(no subject)

I was cranky all morning because I overslept and half the office is out and omg if I could set people on fire with my brain then New Guy would not have lasted the day. God he's annoying. I know this job wasn't his choice, but it's not my fault people want him to do the shit he's supposed to be paid for.

Then a care package from Mum arrived, and I can't be unhappy when she sent me:

A package of marshmallow peeps
A bottle of dried Valencia Orange Peel
A pastry knife (got one already; I suppose having two never hurts)
Three packages of gluten-free baking mixes from Bob's Red Mill (gluten-free cornbread? How's that work?)
A bag of jerky and a box of Mac&Cheese for R
A random package of rice crackers
A large box of dried mushroom mix, because "I don't know what to do with this"
THE GIGANTIC HEAD OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER.

The ICA is apparently doing a retrospective, and they sent out this poster of BUCKMINSTER FULLER'S GIANT HEAD which she then sent on to me. I'm going to frame it and hang it on my wall next to the Medium Sized Head Of Barack Obama.

QUESTION: Do we think that I could mix reconstituted mushrooms into cornbread for a delicious treat, or would that be weird and gross?

BONUS QUESTION: What if I also added bacon?

(no subject)

Occasionally my life requires Three Things. But don't worry! There are no spoilers. Well, maybe one spoiler.

1. I just took a two hour nap. It was delicious in so many ways. Not the least of which was waking up and realising that in a few hours I can go back to sleep!

2. In unpacking my bag after work, I found that I had missed listing the two packages of taco seasoning and recipe for taco pie that Mum included. I only mention this because she knows I don't actually....like taco seasoning, or tacos. Then I found the note folded up with the recipe, saying "Make this for R!" My mother sent me a package of delicious food and chores to do.

3. By the way, Bob's Red Mill "Chocolate Cake Mix"? I just looked at how you make it. Add butter, eggs, milk...water...vanilla...so, you know. Basically, it's CHOCOLATE FLAVOURED FLOUR (or a weird mix of flours, because it's gluten-free, which, I LIKE GLUTEN). It's like buying "Yorkshire Pudding Mix". You know what goes in your basic yorkshire pudding? Flour, eggs, and milk. If you buy Yorkshire Pudding Mix, you are buying really prettily dressed flour. (The secret ingredient of yorksire pudding is DANGER: heating drippings to the smoking point and then pouring batter into them. Oh, the third-degree burns!)

3a. Damn, now I want yorkshire pudding.