More on GF

The bread mix I bought worked well (Gluten-Free Pantry's Favorite Sandwich Bread, www.glutenfree.com), and the ingredients were mostly the same as in the recipe I had, so I'm thinking my yeast may be dead. I'm going to get a small jar of bread machine yeast on Thursday, and try the recipe again.

I'm supposed to go to Curves this morning, but I woke up feeling totally drained, so I may put it off til tomorrow. I think I'm going to make cookies instead. Found a GF chocolate chip recipe that looks promising, and I've been craving sweets since Sunday (psychological much? Can't have wheat, wake seriously craving donuts).

Matt and I made a resolution Sunday to not miss meetings anymore. We proved to ourselves last week that we CAN get to meetings. Now we just have to. Sure enough, though, the world is putting stumbling blocks in our way. Last night at work, my closer was sent home almost as soon as she got there (which in itself is foreboding, but I digress). Right now, my department has three people. One is a dedicated opener, because she has a second job in the evenings. One is my desktop publisher, who was sent home last night. The third is me. Now, it says in my file that I am NOT AVAILABLE Tuesday and Thursday nights. This is a non-negotiable. Remember a few weeks back when my closer called off and I couldn't find anyone to come in? Yeah. I knew this wasn't going to go well. Luckily, we had help from another store agree to stay until 8:30 or 9, as long as she left right at nine. It was 5:30 by the time I left, 6:30 by the time I got home. Meeting's at 7:30. We made it by the skin of our teeth. But we made it.

Now I just need to find a closer for next Wednesday, as the Tuesday meeting's moved to Wednesday next week because of the circuit overseer visiting another congregation in the hall. But I'm working on it. Other than that, the schedule's falling into place, and I can even give the two girls 2 days off in a row. Can't give MYSELF two days in a row yet, though. :-P Maybe when our new manager can start full-time, when he's done training his replacement at his old store.

And another thing....

I don't know who the culprit is, but when I got up this morning, I found that the cat door was almost totally ripped off the wall. Very disturbing. I don't know whether it was our three trying to get out, or a stray trying to get in. Matt's going to work on stabilizing it tonight.

In addition to Phantom (the black cat), we've been visited by a caramel-and-white scrawny male. Matt managed to pick him up the other day and noticed he smelled like infection. Not good. Matt's going to clean out one of the cat carriers, and if he can catch this guy again, take him to a vet nearby. We don't want sick kitties around our so-far healthy kids.

And since my water intake has been decreasing rather than increasing, I'm going back to my old standby to drink more: flavoring. I added lemon juice, lime juice, and an eighth-teaspoon of stevia powder to my 72-ounce bottle of water. Stevia powder courtesy of my mother-in-law; she got a lot recently and realized she'd never use it all before it went bad, so shared. I now have a nice big jar of stevia powder, which is good, because I can't find my bottle of stevia extract. But 1/8 teaspoon to over 2 liters of water is going to take a while to use. :) I need to get a 1/32 teaspoon to use for when I have tea.