Rata-whooey!

I was up in the night for the second sleep cycle in a row, but the temporary insomnia doesn't concern me overmuch as, both yesterday and this morning, I got plenty of napping in after I went back to bed. If this is the new sleep cycle during my vacation break, I'm fine with that. As long as I remember to call my mom every day, and visit once the cold spell has broken. The ratatouille, made without bell peppers because burpage, came out great, and there's even enough left over for another meal. I don't really follow a recipe with that one, so really it was just sweating onions and garlic while the eggplant supposedly drained in a colander in the sink (it didn't really drain, maybe I use regular table salt next time instead of kosher salt), then throwing in the eggplant, then adding zucchini and yellow squash and stirring them for a bit, then adding Campari tomatoes and button mushrooms and a few herbs and s&p and letting everything simmer. A mish-mash, kind of like the way I do stir fry. If it tastes good it's a success, and this one did. I think today's high was like 23 degrees F, so I'm glad I made something so satisfying and warming! Now that the sun has gone down it's getting way colder again, so time to dress in my sweatshirt for the exercise bike. So far the holiday vacation time is going very well!