The Good and Bad

I’ve been playing in the kitchen a bit lately. I go between wanting old standby type dinners (veggie burger+broccoli+apple is a popular combination) and trying new things. For Valentine’s Day, I made ratatouille-polenta ‘pot pie’ (the polenta was spread over the finished ratatouille and everything was baked), from a 1999 issue of Vegetarian Times. It was a success. Tonight I’m making palak paneer for myself — not new for me, but I don’t make it very often.

Pepping up my cilantro in a cup of water. I took another photo for the ten euro group, which you can see here.
Now, on with what I will call ‘The Good and The Bad’.
The Good: As I mentioned before, February has been a really productive month so far, and it continues to be so. I’ve done more sewing in the past couple of weeks than I have for months, and I’ve actually been doing things rather than thinking about them. I realized the other day that this is probably because I started running again. The chemical dolphins get in one’s brain and fill one with vim and stick-to-it-ness. Hooray for running! Let’s run every day!
The Bad: I hurt my foot and can’t run for a while. I think I overstetched some of the connective tissue in my arch, so I’ll have to take it easy for a while. Well, crap.
The Good: I went to yoga today instead of running, and it was good (and didn’t strain my foot).
The Bad: Yoga is hard! I haven’t down-dogged since university, and this morning’s class proved to me how weak I am. It’s funny how being fit and being running-fit have nothing to do with each other.
The Good: I had a coupon for Mill End Textiles, so I bought fabric (for the shirt I made and for the dress I’m planning to make) yesterday for a grand total of $6. That’s the way to do it! I came home and stuck them in the washing machine so I could get to work right away. A bit later, I was feeling both cold and tired, so I thought I might have a little lie-down in my bedroom, which stays toasty warm with the doors closed. ‘I’ll just move the laundry to the dryer first,’ I told myself, and headed down into the basement. At this point, acceptable discoveries/substitutions to my plan would have included A) Finding a hidden room in my basement with a working fireplace and a box of calorie-free, vegetarian s’mores. B) Seeing that the cats had learned to clean their own catbox and had done so. C) An unopened birthday card that had slipped down the stairs and which, upon opening, proved to contain several scratch-off lotto tickets, all big winners. Instead. . .
The Bad: The laundry sink had overflowed and flooded the basement! So instead of having a nice, warm nap, I stood in my cold, wet basement and mopped up water. Not an even exchange, in case you were wondering.
The Good: At least it was laundry water, not toilet water.
So, despite a few disappointing events, I would say that I’ve been mostly Good over all. Particularly because of that last point.