What an incredibly beautiful day...yes, I got my blood test and mammogram, but despite that, it's been a great day. It was warm enough, it really did feel like spring. And the sun and being able to go outside made it feel like summer. Now, don't string me up for saying this, but I'm sort of glad the weather is supposed to turn icky towards the end of the week. If it stays nice like this, it'll be so hard to go back to school and work inside for 10 or so hours a day.
Today, I realized that the roses Ken gave me were beyond their prime. So, I did what I always do with the roses he gives me, I hung them upside down to dry. When they've dried out, I cut the heads off, and put them in a glass cake pan (better flowers than cake). The picture above has 4 years of roses in it, minus the three that are now drying. What's truly marvelous is that whenever I open the lid, the smell of roses comes flooding out. It's even stronger than it is when they are in full bloom.
When I got back from Spencer, I decided to make the light vanilla pudding I write about on February 27th. I finally found vanilla beans yesterday. The vanilla bean I got is much fresher than the one I used last time which was several YEARS old. I don't know if the flavor was any better, but it was easier to cut and scrape. Also, I discovered that skim milk works just fine in place of the 1% the recipe calls for. This of course, really slims the recipe down quite a bit.
I've been bad the last couple of days. I think the stress of getting papers graded really got to me, and I haven't been very good since. School will get me back on track, but at the same time, I need to get my act together. If I wasn't running around so much, I'd settle down and do some cooking and find ways to keep busy here at home.
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