most of this post isn't cupcake-related
happy (slightly late) birthday murielle! pretty fabulous idol writer. :D i hope it was a good one, ideally with cake.
over the weekend my curling club hosted a bonspiel, and because it was a big one and i've never volunteered, yesterday i put in two hours in the kitchen, making a lot of chocolate chip cookies for the lunch crowd. we'd finish one batch and send them out on a platter, and five minutes later someone would be back with the empty plate. people liked them! after that i got my comics - well, comic, only one this week - went home, made a chocolate ganache, striped a pie, took a shower, and went to my sister's house for dinner with a bunch of cousins. fun was had, the pie was et, i even got leftovers. :D (roast beast and artichoke dip. both good the next day.)
i made the pie friday night - the jeffersonville variant of the maple pecan pie. (the jeffersonville variant has bourbon and chocolate chips.) it was really rich and a little sweeter than i was expecting, but everyone liked it so i think i can count it a success. the ganache stripes were not pretty but i'd never done it before, and in any case i have a lot of ganache left for, uh, putting on bananas. :D i also have a cup and a half of heavy cream and no idea what to do with it. what do i do with it?
today i went to the laundromat, went to the coffeeshop down the street to work on my bigbang (2000 words near the end! a lot of it might get cut!), went to see lion with my sister (the second movie in a row that made me cry! but in a good way!), drove home VERY CAREFULLY on account of snow, found a parking spot, walked to the grocery store. my first mistake was not taking the umbrella out of my car, and my second mistake was not stopping in the house to a. put my purse down, and b. get the other umbrella. it was very wet snow, a couple degrees from being rain, and by the time i got the grocery store i was wet. >.< and by the time i got home i was wet, my feet were wet, my gloves were wet, and my groceries were wet. damp toilet paper, joy. :| also my glasses kept fogging up, so i just took them off. (i have a pocket in my ski jacket for just that purpose. so handy!) i couldn't see, but whatever, i couldn't see with my glasses fogged up either, and i knew where i was going.
unfortunately where i was going involved a lot of sidewalks that hadn't been shoveled, and a lot of wide, cold puddles. which is why my feet were squelching by the time i got home. i don't think the city actually fines people for not shoveling, but it should. that shit is treacherous, and i'm not walking in the street.
in any case, every part of me (and my food! and my toilet paper!) was soaking wet when i got home. bah. but i hung everything up and put on dry clothes and stuck my socks in the dryer and talked to my sister and ate dinner, and i'm not hungry but i want some pie. and now i'm watching underworld: evolution, because tony curran is in it as a vampire. it's not a great movie, the sex scene is laughable - it looks like scott speedman is fucking kate beckinsale's bellybutton - and it really feels like the middle of a series, but it looks neat (i like how everything is washed with blue) and the fact that i've voluntarily seen league of extraordinary gentlemen more than once should tell you that i'll watch tony in anything. (that was a terrible movie. it had a fabulous car and it was still a terrible movie.) his contract for underworld: evolution stipulated that he got to keep the vampire teeth in all the time, even when he wasn't filming.
curling was canceled tonight on account of snow. i don't know if we got as much as we were expecting, but there's a snow emergency so it's just as well i didn't have to drive out to the curling club at 8:30, because otherwise i'd never have found a place to put my car.
did i mention that lion was a great movie? because it was. nicole kidman is rocking some unfortunate hair but dev patel's curls mostly make up for it, and it made me cry! but a good cry. and i recommend it. just bring some tissue. we saw a trailer for dunkirk which will probably also make me cry, but i still want to see it.
also you might need a tissue for this - joe's violin, a short documentary about an elderly holocaust survivor named joseph, the violin he donates to a new york city instrument drive, and the girl who receives it through her school.
over the weekend my curling club hosted a bonspiel, and because it was a big one and i've never volunteered, yesterday i put in two hours in the kitchen, making a lot of chocolate chip cookies for the lunch crowd. we'd finish one batch and send them out on a platter, and five minutes later someone would be back with the empty plate. people liked them! after that i got my comics - well, comic, only one this week - went home, made a chocolate ganache, striped a pie, took a shower, and went to my sister's house for dinner with a bunch of cousins. fun was had, the pie was et, i even got leftovers. :D (roast beast and artichoke dip. both good the next day.)
i made the pie friday night - the jeffersonville variant of the maple pecan pie. (the jeffersonville variant has bourbon and chocolate chips.) it was really rich and a little sweeter than i was expecting, but everyone liked it so i think i can count it a success. the ganache stripes were not pretty but i'd never done it before, and in any case i have a lot of ganache left for, uh, putting on bananas. :D i also have a cup and a half of heavy cream and no idea what to do with it. what do i do with it?
today i went to the laundromat, went to the coffeeshop down the street to work on my bigbang (2000 words near the end! a lot of it might get cut!), went to see lion with my sister (the second movie in a row that made me cry! but in a good way!), drove home VERY CAREFULLY on account of snow, found a parking spot, walked to the grocery store. my first mistake was not taking the umbrella out of my car, and my second mistake was not stopping in the house to a. put my purse down, and b. get the other umbrella. it was very wet snow, a couple degrees from being rain, and by the time i got the grocery store i was wet. >.< and by the time i got home i was wet, my feet were wet, my gloves were wet, and my groceries were wet. damp toilet paper, joy. :| also my glasses kept fogging up, so i just took them off. (i have a pocket in my ski jacket for just that purpose. so handy!) i couldn't see, but whatever, i couldn't see with my glasses fogged up either, and i knew where i was going.
unfortunately where i was going involved a lot of sidewalks that hadn't been shoveled, and a lot of wide, cold puddles. which is why my feet were squelching by the time i got home. i don't think the city actually fines people for not shoveling, but it should. that shit is treacherous, and i'm not walking in the street.
in any case, every part of me (and my food! and my toilet paper!) was soaking wet when i got home. bah. but i hung everything up and put on dry clothes and stuck my socks in the dryer and talked to my sister and ate dinner, and i'm not hungry but i want some pie. and now i'm watching underworld: evolution, because tony curran is in it as a vampire. it's not a great movie, the sex scene is laughable - it looks like scott speedman is fucking kate beckinsale's bellybutton - and it really feels like the middle of a series, but it looks neat (i like how everything is washed with blue) and the fact that i've voluntarily seen league of extraordinary gentlemen more than once should tell you that i'll watch tony in anything. (that was a terrible movie. it had a fabulous car and it was still a terrible movie.) his contract for underworld: evolution stipulated that he got to keep the vampire teeth in all the time, even when he wasn't filming.
curling was canceled tonight on account of snow. i don't know if we got as much as we were expecting, but there's a snow emergency so it's just as well i didn't have to drive out to the curling club at 8:30, because otherwise i'd never have found a place to put my car.
did i mention that lion was a great movie? because it was. nicole kidman is rocking some unfortunate hair but dev patel's curls mostly make up for it, and it made me cry! but a good cry. and i recommend it. just bring some tissue. we saw a trailer for dunkirk which will probably also make me cry, but i still want to see it.
also you might need a tissue for this - joe's violin, a short documentary about an elderly holocaust survivor named joseph, the violin he donates to a new york city instrument drive, and the girl who receives it through her school.