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outdatedclocks has pointed out that my lower-back/hip problems, and my leg problems, are probably all related to the issues I have with my feet (lack of arches?). I've been making do with CVS-brand arch support pads, but they're not really enough, and I'd like to be able to do some cardio and upper-body stuff again, which I can't really now since my back hurts alllll the time. I'd been putting off talking to my doctor about it because of my terrible experiences with my last one...even though this one's shown no indication she's suddenly going to go all 'you're lying, you must be sneaking nachos in the middle of the night, fatty' on me. In fact, she'll probably be happy to help me out, since she wants me exercising before I go on T since I have a genetic disposition towards hypertension (dad's been hospitalized for it).

BTW, for those curious about the whole doctor saga, since I've posted it around a few places but not actually here at my main journal I think (since I just realized last night ocelotofdoom had never read the whole thing)...I submitted the whole thing to First, Do No Harm (excellent blog BTW) so you can read it here (it's so long I don't see a need to copy+paste it here P:)

Speaking of ocelotofdoom, we might be hanging out this weekend :D or rather, probably are. I am still working out the logistics, I think I'll stay on campus this weekend and take the train into the city. It would mean missing a therapy appointment, but I've skipped weeks in the past (or rather, therapist has cancelled on me) so I know it won't do any damage emotionally or to my comfort level with him.

Okay I really should go to class 6 u 9;;


ETA TAG PARTY

Went to the grocery store with dad! Got all necessary baking materials! Hooray! Dad made car noises while pushing the cart, and old-fashioned video game noises when putting things in the cart. This is why I like shopping with him.

Also, just now I was wrestling with Tripper, and he apparently figured out a trick to play on me, lmfao. He had started getting tired, so I made kissy noises at him, and he put his head down...and then when I moved in to kiss him, he licked my mouth. He seemed very pleased with himself after, and did it three more times :P little rotter. Right now he's wandering between the living room and the family room, since I'm in one and mom and dad are in the other, and he wants to be with all of us. Baww.

Anyways, baking later! Will take photos!

ALSO found my binder! It was indeed in the laundry.


ETA: BAKING RIGHT NOW. Just got attacked by an egg. Drop of yolk flew up in the air and landed on the back of my hand. SHIT JUST GOT REAL.


ETA2:
[02:20] Me: ((ONO MY MIXING BOWL IS NOT BIG ENOUGH))
[02:20] Me: ((COCOA POWDER GOIN EVERYWHERE))
[02:20] Amanda: ((HOMG NOOOO))
[02:20] Me: ((WUT DO I DO O n O))
[02:20] Amanda: ((TURN IT OFFFFFF))

FOR THE RECORD I had already turned it off. And a solution has been found.


ETA 3: All done with tonight's baking! Which didn't really involve any baking actually. I made the chocolate sugar cookies dough and put it in the fridge to chill, hoping that will make it more docile. It was a BEAST. From right before I wrestled it into a ziplock bag:

[02:35] Me: ((i would describe hte consistancy as 'stubborn as a motherfucker'))

I've coated a bunch of vanilla wafers in milk chocolate and colored white chocolate (pink and green). As I was getting ready to put the milk chocolate ones away, I had the two containers of finished pink and green next to me, and the cat was eating (I had just let her out of the basement - dad accidentally shut her in, AGAIN.) She was interested in what I was doing, as always, so I let her sniff the two full containers since they were closed. Her verdict? She spit a chunk of catfood on them.

IDK what that means, does anybody speak Cat, specifically the Evil Fucking Cat Demon dialect?

Anyways, tomorrow issss rolling, cutting and baking the cookies in the morning, decorating them with eggs at night after Paige gets back from her third day of Anime Boston.

D:

So uh...my roommate is sick. She has therefor asked me to not be in the room unless I'm sleeping, because she wants the light off and apparently even a computer screen bothers her. Okay, sure, we have a suite common room for that after all.

Only, I hadn't realized until now that...one of the girls in the other room in our suite seems to have moved out. And the remaining girl has pretty much let her boyfriend move in. And they have sex frequently. Loud enough to be heard from the common room (but apparently not from our room thanks to cement walls). HELLO HEADPHONES.

ANYWAYS, in other not-awkward news, next weekend is EASTER WEEKEND. Our family is one of those families that does the easter present thing, which I have only recently learned is apparently not all that common? Anyways it's kind of a big deal for us. So I've decided to bake something, of course. I spent pretty much all day thinking 'what if I added cocoa powder to sugar cookies?!!!' but turns out that those ALREADY EXIST :D so I am totally making them. Probably some regular sugar cookies as well.

