Well inspired!

[rdfreak]

I forgot to mention in here, probably because I am doing my best to put it out of my mind, that I'd decided the week before last to do a podcast on Blind Cool Tech on predictive texting. -- i just looove it and it occurred to me that quite a number of my little blindy friends don't do it!
Anyway, i did a podcast last Monday and uploaded it the next morning. Larry (the guy who runs the site) emailed me the next day to thank me for it, and he posted it.
I will never know why on earth I didn't do a practice run first; it was horrible; maybe even worse than my first LJ podcast of last year! -- I did still edit some stuff, but still.
I did figure out what I'd been doing wrong in Sound Forge all this time though when it comes to selecting stuff to edit; I simply needed to stop the recording with space after my selection, not enter which I had been doing. So yeah to that, but not to my stupid podcast, which I could have done a lot better if I only recorded another one and used the other as practice.
Now, while reading my friends page yesterday, I was inspired by thecrazykiwi to attempt baking ANZAC biscuits today; I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me yesterday as I had thought about trying to make them in the past. but she provided a recipe in her blog, and it seems it may be good for me to try. -- I keep saying that I want to get into cooking more, because I so want to be better and more confident with it.
So, i do need to go up and get some more ingredients, and then I think i'll try it.
thecrazykiwi has also started putting cooking podcasts up on her blog which I only discovered yesterday as I still haven't really got back into reading the friends page. These will be great for me, and I already picked up a tip from her banana muffins podcast yesterday which I may try as well, considering I'm still quite new to baking. When unfamiliar with a recipe, she was saying she mixes all her ingredients in steps, instead of putting everything in bowl then mixing them all together. I think that's what I am finding too hard for now, so I think, i will just mix after I've put each dry ingredient in the bowl.
These ANZAC biscuits require us to heat the butter and syrup on low in a saucepan and then of course combine with the dry, which sounds sinch for me.
I use to think all recipes sounded quite over-whelming as I wasn't imagining being able to do it all, but now as I read recipe's, I imagine doing all those steps, and it seems easy. There's nothing to it really. I think my biggest problem is just simply lack of confidence; it's not that I can't do it, it's just that I'm scared i'll stuff it up, so i don't even try. -- the more I do it, the better i become.
But last time i baked choc-chip cookies, I made a real mess because I haven't seemed to have mastered the art of using the electric beaters; stuff seems to fly everywhere. -- and for this reason, even though I am not required to use the beaters today, I thought I might start placing my cooking bowl in the sink, and doing everything from there; it sure would prevent big messes to clean up; should have thought of that before.
So, i will have my late breakfast now, and then look at the recipe again so I can write out a list of what I need. have already got caster sugar and flower, (what i hope is plain anyway; how do I know, alas), but need to get everything else i believe. Need a few other things as i haven't been shopping in general for about a week.
It's only forecast 14 today with high winds, rain and hail later, so better get meself moving!
So, bring on the cooking practice! -- at least I've started walking everywhere again! Lol
Til next time, RdFreak

Comments

[kl1964.livejournal.com]

Predictive texting? I have no idea what that even is. Of course, I don't text as of now, so maybe that's why I've never heard of it. Sometimes I just feel like such an ignoramus.

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

When the setting is turned on, it tries to predict what you're going to write according to the numbers you are pressing. I use it all the time now!

[alice320.livejournal.com]

Did you end up going to Prue's last night?

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

no i didn't. was too wet and I was a wimp. i take it you didn't?

[alice320.livejournal.com]

nah, for the same reason too. plus, it was far out.

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

Well, if I had of thought, you could have come over here before hand, and even stayed the night here afterwoods. We can do that in future if we need too.
At any rate, we should catch up again soon especially if you're off to the U.S soon. :)

[ghoath.livejournal.com]

space puts you back at the start of where you were playing, enter stops you where you are.
L skims you forwards, J skims you backwards, k stops the skimming.
drop a mark with M. Then you can select between the two marks.

Predictive text doesn't work in the same way with Mobile Speak :(

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

I still only use sound forge 7, but thanks! I did say on the podcast that I wasn't sure if it worked with mobile speak, so that's OK, though it'd be nice if they worked on that.

[lauria.livejournal.com]

Ah, the art of beating.

If you keep the beaters in contact with the bottom of the bowl you won't make a mess. Don't try to lift it up to scrape. Just keep it at the bottom and move it all around the bottom, Tilting to scrape the sides. If you have to lift it up to get the sides, then do so slowly and continually touch the side. Most beating errors seem to happen when people lift the beater too high making a giant splashy mess all over the place.

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

:) thanks for that! it gets so tough on the old arms though after a while!
Hope you're well; haven't heard from ya in a while! :)

[colorschanging.livejournal.com]

I can't not predictive text