That saying about doing one thing every day that scares you or something

I'm giving a talk at a nearby college tomorrow, and am planning to drive up there because it's supposed to be a ~40-minute drive rather than a 2.5-hour transit trip.

So I made myself drive to the grocery co-op this morning to get in more practice.

There was very little traffic and I only stalled out 3 times!

It seems like whenever I get nervous and overthink things, that's when I have the most trouble.

Now that I am safely back home I see that the blue coolant level light means the engine wasn't fully warmed up, so I'll wait for that in the future.

I'm going to give myself a generous time buffer tomorrow.

The only problem with making cheddar cheese biscuits... [food]

...is that I will then immediately eat a regrettable number of them.

Ahem.

Other meal prep of this weekend has been:

-Sweet potato stew with cabbage and peanuts
-Big pot o' black beans, although I'm not sure how edible they'll be because I dumped slightly too much cayenne pepper in there
-Pancakes, naturally

Prompted by a friend, I finally opened up a jar of "O Canada" relish sent to us maybe 8 months to a year ago. Sweeter than I generally like, but I never want canned goods to go to waste, so I ate some atop some veggie sausages and kale, for lunch. That batch of canned things also included actual sweet relish, and candied serranos. I'm still not entirely sure what to do with those, but I have left the jars out on the counter so they bother me until I figure out what to do with them.