Day 312 of 365 - Dashed Expectations
At this moment, I'm quite grateful that I have kept up the practice started a few weeks ago, to draft these posts at least a day ahead. Today, at the end of the allotted couple of hours for research and writing I had come up blank. The first interview I listened to had seemed promising, but then the content was more shallow than expected. The second one, which seemed very enticing, turned out to be such a dense topic that I'm not sure I will even finish listening.
I decided to just let it go, cook and eat dinner and then go for a little walk. Normally, writing this late in the day would have me agitated, as it is my lowest energy part of the day. But, here I am, putting together something that will be posted tomorrow. After my initial frustration about this afternoon, I decided that it's a bit of a joke on me about my high expectations.
It sort of reminded me of an experience in my first year of university. I was a small town girl who had been quite academic throughout my school years to date. My expectation of university courses, given that they were being taught in an institution of higher learning, and were costing me money, was that all classes and teachers would be excellent. Imagine my disillusionment the first time I had a dud course or professor!
While I'm fairly selective about the interview series that I sign up for, there are no guarantees that the presentations will meet my expectations. Today, the content of the first one was too little and the second was too much. Oh well, that's life.
So, what will I share about with you instead? How about some of the pleasantries of my day, which include the topics of tank tops, peaches and zucchini.
First, the tank tops. A close friend is doing some wardrobe purging. (I know, I've been incredibly blessed this past year with clothing offerings from friends!) I was given a couple of bags of clothing to look at. So, from those I selected some lovely tank tops and a few other things. The rest will be offered to others or donated to Goodwill.
Peaches are in season, and we got a bin with our groceries for a very good price. Usually, we would not get through that much fruit before it spoiled. So, I looked up recipes and decided to poach the peaches and make a light whisky syrup to preserve them. They are supposed to be brandied, but I did not have brandy. Now I have a good size jar of peach preserves in my fridge to use as dessert or other topping.
This past week I got from a gardening friend quite a large yellow zucchini. I decided it would be the makings of our dinner, which was stuffed zucchini. I used some leftover meat sauce, some broccoli and shredded cheese for the filling. It was delicious!
Now, this evening, instead of stewing over writing something more meaningful, I'm going to relax and watch some Netflix shows. Tomorrow is another writing day. :)
I decided to just let it go, cook and eat dinner and then go for a little walk. Normally, writing this late in the day would have me agitated, as it is my lowest energy part of the day. But, here I am, putting together something that will be posted tomorrow. After my initial frustration about this afternoon, I decided that it's a bit of a joke on me about my high expectations.
It sort of reminded me of an experience in my first year of university. I was a small town girl who had been quite academic throughout my school years to date. My expectation of university courses, given that they were being taught in an institution of higher learning, and were costing me money, was that all classes and teachers would be excellent. Imagine my disillusionment the first time I had a dud course or professor!
While I'm fairly selective about the interview series that I sign up for, there are no guarantees that the presentations will meet my expectations. Today, the content of the first one was too little and the second was too much. Oh well, that's life.
So, what will I share about with you instead? How about some of the pleasantries of my day, which include the topics of tank tops, peaches and zucchini.
First, the tank tops. A close friend is doing some wardrobe purging. (I know, I've been incredibly blessed this past year with clothing offerings from friends!) I was given a couple of bags of clothing to look at. So, from those I selected some lovely tank tops and a few other things. The rest will be offered to others or donated to Goodwill.
Peaches are in season, and we got a bin with our groceries for a very good price. Usually, we would not get through that much fruit before it spoiled. So, I looked up recipes and decided to poach the peaches and make a light whisky syrup to preserve them. They are supposed to be brandied, but I did not have brandy. Now I have a good size jar of peach preserves in my fridge to use as dessert or other topping.
This past week I got from a gardening friend quite a large yellow zucchini. I decided it would be the makings of our dinner, which was stuffed zucchini. I used some leftover meat sauce, some broccoli and shredded cheese for the filling. It was delicious!
Now, this evening, instead of stewing over writing something more meaningful, I'm going to relax and watch some Netflix shows. Tomorrow is another writing day. :)
do you have a recipe for those peaches Joan? Man how I love peaches!
ReplyDeleteYes Jody. It's an old school recipe from an old cookbook. Of course, I adapted it to a healthier version. But, I'll type it out for you as it is in the book and you can decide how you want to make it. :)
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