Dreams, Progress, and Acorn Squash

I'm quickly realizing that my two projects involving sleep are not going to be friends.... waking up at 630am every work day and also waking myself up every 90 minutes to jot down dreams as part of my lucid dreaming work. I've worked up a little plan for myself, and I'll try to share the dreams I remember as I go on.

-Every night, I'll set my alarm for 9 hours after I go to bed.

-I'll wake up every 90 minutes and jot down anything I can remember.

The biggest problem here is that waking up at 630 and allowing 9 hours for sleep makes for a 930 bedtime. This is, to me, pretty gross. It's 1030 already, and I am still not ready for bed. Notice my rules above did not include this 630 wake-up time. I will, to the best of my abilities, give myself 9 hours, with an absolute 8am alarm. I think this is doable. We'll see how it goes. My sleep projects have never stuck before! But my efforts are evolving with their doability. I'll call it progress.

This brings me to Acorn Squash. I tried cooking my first artichoke yesterday. I chopped the top, boiled it for a while, and mixed up some olive oil with garlic, salt, and pepper... Tara and I dipped each leaf in the mixture, and by the end of it we both felt absolutely sick. All that oil... It makes me shudder just thinking about it.

However! Every failure needing an equally massive success to follow, I'm going to take this acorn squash that I bought not too long ago, and do this with it:

	Moroccan-Style Stuffed Acorn Squash
	SUBMITTED BY: TRUCKERDOO
	“Vegetables, garbanzos, raisins and couscous in a lovely Moroccan broth taste delicious inside butter and brown sugar-brushed acorn squash. You can experiment with different vegetables, or add diced chicken. Feel free to be creative with your amounts - I usually freestyle and end up with leftover stuffing mixture, which tastes great on its own the next day. For vegetarians, substitute vegetable broth for thechicken broth.”

My take on cooking involves spending very little time planning, which makes this great because I looked it up in two minutes, and only have to buy raisins and couscous, and maybe I'll add in some tofu cooked in some really hot chicken broth for good measure. I am excited, because I've never cooked a REAL squash before. And until then... More plantain! EEEEEEEEE!!!