Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
do-it-yourself, food & drink

questioning my choices

We spent yesterday painting Jake’s room. He wanted the walls painted turquoise and gray so we obliged. I hope we don’t have to paint them white when we put the house up for sale in a few years. As we were painting (a chore that I don’t particularly enjoy), I started lamenting whatever choices I’ve made that have gotten me to this point. Don’t most people pay other people to do their home improvements?

Conversely, I didn’t mind spending 4+ hours making cheese today. Yes, I know you can buy cheese and Giant Eagle and it doesn’t take 4 hours to do it. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I would’ve rather made cheese yesterday than paint Jake’s bedroom.

But, I guess I need to get those thoughts out of my head as we are also painting our bedroom, the living room, the dining room and hallway in the short term.

pets

the dogs

Alice had the growth on her lip removed today. She’s faring well enough, though is pretty groggy at the moment. I’m sure she’ll be doing much better tomorrow.

Buster is still a maniac. We’ll be upping his Prozac on Saturday, so I’m hopeful things will start to improve after that. I think he was slightly better this week than last, but I wouldn’t want every week to be like this.

food & drink

cheese marvelous cheese

I’m attempting the cheese thing again this year. I say “attempting” because I haven’t been overly impressed with my previous attempts. Yesterday, I made parmesan cheese. I tried doing the same thing last year, but parmesan is supposed to age without wax and mine got all moldy and was rendered inedible. I haven’t had any mold issues with the cheese that I have waxed, so I’m going to wax the parmesan and see how that goes. I’m also going to make manchego cheese and a batch or two of cheddar. Hard cheese has to age for a while so I won’t know the results of my efforts any time soon.

pets

prozac: day 1

Buster started taking Prozac today. It’s going to take a couple of weeks to build up his dosage so we probably won’t be able to tell if it’s working for a bit. He was kind of a pain in the neck this past week (when he was on a very small dose of his old medication), so I can only assume/hope that we will see an improvement soon.

books

frankenstein: prodigal son

This was a book written jointly by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson. I was a little wary at first given my disdain for the co-written James Patterson novels, but I was pleasantly surprised to find the novel very Koontz-ish. That said, there was nothing new going on in this book, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I find that distance makes the heart grow fonder in my relationship with Dean Koontz’s books. I start to get bored with him if I read too many too quickly. That said, I will be reading the next book in his Frankenstein series next. So, I’ll probably be good for a while after that.

My rating: 3.5/5