week end welcome
it's about 8 p.m. on friday night ... and i haven't a clue what to do with myself. i've been up pretty late the past couple of nights, and tonight i'm completely tuckered out. i would probably fall asleep if i went to bed, but i don't really want to. i just ate a big pasta dinner and have plans for a serious ice cream sundae later. who wants to go to bed when there's ice cream in the near future?
allow me to work backwards & review the week for you.
today was the brownie tasting at work. i didn't win, but i didn't expect to. my brownies were from a box, but i enjoy them anyway. i had several recipes that i wanted to make from scratch, but the time just wasn't there. ten people made brownies for the event - an impressive amount of participation, really. and i tasted them all. they were quite yummy. work today bordered on feeling successful. did some quick-turnaround work that didn't make me want to pull my hair out. felt like the work was appreciated. all in all, not a bad day.
last night marked both my first ride on the south shore line & my first trip to the house of blues. both were good. the weather downtown was gorgeous - a nice surprise considering it was rainy, windy & cold here as we waited for the train. we missed the entire first band & most of the second. but that was okay, we were interested in the final band and were there in plenty of time to see them. i got home around 2 and proceeded to bake the brownies.
wednesday evening i went to a pampered chef party. i do love pampered chef products. i got home around 12:30 and baked cookies for a co-worker's birthday. i baked them on my pizza stone, which seemed to work well. work on wednesday turned hectic towards the end, but things were accomplished and that's a good thing. it was well-directed chaos, and i'm pretty sure that's the best kind to have.
tuesday was ... well, it was tuesday. i did manage to start & finish an entire project on tuesday. as i told the co-worker who requested the project - that was the most successful i've felt at work in the past three months. he knew what he wanted done; i knew how to do it. there was no week-long proofing process. no one changing their mind four times about the details. he wasn't even concerned about it getting finished by the end of the day. it was good. i came home & cut fabric for quilts. i think i might have a fabric-cutting sickness. i feel no real motivation to sew the pieces back together, but i want to keep cutting.
not much from monday really sticks out in my mind. i found out that one of my "sitting on hold" projects at work has been given to someone else. that should be a good thing, i know. but it just served as a point of irritation, mostly.
tomorrow i plan to do some more baking on the pizza stone. i want to do a set of cookies on the stone and a set on a cookie sheet (with all other variables identical, of course) to really see the difference. i can't decide which type of cookie to try it with however, so i may make several kinds. i'm thinking mrs. fields, snickerdoodles, gingerbread butterscotch & rolled butter. my bananas aren't ripe enough yet for banana oatmeal, but hopefully in a couple of days i can get those made, too.
baking is therapeutic. and it helps people like me. ;)
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'becca wouldn't mind being snowed in for a couple of days.
allow me to work backwards & review the week for you.
today was the brownie tasting at work. i didn't win, but i didn't expect to. my brownies were from a box, but i enjoy them anyway. i had several recipes that i wanted to make from scratch, but the time just wasn't there. ten people made brownies for the event - an impressive amount of participation, really. and i tasted them all. they were quite yummy. work today bordered on feeling successful. did some quick-turnaround work that didn't make me want to pull my hair out. felt like the work was appreciated. all in all, not a bad day.
last night marked both my first ride on the south shore line & my first trip to the house of blues. both were good. the weather downtown was gorgeous - a nice surprise considering it was rainy, windy & cold here as we waited for the train. we missed the entire first band & most of the second. but that was okay, we were interested in the final band and were there in plenty of time to see them. i got home around 2 and proceeded to bake the brownies.
wednesday evening i went to a pampered chef party. i do love pampered chef products. i got home around 12:30 and baked cookies for a co-worker's birthday. i baked them on my pizza stone, which seemed to work well. work on wednesday turned hectic towards the end, but things were accomplished and that's a good thing. it was well-directed chaos, and i'm pretty sure that's the best kind to have.
tuesday was ... well, it was tuesday. i did manage to start & finish an entire project on tuesday. as i told the co-worker who requested the project - that was the most successful i've felt at work in the past three months. he knew what he wanted done; i knew how to do it. there was no week-long proofing process. no one changing their mind four times about the details. he wasn't even concerned about it getting finished by the end of the day. it was good. i came home & cut fabric for quilts. i think i might have a fabric-cutting sickness. i feel no real motivation to sew the pieces back together, but i want to keep cutting.
not much from monday really sticks out in my mind. i found out that one of my "sitting on hold" projects at work has been given to someone else. that should be a good thing, i know. but it just served as a point of irritation, mostly.
tomorrow i plan to do some more baking on the pizza stone. i want to do a set of cookies on the stone and a set on a cookie sheet (with all other variables identical, of course) to really see the difference. i can't decide which type of cookie to try it with however, so i may make several kinds. i'm thinking mrs. fields, snickerdoodles, gingerbread butterscotch & rolled butter. my bananas aren't ripe enough yet for banana oatmeal, but hopefully in a couple of days i can get those made, too.
baking is therapeutic. and it helps people like me. ;)
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'becca wouldn't mind being snowed in for a couple of days.
posted by 'becca at 7:53 PM
5 Comments:
you need to come for our holiday baking day here. we have it at my house. we all pick three kinds of cookies to make and make five batches of each. then we share them around so we can have variety to give for the holidays. it is a fun day. it is a LONG day, too, but fun.lots of girl talk. lots of baking. big mess. fun fun.
A fabric cutting sickness! I have something like that! Perhaps this is my diagnosis. If you find a cure, let me know.
Are your gingerbread-butterscotch cookies the same as mine? Those are GOOD. I nned to make a batch of those. You are absolutely right that baking is therapeutic.
your baking day does sound like fun, erin. i'm thinking of hosting a cookie exchange at my place this year. cookies are good.
who'd you see @ the house of blues? i miss that place!
we saw The Academy Is ...
it was a good show. awesome venue. fabulous company. and great weather. 'becca was pleased. :)
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