Memo to myself.

[rivka]

Hot tea, a couple of Carr's ginger lemon cremes, a big fleecy sweater, silk longjohns, and knitted mukluks go a long way towards mitigating a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

I came home thinking I would crawl into bed and refuse to come out again, ever. Now I'm just about ready to put my shoes and coat on and go out to the grocery store.

I need:
butter
confectioner's sugar
vanilla
for curiousangel's birthday cake, plus an additional cake for the neighbor who helped me this morning when my car first wouldn't start and subsequently, post-jump start, made scary noises, even though it meant he had to stand out in the bitter cold and wind with me for ages.

Advil
for the cramps and the twisted ankle.

gauze pads
bandage tape
for the scraped knee, which is too big for a band-aid and too raw to leave uncovered just at the moment.

chocolate
for general consolation purposes. In particular, for feelings of betrayal regarding the person who has probably been lying to me, and whom I have been defending to other people.

"My Mom says that some days are like that. Even in Australia."

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I adore Ginger-Lemon Cremes. *sigh*

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Nng!

Mm.

[ex-helygen254.livejournal.com]

Even though your mood isn't that bad any more: *hugs*

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're feeling better.:) Sending GoodThoughts for the knee, the ankle, the cramps, the car and things in general.

Gesi

[kiya]

Alexander! rivka quotes Alexander!

*swoon*

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

In Australia, you'd have scraped elbows, a twisted wrist, and a bad sore throat. Furthermore you'd be required to make a pineapple upside-down cake, even if you didn't like pines or apples.

Your car would still have made scary noises because cars are like that everywhere.

Carr's ginger lemon cremes would help in either hemisphere because Carr's are like that everywhere.

And my sympathy, just in case that would help, too.

And I wish Livejournal would let me edit a response without deleting and reposting it.

[redbird]

But would she--or anyone--be required to eat the pineapple upside-down cake? And what if, given the scraped elbows and all, it came out as an applepine upside-down cake? Or an apple up-pine downside cake?

(You have my sympathy as well, in between the silliness.)

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

for general consolation purposes. In particular, for feelings of betrayal regarding the person who has probably been lying to me, and whom I have been defending to other people.

Ouch. I kinda know that feeling, and it's not a whole lot of fun. I hope it gets better.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

*hugs* sounds like a bad day all round.... glad you're feeling a little better.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

There's a shop in Lancaster that sells pine furniture, and they're called PIneapple, and in the window they have one. An apple, made of pine. It's quite small -- about the size of a grapefruit, and relatively subtle, and every time I used to walk past it I would smile.

Pineapple upside-down cake is a good thing. Why haven't I made it in ages? Oh, becase Rysmiel doesn't like pineapple. I should try making it with apple.

And *hugs* Rivka. If you have ordinary sugar, you can make it into icing sugar with a mortar and pestle. I discovered this at about 7am on Zorinth's birthday.

[fourgates.livejournal.com]

Sooooo... How did the cake turn out?

Re:

[rivka.livejournal.com]

curiousangel's cake is yummy. I perhaps could have taken it out of the oven five minutes sooner, because it's not quite as moist as my chocolate cake usually is. I don't know how the neighbor's cake turned out, but he was really surprised and pleased to get it.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

If you have ordinary sugar, you can make it into icing sugar with a mortar and pestle. I discovered this at about 7am on Zorinth's birthday.

Goodness! I admire your motherly dedication. I would never in a million years have found this out. (It probably helps that we have a grocery store five minutes away that's open 24 hours.)

Are the quantities the same? Does a cup of regular sugar make a cup of icing sugar?