Reading and Eating
This week, I started the first book of a sci fi trilogy my son really wanted me to read: He warned me that it was a little difficult to get into, but I like it! I’m only about halfway through, but here’s the description: “Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space in an attempt to make contact with aliens- and they succeed. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Now, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.” I’ll admit the book is a little complex. There’s a lot of physics involved, but I don’t worry about understanding every last detail. I figure, anything that’s really beyond my scope of understanding isn’t crucial to the story. This book seems to be very popular in the genre, so it has to be written for people like me, and not just scientific geniuses. I should finish it this week and then I’ll have to move onto something else- my son is bringing me the second and third books when he comes home for Thanksgiving. Eating-wise, I had a waffle fail. I made Nora’s pumpkin waffles, but left out the sugar and tried to sub out the regular flour with part almond flour and part oat flour. They stuck horribly to the waffle maker (I think the almond flour made them too fragile) and I had to scrape them off. They looked horrible but tasted pretty good! On Sunday afternoon, my daughter actually asked to go to Marshall’s WITH ME. This was a big breakthrough for us, although she did say “I hope I don’t see anyone I know.” Ahem. I really think I know how to behave if she were to run into someone from school. For example: “Oh, so THIS is Josh!!! I’ve heard SO MUCH about you!”= INCORRECT. Fading quietly into the background=CORRECT. Fortunately we didn’t have to worry about it. No one from school was spotted, and she got several new shirts that she was really happy with. Afterwards we went to a coffee shop where I was amused by this sign: My daughter got an iced “Caramel Apple Butter Chai Latte,” which frankly sounds disgusting, and I upgraded my usual Earl Grey tea to a London Fog- Earl Grey with milk (almond milk for me) and vanilla. Yum! Lastly, we had a fun Sunday night dinner. I made this Vegan 7 Layer Dip from Nora Cooks. It was delicious, semi-nutritious, and very festive. What are you reading? Do you like the fancy fall-flavored chai drinks? Top photo by Jessica Ruscello on Unsplash