Progress is actually being made
Nov. 5th, 2007 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenepelSo after a not very productive weekend, I actually sat down this Sunday night and brought my wordcount up to scratch. I didn't write at all yesterday because we ended up having a dinner party. (Well, can it be a real dinner party if you don't have a kitchen table?) It was pretty cool actually. Juls really did most of the organising and cooking, and she is just very very impressive. It was French themed - the menu:
Starter - Figs and Camenbert wrapped in panchetta
Main - Coq au Vin, runner beans and roasted corguettes, potatoes au gratin
Cheese course - Brie, Blue Cheese and Gouda with Cumin
Dessert - Apricot Flan
Plus, she and Johnny had picked out a wine to compliment each course. There were only six of us and we went through (I think) 7-8 bottles over the course of four hours or so. Riiiight. It was very fun though. And the food was fabulous. It sounded (and tasted) a lot more complicated than it was to cook, which is quite an interesting lesson. I never cook fancy, but both my flatmates are all about it, so hopefully some of it will rub off on me!
And then I slept in massively today and wasn't very productive. Then I wrote this afternoon, so that was good of me. The thing is I have a problem with this daily deadline - once I hit what the words are supposed to be for that day then I quit writing. Which would be fine, except that I know the second part of this month is going to be much busier and I may not have time to write every day. (Hello - wedding, thanksgiving, just general traveling) So I really need to be storing up extra words now to compensate. But it's not really working out like that yet. Humph.
Starter - Figs and Camenbert wrapped in panchetta
Main - Coq au Vin, runner beans and roasted corguettes, potatoes au gratin
Cheese course - Brie, Blue Cheese and Gouda with Cumin
Dessert - Apricot Flan
Plus, she and Johnny had picked out a wine to compliment each course. There were only six of us and we went through (I think) 7-8 bottles over the course of four hours or so. Riiiight. It was very fun though. And the food was fabulous. It sounded (and tasted) a lot more complicated than it was to cook, which is quite an interesting lesson. I never cook fancy, but both my flatmates are all about it, so hopefully some of it will rub off on me!
And then I slept in massively today and wasn't very productive. Then I wrote this afternoon, so that was good of me. The thing is I have a problem with this daily deadline - once I hit what the words are supposed to be for that day then I quit writing. Which would be fine, except that I know the second part of this month is going to be much busier and I may not have time to write every day. (Hello - wedding, thanksgiving, just general traveling) So I really need to be storing up extra words now to compensate. But it's not really working out like that yet. Humph.
