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Jan. 7th, 2007 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kamomilI'm having a very mellow evening.
I basically did nothing all day... well I tried to make my stereo talk to both my computer, and the media speakers I have in my bedroom and kitchen, ie so that I can listen to podcasts and mp3s anywhere in my apartment. I went to radio shack, and spent maybe a couple hours fighting with my crap soldering gun, assembling my wiring to make my life 2% easier than it was yesterday.
I puttered around, did some sewing too.
But what was magical tonight was I went for a walk... as I got to the wooded area of my walk, halfway, I saw a wolf, or some other canid lifeform, so I turned back. Then I saw a raccoon, roly poly fellow. It was very quiet and I had few cares of the day rolling through my mind. During this walk, I somehow got the idea to make some mulled wine.
So I'm drinking some now. It's about half cranberry juice. The rest is a red wine that is probably kind of bitter by now, some orange juice, 4 tsp sugar, and a wee bit of each of cloves and cinnamon. Mmm! I heated it up and it's a very toasty warm drink. It'd be a nice thing to make for company at Christmas. I might try more cranberry juice next time - I've had this long-standing idea that I could nuke cranberry juice and make a warm drink out of it, but it's never really panned out till now. According to some recipes off the internet that I borrowed from, it's supposed to be heated for hours, the flavours blending. I might experiment further. It's a bit like cider, with the spices, but mmm the spicy warmness is good.
I basically did nothing all day... well I tried to make my stereo talk to both my computer, and the media speakers I have in my bedroom and kitchen, ie so that I can listen to podcasts and mp3s anywhere in my apartment. I went to radio shack, and spent maybe a couple hours fighting with my crap soldering gun, assembling my wiring to make my life 2% easier than it was yesterday.
I puttered around, did some sewing too.
But what was magical tonight was I went for a walk... as I got to the wooded area of my walk, halfway, I saw a wolf, or some other canid lifeform, so I turned back. Then I saw a raccoon, roly poly fellow. It was very quiet and I had few cares of the day rolling through my mind. During this walk, I somehow got the idea to make some mulled wine.
So I'm drinking some now. It's about half cranberry juice. The rest is a red wine that is probably kind of bitter by now, some orange juice, 4 tsp sugar, and a wee bit of each of cloves and cinnamon. Mmm! I heated it up and it's a very toasty warm drink. It'd be a nice thing to make for company at Christmas. I might try more cranberry juice next time - I've had this long-standing idea that I could nuke cranberry juice and make a warm drink out of it, but it's never really panned out till now. According to some recipes off the internet that I borrowed from, it's supposed to be heated for hours, the flavours blending. I might experiment further. It's a bit like cider, with the spices, but mmm the spicy warmness is good.
