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The shelf Grimmie is peering up at is where Boston's ashes and pawprint, Molly, Anya, and Hecate's collar tags, and my roommate's cat Fitz's ashes and pawprint are.
The shelf Grimmie is peering up at is where Boston's ashes and pawprint, Molly, Anya, and Hecate's collar tags, and my roommate's cat Fitz's ashes and pawprint are.
I had to force myself to get up, dressed, and out this morning but I really wanted to get to Old Town to see the Procession of the Matachines. I saw it last year and was surprised to realize it had common roots with Morris dancing. It was just as cool this year and prowling around Old Town paying respects to the ofrendas, browsing a pop-up market, and admiring a wandering cat made for a nice outing.
After getting back home and resting a bit I went dowstairs because there's a block party/twilight market and I ran into the guy who runs the biweekly D&D game at the consumption lounge. He's a great DM and a real sweetheart. I invited him and the friends he was with up for a round of drinks and made a Tom Collins variant with the Earl Grey infused gin and homemade lavender syrup. It was a HIT so I think I can call that drink a success and it was fun to be able to show off the balcony and that VIEW.
The lavender simple syrup came out really well. I used it to sweeten a cup of Earl Grey this morning.
Today's project was lavender simple syrup. Haven't used it yet but the kitchen smells nice.
Whatever else is going on, however bad I feel sometimes, Slarti and Grim can nap in the sunshine waiting for birds to visit the feeder, and there's a view of that huge sky and the mountains behind them.
I made a donation to the food bank, and I haven't been eating out since the move but there's a list of restaurants offering free kids' meals during the SNAP shutdown that I will give my business to if I do.
I made rose petal infused gin yesterday. I don't know yet if it's got the amount of rose flavor I wanted but it's a lovely color.
Sunrise over the Sandias, birds on the feeder for the cats to watch, and even a few hot air balloons over campus.
I also got a delightful video but when I put it on YouTube it went up as a Short and I can't figure out how to embed those.
This is another pic taken from my balcony. Unlike the lenticular cloud in the other shot I hadn't realized there was a mammatus cloud behind the rainbow I was getting a shot of until I looked t the picture.
Here's the roommate playing with their cat Grimalkin and my cat Slartibartfast! Grim loves the new place and Slarti's starting to settle in.
Trying to get back to posting. I'd post pictures of the amazing view from my balcony but I'm not sure who to use for image hosting these days. So I'll talk about my cocktail experiments.
After watching the How To Drink video about the "Earl Grey Mar-TEA-ni" a few times I got a fifth of Trader Joe's in-house gin and a box of Earl Grey to make the tea infused gin. The recipe also calls for egg white which I have been hesitant to try, but I've heard aquafaba works great in applications like this so next time I open a can of chick peas I'll be attempting it that way. But in the meantime I've made a few other things with the Earl Grey gin including a really lovely nightcap - Earl Grey gin, lavender syrup, and half & half.
I was so happy with the way the Earl Grey gin turned out I tried a chai infused rum next. Trader Joe's house brand again. I tried mixing it with some mangosteen nectar, hibiscus-cardamom syrup, and orgeat and that was kind of a muddled mess but not HORRIBLE. Last night I tried the chai rum and orgeat with some lime cordial and ginger juice and that gave a kind of falernum-like effect. Didn't quite stand on its own but I think if I added that combination to some Blood Orange San Pelligrino it'd be really good.
I definitely want to try more infusions. I got a big sack of culinary lavender for my birthday. Gonna infuse some into some (Trader Joe's again lol) limoncello, maybe some into some gin, and probably try making a lavender simple syrup. And after having the smoked whiskey cola at Happy Accidents I am thinking a lapsang souchoung infused whiskey would be good but I am not sure what whiskey to use.
After watching the How To Drink video about the "Earl Grey Mar-TEA-ni" a few times I got a fifth of Trader Joe's in-house gin and a box of Earl Grey to make the tea infused gin. The recipe also calls for egg white which I have been hesitant to try, but I've heard aquafaba works great in applications like this so next time I open a can of chick peas I'll be attempting it that way. But in the meantime I've made a few other things with the Earl Grey gin including a really lovely nightcap - Earl Grey gin, lavender syrup, and half & half.
I was so happy with the way the Earl Grey gin turned out I tried a chai infused rum next. Trader Joe's house brand again. I tried mixing it with some mangosteen nectar, hibiscus-cardamom syrup, and orgeat and that was kind of a muddled mess but not HORRIBLE. Last night I tried the chai rum and orgeat with some lime cordial and ginger juice and that gave a kind of falernum-like effect. Didn't quite stand on its own but I think if I added that combination to some Blood Orange San Pelligrino it'd be really good.
I definitely want to try more infusions. I got a big sack of culinary lavender for my birthday. Gonna infuse some into some (Trader Joe's again lol) limoncello, maybe some into some gin, and probably try making a lavender simple syrup. And after having the smoked whiskey cola at Happy Accidents I am thinking a lapsang souchoung infused whiskey would be good but I am not sure what whiskey to use.
Just realized I have not posted here since before a LOT has changed drastically.
I've been learning to love living in Albuqerque. It's definitely a nifty place. I recently moved into an apartment that I love. It's walkable and busable and has a dishwasher and in-unit laundry and a spectacular view of the Sandias.
Where are we hosting images for posts these days? I have been taking so many pictures.
I've been learning to love living in Albuqerque. It's definitely a nifty place. I recently moved into an apartment that I love. It's walkable and busable and has a dishwasher and in-unit laundry and a spectacular view of the Sandias.
Where are we hosting images for posts these days? I have been taking so many pictures.
I keep meaning to try posting here again. I feel so alone and unheard and I don't know what to do about it.
I hate how sad, scared, and angry I am all the time. I have so many traumas connected to being abruptly forced to move that I can barely get my brain to process what decade it is, let alone do anything useful. And I worry about Slarti. He's been doing so well here and he's had so much to adapt to. Then in such a short time he lost all his friends one by one except for me. TBH, I'm worried about Kuno a little too but she's no longer my concern.
I never got to know enough of Spokane to miss it and that makes me sad too. And I won't see the fall here, and I know it's beautiful.
I never got to know enough of Spokane to miss it and that makes me sad too. And I won't see the fall here, and I know it's beautiful.
I hate how used and discarded I feel. I tried reaching out to Nori so many times about how the isolation was wearing me down, how it wasn't good for EITHER of us for Tony to be the only person I had to talk to. I kept to myself so many times how I felt like I'd only been brought here to be a domestic servant and that I felt like their enthusiastic greetings followed by months of silence made me feel love-bombed and abandoned. Right now I can't find room to believe that using me for all the labor they could get out of me and then discarding me wasn't the plan all along.
Neither is About Me of course but having Sinead O'Connor (Shuhada Sadaqat in her personal life since converting, tho I had to look that up) and Pee Wee Herman passing in quick succession was a blow to my lil Gen X heart.
I'm leaving this private for now. I might delete it or unlock it later. I don't know. I need to get my thoughts out, because I am absolutely suicidal and if this is the thing that breaks me I want the people I love to understand.
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