In the Home Stretch

Well, as I was saying - this blog is such a saving grace during finals. Here I am again. You know, for someone who should be focusing on studying, I sure get a lot of baking done during finals. (Of course see earlier posts about how I get too wrapped up with stuff like that). The new thing seems to be gingerbread cookies this year with cinnamon spice icing. Although I've been trying to go easy on that since B is wanting to as he calls it go into "combat mode" - which basically means he will eat no sweets and only tuna and rice unless I make something else. So I've been trying to do some variations. Today was whole wheat pitas w/ basil (the bread machine is great for that dough) and white bean and tuna salad with spinach, tomatoes, garlic, basil. Also have been on a butternut squash soup kick - I have managed to avoid sawing off a finger while cubing it but they're tough little fellas to deal with. The best soup I made had sage, apple cider, vegetable broth, onion and a whole cubed squash (blended smooth). Really good but once you buy the ingredients you kind of have to go ahead and use up the cider so I ended up making several batches.

OK, think I got my little cooking spurt out and over with for the day. We went to the gym earlier - my big thing this year is to be able to do a couple of pull-ups by myself, but alas, my fruit roll-up arms have been stubborn and refuse to do it just yet; so B ends up having to give me a boost to actually go anywhere but a dead hang, and it was no different today. It's amazing - every time we go to the gym I confidently approach the bar, sure that this will be the day, feeling the energy coursing through my muscles (OK fine, my fruit roll-ups); and then I give the big pull........and nothing happens. I think I need to do the pull down machine thing more and take more baby steps. I never try full on pull-ups without B there because I look like an idiot just hanging there with a vein bulging in my temple.

One thing I love about finals is that I get to be home during the day - and sometimes we get lucky and B happens to be on the night shift so he is home then too. Now the trick is to get some studying done. Let me try this again, I'll probably be back later! Thanks for listening to my rambling...