I'm not sure if I'll use that royal icing recipe...I already have a similar one that doesn't include egg whites, and I'm kind of, um, wary of making icing with raw egg whites, although I am pretty sure that's standard. The problem is though that the recipe I've used relies entirely on confectioner's sugar to make it thick and white and therefor be able to be colored vibrantly, and although it went fine on regular sugar cookies, I'm not sure the colors will look good at all on a darker cookie. IDK GUYS IDK I will probably end up doing this egg white one. Also will let everybody decorate their cookies, on top of decorating eggs. Because this isn't exactly Christmas, it's not like we're giving these cookies to other people like we did at Christmas.

Anyways the other thing I want to do is buy some like, animal crackers or vanilla wafers or something cheap, and dip them in chocolate. Since I am no longer afraid of melting chocolate. I think I'll actually do colored white chocolate, like actual animal crackers do a lot (do they use food coloring for that? I assume so...or do you have to buy special colored white chocolate? I can probably look this up.)

OKAY I just looked it up and apparently there are these special oils and candy colors for coloring white chocolate, BUT you can also use food coloring as long as you mix it in really well. Alright! I'll look and see if I can get these candy coloring things at the grocery store, but I doubt it, they barely even carry food coloring (seriously, they carry like one pack of four colors, it's pitiful). Maybe they'll have them at Michael's...? They do have that little baking section...and JoAnne's also has a baking section that is pretty impressive and I just found the other day...there are no like, baking specialty stores around here :C

Anyways yeah THAT'S MY WEEKEND. I also bought some things on Amazon (all with amex points! Yay!) that I hope will get there this weekend. Some books (a few classics I haven't read yet, and Jennifer Government because I love dystopian fiction, although I was a bit concerned by the fact that there are tons on Amazon used for pretty much $4.00, lol) and a simulation computer game, Black and White 2, since I tried the demo and it's pretty addictive. Like, I want to go play the demo AGAIN even though I've already played it through and know I'll mostly just be frustrated because it's 75% tutorial.

Whatever GOING TO GO PLAY IT AGAIN.

Did some more baking yesterday! Paige's cat Nikka helped me take photos.



( BROWNIES THIS WAY )


I promised chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips too, but I didn't have time. I was helping Paige make a plush for a cosplay she's doing for Anime Boston this year...it was Mr. Mew from uh...The World Ends With You? I think that's what it's called. I'm not very familiar. Anyways I tried to get photos of the finished plush but the photos came out crap so oh well.

WENT SHOPPING WITHOUT SHOPPING LIST due to power going out right as I was about to go double-check the recipes. Somehow managed to get everything I need anyways, because I am a genius. Well, I mean, I didn't get a thing of peanut butter for the puppy chow nor did I know I would need it, but we always have untouched cans of peanut butter around, so it wasn't a problem.

I won't even pretend that this is because I am always prepared. This was actually because I was salivating about brownies all week and because of that actually formed most of my shopping list in my head on like, Wednesday.

Anyways yeah. Today was supposed to be pretty boring, but the weather decided to make it more exciting :D literally right as I left my last class to go get ready to drive home, it started pouring rain. And as I got onto the highway, it started snowing (but neglected to stop pouring rain, because spring around here often means two-for-one deals on weather). When I got home I had finally got ahead of the storm, which caught up a few hours later, and managed to hit a power line that supplies something like half our town despite a complete lack of HIGH WINDS OR ANYTHING REALLY DANGEROUS EXCEPT RAIN AND LIGHT SNOW. I am still confused about how that branch came down (we actually drove around to find it, because when the situation is THIS PUZZLING and you're going to the grocery store anyway, that's what you do). It survived the whole winter, but a bit of wet snow was too much for it?!

ANYWAYS basic schedule is as follows: tomorrow morning, nutella brownies (less butter); tomorrow afternoon, chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips. Saturday morning, puppy chow; Saturday afternoon, nutella brownies (peanut butter chips).

OMFG now I want to go work on a chocolate-and-peanut-butter-inspired custom design on Aramii. I ALREADY PLAYED AROUND WITH FUNFETTI CUSTOM IDEAS THE OTHER DAY, TOO. I am not convinced that combining Aramii and delicious baked goods is a good idea.

Or, 'baking post of manliness', which is what I almost wrote originally because my typos can be pretty intense.

( ETA OOPS GUESS I SHOULD CUT THIS lol )