Otherling

Well, I finally deposited some money into my savings account that had been sitting in my checking for way too long. I put $1500 in my savings; the most it’s seen since I was saving up for a new-for-me car. Sure, the majority of that was from my tax refund, but hey, at least I didn’t just spend it all. I’m trying to put myself on a biweekly budget of spending $100 on silly things and saving the rest after gas and bills and necessities. Hopefully I’ll stick to it and my savings will continue to grow. :)

So I decided to set mini-goals for myself to help eventually accomplish this goal. I’m trying to cook/bake something at least once a week. I’ve made banana pancakes twice from scratch, the second time was to appease my sister who didn’t get any the first time around, and also made some butter pecan syrup to go along with them. I also just made some apple pecan muffins that were very yummy. We’re all trying to get a little healthier around the house, so I’m hoping to find out how to good yummy, healthy recipes. I might even get brazen enough to cook an actual meal for the entire family… but I’ll get comfortable making some smaller things before jumping into full meals.

I really have been slacking off this year and haven’t paid much mind to any of my books, instead concentrating on diminishing the ever-growing pile of unplayed video games. I finished Arabian Nights translation by Husain Haddawy which I thoroughly enjoyed and plan on buying the other book Sinbad and Other Tales once I finish a lot more books in my library. I decided to jump back into some of my fantasy books and started with Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea series. I finished A Wizard of Earthsea and will be done with The Tombs of Atuan later today. They’re both quite short but excellent reads. Her world is thick with magic and I love the way the story is told as if it happened ages ago but as if you were right next to Ged.