It's official

I'm leaving the Gateway for the Aberdeen Daily World.

I don't know what the hell I'm thinking either. Oh, wait. Daily paper, more money, I'll still be independent, managers who get my writing ... it'll be hard leaving my Tacoma community, but it's about time to move onward and upward.

In the meantime, I've kind of given myself an extremely rigid deadline for finding a place to live and move into. Oops. And I'm stressing to get all my work stuff done. Oops.

In better news, I get to judge a chocolate baking contest at the Key Peninsula Fair tomorrow.

Also, I made a delicious bread pudding. Here's what went into it:

Almost a whole loaf of banana bread (largish loaf) that had dried up a bit.
three egg yolks
one egg
two cups milk
one cup heavy cream
1/2 cup sugar
vanilla
nutmeg

cut the bread up and put it in a glass casserole. Buttering the casserole is optional.

mix all the other ingredients, minus the vanilla and nutmeg, until blended. Then mix in the vanilla and nutmeg. Pour the custard over the bread. Let sit 30 minutes, then bake at 350 for 45 minutes covered, 15 mins uncovered.

The recipes called for bananas to be sliced up and layered with the bread, but that just seemed unnecessary to me. Also for a rum sauce to be made (rum, water, brown sugar and butter cooked together). If I could have changed anything I might have added an extra 1/2 cup of cream and milk mixed to extend the custard a bit.

But dang, it was good. Also I had two pieces of cake today (it was for my going away and said "Good Luck Lois At The Daily Planet," which is funny because I keep calling the DW the DP, and because I've always been a little obsessed with superheroes as journalists) and a pack of Reese's cups and a margarita and chips, so after tomorrow it's all salad and whole grains for a while. I'm a little strung-out on the sugar.

I want to get a place to live with a functioning oven so I can make banana bread and banana bread pudding. Yum.