Thanksgiving Duckling

Roasting one up according Mark Bittman's instructions.

Surviving Atlanta Snowpocalypse

I am going batty with nothing to do here. There is nothing to do outdoors and no one to visit by walking, if I could do that without falling on the solid sheet of ice that covers the ground here.

I started one ebay auction for an old film camera I have and if that goes well, I’ll continue to sell other old cameras I have for extra money in lieu of wages and to clear the closet of things I seldom use now. I will probably retain my old original Nikon FM camera and my old 2x2 twin lense camera but everything else must go. The ebay auction is also a form of self-entertainment.

I wish I had art supplies and an easel to doodle around here. Seriously considering some old school drawing and painting studio courses - which I will no doubt be criticized for taking - just to reconnect my brain a bit. I have a couple of workshops this weekend to attend that I hope will be inspiring.

I know I am being a malcontent at this point. Not meaning to complain too much. I do get tired of the line that “only boring people are bored” so I’ll try to make a bit more fun for myself here with what I've got. There has been a lot of cooking these past two days. Monday dinner was venison-pork hash with double garlic kale. Tuesday was shepherds pie made with the hash along with the last of the leftover kale. Tonight, dinner will be orzo with spinach, feta, and a bit of lemon juice.

Tomorrow, both my housemate and I will try to make it out into the world for work, post office, etc. Hoping there are no problems getting out of the neighborhood by then.

sounds of silence

The most active part of today has been a visit from an appraiser to measure the house so our landlord can try to get a new cheaper mortgage payment.

Online, I'm getting a serious stress-induced headache reading emails from the latest battle taking place among unit owners at my condo. This time the war is over parking lot space and even my tenant, who does not own a car or drive, has been dragged into it.

No work today. I submitted some letters and resumes to a few more companies I found this morning. I had an appointment to attend two seminars today and tomorrow for a potential sales job with AT&T, but had a very bad gut feeling about it. Sales jobs have historically cost me money and/or not made any income for me in the past. An intervention by two people very close to me convinced me that NOT following that job lead was the right thing to do (or not to do) today. I can do a lot of things but I have no personality or social skills for sales. *sigh*

What to do? The house is clean. Nothing to maintain or repair (except the camera off in the oblivion of the service center in New York).

Maybe this is a good day to bake. The cooler weather always make the kitchen more inviting. I bought a skull-shaped cake pan that I haven't yet removed from the box. I was holding onto it as a potential gift for someone else, in the proverbial "gift closet" but maybe I'd feel better if I made some skull shaped pumpkin bread with it.

weekend of possibilities

If there are no takers for Movie Night, I'm gonna go to the Grateful Gluttons Murder Game Party. You will see me among the dead.

If there are any takers, I will be food-making tomorrow after going to the organic farmers market. I like to experiment in the kitchen but I need someone to eat what I create other than the often too picky housemate. Like something (pumpkin, sweet potato) orange in color (I know... the orange wonz is poysen).

Tonight, I would like to check out Night Vision if anyone I know is going. I think I'll be awake...