I answer the world’s questions
I am now the number three Google result for “preoccupied.” Appropriate. In return, I will endeavor to answer some of the recurrent questions that bring Googlers here.
learn to bake bread
There’s really no way to learn except doing it. Get a decent bread book that lays out basic techniques and equipment, and start with the recipe for plain white bread. Do not get fancy, because you’re most likely going to throw away this batch, and the one after it and the one after it. It took me four tries before I managed to make loaves that we were willing to eat. The previous three batches sat around on the counter like art objects until they turned green and I threw them out. When you make a passable white loaf, move on to wheat. Give yourself time to recover in between failures; I decided there would be a Weekend Bake, and that I would not fiddle with bread at all during the week.
Also: your yeast is very important, as you might suspect. If you can buy bulk, fresh yeast from a health food store, do so.
(For those of you who have been following my baking odessey: I successfully progressed to beer and onion bread this weekend. Not sure what’s next.)
trimalleolar ankle fracture removing flaky skin from underneath cast
Dude. Just don’t. You have incisions under there that go all the way to your bones. You most likely have a significant number of staples holding you together. You’re also growing an entire new layer of skin to replace the one killed by all the anti-microbial gunk they painted on you during surgery. You don’t want to mess any of that up. Leave it alone.
I was an unrepentant peeler of any exposed flaky skin outside the cast, though. (My surgeon told me not to do this either.) I treated it pretty much like a peeling sunburn: if it didn’t hurt and I wasn’t grossed out, off it came. It beat waking up with pajamas full of dead skin.
how to eat honeysuckle
Actually, it’s more like sipping, and it’s something every southern kid is required to do. You just pull off the green stem cap and sip the drops of nectar. There’s lots more on honeysuckle in this guest entry on my mom’s blog.
inability to concentrate
Me too. No ideas.