Accomplishments

In spite of crappy internet connections, I got two online homeworks done, edited through three chapters of notes for nursing A&P and two for my major A&P. That took all freaking day. Thank god my brother/mother/SiL aren't coming because it would have killed me to try this and clean at the same time. Of course this place is getting to be even more of a mess.

And Happy birthday to dragonydreams I hope it was a good one.

I'm also learning I still don't like audio books. I'm listening to one of the many ones I got from the library sale. I can concentrate and read but audio books descend into white noise for me.

I finished another chapter for Blood Red but I'm not sure I'll finish this before the end of the year. I'm terribly disappointed. I've almost finished the Halloween flash fic too.

I have to remember to NOT try any dish that involves me slow cooking any meat to make it 'tender.' No matter what I do, no matter how closely I follow the recipe when I start with a tough cut of meat that needs slow cooked tenderizing I end up with a ridiculously tough piece of meat at the end. I have no idea what I do wrong. I cook so many things well. I don't know why I can't do this? Tonight's failure was osso buca using beef shanks (not veal). Thankfully it was manager's special so not very expensive. However since the broth that was supposed to tenderize it was a mix of carrots, celery, onions, chicken broth and white wine, I have created one hell of a stock. Tomorrow it'll become beef barley soup so all is not lost.