BIG IF TRUE: FOUND THE DISPLAY DATE PANEL

so i've been using the beta editor because it's SO much nicer on mobile, and i forgot that i totally removed the panel for display dates. i was looking into it when i started schlaughing so i could backdate entries and still do a once a week thing. SHOULD HAVE DISCOVERED THAT SOONER. oh well, i think the way i'm doing it now is a little easier to do on a weekly basis. ANYWAY

what i'm GOING to do with this Newfound Knowledge is BACK SHIT UP HERE. i just did my personal cohost stuff, and i'm going to do the WTCF blog posting now too. those will all be public, since they were public in the first place! when i get back into the music swing of things, i'd like a place to do that, and this is as good of a place as any. DW has some staying power that i'm happy about.

so that's all bare minimum...maybe if i get excited i'll back up some old writing that's only on tumblr? i've been trying to do that on my website though. we'll see. okay gotta tend to a work thing...and keep backing up!

white woman wednesday: tuesday edition, issue 3: this salad i had this afternoon???

okay SO i went to whole foods during my lunch break to get a few things, and then i thought i forgot to lock my car, so i basically did a speed-run of the whole thing, and also resisted the siren song call of whole foods sushi. their sushi there is good! but i didn't get to have much of a salad thing yesterday, and if you look at previous editions of this blogcast, you'll know that i ALWAYS try to have at least one portion of dark leafy greens per day. so this was distressing me.

ANYWAY i stopped by the premade salads and after a survey, i decided on the field greens & goat cheese salad. been really getting into goat cheese lately. it's delectably creamy and a brilliant contrast in a salad. my spouse and i went to the boutique restaurant and they had it in their arugula salad. divine. five stars.

so i get home, i put everything away. so this salad on the surface has:

• mixed greens (spinach, arugula, that purple-y lettuce, etc.)
• goat cheese
• candied pecans
• dried cranberries
• balsamic vinaigrette (on the side)

so i'm like "cool that's smart choices!" turns out there's 43G OF SUGAR IN THIS SALAD. WHAT?!? so i said "okay, okay, this has got to be pared down somehow. i can modify this". which kinda defeats the point of a so on the go premade salad, but i was just bringing it home As A Treat, For Me. the salad modding went as follows:

• candied pecans: now that will add a lot of sugar. i just took them out. luckily for me, i had REGULAR chopped pecans in the cupboard, so i added roughly the equivalent that i took out
• dried cranberries: not necessarily bad on their own? but there were a ton of them. i took out about half, maybe even 2/3. just enough to give a little sweetness. like to be clear it was like a whole snack pack of raisins worth of them
• i used maybe half of the dressing when tossing the salad
• added a couple freshly sauteed chicken tenders, chopped, to add a little protein

i'd say that i cut the sugar down by quite a bit doing all that! not that i have any way of actually measuring that.

and OH MY GOD. IT WAS. DELICIOUS!! mind blowing. i've got to get some goat cheese and make this same business on my own. i'll even do the balsamic! it goes with the meal!! maybe once i go through the romaine (that i just bought) and i'm getting more salad stuff, i'll get some mixed greens and make this salad.

for those of you keeping track at home, here are my salads so far:

SALAD A: "MODIFIED CEASAR"

• romaine lettuce
• chicken if applicable
• parmesean cheese
• dressing: olive oil, lemon juice, coarse dijon mustard, minced garlic (jar), pinch of salt

SALAD B: "ARUGULA: 

• arugula
• parmesean cheese
• dressing: olive oil, lemon juice, pinch of salt

SALAD C: "MIXED GREENS THE GOAT"

• mixed greens
• chopped pecans
• dried cranberries
• goat cheese
• dressing: balsamic vinaigrette

i think i should be okay just buying that off the shelf and not needing to try and make it myself. it SHOULD just be balsamic vinegar and oil. but if i go shopping and it's anymore complicated than that, then we've got trouble. (stevie nicks voice) whole lotta trouble

that should do it for now. wow we're really posting here lately! also might need to make a white woman wednesday: tuesday edition tag if this keeps up

actually CURRENT audio blogging

backing up the WTCF cohost blog is taking WAY MORE TIME AND ENERGY than i expected. i'll have to finish tomorrow.

but in the spirit of it all, i DID work on some stuff today, so let's talk about it!

i have the house to myself, so i took the opportunity to sing loud and even do the proper belting on "mystify". it sounds really cool. i also tweaked the tone of the guitar solo. it still needs some work though: the drum loop needs more work, i.e. i'll probably have to make most of one from scratch, and i probably need another guitar solo at the end. along with all the mixing bits. digital audio continues to be my burden.

i've kinda abandoned bitwig studio for now; i upgraded my mac mini recently to the m4 mac mini, which should get me through the next handful of years. even at a discount! plus i didn't want to pay $200 to get the features i wanted. i also have invested quite a bit into some very specific software on here sooooo i'll be okay. it's fine.

i REALLY want to cover dokken's "alone again" and put out mystify with it as a single. i would have to pay for the licensing to distribute which i'm not looking forward to, but man it would sound cool. the song is in my range even in my chest voice which makes me excited. plus it's one my dad liked to play on guitar growing up; it was from one of his favorite albums when he was growing up. so i think it would be a nice surprise for him. (even though he might be caught up in it not sounding like the original...ah well)

i'm hoping to jump into more music stuff in the new year. between cohost shutting down and just life happening (november was really bad for me this year), i just kinda got stuck. we're gonna go get em though! my "one new release each year" thing will still stand strong, though i'm not sure at this point if i'll be able to crank out another album. might just be an EP, or a short album. we'll see, you never know though!! maybe doing 80s rock in my chest voice will be my big break. but then i'll need vocal lessons so i don't wreck myself HSDHGSDG