Cooking Day ...
Jun. 8th, 2010 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
texchanSo, a first for me. I've spent the entire day (well, mostly) cooking today. I decided to try a new recipe for beef bourguignon. The recipe is actually called "Easy Beef Bourguignon", although I'm not sure anything could be all that easy about this particular dish. I've made it exactly once before, using a different recipe, and, while it wasn't a total failure, I wouldn't consider it an unqualified success, either. So ... we'll see how this one turns out. Easy or not, this is one time-consuming recipe. Almost an hour of prep and three hours to cook in the oven. I started around 10 AM, got it into the oven around 11 AM, and it should be done here pretty soon. If all goes well. It smells good, so I'm guardedly optimistic.
I'm kind of freaked out about the whole "spending a day cooking" thing, though. It's almost like I'm turning into someone I don't know. OK ... it's like I'm turning into my mom. And I so don't want to go there. I mean, I love my mom, but I don't want to be her. Anyhow ... I have issues. Issues which, likely, will fade away if the BB turns out well.
In other news, when is LJ going to stop showing the advertisements on the log-in page? I'm not fussed by a small-ish sort of advertisement, but these take up practically the whole screen. And they are ugly. The one from today is this scratch-out-your-eyes yellow color. I hate it. Hate, hate, hate it. And I want it to go away. Bleh.
Made a playdate for my daughter with one of her little friends from school for next week. I wanted to do it earlier, and so did the other mom, but everyone is so busy right now. But now I have a dilemma. I agreed to have the playdate at the other person's house. But I found out the other mom smokes. I don't know if she smokes inside or not, but I am so severely allergic. Even if she doesn't smoke while we are there, I will get sick if it's in the furniture, etc. I don't want to be rude, but I'm wondering if it would be OK to call back and tell her I would prefer to have the playdate at our house, instead. I wouldn't say it was because of the smoking issue ... but tell her something like there is a new recipe I wanted to try baking or something.
I dunno ... is it totally rude for me to do this? Should I just leave things as they are and hope for the best (i.e., that she smokes only outside)? Gah. I hate these kinds of dilemmas. They make me feel so socially inept. >.O
I'm kind of freaked out about the whole "spending a day cooking" thing, though. It's almost like I'm turning into someone I don't know. OK ... it's like I'm turning into my mom. And I so don't want to go there. I mean, I love my mom, but I don't want to be her. Anyhow ... I have issues. Issues which, likely, will fade away if the BB turns out well.
In other news, when is LJ going to stop showing the advertisements on the log-in page? I'm not fussed by a small-ish sort of advertisement, but these take up practically the whole screen. And they are ugly. The one from today is this scratch-out-your-eyes yellow color. I hate it. Hate, hate, hate it. And I want it to go away. Bleh.
Made a playdate for my daughter with one of her little friends from school for next week. I wanted to do it earlier, and so did the other mom, but everyone is so busy right now. But now I have a dilemma. I agreed to have the playdate at the other person's house. But I found out the other mom smokes. I don't know if she smokes inside or not, but I am so severely allergic. Even if she doesn't smoke while we are there, I will get sick if it's in the furniture, etc. I don't want to be rude, but I'm wondering if it would be OK to call back and tell her I would prefer to have the playdate at our house, instead. I wouldn't say it was because of the smoking issue ... but tell her something like there is a new recipe I wanted to try baking or something.
I dunno ... is it totally rude for me to do this? Should I just leave things as they are and hope for the best (i.e., that she smokes only outside)? Gah. I hate these kinds of dilemmas. They make me feel so socially inept. >.O