More eventful than originally planned

So my first free Sunday was spent with the fabulous luvenditti, cooking up a storm. Lots and lots of cooking. Industrial amounts of cooking. Lots of food.

Everything turned out beautifully. I made chili, she made stuffed peppers and cabbage rolls, and spaghetti sauce. It was all very yummy, and I now have enough food for a few weeks. Yikes!

Then, we made banana bread. That was the original purpose of my visit. Only, the banana bread had, well, a misadventure. We're not quite sure what happened, but it turned out... odd. Not bad, just odd. For one, we ran out of white sugar, so we used a bit of brown sugar (about 1/r of the total amount of sugar), so that may have contributed to the, umm, interesting texture and the longer cooking time. Also, we added vanilla, and perhaps a smidgen too much salt.

The result was a bread that took almost three times as long to cook (two and a half hours instead of forty-five minutes to an hour), and that tasted, well, a little salty and not really like banana bread. It's still good, just, well, different.

I'm chalking it up to experience.


The rest of the day was lovely. Spent it chatting with luvenditti about all sorts of things, and since we were both tired we quickly got to the point where just about everything was funny. So that was fun. We watched the end of the premiere of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and segued into Desperate Housewives, also the premiere, which I hadn't expected to be able to watch, but was pleased to do anyway. Then we watched Crossing Jordan, where I snarked a great deal at the music telling us how to feel in a really not-subtle way, and the very obvious ending. Still, it was pretty good. I hope poor luvenditti wasn't too appalled at my chatty television-watching habits. Unless the show is really good, I will habitually snark at it, or at the commercials in-between.

I got home at 11:30, then made the mistake of trying to catch up on LJ and my email. I'd already waded through all 500+ emails (that I'd neglected for about ten days straight) in the morning, while catching up on Bluebook with joane and shenlo. We have lots of posting to do. Last night I caught up a bit on arcanum_, and this week I shall read everything in Ardaea and actually, you know, post something. Sheesh.

I eventually kicked myself into bed around 1:30, which meant that I got very little sleep. I am a bad, bad Phnee. Sleep-deprivation is bad. Also, in the TMI department, my stomach does not like me today. Actually, my stomach never likes me when I don't get enough sleep, so there's another very good reason right there not to go to bed too late.

So here I am on this rainy morning, doing metric assloads of filing. Whee.