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avivasedai at 05:36pm on 19/12/2025
avivasedai at 05:36pm on 19/12/2025- I made challah today, "with" Benito. He's still not interested in the making of things, but adding chocolate chips and braiding the challah (and some of the rolling out into long strrands) he'll do. I divided the recipe into 3 loaves; his chocolate-enhanced loaf has 3 strands and the other two have 4 because it's pretty. I told him I wanted to give one or two of them away, and he said he wanted to give one to his school friend, because he said "Happy Hannukah" to him. Who am I to say no to that? I might bring the other one to shul with me tonight (dinner and services) and give it away to whichever of my friends comes. Random act of kindness!
- This was a pretty good week at work. I got things done, I stayed on top of email, I submitted paperwork as it came up to me, I finished a dangling issue that I really should've done a little while ago but it's all well that ends with a student graduating. I gave a few festive gifts to some of my coworkers; the rest will get them next week, as I'll be heading to the Surrey campus on Monday and Tuesday specifically to share time with some work people. It's worth the commute for the opportunity to have lunch together and maybe have some enjoyable times around the work that will inevitably arise.
- I've actually gone to bed before midnight at least twice, maybe three times this week. This is a Benito week so I knew I would have to be out of bed by 7:15 at the latest, so that might have been part of my decision making, but honestly, I got myself away from falling asleep on the couch and then into bed later (or just watching TV until after midnight). I reflected this week that I've had bad sleep habits since shortly after I got my own room when I moved to Florida at the age of 12. During high school it was too easy to have my little light above my bed on and read until midnight, and then get up at 6 AM and sleep on the bus to HS, or when I started driving myself, falling asleep in class. Oh, right, I also fell asleep in class throughout junior high. And college. ... moving on.
- I have baking aspirations for Sunday, because I accidentally opened a can of pumpkin pie filling I bought instead of pumpkin puree. That stuff is pretty vile (way too sweet) by itself, but a brainstorm helped by a work friend made me think of buying tart shells, and mixing cream cheese and this stuff and maybe an egg or egg plus extra yolk, and baking mini-pies. The cream cheese should cut the ridiculous sweetness, the egg will make it a better texture, and it won't need anything else. I might look up a few other recipes for reference, but honestly probably not. I'll toss the pie filling otherwise, and it'll only be "wasting" the pastry shells if this fails. I don't care about cream cheese and I have a block in my fridge.
- I also bought a smoked turkey leg last week, because they showed up in the kosher section of the store with a good kosher section, and I can make a killer soup with that. All the veggies, a bean or two, smoked turkey, maybe make wild rice separate to add during the meal, = 1 dish meals for me next week.
Update on cookery/baking later.
- This was a pretty good week at work. I got things done, I stayed on top of email, I submitted paperwork as it came up to me, I finished a dangling issue that I really should've done a little while ago but it's all well that ends with a student graduating. I gave a few festive gifts to some of my coworkers; the rest will get them next week, as I'll be heading to the Surrey campus on Monday and Tuesday specifically to share time with some work people. It's worth the commute for the opportunity to have lunch together and maybe have some enjoyable times around the work that will inevitably arise.
- I've actually gone to bed before midnight at least twice, maybe three times this week. This is a Benito week so I knew I would have to be out of bed by 7:15 at the latest, so that might have been part of my decision making, but honestly, I got myself away from falling asleep on the couch and then into bed later (or just watching TV until after midnight). I reflected this week that I've had bad sleep habits since shortly after I got my own room when I moved to Florida at the age of 12. During high school it was too easy to have my little light above my bed on and read until midnight, and then get up at 6 AM and sleep on the bus to HS, or when I started driving myself, falling asleep in class. Oh, right, I also fell asleep in class throughout junior high. And college. ... moving on.
- I have baking aspirations for Sunday, because I accidentally opened a can of pumpkin pie filling I bought instead of pumpkin puree. That stuff is pretty vile (way too sweet) by itself, but a brainstorm helped by a work friend made me think of buying tart shells, and mixing cream cheese and this stuff and maybe an egg or egg plus extra yolk, and baking mini-pies. The cream cheese should cut the ridiculous sweetness, the egg will make it a better texture, and it won't need anything else. I might look up a few other recipes for reference, but honestly probably not. I'll toss the pie filling otherwise, and it'll only be "wasting" the pastry shells if this fails. I don't care about cream cheese and I have a block in my fridge.
- I also bought a smoked turkey leg last week, because they showed up in the kosher section of the store with a good kosher section, and I can make a killer soup with that. All the veggies, a bean or two, smoked turkey, maybe make wild rice separate to add during the meal, = 1 dish meals for me next week.
Update on cookery/baking later.
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