This week I have been feeling quite dull. The winter blues are early this year! I am not sure if it is winter blues or annoying conversations that were making me just feel bad all week long.

But just because everything sucks doesn’t mean I get to do nothing. I handed in an assignment on Wednesday and another one on Saturday. I think half of the semester is already over. I am still enjoying all of my classes and I like what I am studying so that is good. I don’t have that many assignments left, and I will only have one exam which will be in November.

I baked a couple of things this week.

I baked an apple cake, it was a mixture of recipes and switching out ingredients so that it would fit our dietary needs. I feel like most of the times when I do the changes I need to do it actually works great, and the apple cake followed the same pattern. It was delicious. I used potato starch for the first time in a cake (I always use it when I bake bread) and I felt that it gave the cake more cakelike texture. Since it is gluten-free the texture is often something that is lacking. But this time around it was pretty great.

Then I baked a Icelandic chocolate sheet cake, and I think that will be the first recipe I will post on the Icelandic food blog that I have been thinking about forever. I might translate the recipe and post it here as well.

And then on Sunday I made a pizza, the gluten free crust is amazing. We had a very basic pizza, ham, spicy pepperoni, green pepper and vegan cheese.

I went for a massage, mainly for my shoulders since they are quite tense. As I was lying there with my head in the hole, I kept thinking about what I should be thinking about when getting a massage. Lying still and relaxing isn’t my greatest strength. The massage was fantastic, she used very hot stones to massage my muscles and it felt amazing, and then quite painful, and then amazing again.

I also went for a knitting night with my friends on Saturday night. Before we left, I actually thought about what we should do if there weren’t any seats, only to find the place empty. I won’t complain about that! There, I finished the Ibsen sweater! So this week, I finished two sweaters: the leftover yarn sweater for KA and the Ibsen for me!

I had a goal of finishing 12 sweaters this year and the Ibsen was number 8. I have one already started and another one is a test knit that I need to start next week.

The weather has been really funny, last week we had nothing but snow and this week the snow went away and instead it we had rain. All the leaves have gone from the trees and the darkness has taken over everything.

Until next!