It's been a while since I dined at the Friday's Feast table because I've been toooo scattered to remember, but here is a year-end entry as I "resolve" to participate more in 2007"

"Unto you is born this day ... a Savior."  -- Luke 2:11

To all my friends, family, and visitors,

Thank you for being part of my life.

-- lifey

 

First of all, I am shamelessly stealing this link from Donna's blog, Gryn and Bare It. Think of it as "re-gifting."

O Holy Night

I LOVE how this guy COMMITS to the song, no matter WHAT. It had me with tears in my eyes.

This is going on my music player. Now all I need to do is get that leg lamp and find the Yule Log channel and I'm all set for Christmas.

 

 

Stick a fork in me, I think I'm done.

That's nut bread in the foil wraps and 5 different cookie recipes. I actually have pecan balls to do, but that's not going to happen today. Now I just have to pull together cookies with their gift tins.

I also have to do my Christmas cards today.

And decorate.

And watch the Survivor finale.

Tomorrow I stand in line at the Post Office.

'Tis the season, and all that.

I don't know how I get myself into things like this.

The idea was to make some nice holiday cookies to show the people I work with that I really don't hate them.  (After all, it is the season of caring and sharing, right?)

I decided to make a bread that my grandmother used to make involving nuts. That meant that I needed to email my Aunt for the recipe. Since she is a very nice, kind, and indulgent Aunt, she spent several DAYS searching for the recipe and consulting with her knowledgable baking friends about the preparation so I would have everything I needed.

I also wanted to make a selection of my favorite cookies, some I've never made, ever. The others I've made a few times over the past decades. I guess I got nostalgic.

So, I bought all the ingredients: flour, whole wheat flour, confectioner's sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, Vanilla Extract, Almond Extract, Cream of Tartar (? whatever THAT is), Karo syrup, Hershey's Kisses, Toll House Morsels, Peanut Butter, walnuts (lots of walnuts), pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, milk, butter, eggs, and red and green sugar sprinkles.

It only took about 3 inefficient trips to the grocery store this week to finally assemble all the ingredients. I thought I was ready to be a baking fool.

Then I discovered I was just a fool.

Sure, I had all the ingredients, but I was missing a good portion of the necessary baking appliances:

Well, by the time I discovered this I was pretty significantly invested in this baking project. Therefore, in two additional shopping trips I forked over the extra cash for the equipment. I'm not sure if the coffee grinder will be a good nut and seed grinder so we're still skating on thin ice here. And then there is the whole thing about cooking with yeast that has me verrrrry unsure of myself....

If I don't show up in Chat Sunday night for the Survivor finale, someone send a rescue party.

Although the blog has been languishing in a bed of cobwebs, Lifey has not. She has celebrated Thanksgiving, flown to far off places (and back), consoled and coddled Honey, had long, long phone conversations about the Enchanted Far Away Place, caught up on home, Reality, and Heroes, and immersed herself in the hell that is the end of year in accounting and inventory.

She vowes to return soon with pictures and stuff.

Apparently I'm rusty in the art of walking down steps:

I missed the last step while talking to a co-worker on the way out of work and fell hard on the asphalt walkway. Besides the knees, I also have some swelling on my right foot and ankle and some sore spots on my right leg and thigh. Also, I wrenched my neck and back a little.

Thankfully, nothing seems to be broken, but my right knee will be painful for a few days, at least. I guess I won't be doing housework for a while. **wink**

Oh, yes, those are some fugly knees. I think I see the image of a bulldog in the left cap.

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