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July 15, 2006
Chipping away
I've spent the past few days working through sleep disturbances; the older I get, the harder I find it to bounce back from the occasional or the not so occasional late night. Last night was fairly decent -- I was able to add an hour of good quality sleep to my tally from last night-- so I'm making some slow progress. Or at least I was until someone convinced me to go back upstairs and "sleep until 10". Well, it's 3pm now and I'm showered and dressed (as I try to take the very smallest positive point and build on that).
On Thursday, my Amish Country Store order arrived. They did a great job packing everything. The only disappointment in the order was the A-Treat diet birch beer, but that was hardly the Amish Country Store's fault. Unfortunately, the folks at A-Treat have not quite hopped on the bandwagon as far as making GOOD diet beverages goes. It tasted as bad as all diet drinks tasted 10 years ago. In fact, I might even harken back to that abomination of calorie consciousness in the early 70s: Tab. It tasted worse than Tab. Ewww.
The most excellent part of the order was the gigantic quart bottle of King Syrup, which thanks to two less than stellar pie attempts, is now half gone. I'm getting much better at not eating the mistakes. Into the trash and try again. Tomorrow I'll get some more pie crusts and then work out the issues that I think are going on (1.) I'm using King Arthur AP flour which has a high protien count, I should switch to the White Lily which has next to none, 2.) not baking long enough, 3.) it really does need that 1/4 c of molasses kick)
Posted by jodikins at July 15, 2006 7:38 AM