The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[JGittes]

I just made some bread pudding. I'll leave half on the counter.

We had dinner with our next-door neighbors a couple of months ago, and she served some bread pudding she'd made the day before. It was great and I thought I'd give it a try. I found a simple recipe and bought a challa loaf next door (we live two doors each way between a bakery and butcher, the green grocer is two more doors beyond the butcher).

It turned out well, but the problem is that trying to eat bread pudding every day, or even every other day, becomes cloying. So the next batch I cut into single servings and froze them. Since the final product texture isn't so much of an issue, it turned out well.

The entire goose family is still here. I keep expecting them to begin flying lessons in preparation for departure, but my wife tells me that won't happen until September.

 

[GrantBricksly]

Well, it's monday morning...school has started up again, which means I have more time to write each week I am very happy about that.

Also, all 7 chapters of my story now have a 4.5+ rating. (Chapter 7 only has 9 votes, so until I get one mor vote, it doesn't count as being "Hot" but that's okay)

So, I am very happy with my progress so far.

And I'm halfway through writing Ch 8 already!

 

[iwatchus]

We had dinner with our next-door neighbors a couple of months ago, and she served some bread pudding she'd made the day before. It was great and I thought I'd give it a try. I found a simple recipe and bought a challa loaf next door (we live two doors each way between a bakery and butcher, the green grocer is two more doors beyond the butcher).

It turned out well, but the problem is that trying to eat bread pudding every day, or even every other day, becomes cloying. So the next batch I cut into single servings and froze them. Since the final product texture isn't so much of an issue, it turned out well.

My SO loves bread pudding. When my knee lets me cook again, I may try that. Of course, neither of us needs this in our diets ...

 

[MillieDynamite]

Good day, how's y'all doing?

 

[iwatchus]

Hiding inside from the heat.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

As little as possible.

 

[_Lynn_]

Hiding inside from the heat.

Me too. Although I was out this morning for the yearly mammogram. The humidity -- and the lingering smoke from the Canadian wildfires -- make it unbearable to be outside.

 

[NotWise]

Good day, how's y'all doing?

Planting the fall cucumbers in nursery pots. This is my third attempt at the crop. Planting in nursery pots lets the weather cool a little before the plantlings have to face the wide world.

 

[iwatchus]

he humidity -- and the lingering smoke from the Canadian wildfires -- make it unbearable to be outside.

The smoke here seems to be bearable this week after being very bad last week.

 

[TheRedLantern]

Had an amazing hookup this weekend. When it was over, I had creamy white stuff on my face and around my mouth, my fingers were sticky, and I was SPENT. It was all I could do to lie in bed and nap for an hour.

10 out of 10, would get that vanilla cupcake again

 

[NuclearFairy]

Went to get new shoes for the kids today, and the youngest's feet are just as long as the eldest's. o.o

Also, hugging a bag of ice is a poor substitute for air conditioning.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Good day, how's y'all doing?

Morning Millie. Went with a slightly different avatar, I see. Nice and mysterious.

 

[ItsJustMeApathy]

I've now lost 70 lbs since February.
I had norovirus at the end of January, back to work for a week, and ended up with Influenza A.
Lost some weight initially from being sick, not able to eat much, projectile vomiting what I could eat.
But ever since, my stomach has not healed. I've continued to lose weight. I don't want to go to a doctor for a few reasons, mostly because I'm either fine and have now wasted $ seeing a doctor, or I'm going to die and then I've wasted $ because they can't do anything. And I've had an eating disorder since the 80s so I'm thinking all those years of laxative abuse and binge/purge has messed up my body and I don't need a doctor to tell me that. Nothing I can do about it now, the harm is done.

I'm hoping I'll just continue to lose weight until there is nothing left of me

But right now it sucks because none of my clothes fit. When people see me and say you look amazing, have you lost wieght? I say Yes I think I'm dying, I've been sick.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Yeah, it's stock from Adobe. Same woman I've used for years on profiles here and at sales sites. Apparently, my publishers are going to go through Ingram Sparks to publish everywhere but Amazon and ZBookStore. So, they'll be updating some of the pictures out there. And this one was one they downloaded for their plans.

