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wayfaringwordhack- For lunch, J is making a tajine. We don't have pre-made ras el hanout, so I mixed some myself from my well-stocked spice cabinet. I could smell the spices as I crushed them in the mortar. :D My sense of taste is also slowly coming back, and I hope I'll be able to enjoy the tajine in more than just an olfactory way. Sprout and I made a cinnamon roll cake the other day, and all I could taste was the sugar, not a hint of cinnamon. In other ick news, I am much better today, with only a stuffy head.
- I am once again faced with a problem with the cardigan regarding the size. This time it involves the sleeve. For my size, the pattern says I need to keep doing increases, making the top of the sleeve wider and wider. I am fine with it being a bit roomier there so I can put it on over bulkier clothes, but it is getting--what seems to me to be--excessively large. Faced with the conundrum of following the pattern or making adjustments now only to find the join between sleeve and body is not nice, I have opted to lower the number of increases and risk ripping it out later if I have to.
- We are going to Turkey for Thanksgiving. :D I didn't want to say anything certain until hotel and tickets were booked, but as of last night, that is taken care of. Please don't laugh, but part of the reason we are going to Istanbul now is that we were invited to three different Thanksgiving meals and I didn't want two of the families to feel rejected. :P So there you go. It will be colder in Turkey than in Lebanon, and I hope we don't regret traveling in November.
- I finished one of my chapters for TKB and so have completed part of my fiction goal. Going to work on it some more now.
- I have been drawing from photos using the blind-contour technique, but I think I need to shift to more applied line-work to really nail down a character. The days are ticking away until the character design workshop, and I am sure I am going to feel like a complete idjit at the beginning because of my lack of skills. *deep breath* That is OK.
- I am once again faced with a problem with the cardigan regarding the size. This time it involves the sleeve. For my size, the pattern says I need to keep doing increases, making the top of the sleeve wider and wider. I am fine with it being a bit roomier there so I can put it on over bulkier clothes, but it is getting--what seems to me to be--excessively large. Faced with the conundrum of following the pattern or making adjustments now only to find the join between sleeve and body is not nice, I have opted to lower the number of increases and risk ripping it out later if I have to.
- We are going to Turkey for Thanksgiving. :D I didn't want to say anything certain until hotel and tickets were booked, but as of last night, that is taken care of. Please don't laugh, but part of the reason we are going to Istanbul now is that we were invited to three different Thanksgiving meals and I didn't want two of the families to feel rejected. :P So there you go. It will be colder in Turkey than in Lebanon, and I hope we don't regret traveling in November.
- I finished one of my chapters for TKB and so have completed part of my fiction goal. Going to work on it some more now.
- I have been drawing from photos using the blind-contour technique, but I think I need to shift to more applied line-work to really nail down a character. The days are ticking away until the character design workshop, and I am sure I am going to feel like a complete idjit at the beginning because of my lack of skills. *deep breath* That is OK.
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Date: 11 Nov 2022 02:27 pm (UTC)So glad you're feeling better, and I'm enjoying the saga of the cardigan--but most of all I hope it turns out wearable, warm, and that you like it.
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Date: 11 Nov 2022 04:33 pm (UTC)I am happy someone out there can identify with my hilarity-invoking elaborateness, and I am happy J was happy to humor me. hehe
I hope it turns out wearable, warm, and that you like it.
If I had a glass in hand, I would raise it high to that sentiment. :D