To celebrate new job, new chapter, new me... I splurged on a set of All-Clad D3 pots and pans.
Not a bunch, just your basics, as I also frequently use cast iron. But teen dislikes cast iron (even the enamel pots) and I will admit they're not always best suited to a task.
I am so excited. Literally the snow white meme on the window waiting on them to get here.
I've lusted after an all-clad set for years. Big BIFL energy.
Woke up really early this morning. So, got my work out of the way for the most part. Quiet day at the barn so less likelihood I'll need to rapidly rearrange the schedule.
Did some kitchen tidying and a little more unpacking.
I think I'm going to play Endless Ocean after lunch!
baked 6 dozen sugar cookies with little horse cutouts
made pasta from scratch
made marinara from scratch
practised Japanese vocab
played Borderlands 1 a bit
played Horizon Zero Dawn a bit
I'm really pleased at just how much I've had the physical and mental spoons to get things done. A crash is probably forthcoming, but it's not here now!
Woohoo spring! Looks like both my Thai Cons, my Monstera D, and my White Wizard are all gearing up to give me a new leaf!
I got all 4 back in December? January? a while ago. I bare-rooted them all, minus one of the Thai Cons as an experiment, and replanted them into leca as soon as they got home.
They are ✨thriving✨
They spent the last month at my friend's house when I was away.
My broken and tired old lady brain has finally, mostly, gotten the hang of basic hiragana (pls don't ask me about how the katakana is going lol).
So now ofc the lessons in Genki have added kanji and my brain is struggling hard.
Hiragana at least is phonetic, sound it out... say the word. Kanji is a whoooole other thing and from what I understand it's just straight memorizing. Something I have never been good at.
Thank goodness at least that they use furigana (where they put the hiragana above the kanji) in the lessons atm. But that's probably going away at some point I'd guess.