Saturday spice cake and lesser intelligence

I'm beginning to realize that there's a conception that ADHD equals lesser intelligence. I never thought that, cause I've been reading up about ADD for a long time, but after some conversations I've had on blogs, and even one conversation with one psychiatrist, some people seem to believe it means of lesser intelligence.
The psychiatrist in question said, he didn't believe it as I had translated an article from English to Spanish which showed I was smart. Eh? I still see this psychiatrist since I have no other option, and he's backtracked on some stuff he said when we first met, though he claimed he didn't say that. And he asked me why I wanted stimulant drugs, like I was some kind of drug addict. Anyway.

I made a spice cake today, parents were away (yes I live at home though I'm 25+, for those Americans, it's a very tight housing market in Spain, and wages haven't risen to match it and since I was not looking forward to paying 45 years in blood to get a shitty house, I'm still living at home, like I have any option, with my low paying job. I could go and live on the street though. I could also pay 60% in my wages to rent an apartment, which doesn't take into account transport another 5%, and water, and gas another 20%, and if I went without eating, I could manage but oh lordy lordy, I'm moving soon. I will have to move to another country. )


so took the opportunity with peace and quiet, no screams of why are you cooking, and more screams of how dare I cook instead of eating prepared food with high sodium content which will make my blood pressure rise and make my eczema break out. I made my famous carrot spice cake. It used to be a carrot cake which morphed into a spice cake with the addition of spices, and sometimes it's an apple spice cake. It's a quite flexible recipe. I omit the frosting and if they say 2 cups of sugar, I add less about 1 1/2 cups. American recipes always have too much sugar.


Ah, my last blood pressure reading was 170/90. I don't understand why, I have been okay for a while, I'm doing exercise, I'm not sleeping terribly. Maybe I'm not eating enough vegetables and I've been a bit slack on the supplements. Maybe it was all the birth control pills I took previously. I was going to see my boyfriend, and I was having my period, and I wanted it to stop it which didn't work. Previously, it stopped when I took extra pills, but I think because I haven't been taking it in the proper cycle, it didn't work. And then the condom broke so I had to take extra pills as an emergency contraception and I know birth control pills raise the blood pressure.

I like cooking, you follow the recipe, set the oven, don't let it be too hot or too cool, check it from time to time, and you come out with something tasty. It's simple and those people who claim they can't cook, they are making excuses, if you do it properly, you too can make good food. The cake won't scream at you, why did you put too much spice, you can balance it out with cinnamon, and it always turns out delicious. Cooking is one of the few things I can do well. I even made an apple pie once and it turned out nice, all I have to do is perfect it.
I think I will go for a bowl of cake and berry yoghurt ice cream.