Thread:Superkenzie/@comment-33437691-20200103172834/@comment-33437691-20200123172608

Yes, I can easily imagine see how your afternoon progressed--yet again...I also had stacks of recipe magazines though in my case they were all Bon Appetit. Not that I was/am a gourmet cook; I just enjoyed reading the recipes (okay, I confess, I enjoyed the pictures more). Years back, I staged a few dinner parties where I would cook a full menu from one of the magazines, but that didn't last. I had an eclectic bunch of friends with whom I had lots in common but they didn't find many commonalities between them, so I guess I was the eclectic personality. Not that they weren't friendly to each other or that there wasn't a lot of laughter, it just wasn't a sustainable project, much as I wanted the experience (both in cooking and in socialability) And a few of the women thought they "should" reciprocate, even though I insisted I was doing this for the experience, not having any other way to cook meals of those proportions and scope. I never went for the hugely expensive menus some of those recipes called for (swordfish? really? oh, it says "fresh" swordfish; what a relief' I thought it meant canned). Et cetera. And I say 'had' a stack of magazines: one day many years ago, I attempted a project such as yours. I had the bright idea of going through them and cutting out the recipes that I just might conceivably attempt one day, and also cutting out some of the beautiful pictures, not just of food, but of designs, cities...there are so many images in those magazines that are worth a longer than fleeting glance. A detail here: I had about 2' (yes, two feet) worth of magazines to go through. My kitchen/dining room table was covered for about a week. I was gluing the recipes to coloured construction paper and fussing in all kinds of ways that would have been great if I'd had about 4 inches of magazine material to deal with. So, I've ended up with one 1/2 filled 2" binder containing this artistic feat (the only way to describe it, because I made no attempt at organizing anything so practical as by recipe, main ingredient, etc...and this was intentional; I still love looking at that binder. As for the rest of the magazines: I ripped out the index page at the back, then went through the magazine and discarded all the articles and uninteresting ads, and placed each month in a plastic folder insert and so reduced my 2' of  easily toppled magazines to just over a foot of totally manageable binders that I'm sad to say I almost never look at. The internet has made that kind of search a bit meaningless, but I still haven't been able to throw them away. I probably (possibly) wlll do just that if I ever have to move again, otherwise, I don't need the shelf space for anything else so I've got better things to do!

Finally, a difference: I am a morning person! Or I was. This year I've been sleeping in to 8 o'clock, which for me used to feel like the day was half over. It seems so much darker this year. Come the spring and lengthening days, however, I really do rise with the sun. Come to think of it, I am still doing that, because I wake up with the change of light from absolute dark to the grey of dawn before the sun creeps over the horizon--though in Vancouver, that is a reflection on the cloud cover. I love this place, but it sure fits the Hollywood image of the nuclear winter sky at times.

You wrote that you had used a golden chicken, which inspired me to use a few of the dozens of talismans I've collected but haven't needed since time-travelling eliminates all energy needs (run of out time; change the date!). So I activated about 5 of the "use for 1 day" talismans, including the regeneration type, and actually, it was better because I didn't spend so much time at the computer. It's not so much the game I'm addicted to as the audiobooks I listen to while I'm playing--that Is my achilles heel. I love reading, and since I do handcrafts audiobooks fulfill that need for stories. I used to write and still have an unfinished series of novels that I intended to condense--I wrote out the backstory to many of the scenes, which really aren't necessary for a reader but which I needed for consistency and for the sheer fun of writing.

Now you know the reason behind these long screeds I write! I'm a fast typist! And I love reading what you write. A happy match, however it came about. I hope your magazine project has progressed better than mine. All the best!