Day 21 → A recipeOne of my favorite holiday cookies -- stolen from Starbucks ( Read more... )

Day 12 - Whatever tickles your fancyI am currently in the process of making toffee. This is the first time I have actually done anything that requires the melting/boiling of sugar since the caramel fiasco of 2004 (which left my hand blistered and injured for most of the holiday season. I stare at it warily; knowing it's just waiting until I'm ( Read more... )

My sleep pattern has pretty much become non-existant at this point in time. I no longer have the ability to control where/when I get tired, and more often than not I tend to fall asleep on the couch while watching tv ( Read more... )

As of Sunday, I'm on permanent midnights for the rest of my life at Baxter ( Read more... )

Yesterday night I made 20-minute lentil soup which is uber yummy and spicy and good (hoorah for curry paste!). With that, I made chive biscuits (adding about 1/2 cup grated cheese so they are chive-cheese biscuits ( Read more... )

Today I'm baking the ultimate chocolate cake a-la-Anna-Olson, for Dave's mom's birthday party today. I have previously made this cake for Dave's past birthday, and discovered it is absolutely amazing when combined with french vanilla ice cream. Can you say yum ( Read more... )

... jelly beans make everything all better. And sure, they could make me fat, but less fat than chocolate I bet. And equally satisfying ( Read more... )

I'm just at a loss of what to say or do or write anymore. It's not as if my life contains any trickles of interesting circumstances as of late. My routine is, daily, wake-work-sleep, with odd times of food ingestion installed.

I didn't go to work Monday due to the blizzard-o-doooooooooooooooooooooooooom (tm). The original plan was to use a half ( Read more... )

I'm not going to get involved in it anymore. I'm tired of sounding like a broken record and responding to one-sided stories. I don't know both sides; I don't care. People need to learn to be like "okay, that sucked. *cry for a bit* Let's move on! So anyway .." instead of obsessing all day every day over the obvious and acting like whiny spoiled ( Read more... )

Went to emergency yesterday and spent 4 hrs being poked and prodded. Now I've never been into needleplay to start with, so watching them withdraw 4 vials of my precious elixir wasn't altogether fun. Conclusions are that (a) I'm not pregnant, (b) I'm not diabetic, (c) it's not anemia related, so of course (d) I have a viral infection. Yipee ( Read more... )