Adventures in Home (and Pet!) Ownership

Let’s sum up how Sunday afternoon went, shall we?

• The u-bend of the sink jumped off, flooding the kitchen with water and so many bits of potato
• The cat decided that she was going to forget that her litter trays existed and that the downstairs carpet was a great place to go to the bathroom
• The new bathroom lights only come on randomly due to what I believe is a current issue, but wasn’t a problem with the incandescents
• Petrol jumped 20¢ in an hour between ‘I’ll go to the petrol station in a bit’ and ‘wait, am I living in the Weimar Republic all of a sudden?’

(okay, the latter was more of an annoyance than anything else, but still)

All in all, it has cast a bit of a pall over what was a nice weekend. Let’s rack up the positives:

• Yes, water seeped into the bar from above. Not great. But in pulling out what I believed to be a block of wood that was painted black, I discovered that it was in fact a Samsung Bluetooth sound bar. Which includes Optical Digital Input lines (fancy!). It’s been sitting there for a year and I had no clue. Thankfully, it still works.
• I made a new cocktail! Admittedly, it was just hot caramelized white chocolate with a shot of Evan Williams Single Barrel in it, but it was nice?
• Made the first macarons since moving to Cincinncati. And…they turned out really well. No cracks in any of them, perfect footers…just really good (and I normally have the urge to throw the entire batch away after baking, so they did turn out well for me to have no complaints)
• We used transglutaminase for the first time! And I didn’t glue my fingers together!
• I provided a helpful service of translating public school English into American (mainly around the euphemisms for homosexuality). As well as trying (and failing) to explain Curiosity Killed The Cat.
• Meijer also has chocolate digestives, and they’re 70¢ cheaper than Kroger! Result!

Oh, and stroopwafels. Mmmmm, stroooooooopwafels.