Queen of the Mixer
Three Things (The Almost Christmas! Edition)
1. OMG BAKING. I feel like I end up doing more cookies every year, or maybe it's just that I keep deciding to try completely new kinds of cookies so that I never get a holiday routine going to settle into. In any case, the last few days I've barely left the kitchen. Wednesday I made refrigerator dough and baked 10 dozen sugar cookies. Yesterday was raspberry pinwheels, again about 10 dozen, which were...not the most successful experiment. I rolled the dough out too big before I rolled them up with the jam, and put the first few batches too close together on the baking sheet, so instead of neat little spirals I ended up with a kind of crazed Lovecraftian geometry. Still interesting looking, though, and pretty tasty, so at least they aren't a total write-off. I also made about as many plain chocolate cookies to use for peppermint sandwiches. And today I made 4 dozen chocolate-cherry biscotti. Tomorrow I am making approx a million pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, and then I have to ice the sugar cookies, make the peppermint sandwiches, and do a raspberry-chocolate dip for the biscotti, and then my dad's girlfriend will be coming over to help box them up to give out. AND THEN I WILL BE DONE UNTIL NEXT YEAR.
2. OMG YULETIDE. I am slowly but steadily chipping away at it - lots of procrastinating, but a big step up from last year or the year before. And I'm only panicking a little about getting it done in time! I hit 1000 words a little earlier tonight, and I've just about made it into the main part of the story. Someone had already been punched in the face, and soon there will be stabbing. And so many more words. Whyyyy did I decide I needed a plot?
3. OMG RUROUNI KENSHIN TRAILER. I am so ridiculously gleeful about this movie. I feel like I'm in 7th grade again, camping out in front of the tv after school to watch the latest episode on Cartoon Network. Saaaaaaaaano ♥
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1. OMG BAKING. I feel like I end up doing more cookies every year, or maybe it's just that I keep deciding to try completely new kinds of cookies so that I never get a holiday routine going to settle into. In any case, the last few days I've barely left the kitchen. Wednesday I made refrigerator dough and baked 10 dozen sugar cookies. Yesterday was raspberry pinwheels, again about 10 dozen, which were...not the most successful experiment. I rolled the dough out too big before I rolled them up with the jam, and put the first few batches too close together on the baking sheet, so instead of neat little spirals I ended up with a kind of crazed Lovecraftian geometry. Still interesting looking, though, and pretty tasty, so at least they aren't a total write-off. I also made about as many plain chocolate cookies to use for peppermint sandwiches. And today I made 4 dozen chocolate-cherry biscotti. Tomorrow I am making approx a million pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, and then I have to ice the sugar cookies, make the peppermint sandwiches, and do a raspberry-chocolate dip for the biscotti, and then my dad's girlfriend will be coming over to help box them up to give out. AND THEN I WILL BE DONE UNTIL NEXT YEAR.
2. OMG YULETIDE. I am slowly but steadily chipping away at it - lots of procrastinating, but a big step up from last year or the year before. And I'm only panicking a little about getting it done in time! I hit 1000 words a little earlier tonight, and I've just about made it into the main part of the story. Someone had already been punched in the face, and soon there will be stabbing. And so many more words. Whyyyy did I decide I needed a plot?
3. OMG RUROUNI KENSHIN TRAILER. I am so ridiculously gleeful about this movie. I feel like I'm in 7th grade again, camping out in front of the tv after school to watch the latest episode on Cartoon Network. Saaaaaaaaano ♥
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