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Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Day 22 of 100, Wednesday, 14th November


Oh, cool! I did sleep early and quite well, too! Some tossing and turning – for some strange reason, no matter how tired I am when I’m up, as soon as I lie down, I’m wide awake!

I woke up lovely and early, around half six! So I curled up with Mewthos, who was snoozing by my legs, and dozed for another hour before getting up. Coffee and a cookie – while the cats run around then come look and mip at me asking ‘You up? Why door not open?’ Ha Ha! I held out until ten past eight!

Mippies run down, Romeo runs up the stairs! He didn’t eat the chicken in gravy I put in the bowl outside for him – not even a little! If he starts getting fussy about food now as well, then we’re going to have a problem! He’s now rolling happily in the catnip still in the mat from yesterday.

With a bit of extra time this morning, I looked through recipes again. A good starting point would be to make some stock, I can freeze that – and if I don’t use ingredients cats can’t eat, I can use it to make jelly. Or maybe they’ll like the stock itself.

I’ve packed more boxes and now I’m backing up my data, which is going to take a loooooong, loooong time. I have an external hard-drive I use to as a safety backup, which I keep in a separate place, so that next time I’m robbed, I don’t loose everything again! Last time I lost the photos I took at the ceremony when I spread my mum’s ashes. I also lost all those comics I laboriously scanned in and edited – which I had been collecting for years! Real classics, longer available in any format.

I normally just delete the backup and copy everything, one-by-one, but that takes a whole day – well close – so this time I’m just updating, as in checking number of files in folders, then trying to remember what changes I’ve made. I have quite a good memory, so I’ve ‘caught’ most of it. Just some photos I deleted, where I don’t remember which ones. Right now I’m backing up my site work, and then I’ll have to do my PC’s C-drive … that WILL take a long time, I can’t afford to miss anything, there.

While the PC is busy backing up one of the larger folders, I decided to go out for a photo- and seed-collecting walk through the garden. The seeds in the bag were starting to sweat so I put them out on brown paper. I got a lot of Nasturtium & Cosmos seeds again, today.

Back upstairs, I start preparing dinner. It’s going to take quite a while, since I’m cleaning and cutting spinach, carrots and mushrooms. Cook some Tagliatelle and add some Coconut milk – and: Viola! Dinner is served! I decided to fry each ingredient individually, the spinach, of course, takes several panfuls – no better way to make spinach, trust me! Even spinach-haters have liked it! I shaved the carrots – just keep ‘peeling’ off shavings with a peeler, then fry them. The only problem, of course, is: I’ll be eating the same food for the next couple of days! They don’t sell spinach in single-person portions. Nothing does, which is why I’ve been turning to those pasta salads instead of cooking food.

Dinner is delicious! I didn’t even add any spices – just the flavour of the spinach, carrots, mushrooms and coconut milk are a delightful combination! Maybe some nutmeg tomorrow, but not much else.

Time to call my mipsters in! They are so obedient, it’s such a pleasure. Well, until they are bored, of course, ha ha! Then they turn into terrors!

Everyone’s in and settled down for their naps – I’m kind of tired myself now, so I think I’ll have a good night!

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