procrastinating

[unicornduke]

I am making cookies to take with me on my weekend off as gifts for everyone. they are extremely easy and delicious cornmeal cookies made in the food processor. I am procrastinating it. still sitting here on my computer. it's wild how tired I am right now, the weather has been hot (80-85F) but 65% humidity. I have sweated so much but it doesn't help cool off. no breeze. I would rather it be hotter so I have an excuse to skive off work and go to the creek. instead. I must work and sweat and sweat and sweat. I also drove a fence post into a ground bee nest yesterday and got stung twice, which didn't swell up yesterday but is itchy and slightly swollen today, one on the back of my hand. we are putting plastic on a high tunnel tomorrow morning before I leave. I'm a little concerned about my truck tire that I put on, but the spare looks okay and it's been okay driving around here on the farm but we'll see

to do: 
make cookies
while cookies are chilling, throw laundry in washer and start packing
clean out back of truck
bake cookies
dip some cookies in melted chocolate
put spare tire back on truck

important stuff to bring on trip that isn't obvious
money for seed garlic
tent
camping chair
sleeping bag
crafting project
books
cooler - large (borrow one?) to bring back things from the co-op

a vague grumbly theory that has been forming about my bleh feelings of the living situation is my hobbies. I like being efficient about my hobbies. this is not for everyone. but I like being good at them and being efficient with my time spent on them and finishing projects. living with my parents means that none of my hobbies are efficient. all of my baking supplies are in the pantry, far from the counters and not efficiently stacked for ease of pulling them out. so getting out all of my baking supplies and digging out appliances and getting the pans I need takes up way more time than it used to, even in the apartment where half of my baking supplies were in the living room closet. repeat this for weaving and spinning and sewing. current sewing issue is the lack of surface space. in order to have a surface large enough to lay out a person size piece of fabric to sew it to another piece, I unfold a small plastic table in the hallway upstairs and use that for sewing on. my mom's iron is broken and I never actually owned one myself. 

okay, enough whinging, onward to baking. oh duh, I just ate a huge meal, it's making me sleepy, that's probably why I don't want to get up. 

Comments

[kareina]

There is no way I would consider working in the temperatures you have been having, they are already hot enough to blow off work and be under water in order to survive.

[unicornduke]

I've thought about switching my hours to earlier in the day, but if I have employees coming, most of whom are teenagers, I just work through the day because it isn't fair for them. It's only the boiling hot days we had earlier this summer (90-95F) that I change our working hours and send them home early too. But also if I start earlier, the humidity is higher, so it isn't really a relief