Weekly

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Whoof, long week!

- Last weekend, not to get too technical about it, but most of my blood fell out* and when I got up to get ready for work on Tuesday I just about passed out in the bathroom. Ah, anemia. So now I'm building up my iron again, but I keep forgetting. So last night I didn't have enough energy to finish watching a MOVIE and was wondering why the hell until I remembered what was going on and took an iron tablet. Good times.

- Probably didn't help that I went to work on Saturday. We do a Boy Scout Merit Badge Workshop once a month at the Space Place. I hate to say this, guys, but my overall opinion of the ability of Boy Scouts to survive in the wild, or in fact in their own damn LIVING ROOMS, has not improved. We literally tell them WORD FOR WORD, SEVERAL TIMES, what to write down on their little worksheets and give them time to write it, and yet when we check them out at the end so many of them have failed completely to write it at all.

- The good news is, I am getting the hang of black cherry soda! The next batch needs more almond extract and sugar, but overall it's better than my previous attempts with cherry syrup. Turns out actual black cherry juice really helps.

- The other completely surprising soda recipe I've tried recently was Spiced Black Lemonade, from Homemade Soda by Andrew Schloss (though I let it ferment). Y'all, this recipe reads like it was developed by Dr. Insano. It contains lemon zest, lemon juice, cloves, sage, chile flakes, and browning sauce.

IT IS FANTASTIC.

I don't know how to explain why. It's so weird, but delicious--spicy and lemony and just so damn strange. Mom and I plowed through most of it, though Aspen seemed to enjoy it, too, so I made more tonight. Hope it turns out as well this time.

- Hey, look! I have more stuff in my Etsy shop! And I am making more! Keep an eye out!


*In the usual way. Didn't get stabbed or nothing.

Comments

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I found Cub Scouts pretty cool, mostly because my mom was a great Den Leader, but then when we went up to Boy Scouts and the more senior Scouts were the ones who were supposed to be coming up with stuff for us to do and none of my friends were in my Troop, it totally sucked, and I left after a couple of months. Based on the boys I was in there with, your experience doesn't surprise me in the least.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I really like the idea of Scouting (regardless of its founder's reasons for starting it)--learning new things and becoming a good citizen as well as an independent individual. But yeah, as with anything, it really depends on how people approach it. It could be awesome if people actually get involved and interested, but if they're apathetic, then it's just kinda pointless.

Also it's an extension of my impatience with kids in general who seem apathetic and determinedly dense. That might be my own failing, though.