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[wolffyluna]

I have had. A week. Or, well. Ten days.

Now, a bunch of what happened in that ten day span was supremely frustrating, but also, supremely doxxing. Needless to say, it ended up with me working 24 days instead of 21 in a row, and also my suitcase being. stuck at my workplace.

But I have, also, had something not doxxing happen, and it's funny because it's a very "how the hell did you DO THAT?" injury. You see, I injured myself with that most dangerous of crafts: spinning yarn.

I was using a drop spindle, which is more or less a spinning top with a long stick at the bottom for winding yarn on, and a hook on top for spinning it. This drop spindle, to be small a light, had it's long stick made of a small metal knitting needle.

I was happily spinning away, when the thread I was spinning broke, leading the spindle to drop. Not wanting it to land on the floor, I tried to catch it with my thighs. I have done this before! It has not injured me!

Except this time, the spindle fell at an angle, so I drove the end of the knitting needle into my thigh, giving myself quite the impressive puncture wound. (Not impressive by the standard of puncture wounds, but impressive by the standards of wounds given while crafting.)

Anyway, it's been cleaned and steri-stripped closed, and my last tetanus injection was recent enough, but still. OW.

Anyway, I have also had good things happen. I have discovered sweet potato slump. (Excuse the shorts link, the recipe is in the description box.) A slump is a type of dessert that is like a crumble in that it has a layer of fruit, and then a layer of something on top, but in a slump's case, the layer on top is cakey.

I knew that sweet potato in desserts was a thing. But with this recipe, I have been converted. Sweet potato cooked in spiced syrup is so so good, it's soft and warm and sweet but still has that complexity of sweet potato without the spices or sugar overpowering it. And by baking it still with it's syrup, you make this spiced sauce that goes so well with the cakey layer on top. And it's so simple too! It's a solid 'it's saturday, I want dessert, but I don't want to spend all day making dessert' dish.

(WickdConfections has a whole series of historical African American dessert recipes that this slump is a part of. I haven't tried any of her other recipes, but I definitely am going to try some of the other simple ones, because goodness is this a good recipe.)