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It Begins...
This week will be my first interview for my novel A Stabbing for Sadie. The good people at NaNoWriMo have asked me to interview for WriMo Radio and I said "Um...okay."
I'll be keeping everyone posted as to when they can listen to me be funny and talk about my book.
Tomorrow I'm making my first ever gumbo. I'm making the stock for it tonight, which is crab legs (minus most of the meat) and shrimp tails boiling away. I'm using a modified version of Alton Brown's gumbo, because he is my kitchen guru. I always feel confident about new dishes after watching AB make them. He is also the reason that my choco-chip cookies, chili, shish kafta, and many other dishes meet friend-wide acclaim. Although the pineapple upside down bundt cake is all Wednes. Anyway, this gumbo will also have chicken and spicy sausage, trinity and broccoflower and okra. They didn't have fresh so I'm using frozen. I bought canned okra as well but can't imagine it will thicken properly.
We're working on this thing in therapy where I have to practice being happy and content. Turns out, I have no idea how to sustain either of these for any length of time. Instead of being happy and letting my life be pleasant and calm, I either create drama or succumb to feelings of doom. Yeah, I succumb to feelings of doom--if that's not literary enough for ya. I'm always worried that I'll die in my sleep or that something bad will happen to H. They say it's pretty common. Waiting for the other shoe to drop so much so that it makes it hard to live. Sounds a bit too debilitating to be commonplace, but what the hell do I know. I just need to work on it, in a way that doesn't involve affirmations. I hate affirmations. Hopefully I won't have to work on this stuff for very long, I'm fairly impatient as far as patients go. ;-] My therapist keeps reminding me that I didn't develop my issues in a few weeks or months, and that while fixing them will take much less time--it's still going to take some time. EMDR is going really well too, but I'll spare you the specifics.
I kind of wish I could watch YouTube. I don't have enough memory, and some of you post them at least half the time. I feel like I'm missing so much.
I'll be keeping everyone posted as to when they can listen to me be funny and talk about my book.
Tomorrow I'm making my first ever gumbo. I'm making the stock for it tonight, which is crab legs (minus most of the meat) and shrimp tails boiling away. I'm using a modified version of Alton Brown's gumbo, because he is my kitchen guru. I always feel confident about new dishes after watching AB make them. He is also the reason that my choco-chip cookies, chili, shish kafta, and many other dishes meet friend-wide acclaim. Although the pineapple upside down bundt cake is all Wednes. Anyway, this gumbo will also have chicken and spicy sausage, trinity and broccoflower and okra. They didn't have fresh so I'm using frozen. I bought canned okra as well but can't imagine it will thicken properly.
We're working on this thing in therapy where I have to practice being happy and content. Turns out, I have no idea how to sustain either of these for any length of time. Instead of being happy and letting my life be pleasant and calm, I either create drama or succumb to feelings of doom. Yeah, I succumb to feelings of doom--if that's not literary enough for ya. I'm always worried that I'll die in my sleep or that something bad will happen to H. They say it's pretty common. Waiting for the other shoe to drop so much so that it makes it hard to live. Sounds a bit too debilitating to be commonplace, but what the hell do I know. I just need to work on it, in a way that doesn't involve affirmations. I hate affirmations. Hopefully I won't have to work on this stuff for very long, I'm fairly impatient as far as patients go. ;-] My therapist keeps reminding me that I didn't develop my issues in a few weeks or months, and that while fixing them will take much less time--it's still going to take some time. EMDR is going really well too, but I'll spare you the specifics.
I kind of wish I could watch YouTube. I don't have enough memory, and some of you post them at least half the time. I feel like I'm missing so much.
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I might be able to burn the little ones as files, but I can't get it to burn DVDs as DVDs.
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You don't miss too much on Youtube, but I'm surprised your Mac can't do it. I wouldn't think the memory need would be so great!
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Yeah, this gumbo better be delicious. I spent over an hour liberating crab meat from some very stubborn crab legs.
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If you need to goof off, try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1RDBzKl9KI
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I'm another one who's always waiting for the other shoe to drop. It's hard to break the habit. Sounds like you have a good therapist to help you out, though. : )
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I'm pretty nervous.