Weekly Update

Well, it's been a good week so far. Afternoons has been going well, even if there was some scheduling confusion last night. (Our "planning department" doesn't seem to be so great at, well, planning. Or at communicating that plan.) I made Nutella brownies Monday night, from a recipe in one of ysabetwordsmith's notes on a LIFC story. If I have some brain later, I link link the recipe here so you all can see it.

I've also been messing about with the leftover caramel sauce to see if I could repurpose it. After some failed attempts, a coworker suggested using an ice cube tray to hold the caramels while I coated them in chocolate. I don't have an ice cube tray, but I do have a mini muffin tin. Unfortunately, I had no mini muffin cups, so I used full-sized ones which were less than ideal. I did manage to get chocolate in the bottom, add the caramel puddles, and coat with more chocolate. I sprinkled them with Himalayan Pink Salt and after sitting in the freezer (and later the fridge) they have solidified and are not toooo difficult to eat. They are also super delicious, even if they are Frankenstein-y and probably the least beautiful treat I've ever made. XD

So far I'm on track with my daily tasks this month, though it is still early and it is still kind of difficult. I'm working my way through it though, and I'm very happy that I haven't just abandoned everything and given up. Hopefully we have dry weather this weekend and I can get out in the garden to do some maintenance.

My sister and I just bought a flower arrangement for our mom for Mother's Day, and there is a farmer's market/flower sale in a nearby town this weekend that we are all planning on going to. Hopefully we can find some good plants and have a nice family day together. :)

I hope you all are doing well and that your weeks have been good. Much love and hugs to everyone!

Dammit French

The good news: I'm only three lessons away from regaining my Golden Owl in French on Duolingo.
The irritating news: Course updates made it so that I did, in fact, need to re-earn my Golden Owl, and the two new/updating sections got set to level zero, so it wrecked my progress towards getting everything in French to Level 5.
The annoying news: French has some goofy turns of phrase (as I'm sure English does to second-language learners). In particular, the sentence "Selon moi, un changement est assez peu probable." English translation of the full sentence: "According to me, a change is quite unlikely." Literal translation of the itlaicized bit: "enough (a) little likely." WTF French, wtf?

After some quick googling, "peu probable" translates to "unlikely", and "assez" can be used to mean "quite," so that makes a little more sense, but still. It was entirely foreign was I only had the individual meanings to go off of.

Wheeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

I got my French AND my Hawaiian Golden Owl today! Yay for having afternoon shifts where I can just sit and babysit the machine!

(Small side note: I did previous have these Golden Owls, but course updates mean I had to re-earn them, so I'm still happy about this accomplishment.)