Kitchen Events of the Day
Jan. 23rd, 2021 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinue- Boiled down leftover beef bones to make broth for some future dish (to be determined). Sieved out meat scraps to feed to cat, but not until the normal cat feeding time. Ate softened tendons and cartilage.
- Discovered when I went to put a dish in the dishwasher that the floor of the dishwasher was covered in chopped vegetables and broken glass. Cleaned it. Cleaned the filters. I don't understand why I can't leave basic tasks to other people. It seems like 100% of the not-me people in this house should also be able to load the dishwasher without these sorts of events occurring, all of which strike me as essentially unfathomable, yet pass beneath notice until I notice them?
- In consultation with Ciro, ordered food for tonight to celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary, which is actually tomorrow, but the restaurant we like isn't open on Sundays.
- Finished writing another scene of the musical. All that's missing at this point is some of the dialogue for scene 14, all of the dialogue for scene 15, some visual description in scene 16, and the rest of the standup comedy routine that starts Act II, which I don't want to finish until I make minor revisions to act I. I don't know why I can't convince myself to write it all at once but I've accepted that I can't, and need to just write a few lines at a time every day or two instead of trying to do it in one chunk.
In general I'd say my focus is shot right now and I have to trick myself into doing things by thinking I'll only work on them for 5 or 20 minutes, or fitting them in while I'm doing another thing. It's hard for me to sustain a conversation. I can compensate for that a bit by drawing, but it's not great. I think my dopamine receptors are kinda blown, not in a permanent way but like a muscle strain. It's weird. It's not awful and I don't know if I'm even right about it. I just have the sense that part of my brain is detached from itself and I should let it do what it's doing. Maybe I could stand in the sun a bit.
This doesn't fit anywhere but I had some very nice raspberries yesterday. Normal grocery store raspberries, but I guess they were picked at just the right time to be the exact best texture and sweetness. It was surprising. I'm still happy about it.
- Discovered when I went to put a dish in the dishwasher that the floor of the dishwasher was covered in chopped vegetables and broken glass. Cleaned it. Cleaned the filters. I don't understand why I can't leave basic tasks to other people. It seems like 100% of the not-me people in this house should also be able to load the dishwasher without these sorts of events occurring, all of which strike me as essentially unfathomable, yet pass beneath notice until I notice them?
- In consultation with Ciro, ordered food for tonight to celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary, which is actually tomorrow, but the restaurant we like isn't open on Sundays.
- Finished writing another scene of the musical. All that's missing at this point is some of the dialogue for scene 14, all of the dialogue for scene 15, some visual description in scene 16, and the rest of the standup comedy routine that starts Act II, which I don't want to finish until I make minor revisions to act I. I don't know why I can't convince myself to write it all at once but I've accepted that I can't, and need to just write a few lines at a time every day or two instead of trying to do it in one chunk.
In general I'd say my focus is shot right now and I have to trick myself into doing things by thinking I'll only work on them for 5 or 20 minutes, or fitting them in while I'm doing another thing. It's hard for me to sustain a conversation. I can compensate for that a bit by drawing, but it's not great. I think my dopamine receptors are kinda blown, not in a permanent way but like a muscle strain. It's weird. It's not awful and I don't know if I'm even right about it. I just have the sense that part of my brain is detached from itself and I should let it do what it's doing. Maybe I could stand in the sun a bit.
This doesn't fit anywhere but I had some very nice raspberries yesterday. Normal grocery store raspberries, but I guess they were picked at just the right time to be the exact best texture and sweetness. It was surprising. I'm still happy about it.
