some good things make a post
Mar. 27th, 2021 11:54 pm1. New stationery arrived earlier this week, not for using yet, and I keep getting it out and cooing over it. As celebration of Sorting Out The Paper: a notebook with cover design and endpapers by Yellena James, even though my preferred page layout isn't available, because I like looking at the art just that much (though possibly I should have considered just buying a print and maybe I still will...!). As reward for Sending Off Chapter 5 Rewrites: two Archer & Olive notebooks, recced by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
celeloriel for purposes of (among other things) self-indulgent (this is a good thing!) watercolour embellishments. (Two: because I couldn't decide on cover design; both North Star and Vintage Bee.) And I am laughing at myself, more than a little, because I knew the paper was 160 gsm and I knew I'd looked at the price points and gone "ah, yeah, sure, why not, I'll go for 192 pages" and I'd even looked at the product weight and thought "huh, that's pretty hefty for a book"... and yet I was somehow still surprised that they do, in fact, as advertised, weigh three quarters of a kilo each.
2. On the topic of fance: fancy shower gel. I have known for Lo These Many Years (good grief, actually genuinely at least a decade) that Fancy Shower Gel that Smells Good makes me much more likely to Shower and much less likely to resent it. Turns out, furthermore, that as I get more financially stable I'm more willing to spend slightly ridiculous amounts of money on "it'll last me several months and make me happy every time I use it" as opposed to topping out at 38p/100ml.
3. I am very pleased both about how much better the most recent batch of meringue came out (I think I was using too little sugar and over-beating the eggs, and have now Learned Some More) and how tasty it is combined with plain yoghurt and also frozen raspberries from last year's harvest.
4. Today's post brought me f i v e h u n d r e d lolly sticks. I am going to label ALL the plants. all of them. (And I have started by working out which chillis have hatched! to which the answer is "some of all of them, give or take me killing off the seedling of the variety I was actually least interested in". I will want to sow more next year, I think, but we will see how this batch goes.)
5. Fiction. I have just finished a Craft Sequence reread, and particularly enjoyed The Ships in Ruin of Angels; I am now in a reread of T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Grace, because I got two chapters into Palading's Strength before deciding I'd enjoy it more if I remembered who everyone was, or at least stopped getting them quite so confused, and therefore am giggling away to myself at the Grumpy Perfumer, and generally very much appreciating it.
celeloriel for purposes of (among other things) self-indulgent (this is a good thing!) watercolour embellishments. (Two: because I couldn't decide on cover design; both North Star and Vintage Bee.) And I am laughing at myself, more than a little, because I knew the paper was 160 gsm and I knew I'd looked at the price points and gone "ah, yeah, sure, why not, I'll go for 192 pages" and I'd even looked at the product weight and thought "huh, that's pretty hefty for a book"... and yet I was somehow still surprised that they do, in fact, as advertised, weigh three quarters of a kilo each.2. On the topic of fance: fancy shower gel. I have known for Lo These Many Years (good grief, actually genuinely at least a decade) that Fancy Shower Gel that Smells Good makes me much more likely to Shower and much less likely to resent it. Turns out, furthermore, that as I get more financially stable I'm more willing to spend slightly ridiculous amounts of money on "it'll last me several months and make me happy every time I use it" as opposed to topping out at 38p/100ml.
3. I am very pleased both about how much better the most recent batch of meringue came out (I think I was using too little sugar and over-beating the eggs, and have now Learned Some More) and how tasty it is combined with plain yoghurt and also frozen raspberries from last year's harvest.
4. Today's post brought me f i v e h u n d r e d lolly sticks. I am going to label ALL the plants. all of them. (And I have started by working out which chillis have hatched! to which the answer is "some of all of them, give or take me killing off the seedling of the variety I was actually least interested in". I will want to sow more next year, I think, but we will see how this batch goes.)
5. Fiction. I have just finished a Craft Sequence reread, and particularly enjoyed The Ships in Ruin of Angels; I am now in a reread of T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Grace, because I got two chapters into Palading's Strength before deciding I'd enjoy it more if I remembered who everyone was, or at least stopped getting them quite so confused, and therefore am giggling away to myself at the Grumpy Perfumer, and generally very much appreciating it.