Coffee and talking
Jul. 23rd, 2013 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightlotusmoonI just realized that I haven't posted in a while, not here. Busy, I guess, reading all those books I haven't read. Damn Kindle devices and all that. Over the weekend, my college best friends came for a visit, the first time since 2001, and it was fantastic. In DC, at the the Smithsonian Museum of American History, I got a wheelchair from security, and Tish and Rin were happy to push me around. The Spy Museum, The Cooking exhibit, the Golden Books exhibit, even the gift shop (at which I bought a Military Space Pen and a copy of The Shy Little Kitten from Little Golden Books, and also a stainless steel water bottle with ninjas on, and a coffee tumbler with kisses and femme fatale quotes on).
Rin taught me about cold-brew coffee, and now I am all about it. Yesterday, I left the French Press brewing from seven at night to eleven in the morning, and today I set it up at seven again... I will probably let it sit until ten or eleven tomorrow morning. I am still astounded by the smoothness, the lack of acidity. It still needs chocolate and sugar (cocoa, maple syrup or honey or palm sugar, cream or whole milk) but I am extremely impressed. Cold brewing overnight in a French press, for around 15 hours or so, makes me happy. And when husband wants his hot coffee, we can empty the press and refill it with boiled water over more grounds - or he can use the espresso maker. Lovely.
Coffee is great! Coffee is great! Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee... -ahem. Sorry, that was Bender with Fry in the background.
We went shopping, as well, and at Sephora in Chevy Chase I purchased my new currently favorite red lipstick: BareEscentuals BareMinerals Marvelous Moxie Lipstick in "Call the Shots" - the website called it a 'rich scarlet' and it really is. A lovely dark pomegranate neutral red. The formula contains many moisturizing oils and peptides, which of course always matters. Call The Shots is very similar to my beloved BareEscentuals Buxom Full Bodied Lipstick in Provocateur, a true red with pink tones, but the Moxie lipstick has less pink.
We ate Belgian waffles with cream and strawberries, washed down with strong lattes. At home, my cats loved them constantly. When they left on Monday morning, I had happy tears in my eyes.
A migraine plus a tension headache and sinus pressure has been slamming into me since Monday. Today, at my pain specialist appointment, when I told the nurse about it, she grinned and said, "So, everything is fine and normal, huh?" and we laughed.
Ah, my head.
Rin taught me about cold-brew coffee, and now I am all about it. Yesterday, I left the French Press brewing from seven at night to eleven in the morning, and today I set it up at seven again... I will probably let it sit until ten or eleven tomorrow morning. I am still astounded by the smoothness, the lack of acidity. It still needs chocolate and sugar (cocoa, maple syrup or honey or palm sugar, cream or whole milk) but I am extremely impressed. Cold brewing overnight in a French press, for around 15 hours or so, makes me happy. And when husband wants his hot coffee, we can empty the press and refill it with boiled water over more grounds - or he can use the espresso maker. Lovely.
Coffee is great! Coffee is great! Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee... -ahem. Sorry, that was Bender with Fry in the background.
We went shopping, as well, and at Sephora in Chevy Chase I purchased my new currently favorite red lipstick: BareEscentuals BareMinerals Marvelous Moxie Lipstick in "Call the Shots" - the website called it a 'rich scarlet' and it really is. A lovely dark pomegranate neutral red. The formula contains many moisturizing oils and peptides, which of course always matters. Call The Shots is very similar to my beloved BareEscentuals Buxom Full Bodied Lipstick in Provocateur, a true red with pink tones, but the Moxie lipstick has less pink.
We ate Belgian waffles with cream and strawberries, washed down with strong lattes. At home, my cats loved them constantly. When they left on Monday morning, I had happy tears in my eyes.
A migraine plus a tension headache and sinus pressure has been slamming into me since Monday. Today, at my pain specialist appointment, when I told the nurse about it, she grinned and said, "So, everything is fine and normal, huh?" and we laughed.
Ah, my head.
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