Holy moly – is it almost April already? I feel like I have been hibernating this winter…just barely existing…eating and sleeping and generally keeping a low profile. Not being terribly productive.
I am starting to peep my head out though, just in time to see the bulbs poking up from the soil, and the buds dotting the winter bare branches, and so I can see things are starting to look up. Before I moved up here I had no idea how exhausting and depressing winter could be. I thought I was a gloomy weather girl. And, well, I guess I still am, but winter far surpasses gloomy, it outpaces it entirely and ends up in the “vast timeless abyss of endless and terrifying ennui” category. I prefer just plain old, run of the mill “gloom”. I have been able to trade a few of the daily treadmill sessions for walks around the neighborhood, and although I would swear up and down I am not a “people person”, it just makes me so glad to see baseball practices at the high school and little old ladies gardening and little old men out and about and taking trips to the Polish deli up the street. Everyone is smiling and nodding and waving and it is just a wonderful feeling – a beautiful time of year. I am sure that by mid-summer everyone will be churlish and grumpy again, but even that’s ok, because I feel like summer crankiness has a bit of a sass behind it. An “I’m hot as hell and you are NOT going to f*ck with me today” type attitude.” Winter grumps are based on depression and exhaustion and a lassitude that makes you just want to say “I give up. What the f*ck. Whatever.” Maybe that is all in my head, but that is definitely the way it feels.
Somehow I lost my memory card for my camera, so now it is only letting me take 5 pictures at a time. In cleaning old things off it, I came across two hearty, stick to your ribs type meals from the past few months. The lighting is very poor here, particularly in the last two since they were actually taken today – I do love some rainy, grey weather, but it is not so great for photo taking: Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic Home made naan and black eyed pea curry.
I really much prefer warm weather food…not to sound like I eat healthy all the time (because I. DO. NOT.) but some of my favourite things to eat are different kinds of salads.This is one that I actually find myself craving – The wheatberry salad from Supernatural Cooking. It’s got a light, lovely citrus dressing, spinach, scallions, feta, and those deliciously textured wheatberries. I make this every other week in the warmer months, along with the Otsu recipe from the same book:
Finally, just in time for spring, I finished up my Froot Loop socks:
Pattern: Froot Loop Socks, from Knitty Spring 2008 Yarn: Malabrigo Sock yarn from WEBS Dates: February 2009-March 2009 Hopefully the advent of spring will bring more enery, more motivation and better lighting!
