+ wins.

[mrissa]

+ I made up a sauce recipe for dinner.

- It was unexpectedly vile.

+ But if you need to make the flavor of SweetTarts candy at home from all-natural ingredients, I now know how this can be accomplished.

- It was fine until I squoze the lime in, I think. And usually I like lime, so I really don't know how this happened.

+ Also, markgritter liked it.

+ Also, I didn't put it directly on the scallops while cooking them, so timprov and I could substitute a ginger sauce at the last minute.

+ Moss Roberts translation is much better than previous translation for Three Kingdoms.

- I begin to see how it is relevant that China is much, much bigger than Iceland, Finland, France, or anywhere else I've read epics from: more people. Lots more people.

+ There will be hockey while I think about all these Three Kingdoms people and try to keep them straight.

+ There will be ice cream while I watch hockey.

+ I performed the Writer Trick today: I went to the bank to deposit a check, so naturally another check arrived in the mail.

- Still have messed-up ears and nose from this stupid cold.

+ Physical therapist says this cold is taking forever in everybody, so it's not just me.

- PT still kind of sucked, more than it would have if my ears were okay.

++++++++ We are switching me to doing PT every other day.

Comments

[genevra.livejournal.com]

++++++++ We are switching me to doing PT every other day.

Yaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

1. Hooray for every other day!

2. Yeah, I remember when it clicked for me that people just aren't a scarce resource in China, and what-all that means. Different!

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey. Wow. That last is worthy of all those pluses and more.

Bummer on the sweet-tart sauce, but overall balance = excellent.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Yay, good things!

[hypatia-j.livejournal.com]

That's huge. Yay!

Yes, the cold is taking forever, I have something like it too.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Would Sweet-tart sauce be good on ice cream?

[aedifica]

Writer trick: I didn't know that was a writer trick, but I performed it today too! Must mean I'm a writer. Good to know.

PT every other day: Am I understanding correctly that this means you've made huge progress and don't need to do as much PT? If so, great big hurrahs!

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

Mmm... I think not. But maybe without the cumin. It was kind of runny, though.

Pomegranate molasses, lemon zest, and fresh lime... I forget what else.

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

Romance of the Three Kingdoms! I first read that when I was in the 3rd grade, and didn't understand large chunks of it. The last time was in 2001...I believe. What a work -- the chapter in which Zhuge Liang dies always makes me weep -- I should read it again!

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

++++++++ We are switching me to doing PT every other day.

*cheer*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Not lemon zest. Orange zest. Also coriander and cinnamon, but I think the coriander would stay away if I was trying to make an ice cream sauce with the pomegranate molasses base.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would describe it as more moderate progress than that, but still, at this point, we take moderate if moderate is what we can get.

[aedifica]

Indeed. Great big hurrahs, then!

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Every other day! This is very good news!

Feel better soon, Mrissa!

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

SWEET, Y'ALL.

- I ended up on a stretcher coming off the mountain in Squaw Valley.
+ Have no damage except a slightly strained knee
- and a fucked-up elbow from the shower door ....
+ and wine.

[rosefox]

++++++++ We are switching me to doing PT every other day.

Oh, hooray! I am very impressed that you achieved this graduation even with blocked-up ears.

[ckd]

Hooray hooray for every-other-day!

[dhole.livejournal.com]

A victory for plus signs everywhere!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Is there some way we can make it clear that the "stet" tattoo should apply to the whole body and not just the abdomen?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, there was a lot of theoretical interpolation there. If it had just been based on how I did at clinic PT, we would be really distressed, and I do have modifications for some of the activities for until after the cold departs.

Still.

[talimena.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for PT improvement!

I suspect I would have some difficulty with keeping track of characters in the Three Kingdoms; I have enough trouble remembering who's who in smaller scale books.

[rmnilsson.livejournal.com]

Nora and I probably had the same cold you do. And yeah, it took forever. And we both had a little relapse a couple weeks out from the cessation of major hostilities.

But it does go away eventually. Take heart.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Every other day? That's fantastic!

What strange and wonderful things will you do with all that free time?