Banana bread and paint

One good thing about working from home part of the time is that when I feel like leaving my cubby hole of an office and baking something in the kitchen I can. Today I had a hankering for some banana nut bread - the yeast kind baked in the bread machine. I thought I had some mashed frozen banana in the freezer and put it in the microwave to defrost. Turns out I defrosted some beef gravy-well banana does get brown when you freeze it. Luckily I discovered my mistake before I poured it in the bread pan.

So I looked for some banana in the freezer and couldn’t find any- but we did have tons of frozen apple slices. I chopped some of those up, added walnuts and it was just as good as banana bread. We had hot bread with supper. The nice thing about a bread machine is once you throw those ingredients in the pan you can just go back to working in your office with out a worry.

My office is looking very sad right now. It was originally the smallest room in the house and painted a cream color. The cream is definitely dirty looking. When I get done with this next book I am going to take some time to paint it, put up some shelves and get things organized a bit better. My trouble is deciding what color to paint it. One day I decide on pale green, the next chocolate brown, the next deep red and so on. I think someone needs to develop mood paint. You paint the room with a paint that you can switch colors on by touching a button. Come on inventors, surely this is doable.

I thought about painting each wall a different color, (husband’s idea), and then turning my desk to face what color I preferred that day - but I think that’s too much trouble. Reminds me of when I was a kid and my sister wanted to paint our bedroom lavender and I wanted to paint it green. We ended up painting each side a different color, and believe me, it wasn’t pretty. Maybe I’ll paint a forest mural on the walls, and hide among the trees. I bet the office dogs would like that.