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

[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.