Yum. Will have to try that for sure.

Ooh, that sounds like a good breakfast option to add to my repertoire! I do like things I can have ready to go and just pop in the oven.

Hope you're feeling better, msbelle.

Cass, hope that position works out for you.

Tired. Busy week at work, my workplace is the most frustratingly disorganized place I've ever worked. I was distracted all week by my niece being here; I wanted to be doing stuff with her instead of working! Next time she comes, I'll take a couple vacation days.

My niece is a small orange-haired tornado who never stops talking and making random noises. I enjoyed her company and I kinda miss her already, but it is nice to have the house back and a chance to clean. She helped me immensely by clearing the logjam of the biggest mess that I couldn't, mentally or physically, handle by myself. We took 2.5 station-wagon-loads of stuff to the rummage store. But, ironically, she is just a generally messy person. After she cooks, the kitchen looks like a Jackson Pollack painting. So this weekend I'm cleaning up from the clean-out. It was worth it; I truly don't mind, I knew she was messy before I invited her. I just think it's funny that with all the mess she helped me clean up, she created other messes in her wake! Somewhere in it, we've lost a mask, a pair of leggings, and a couple other things that she put down... somewhere... and they disappeared. As I've said before, having ADHD is like living with a poltergeist. Two people with ADHD in one house is a full-on haunting.

Timelies all!

This weekend was supposed to be OVFF(Ohio Valley Filk Fest). Instead, we have a virtual con on Zoom, NOVFF. Not sure when the next in-person con will be. sigh...

DH did training today for tech support election day. He trained on the scanners, printers, and all the voting equipment. As a VST (voting system technician) he keeps stuff running and opens up and shuts down the machines, collects the USB drives and so forth. Pretty cool. His trainer was a young woman named Laura. The training we went to yesterday and his today they stressed that we do not Palm Beach County to make the news this election cycle. He's psyched. I'll be working with voters and him with equipment so maybe we will get it right this time.

Even tho' I have been massively exhausted and in pain lately (chronic health issue flare-up, whee), I am determined to carve jack o' lanterns to put on the back deck. (Where I can enjoy them but not entice trick-or-treaters.) I know I'm not up to gutting the pumpkins, just carving them, so I asked the Madwoman if she'd be willing to help clean them out.

"FUCK YEAH, I LOVE FISTING GOURDS!" was her enthusiastic reply.

"FUCK YEAH, I LOVE FISTING GOURDS!" was her enthusiastic reply.

Love it!!

Also love you guys making it happen, Laura! A friend of mine just got her mother registered today, the last day in MA, so maybe I shouldn't be so smug that everyone I know is all set.

If the Madwoman is okay with straining the seeds from the pumpkin guts, and if you have a cast iron skillet, heat it up to really really hot, toss the rinsed and drained seeds in with a couple dashes of soy sauce until they start hopping around. Some of them will actually pop and puff up. Sooooo damn tasty. Worth the guts-sifting, I swear.

Fingers crosssed for job-having, Cass. Yay for neice's logjam busting, Zen, and for polls-working with B, Laura. Glad the fever broke, msbelle. Hope you continue to get better. Baked oatmeal sounds awesome (and I do like dairy, in moderation. Cheeeese, for example. But not in oatmeal).

"FUCK YEAH, I LOVE FISTING GOURDS!" was her enthusiastic reply.

I love her so much.

The pumpkin guts and seeds separate fairly easily if you soak the whole mess in water.