The king cake was a bit mushy, it rose hugely in the oven. It was not even a ring shape when i took it out, it was a giant pastry, but pretty darn yummy! I stuck a plastic rabbit in it for lack of a baby, and made sure the little boy got that slice. A Mardi Gras Miracle!!! It was a bit too lemony, but i think that there were some mistakes in the reciepe. The frosting called for:
3/4 c confectioner's sugar
1/4 c lemon juice
36 tablespoons water.
ok, right there, ya got koolaid. basicallly. So i am wondering if the rest of the set up was right. It did turn out well, but next year will be better.
I'm setting up another bloggy thinggy for the daily doodle/ doodle wrnagler stuff that i haven't touched in a year or so. I am high if i think i will ever have time for this. But some part of me needs to just know that it is there, waiting for me if i need it, if i can get back to it. Somehow i can't give up the idea of art, and being an artist. When the doodling really fell off, i went to needlework. Why can't i turn my whole focus to housework and childcare? i did choose this, why can't i really dedicate myself to it? Where is the 'surrender' people talk about in following your dharma? Do i need to lay aside all these things entirely? is even some sock making keeping me from full acceptance of what i do? how can i learn to love it and look forward to it with something other than dread? How can i stop this useless whinging and bitching? How do i purge these feelings?
Or do i just not. Just ignore them. Some people say that emotions can't be controlled, only actions can. I can't help feeling a certain way, but i can act as if i don't feel it. I do that a lot anyway. It makes for weird moods of frantic crankiness. And i get snappy.
I never was really into the idea of a vacation, i never wanted my life to be something i wanted to take a holiday from. My personal deffinition of sucess was the ability to do laundry in my own house. Now i avoid it whenever possible. I am no longer in love with the washing machine. I did used to be, really. I loved the thing, i sat down and watched the clothes tumble in it, named it, gave it the very best soap and used the 'ecco-wash' setting, because if it was green, it was somehow better. now i shut the folding doors that contain the laundry area and try to walk past the huge piles of clean and dirty laundry that are stacking up all over the house. i dream about living a completely differnt life everyday. a childfree and husband free life. i suck. did i wait too long to do this? am i really to selfish to be good at this? it feels like i started youngish....married at 23, kid at 28, seems on track.
i can't even type anymore of this shite. it's depressing. i wish i could burn it all down.