Birthdays, Cooking and Squashing Covid
April 13, 2020
On April 8th I woke up and three friends had sent me articles on New Zealand squashing the curve. Every day I check the numbers. United States, New Zealand, California, New Mexico and Colorado. I think I'm transitioning from justifying my choice to run away to New Zealand to feeling bad that I think life will become much nicer for me much sooner than most of the people close to me. Well, let's not focus on that too much.
Instead: birthdays and wine! I think I said that it is 5/8 people in my bubble's birthday during lockdown. Jacqueline and Jeremey brought me cake in bed on my birthday as I was working, which was a lovely surprise.
One of my gifts was The Sisters wine which I absolutely love the label on and took a picture immediately. Jacqueline made me a super lovely charcuterie plate for my birthday lunch and sat it in front of me as I worked away on my laptop. I nibbled on it throughout the afternoon.
I think weekends might turn into "Tortilla days" as I have now made corn and flour tortillas from scratch, something I had never done before in two weekends in a row. This morning I made myself a breakfast burrito using a "wrap" from the store and knew I could do so much better (even our tortillas in the store are better than that.) First day of my weekend I made corn tortillas and green chile chicken enchiladas. Second day of the weekend I made flour tortillas.
Ah- there were two random things I wanted to bring up. I got an email from Mudbrick, a winery on the island of Waiheke, just off of Auckland. So far we've just been ordering wine from Martinborough and Napier/Hastings. Mudbrick has a super lovely restaurant, Augustus, that we were going to go to with the original New Zealand trip plans for my friend's birthday. I've been amiss not ordering from them! Well- maybe after lockdown because we still have quite a lot of wine.
The other random thing: I had never noticed over all these years how the birds chirping in New Zealand is so "much fuller" than at home. There are just way more birds. I meditate using a muse and it has bio feedback with chirping birds. Yesterday I turned off the volume and decided the birds outside were my biofeedback. I got a 83% calm rating which seems to be quite darn good for me these days. Maybe I just need to pretend that I'm doing a great job and making all the birds chirp and it will be true. If I just pretend that I'm doing a great job and insist on it and stomp my feet and blame everyone and everything else for anything that goes wrong that must work. Seems to work for some other people.
On April 8th I woke up and three friends had sent me articles on New Zealand squashing the curve. Every day I check the numbers. United States, New Zealand, California, New Mexico and Colorado. I think I'm transitioning from justifying my choice to run away to New Zealand to feeling bad that I think life will become much nicer for me much sooner than most of the people close to me. Well, let's not focus on that too much.
Instead: birthdays and wine! I think I said that it is 5/8 people in my bubble's birthday during lockdown. Jacqueline and Jeremey brought me cake in bed on my birthday as I was working, which was a lovely surprise.
It would not be a birthday in 2020 without an online party. My good buddy John, my adventure buddy, suggested it and said I can even let people know two hours before hand. Well- I celebrated my New Zealand birthday in New Zealand and then my American birthday with all my friends from all over. We can now invite people to our parties from all over the world! It is 2020!
And some can even be potato heads. Or whatever this is.
I think weekends might turn into "Tortilla days" as I have now made corn and flour tortillas from scratch, something I had never done before in two weekends in a row. This morning I made myself a breakfast burrito using a "wrap" from the store and knew I could do so much better (even our tortillas in the store are better than that.) First day of my weekend I made corn tortillas and green chile chicken enchiladas. Second day of the weekend I made flour tortillas.
Ah- there were two random things I wanted to bring up. I got an email from Mudbrick, a winery on the island of Waiheke, just off of Auckland. So far we've just been ordering wine from Martinborough and Napier/Hastings. Mudbrick has a super lovely restaurant, Augustus, that we were going to go to with the original New Zealand trip plans for my friend's birthday. I've been amiss not ordering from them! Well- maybe after lockdown because we still have quite a lot of wine.
The other random thing: I had never noticed over all these years how the birds chirping in New Zealand is so "much fuller" than at home. There are just way more birds. I meditate using a muse and it has bio feedback with chirping birds. Yesterday I turned off the volume and decided the birds outside were my biofeedback. I got a 83% calm rating which seems to be quite darn good for me these days. Maybe I just need to pretend that I'm doing a great job and making all the birds chirp and it will be true. If I just pretend that I'm doing a great job and insist on it and stomp my feet and blame everyone and everything else for anything that goes wrong that must work. Seems to work for some other people.
❤️ Also, I may need those tortilla recipes.
ReplyDeleteflour: https://www.annabel-langbein.com/recipes/fresh-flour-tortillas/419/
Deletecorn: I just followed the recipe on a package of corn flower: https://www.finecooking.com/article/masa-harina-a-mexican-pantry-staple
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