Morning Millie. Went with a slightly different avatar, I see. Nice and mysterious.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I've now lost 70 lbs since February.

It's OK. I found most of them.

 

[GrantBricksly]

well...It's now almost 7pm...the end of my writing day....Sadly, I did not finish Chapter 8 today.. I mean, to be fair, I didn't expect to...I typically average 3k words a day, maybe 4k on a good day. And I started the day with 5.6k

That being said....I am at 9.6k...so, another 1-2k to go, and I'll be done! I also took a brief break to do an edit on chapter 1. Probably a good 500 word or so. I think it greatly improves the story...not uploading yet...might have a few more edits to go...but we'll see...

 

[ItsJustMeApathy]

It's OK. I found most of them.

You are welcome to keep them. I've had an issue with weight my whole life, probably why I've had an eating disorder since I was about 12.
Thank you mom.

But yeah, I'm at the lowest weight of my adult life and I'm actually loving it! But it has made me even more paranoid about gaining weight though to the point that I'm eating like nothing every day and when I do eat, yep I'm downing laxatives and trying to vomit. I'm terrified of gaining even a lb of the weight back.
I love being at work because I don't eat anything and I walk 8-10 miles a day. At home it's harder to avoid food. Like today, I'm off work and I made tuna salad and tried to eat a sandwich. Decided there's no way I can eat 2 pieces of bread, that's 140 calories!!! So I made an open sandwich, but then decided to not eat the bread at all because who needs to eat 70 extra calories. So I end up eating the tuna salad off the bread, but felt fat and guilty so I took 4 laxatives after I ate it because I don't like to purge tuna. All because I probably consumed 200 calories to estimate it at the higher end.

Food addiction and eating disorders suck!

 

[NuclearFairy]

Random memory: Back in my deep tissue classes I had a teacher whose favorite saying was, "If they aren't seeing white lights and god, you aren't going deep enough." Which is when I knew that all massage therapists who enjoy giving deep tissue, must be at least a little sadistic.

 

[iwatchus]

Do you have masseuse training?

 

[NuclearFairy]

Yeah, graduated top of my class even. Unfortunately all of the places hiring in the city said I didn't have the right "vibe" and the places hiring in the country said that I was too well spoken for tourists. And then I moved, and everything around here asked way too many questions about my relationship status for me to be comfy working there... So I'm a wee bit rusty.

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

Good day, how's y'all doing?

Congratulations on the resumption of your avatar, in a new version.

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

Had an amazing hookup this weekend. When it was over, I had creamy white stuff on my face and around my mouth, my fingers were sticky, and I was SPENT. It was all I could do to lie in bed and nap for an hour.

10 out of 10, would get that vanilla cupcake again

Among the emojis, I don't see a rimshot.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Managed to sleep until 6 AM today. It's going to be another hot sunny day (it's summer after all) and we're expecting pop-up showers again this afternoon.

There's a fresh pot of coffee on the burner and the teapot is hot. There are muffins and danish on the counter. I thought about putting out some vanilla cream-filled cupcakes but I didn't want @TheRedLantern to get messy again ...

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I think I worked myself out of the sticky situation I had gotten into. Here's hoping today's writing gets going ...

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

The heat and mug will be back in force for the next week or more .... highs back into the upper 90s, humidity in the mid 70s.

Not fun at all.

I'm more or less trapped inside for the duration, just like a couple of weeks ago.

 

[iwatchus]

The electricians are here today. We ran out of circuits on our panel, so we need a new one for the new heat pumps for the third floor (and the prodigal son and partner.). We had already been planning on extending because we want to move to an induction range, which needs its own circuit.

I created an alt, somewhat as a joke and I am working on a second story for that version of me. My intent is to have a bit of a different feel to the stories there.My intent is they will all be shorter as well as a different style. The user name and first story derive from something I published here.

Otherwise, lots of reading to do -- I am not sure I am clearing things off the list as quickly as I am adding others -- and deciding which plot bunny gets freed for the next iwatchus story.