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Homely Creatures
Feb. 22nd, 2020 08:43 amPage five of The Cat's Inheritance got posted yesterday, I'm pleased with my ability to block out time to work on comics and get them done. Today I plan to lay out the final five pages in Clip Studio, create the panels, roughly sketch the figures, add text balloons and boxes, then convert all those files to Correl for color. I am poking around in my brain for the next story, which I'd like to be a bridge between where we are "now" and taking readers back in time to where Dee and Alia and still living in the Imperial capitol. But I'm also considering just creating a timeline or brief history and having a permanent front-page link to it. I think it might also be fun to create a page on sphinxes from Enguerrand's Guide to Magical Creatures. Enguerrand's Guides are the Peterson Field Guides of Muna.
So, confession time. Since we came back from Disney last month I have been more lax about my eating habits and it's time to straighten that out. I've previously been more of a flexitarian who leans vegan. But I have been finding myself eating more and more animal-based foods lately, so earlier this week I started getting strict with myself. And ... I haven't had problems with my heart arrhythmia, my anxiety has backed off, and I'm starting to sleep better again. Psychosomatic? Maybe. But I still feel better. Prepping dinner will be slightly more involved, since Fox is still an omnivore and I am not pushing him to change his habits. But at worst I'll need to use two saucepans or skillets, so it isn't adding that much more of a burden as far as cleanup. And making things like seitan in advance requires a little planning, and actually making the loaves is not difficult. Ditto pressing tofu if that's something I want. And I already use my Instant Pot to cook large batches of beans, so I can just start making more and portioning them out into quart bags for freezing.
I even feel well enough and less-anxious enough that I baked a pan of vanilla-chai oatmeal bars last night. I don't want something as calorically dense as some of my other energy bars, but the oatmeal ones make a good post-run snack when needed and they don't have a ton of sugar in them. When my training load increases later this year, I'll go back to making the "heavier" energy bars with black beans, dates, avocados and such in them.
Didn't get any test results this week. I know they'll post online well ahead of when the physical letter is generated and mailed, but I was kind of hoping to find out something.
Anyway, I only have one longer article today, The Most Radical Thing You Can Do Is Stay Home, by Rebecca Solnit. Perhaps more of us should begin making the choice to stay at home, so that other people don't have to make the choice to leave their homes.
So, confession time. Since we came back from Disney last month I have been more lax about my eating habits and it's time to straighten that out. I've previously been more of a flexitarian who leans vegan. But I have been finding myself eating more and more animal-based foods lately, so earlier this week I started getting strict with myself. And ... I haven't had problems with my heart arrhythmia, my anxiety has backed off, and I'm starting to sleep better again. Psychosomatic? Maybe. But I still feel better. Prepping dinner will be slightly more involved, since Fox is still an omnivore and I am not pushing him to change his habits. But at worst I'll need to use two saucepans or skillets, so it isn't adding that much more of a burden as far as cleanup. And making things like seitan in advance requires a little planning, and actually making the loaves is not difficult. Ditto pressing tofu if that's something I want. And I already use my Instant Pot to cook large batches of beans, so I can just start making more and portioning them out into quart bags for freezing.
I even feel well enough and less-anxious enough that I baked a pan of vanilla-chai oatmeal bars last night. I don't want something as calorically dense as some of my other energy bars, but the oatmeal ones make a good post-run snack when needed and they don't have a ton of sugar in them. When my training load increases later this year, I'll go back to making the "heavier" energy bars with black beans, dates, avocados and such in them.
Didn't get any test results this week. I know they'll post online well ahead of when the physical letter is generated and mailed, but I was kind of hoping to find out something.
Anyway, I only have one longer article today, The Most Radical Thing You Can Do Is Stay Home, by Rebecca Solnit. Perhaps more of us should begin making the choice to stay at home, so that other people don't have to make the choice to leave their homes.
