This one cherry tree (I cannot get enough of...)

Some more promos for the #SlowReader Instagram .. - the Tiny booklets

Pie in a jar, take #1. (Well, in a bowl.)

Hey, managed not to screw up my first Pie-In-a-Jar apple crumble thingie - G's birthday sweet. Saw a pic and thought: this looks adorable, lemme try. The result is surprisingly yummy, except I made the jar and subsequent bowls far too large and one human can't finish one. (The original is in a mason jar, but I only have the one available, so G is combatting the premium package while this is what the rest of us get.) I didn't make it sweet, either, so it's juicy and yummy and kind of lemony and cinnamony and overall damn delicious. With whipped cream on top. 

Was listening to some Reddit/Youtube habits hard to shake after you come out of prison... Stuff like: I still can't shower longer than 5 minutes. I eat in two minutes. You never trust people who are nice to you, because in prison that meant they have a hidden motive ...

Makes you wonder what freaking place I grew up in?! Who the fuck showers longer than one minute?! I eat really fast because my mum never ate more than one leaf of lettuce and then lit a cigarette and if I didn't want to inhale smoke with food, I had to eat fast. When we had five minutes to eat in the army, I had nothing to do for 3.5. 

And I never trust people anyway. I think empathy is an inherent plot to appear worthy of social inclusion on an intuitive level. I.E. if people think you're nice, someday maybe somebody will help you when you're drowning. If they have time and are willing to get their shoes wet. 

I am buying small mints (breath fresheners, not silver coin establishments) in small tin boxes that I find cute and suitable for my future craft ... which results in a lot of my medical-looking vials being full of small white pills, round or reuleaux and my desk is starting to look like I'm dealing speed. 

On a related subject, decided I am over brown hair and am switching back to red. It should be fun to dye it since we have no warm running water :D Then again dye holds better if washed cold, or so some schools of thought suggest. Yay.

It is genuinely unsettling how fresh pine branches burn. Like a joke. I've not seen that before, because there's only one, I think, a decorative pine tree in the woods or the edge thereof and they cut some of the branches recently to shape it ... It was the only thing on my pile the other day, that instantly ignited and, like it was toothpicks dipped in gasoline, it didn't even burn, it just went from orange needles curling to carbon, in a blink. 

General's line of the week:

Me: I've stopped losing weight since I stopped working. I don't want to keep this winter fat too long, summer's coming and I don't want to carry twenty extra pounds everywhere I'm planning to go ...

G: You're chubby and you always have been, but it could be much worse. 

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Good talk.