one final note on baking activities for the 2010 holiday season. as noted somewhere else, we never got the Chrisses their cookies, for a variety of reasons, and I didn't feel as though giving 2-week-old cookies as a gift was the right thing to do. instead, we sorted out of the bag originally intended for the Chrisses all the cookies that we wanted ( Read more... )

some people will soon be receiving the letter we crafted and included with our holiday cards. said letter includes some of the fun stuff we did this past year, though not all of the important stuff. for example, I did not mention in the letter that I went to General Assembly this year, though that really was quite an exceptional experience. and ( Read more... )

there's supposed to be a holiday summary thing, or something?

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well, the cookies have been baked, boxed, and shipped. we're done. completely done. we have to take the Chrisses their cookies, and give a bag to Joe the next door neighbor, but then we're done. done done.

yes, I'm a little bemused.

( more details [mostly notes for me for next year], and I figure this will end up long )

I put on my red jacket last night, and zipped it up. we were taking Randy for a walk, and I had no idea how warm and humid it still was. very shortly into the walk, I took the jacket off completely and tied it around my waist ( Read more... )

our weekend was pretty good, and we even saw some fireworks ( Read more... )

we actually made it up until midnight last night and wished some of my online acquaintances a happy new year. didn't get a hold of anyone in my family, though, so it was just kind of a quiet and solitary new year for us. I like a quiet night, though. we watched more Brisco and petted the dog and stuff ( Read more... )

in addition to the aforementioned cookies, other things that were in and out of our oven this weekend were a double batch of butterscotch brownies, a ??-batch of oven stew, and a double batch of Chex mix ( Read more... )

baking did not go as smoothly or as quickly as I had hoped. I know a couple things for next year, which will hopefully improve matters.

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Friday, as per the usual up to this point in the week already, one of us got up to let Randy out and feed him, then brought him back upstairs to let his breakfast settle a bit while the humans caught a little more shut-eye. we did not go to bed before midnight any night during the week except Monday. Randy and Gus always wanted to play right after ( Read more... )