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I'm sipping a tasty cafe con leche and trying to decide on ornament boxes. I don't want to unwrap copious amounts of paper towels next year. I want one so that I can see all of ornaments because we have more than I can put up and it's currently a first unwrapped first up situation.

I also need to deal with sorting and dealing with the papers and such set to the side for going through later.

And then organize the fridge for cooking. I want to make some German potato salad this week since I found Ian's grandma's recipe. It's a warm potato salad with a vinegar, bacon, and sugar sauce. I loved it and was sad when we lost the written recipe. But while sorting books we found a written recipe book Ian's mom never uses, she hates cooking, we found that. It also had a recipe for Grandma's strawberry rhubarb pie and zucchini bread.

Bitsy is singing a song so I've gotta go cuddle a cat.

In a good news moment my rash is improving so it's likely it was caused by lamictal.

Edit: Also woke up this morning to a take shelter tornadoes were likely warning but thankfully nothing happened.

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I tend to walk a fine line between going by the recipe and doing what I want. Even when I weigh ingredients - it's a bit over? That'll be fine. An ingredient I don't like? Let's leave it out or substitute it with something that I do like. And when it comes to garlic I might leave it out or go straight ahead and double the amount depending on my mood. Or anything in between. :D

And I think the only reason I try to stick to recipes is because I try not to eat it all in one go or have leftovers for multiple days. Especially if my freezer is already full. Although since the pandemic I've stopped going out for lunch at work (and if it's just to the local grocery store) and brought my own which does make it easier to deal with leftovers as well as I can just plan and pack anything for work. I find it really hard to cook for just one person.