[silly little jello and a lump of hardened snot] (rambling)

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Progress entry: Saturday, August 5th, 2022

13:15

This should be easy. I’ll do this manually: no ready-mixed box!

The recipe is ready, the ingredients are ready, I am ready.

I should probably measure, but eye-balling everything would be more interesting.

13:42

It’s going better than I thought it would!

14:30

Update: The Jelly is acting very suspicious. It’s already clumping against itself and forming little mini crystals around the edges and I had barely put two tablespoons of brown sugar in it… I am trying to face it up-front and put another two in, maybe one more. Just for good measure. More sugar is always better, isn’t it?

14:35

Nope. It absolutely isn’t.

14:46

Ok so apparently the sugar is what causes the clamping. The more you know!

The Jelly is looking a little too thick for my liking, so I’m calling it off for the day. At least I knew better than to pour a ton of perfectly useful excesses out the street, so I’ll just get it in the freezer.

Progress Entry: Sunday, August 6th

8:23

I’ll finish this before noon.

2 tablespoons of sugar and a little spurt of lemon juice before putting it in the freezer. That’s what mom said will fix it if it goes weird again.

The previous one turned into something akin to cement after a while and broke one of our inox forks while I attempted to have a taste of it. Already threw it out. Such waste.

This time, I’ll be hyper aware of everything. These jellos won’t be able to keep me bothered for long. I’ll weigh absolutely every pours and swirl this time around.

9:21

Finished the mixture. I think. There might have been several milligrams off or extras in some spots, and I am very worried.

Should I add blue? Yeah, let's do that.

10:20

Failed. It just wouldn’t thicken.

I don’t trust this one. It’s slimy.

Just knew I wouldn’t be able to salvage it. Down the drain it went.

14:06

Mom just informed me that that would have been an easy fix apparently so um yeah cool.

Progress entry: Monday, August 15th

22:30

It’s ten and I just came home from Physics. Exhausted. I’m gonna make this. It’s been too long. Measure. Fix. I trust this. I trust myself.

22:50

Trust the process. Let’s do this.

22:58

The mixture is looking fine and there’s no mistake and there’ll be none whatsoever. Yes, Gelatin! Yes, condensed milk! Yes, boiled water! No, colorants.

23:12

It’s in the fridge and how confident I am! I’m not even sleepy anymore! This will be the day.

23:44

Oh my fucking god the runny jelly is mocking me.

I swear. I could feel it sneering at me. Fully will not be surprised if it leap out right now and tell me it was its–their plan all long to get me absolutely devastated and kick me when I'm down and everything. And then, of course, try to eat my face because what else would a lump of alien snot want from us rather than our distinguishable faces?

23:56

Nah this is horrible. It looks greenish and there are those little bubbles. It looks exactly snot.

24:01

I just rage-eat the entire lump of snot and my tummy is feeling funny.

At any rate, it didn’t taste that bad.

2:04

It had just occurred to me that perhaps alien lumps of snot had their own ways of telling each other apart–by color shades and liquidity. And they would think of us as freaks for picking out people by the creases of our faces and the angles of our bones.

Anyhow. I won't be making jello ever again. Nope. Too much alien access in a household would cause disturbance to people. Mission aborted. I would press a button for that, if there were any.

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Progress Entry: Monday, September 23rd

09:03

Ok so this is funny but I just? Did it? Like? Out of nowhere?

It just kind of happened, really.

I did look at the recipe, but I didn’t do it that precisely. Eye-balled a lot of things, and I even used milk. And it worked!

I haven't written down what I did yet, and I don’t think I quite know all of them, but I feel like this is easier, and maybe I think I can do it again. Like, it’s in my body now?

Yeah it sounds stupid but I think I’m okay with this. Still a bit sloppy but it’s good. Enough. For now.

⭐️Mission accomplished ⭐️, I suppose.

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