cosmolinguist | jerkbrain and soup (Reply)

When asked what I want to do after dinner tonight -- it was determined that I would get to decide since I'm the one who's back to work tomorrow (I forgot D has an extra day off) -- I couldn't think of anything.

My usual go-to is "a walk?" but the weather has been grim all day, just ask poor Gary, who's been very stoic about having to go outside to pee but hasn't wanted many of the dozen walks he usually asks for in a day. Not even the after-dinner walk which is usually the one certain time he'll ask for a walk!

To explain my lack of energy or interest in doing anything this evening, I said "my brain is being a jerk to me today." Which prompted MB to say "Well the next time your brain tries to be a jerk, tell it that you made really good soup!" That made me smile.

For good and adequate reasons, we'd ended up with two butternut squashes in the festive period, and after only a week or so of saying I'd made them into soup, I did. Creamy soup (as much as my possibly-dying stick blender could puree it, anyway!) that also included fresh thyme we'd inherited recently.

I haven't made soup so much since I moved here but used to do this kind of thing all the time; it's fun to be back to it and nice to hear that someone could be looking forward to it and not disappointed by it!