(Backup) Two day week— five day weekend

Monday was MLK day, Tuesday was a snow day and today was an Arctic Academy day.  Teachers at school kids at home. I spent nearly all of the time planning for the high school class.  Do you have any idea how many different versions of Brahm's Lullaby there are? Yo yo Ma and Nat King Cole were my favorites.

The requested ponytail hat remained on the requestees head all day today.  It kind of cracked me up.  Maybe just because it was so pleasing to me.

Here she looks like a Barbie doll (minus the ridiculous proportions)

I walked a lot today.  Grabbed the first grade teachers for some laps around the gym. Then went to the gym gym and did 3 miles with one mile of intermittent running. I saw a recipe online about healthy comfort food. I didn’t follow it but used some of the ingredient ideas.  I am not disappointed with the result. Quinoa, firm tofu, carrots, spinach, cherry tomatoes, olive oil, tamari sauce, cumin, and a little chili powder.

I've started a hundred knitting projects. None have stuck. This one is called the Mithril Beanie on Ravelry. It uses the honeycomb stitch whic I like but one mistake and it’s time to start a new one because I surely can not read those stitches/rows.

Finally I am reading a beautiful book about and titled Silence: in the age of noise by Erling Kagge. I am constantly in search of silence. And when it’s there I often forget to embrace it. This book will be my friend for a good while.  I can feel it.

Meanwhile in the tundra...

Children did not report to school Wednesday or today.  Teachers were supposed to but there is no way I could keep myself busy and I took sick days.  Sick of going out in the cold, that is.

Having an easy week and some extra time before zumba, a trip to the grocery store garnered a variety pack of mushrooms, some wonton wrappers, a box of spice cake mix and a can of pumpkin.

I made mushroom ravioli that tasted much better than it looked.  I soaked some cashews before I went to zumba and made a garlic cream sauce for the ravioli.  Wontons were a little thin.  It also took a million hours to make the ravioli that wanted to fall apart anyway.

I put the pumpkin in the spice cake mix, put that mixture into muffin cups and had some oh so delicious not full of sugar milk and butter muffins.  They were amazing.  The recipe came from the counselor at school.

For the hour to and from work the one day this week I started watching Fat, Sick and Almost Dead. The guy juices to get healthy.  While I've been doing great with protein supplement and beans, I've been pretty burned out on vegetables.  So today there was this from the food processor. 

 I drank it all which means for dinner I had 2 apples, 2 baby oranges, 8 baby carrots, 4 dates and a half of bag of spinach.  It did not taste horrible.  And I'm full (for now).  I will be investigating juicing further, possibly this summer.

And on the knitting front, a teacher asked for a ponytail hat and her wish was my command.  I made one for myself but it was a little shorter than it should have been.  It works, but not as well.