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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2018-01-02 10:04 am
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Notes on a Gregorian year

Culinary skills acquired:
  • whetstone use (after a fashion)
  • baby's first marmalade
  • Kardemummebullar
  • cheese-making! (paneer; an ambition for the next year is mozzarella)
  • pasta (gosh but wrangling the machine is An Adventure)
  • macarons (via the magic of Italian meringue)


Miscellaneous other skills acquired:
  • finished the Duolingo Turkish tree
  • seriously levelled up in hair-dying skills (including managing a pretty good rendition of this general principle on a friend with a hair type I hadn't previously bleached or dyed, but I'm also pretty pleased with a peacock-shades oil slick, and Adam's current rainbow gradient from roots to ends)
  • submitted baby's first first-author paper, with Significant General Academic Progress, particularly with respect to Having Boundaries
  • acquired a physio/exercise regime that works for me (and then promptly let it lapse, but having acquired the principles I can come back to them)
  • substantially levelled up in technical writing on a reasonable and sustainable schedule
  • so. much. emotional. regulation.
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sylvaine: Dark-haired person with black eyes & white pupils. (Default)

[personal profile] sylvaine 2018-01-02 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
This is all super exciting, wow 💙
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[personal profile] venta 2018-01-02 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, mozzarella :( I have failed to achieve mozzarella before, at which point a lot of people told me that they failed too. So good luck, and may you have more success (please report back!)
mathemagicalschema: A blonde-haired boy asleep on an asteroid next to a flower. (Default)

[personal profile] mathemagicalschema 2018-01-02 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
heck yes \o/

have you ever tried to make mascarpone before? that's a super-easy "cheese" that's fun to make.

finding Exercise That Works is so good, omg. that's what weightlifting has been for me; I want to be more consistent about it but to the extent that I am not, that's purely because of logistical issues and not any actual aversion to doing it.

Duolingo got me started learning Chinese, recently :D though I've since found other resources to supplement; it leaves an awful lot implied or unsaid.

wishing you an excellent 2018 <3
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