribe_ari.

All in all a nice weekend, not exactly how I had planned it but it was nice.

Comments

[fibergeek.livejournal.com]

3 more pans if they are the standard 6 cupcake bakers.

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

We were discussing what is a cupcake pan and what is a muffin pan last night at scribble. Mel's commentary was buy whatever makes the largest bakedgood for him to ingest.

I did find this pretty 2 dozen at once! (http://amzn.com/B001PZ9I1G)

[corinnemacleod.livejournal.com]

for toddler years I suggest mini cupcakes or a damn good vaccuum cleaner. not that I have had any experience in this area. nope, not me.

and yes, after 4-5 years, you can give those pans away and move on to regular size.

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...can I have both? I'll be checking Ross, big lots and homegoods this week for other pans.

I do hope to be rid of the carpet before things get too messy...at least in the front room.