there are a lot of cookies in my freezer
a couple days ago i got an email from the gas company saying "congrats! you're 54% more efficient in your gas usage than your neighbors!" and it's because i turned the heat off. it's the middle of december. that ain't right. seriously. i'm a little weirded out.
today was genuinely busy at work and i left an hour late, altho i kind of thought i might, so it wasn't too big a deal. (tomorrow's a deadline. i have a feeling that the 15th of every month is a deadline.) i'm still waiting to really screw something up, but i do occasionally know what i'm doing, which is a nice feeling.
yesterday my parents had a hanukah party and i made cookies, because i always make cookies, except i made waaaay too many cookies. when i was in north carolina i got a little jar of blue and white star of david sprinkles, so i had to put them on something, so i found a recipe for butter cookies (god bless the king arthur flour web site) so i could use my dreidel cookie cutter, and i have a recipe for icing so the sprinkles would actually stay on the cookies. i made the dough saturday afternoon and stuck it in the fridge and went off to the comic shop where i spent slightly more than i was planning (this is what happens when you don't get your comics for a month, plus caitlin r kiernan is writing another miniseries which probably nobody cares about but me), and then came home and baked. a lot. and iced. a lot. and sprinkled. a lot. i washed a lot of dishes in the course of my day, and when i was done sprinkling i had to sweep the kitchen floor because those sprinkles got EVERYWHERE.
the recipe claimed to make sixty cookies but i ended up with seventy-two, altho to be fair i unintentionally rolled the dough kind of thin for about half of them. i think i like the cookies better without the icing - it's very sweet icing - but they definitely look better with. theoretically i'll post a pic or two tomorrow.
at least half of them ended up in my freezer, because there was no way i was going to take six dozen cookies to the hanukah party. my cousin's kids probably could have eaten all of them, tho. those kids can really chow down. granted, they're all growing boys and one growing girl, but still.
the party was fun, cookies aside. i like most of my family.
saturday's december babble was numbers, for halfshellvenus, because it was 12/12, which i think is really cool but that's pretty much all i can say about it. i like patterns in general, and date patterns are particularly nifty - november 12, 2013 (11/12/13) - or 11 december, 2013, if you mark time that way - but i just think they're neat, not necessarily that they're auspicious days or anything. well, unless you're born on one, which is kind of special.
i watched the pilot of the expanse, which has some really stunning space shots and at least one nice explosion. (look, if you're going to set your show in outer space, on space colonies and in spaceships, i expect explosions.) the production design is really good and it looks like syfy put a lot of money into it. i don't particularly care about one of the main plot threads, but fortunately there seem to be three of them. and did i mention that it looks fabulous? because it really does.
today was genuinely busy at work and i left an hour late, altho i kind of thought i might, so it wasn't too big a deal. (tomorrow's a deadline. i have a feeling that the 15th of every month is a deadline.) i'm still waiting to really screw something up, but i do occasionally know what i'm doing, which is a nice feeling.
yesterday my parents had a hanukah party and i made cookies, because i always make cookies, except i made waaaay too many cookies. when i was in north carolina i got a little jar of blue and white star of david sprinkles, so i had to put them on something, so i found a recipe for butter cookies (god bless the king arthur flour web site) so i could use my dreidel cookie cutter, and i have a recipe for icing so the sprinkles would actually stay on the cookies. i made the dough saturday afternoon and stuck it in the fridge and went off to the comic shop where i spent slightly more than i was planning (this is what happens when you don't get your comics for a month, plus caitlin r kiernan is writing another miniseries which probably nobody cares about but me), and then came home and baked. a lot. and iced. a lot. and sprinkled. a lot. i washed a lot of dishes in the course of my day, and when i was done sprinkling i had to sweep the kitchen floor because those sprinkles got EVERYWHERE.
the recipe claimed to make sixty cookies but i ended up with seventy-two, altho to be fair i unintentionally rolled the dough kind of thin for about half of them. i think i like the cookies better without the icing - it's very sweet icing - but they definitely look better with. theoretically i'll post a pic or two tomorrow.
at least half of them ended up in my freezer, because there was no way i was going to take six dozen cookies to the hanukah party. my cousin's kids probably could have eaten all of them, tho. those kids can really chow down. granted, they're all growing boys and one growing girl, but still.
the party was fun, cookies aside. i like most of my family.
saturday's december babble was numbers, for halfshellvenus, because it was 12/12, which i think is really cool but that's pretty much all i can say about it. i like patterns in general, and date patterns are particularly nifty - november 12, 2013 (11/12/13) - or 11 december, 2013, if you mark time that way - but i just think they're neat, not necessarily that they're auspicious days or anything. well, unless you're born on one, which is kind of special.
i watched the pilot of the expanse, which has some really stunning space shots and at least one nice explosion. (look, if you're going to set your show in outer space, on space colonies and in spaceships, i expect explosions.) the production design is really good and it looks like syfy put a lot of money into it. i don't particularly care about one of the main plot threads, but fortunately there seem to be three of them. and did i mention that it looks fabulous? because it really does.