If you want to hit the floor, are you ready for more?
I took a mental health day today because I am just so overwhelmed by life lately. Plus, I had to bake 200 cookies for our floor's holiday party tomorrow.
I did gingerbread people and trees and it took forever. When I'm icing something, I usually use a regular pastry bag, but Williams-Sonoma had a mechanical one on-sale, so I bought it. After making ten different batches of colored icing to decorate with, I was exhausted and I didn't read the instructions properly. So, I'm like, why isn't this working?! After awhile, I gave up and started doing the base frosting of the trees by hand. I made it through all 100 of them when my mom came home and was like, why aren't you using the pastry bag? I show it to her and she looks at the instructions and then hands me a vital part of the machinery that pushes the frosting out. D'oh!
Anyway, I finish frosting and decorating all 200 cookies and they're laid out on parchment paper on the kitchen table, I'm covered in flour, frosting and food dye, and my mom's like, so, how are you going to get all of these to work without smushing the decorations?
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I put the cookies in the basement freezer in the hopes that the icing will set and I can layer them in a box with parchment paper. Of course, I'll still have to carry all 200 of them to work, which means thirteen flights of stairs, two trains, hundreds of people jostling me, and it's supposed to snow. Wish me luck?
In other news, I finished season one of Prison Break last night. Through the last two episodes, I was sitting on the edge of my seat and biting my nails. I really do not know how anyone watched this show first-run. I would've gone out of my mind waiting for the next episode.
I did gingerbread people and trees and it took forever. When I'm icing something, I usually use a regular pastry bag, but Williams-Sonoma had a mechanical one on-sale, so I bought it. After making ten different batches of colored icing to decorate with, I was exhausted and I didn't read the instructions properly. So, I'm like, why isn't this working?! After awhile, I gave up and started doing the base frosting of the trees by hand. I made it through all 100 of them when my mom came home and was like, why aren't you using the pastry bag? I show it to her and she looks at the instructions and then hands me a vital part of the machinery that pushes the frosting out. D'oh!
Anyway, I finish frosting and decorating all 200 cookies and they're laid out on parchment paper on the kitchen table, I'm covered in flour, frosting and food dye, and my mom's like, so, how are you going to get all of these to work without smushing the decorations?
…
I put the cookies in the basement freezer in the hopes that the icing will set and I can layer them in a box with parchment paper. Of course, I'll still have to carry all 200 of them to work, which means thirteen flights of stairs, two trains, hundreds of people jostling me, and it's supposed to snow. Wish me luck?
In other news, I finished season one of Prison Break last night. Through the last two episodes, I was sitting on the edge of my seat and biting my nails. I really do not know how anyone watched this show first-run. I would've gone out of my mind waiting for the next episode.