vital functions

Reading. I am GOING to finish Otherlands, So Help Me. SIX AND TWO HALF CHAPTERS TO GO.

I am partway into Flannelfeet and enjoying myself immensely. I am nearly up to All New To Me pieces. (I would like to be able to read in chunks of more than a couple of sentences at a time.)

Writing. 'nother few bullet points scrawled into The Pain Book.

Playing. The jigsaw puzzle Pixel! I have got all of the blues and aaaaaaaalmost all of the greens (I am making myself Wait to do the final half-row as a Bribe to Get Me Out Of Bed In The Morning). ( Spoilers? )

So much Net. So much Net. The game I am about halfway through at the moment is The Platonic Ideal of Satisfying: middle block is a straight line, with the starting position having it connected to two terminals, which means that it is guaranteed that for my final move I can rotate it 90 degrees and have the whole board light up all at once in one fell swoop. I am looking forward to it.

Cooking. Tarte tatin the second. Now very comfortable describing myself as Confident With Puff Pastry. Extremely pleased to have acquired this skill.

Also some disappointing soup.

Also my nonsense puttanesca, which I should probably make more often, because it is quick and easy and I enjoy it. (... it has just now occurred to me that I might want to experiment with adding some of the veg*n "fish" sauce to it. HMM.)

Eating. The last of the non-Christmas-and-therefore-perishable cake we got sent home with by my mother. Tonight: delivery Pizza Express. A variety of Chococo chocolates (we got A Hamper), some of which I am (thus far) more convinced by than others.

Creating. Tiiiiiny bit of colouring in The Botanical Illustration Colouring Book.

Making & mending. Chopped up a cardboard box from the new desk for the 3D printer to live on, in order to turn it into A Larger Puzzle Board (... because Pixel is 1500 pieces and, er, bigger than our previous solution) (and also the new cardboard box was enough bigger that this board does NOT have inconvenient pre-folded collapsibility). I then managed to transfer the part-assembled puzzle to it with ZERO disasters and only mild swearing.

... I have not cast on The Mittens. I did get as far as sitting down and reading through the beginning of the pattern and thinking Really Hard about it, though...

Growing. ... the volunteer tomato is trying to flower. What on earth am I supposed to do with this.

(I am vaguely intending to Order Some Seeds but that means I need to sit down with The Existing Seeds and everything is Very right now.)

Observing. FROST. It is VERY PRETTY and also VERY COLD. Excellent small carnivore footprints in it. V pleasing.