Boo

[ladysprite]

It's Thursday, halfway through the day, and it already feels like this week has been going on for about 13 days, and will last another ten. I'm not quite sure why - nothing demonstrably, measurably horrible has happened. Work has been busy but not miserable, I'm overscheduled at home but not to the point of insanity, the weather is gray but not doom-laden, and yet I still feel like I'm spending my days slogging through a waist-deep ocean of the Molasses of Maudlin Misery.

Nothing is going quite right. I tried to donate blood yesterday and was deferred - again - for mild anemia. I made pecan shortbread last night, and it crumbled as I took it out of the pan. Still edible, but not pretty. I can't find the liquid pectin I need to make blueberry jellies anywhere. I have to skip dance class tonight in order to get baking done. Another doctor at one of the clinics I do relief work at didn't follow up on one of my cases, and now there are... hiccups. Plans with friends keep getting cancelled or postponed or just falling apart. I bought a new phone, and the store sent me home with the wrong charger.

I feel so petty whining about such little things, but right now they're all adding up to leave me in a place where I feel like nothing in the world can go right. I know that's not true, but even when I try to make a list of things that are going well, as much as I know they exist, I can't think of them.

I need to force-reboot my perspective on the world. I just have to figure out how.....

Comments

[qarylla.livejournal.com]

This won't be helpful at all, but oooh blueberry jellies?

Are you talking about blueberry preserves (jam or jelly) or something much more like blueberry gum drops.

I have instructions for 'pate de fruit' I found online and it works with dry pectin if you want to try that instead (and I have extra pectin if you want to experiment sans cost).

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

They're not preserves; they're little individual jelly candies - not quite as stiff as gumdrops; more like fruit gems, if you've ever had them.

(At least they're supposed to be. We'll see tomorrow morning.)

The recipe specifically called for the liquid stuff, which we ultimately found at the local Stop & Shop, of all places.....

[qarylla.livejournal.com]

Ah, the recipe I use is from the Canelle et Vanille blog and they aren't stiff. While the recipe uses a strawberry puree, I have made them with canned pumpkin, apple cider and spices with regular dry pectin (she buys yellow pectin). They work really well.