Apple bread, Franglais, Alone time and not-Writing

[yuuago]

☆ I made Apple loaf the other day. It was so good, oh my gods. Highly recommended if one has apples and wants to do something other than pies with them. However, the instructions for the cinnamon topping are not good; one needs to add butter to it, otherwise it will not work properly. I advise to use the crumble topping in the blueberry muffins recipe I posted a few weeks ago instead. Alternately, one can just leave the topping off, like in a regular fruit or vegetable loaf. All that aside, I made three pies again today and now we finally do not have any apples left.

☆ I have started an account at Lang-8 because scrii is a hoser who ropes me into things like this. Basically, one writes journal entries in the language one is learning. Other people can then correct it. Er, I think, anyway. Still figuring it out. The thought of someone reading my 'orrible Franglais is rather embarrassing but it's another way for me to learn, so there is that. But good gods is it ever challenging; I don't really have the vocabulary to write anything so I have to look almost every word up and it takes me about an hour to write a short paragraph, sob. But at least it'll help, I think. After having a conversation with a certain person about this learning French, I think I've somehow become even more stubborn about it than I was before. Not sure where that will lead, but at the very least, I'm determined to actually finish my workbook.

☆ In two weeks my parents will be going south to Jasper, because my father must attend a conference there. This means that I will be alone for a few days. Score! ... Unfortunately, I will have to babysit my brother's dogs during that period of time. Not-score. But on the other-other hand, I know for certain that I'm able to study while alone with the dogs, and I am not able to study when I'm being bothered by my mother every five minutes. So, stupid animals or not, it's still an improvement.

☆ Ahhh I've been slacking on writing so much. orz I've been meaning to do my daily drabbles but there are too many distractions. But I'm going to try to catch up on that... and hopefully when my parents are gone I'll be able to get some real fic-writing done; maybe finish that Swe/Fin fic that I was writing, or at least finish drafting it. And drabble catch-up... and I think (I hope) I'll be able to do the indexing tonight. I really shouldn't have let it go for so long, but I've been all over the place lately! Ahhh ;;;

Comments

[cher-arlequin.livejournal.com]

re: The writing thing--ugh, tell me about it. I keep meaning to write more or work on my original stories but I never seem to get around to it.

[yuuago]

YES. It's hard to get around to it - especially with distractions. I keep saying "okay, I'll do it RIGHT NOW" but five seconds later I get called away to do something and then next thing I know it's 9 PM and I'm too tired to do anything that requires brainpower sob sob sobbbbb щ(ಥДಥщ)

[noonish.livejournal.com]

I LIKE DOGS CAN I COME

[yuuago]

SURE YOU CAN
It'd be nice to have someone else around, because good lord Louie is annoying as fuck, omg

[noonish.livejournal.com]

i bet he's cute

[minninen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that Lang-8 thing looks cool. Too bad I'm not really studying any language right now. I mean, there's English, but, uh... And I can't write Japanese. Et mon français est mauvais. And Swedish we will not even talk about.

Also some Yuu-time for you sounds wonderful. Even with the dogs.

[yuuago]

IT IS. Well so far. And ffff yes your English is... almost perfect. But if it wasn't!

Yuu-time will be excellent. Even with the dogs. Though I don't expect them to be too much trouble - mostly they're the most trouble around supper time, because they act absolutely insane when one is cooking. But I won't be doing much of that. \o/

[scrii.livejournal.com]

♧ man stop linking all these recipes, i seriously have a backlog of things i want to make asdf TOO MANY especially because i'm eating an apple right now and apple loaf sounds really good..
♧ en ole hoser _{good luck with finishing the workbook \o/}
♧ hurrah for time alone! that sounds really great, i hope it's productive for you
♧ getting things done and planning to get things done (regardless of outcome) is always beneficial 8) again, good luck!!
in short ALL THE BEST FOR EVERYTHING

[yuuago]

❁ NEVER. I will keep doing it until I run out of things 8) And yes it is really good.
❁ You're the hoser here, you hoser. And merci <3 I think I can do it!

YOU ARE SUCH A SWEETIE PIE, good lawd.

[yuuago]

Perhaps you should...
We both need to study. o3o
/dork

[katfur.livejournal.com]

Un. Related. News.

Sarah and I are going to be in Saskatoon for a wedding. Wedding is on Saturday, we're driving up Friday afternoon, but we will also be around Sunday-ish.

So two questions...

1) Do you wanna show us your favourite Saskatoon cafe, maybe on Sunday before we head out?
2) Do you and/or someone who's not sketched out by such things have floor space where we might put an air mattress, in the event that my family finds themselves full-up? (We sort of left it to the last minute. But we're also fine with camping somewhere, so feel no pressure.)

[yuuago]

Unfortunately I don't live in Saskatoon any more. I moved back to Fort McMurray about a month ago.

If I was still there, though, I totally would have been willing to put you up.

As for the cafe, it's on the corner of 12th and Broadway right before the bridge; shouldn't be too hard to find.

[katfur.livejournal.com]

Aww, sadface!

Well if we're ever passing through Fort Mac, we'll give you a ring...