Warm days and windy days
Mar. 12th, 2024 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allekhaOne week till Worlds! Less than one week until my mom and I are on the train to Canada!!! I feel like I've been counting down the weeks for months now, haha. This and last week have turned into a bit of a crunch period at work, so I'm going to appreciate having the time off.
Next month it will be Z and I traveling together - we're going to Bulgaria! Telling people this has caused all of them to ask why we're going to Bulgaria. I've thought it would be an interesting place to visit for a while, but I can't remember why, exactly. Is it because I read some Hetalia fancomics about Bulgaria years ago that I still remember? Was I that impressed by hearing about their yogurt? I honestly don't know where it came from.
Z and I went to both the Asian grocery store (where I grabbed a bunch of inari-age, which they didn't have in stock last time) and the Indian grocery store today, which of course made me crave both Japanese and Indian food at the same time, and also a little bit pad thai (which Z learned to make recently, so we've been having a lot of it). I was a little tempted to order dinner from the local Indian place, but I ended up making vegetable fried udon instead.
So far, I've made some progress on my resolution to read books I already have. I did get a couple of books from the library, but one is for research. The other was Maids, which was close to the last graphic novel on their tiny shelf that looked interesting that I hadn't read yet, based on a real-life early 20th century case where two sisters working as maids murdered their employers. Unfortunately, I didn't like it that much. Some sections were great at conveying the emotions of the sisters, but the ending was extremely rushed, and it was more interesting to look up what actually happened. (I also spent the whole thing wondering if the incestuous vibe between the sisters was intentional or not. Apparently it was a point of speculation in real life, and other fiction based on them has run with it, but it's not clear to me if that's based on any fact or just people trying to make a lurid murder even more lurid.) So far I've really enjoyed my other books, though, and I'm planning to spend more time reading while we're in transit.
Need to start getting seeds going for the garden. I wasn't very pleased with the tomatoes I planted last year - the fruit never darkened all the way and didn't taste all that different from a store-bought one, and they had disease issues despite all the time I spent pruning and attempting to treat them. So I might just do even more eggplant this year, since the variety I have makes small fruits that I couldn't get enough of. I also got some bok choi seeds and a different carrot variety to try - I planted two last year that did very poorly, so here's hoping I get carrots this year.
Next month it will be Z and I traveling together - we're going to Bulgaria! Telling people this has caused all of them to ask why we're going to Bulgaria. I've thought it would be an interesting place to visit for a while, but I can't remember why, exactly. Is it because I read some Hetalia fancomics about Bulgaria years ago that I still remember? Was I that impressed by hearing about their yogurt? I honestly don't know where it came from.
Z and I went to both the Asian grocery store (where I grabbed a bunch of inari-age, which they didn't have in stock last time) and the Indian grocery store today, which of course made me crave both Japanese and Indian food at the same time, and also a little bit pad thai (which Z learned to make recently, so we've been having a lot of it). I was a little tempted to order dinner from the local Indian place, but I ended up making vegetable fried udon instead.
So far, I've made some progress on my resolution to read books I already have. I did get a couple of books from the library, but one is for research. The other was Maids, which was close to the last graphic novel on their tiny shelf that looked interesting that I hadn't read yet, based on a real-life early 20th century case where two sisters working as maids murdered their employers. Unfortunately, I didn't like it that much. Some sections were great at conveying the emotions of the sisters, but the ending was extremely rushed, and it was more interesting to look up what actually happened. (I also spent the whole thing wondering if the incestuous vibe between the sisters was intentional or not. Apparently it was a point of speculation in real life, and other fiction based on them has run with it, but it's not clear to me if that's based on any fact or just people trying to make a lurid murder even more lurid.) So far I've really enjoyed my other books, though, and I'm planning to spend more time reading while we're in transit.
Need to start getting seeds going for the garden. I wasn't very pleased with the tomatoes I planted last year - the fruit never darkened all the way and didn't taste all that different from a store-bought one, and they had disease issues despite all the time I spent pruning and attempting to treat them. So I might just do even more eggplant this year, since the variety I have makes small fruits that I couldn't get enough of. I also got some bok choi seeds and a different carrot variety to try - I planted two last year that did very poorly, so here's hoping I get carrots this year.
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Date: 2024-03-13 02:42 pm (UTC)That trip to Bulgaria sounds SUPER exciting, I hope when you go you'll post about it. <3 I guess it's an unusual travel destination in comparison to some of the more popular ones, but I've heard it's quite nice! I came across some beautiful landscape photos when I was doing research a few months ago, and found myself thinking "Man, it might be cool to visit". Where are you planning on going specifically?
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Date: 2024-03-14 03:15 am (UTC)Yeah, I get why people are a bit 'you're going to... Bulgaria??' on hearing about it, but I'm pretty excited! I'll try to post about what we see there :) We're staying in Sofia, and we may do a daytrip somewhere else as well, but we haven't decided yet.