Just one thing: 19 January 2020

[jazzyjj]

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Comments

[siberian_skys]

Last night was productive. I finished and posted my fic from the one_sentence_only table.

[nou]

Good work, and I love the idea of that community!

[siberian_skys]

Thank you.

[nanila]

Made bean stew in the slow cooker.

[siberian_skys]

Any chance of you sharing your recipe?

[nanila]

Heh, well, I tend to make it with whatever tins of beans I have lying about! This time it was:

1 tin chopped tomatoes
2 tins red kidney beans in water (drained)
1 tin red kidney beans in chilli sauce
1 tin baked beans (Heinz)
1 tin butter beans in water (drained)
350mL veggie stock (two stock cubes + boiling water)
ground pepper
salt
oregano
ground cumin
hot smoked paprika
garlic granules (because I'd run out of fresh garlic)

Then put the slow cooker on high for 3.5 hours, stirring occasionally. It seems to have turned out all right.

[siberian_skys]

Thank you so much. It sounds so good. I've got to see what's up with my Mom's slow cooker. I haven't used it since I moved in to help her out.

[nanila]

Partner, who is ill, says it was restorative, and Youngest enjoyed dipping his bread into it, so I'm counting that as a win.

Slow cookers are so great! I use mine all the time for making hot meals in bulk at the weekend and then eating them during the week.

[siberian_skys]

We eat out way too much. I keep thinking I need to cook more, but time is an issue. A slow cooker sounds like a really good answer. And my Mom likes my burrito bowls, so let's hope. :-)

[jazzyjj]

Hung out again w/neighbor friend from across the hall, and then a downstairs neighbor friend and his roommate--who live in my old apartment--invited us over to watch the football game. We watched it and talked amongst ourselves.





I'm starting something new. My neighbor friend across the hall has asked me to keep some coffee of his in my apartment, because he's once again trying to quit altogether. This might not work so well once again, but we'll see how it goes. As far as where exactly in my apartment to store it....last night I had it on my nightstand right next to my iPhone but I don't think I'll keep it there because of people coming in and such. It's in a container with the lid shut, but I don't know what'll happen if someone else finds out. I guess I could find that out for myself, but I don't want him to get in trouble and I don't want to get in trouble either. It's been an ongoing thing with him. He's a great guy and all, but he just has a ton of emotional baggage and I really shouldn't be the one sorting through it all. As much as I want to, I'm just not qualified to do so and I don't think the support staff who live and work here quite grasp that. This guy's living family members are not being much help, if any at all. I think that's starting to factor into the equation, and I've been trying to figure out how to approach this one or just leave it as is and let the chips fall where they may.

[azurelunatic]

How might you get in trouble for keeping someone's coffee?

[nou]

I suspect “coffee” is code for something else.

[azurelunatic]

Fed myself.

Went to bed when tired, which was enough time for me to feel rested in the morning when my alarm went off for my interview.

[nou]

Excellent adulting! I hope the interview went well.

[silveradept]

I had a good time walking, talking, and catching shiny penguins. (And one very shiny raid boss Pokémon.)

[nou]

That all sounds very good!