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I so missed my giant food processor those two years in grad school!
My sister and I have not been doing very holiday-y things, largely because I have just been stressing about my Yuletide story (I WILL NEVER TRY PLOT AGAIN), most of our friends are in other places, and we mostly just feel like bumming around and watching kdramas. I keep saying I will put up the Christmas tree that has been mouldering in storage for the past two years, but so far we have both proved too lazy to do so. Maybe we will put it up on Christmas and then take it down the day after! (As you can tell, we see Christmas as an opt-in holiday. Sadly, I realized this was not true for most other people while stopping by the mall yesterday. BAD IDEA.)
Also, I am making gingerbread for the first time, so we went and bought cookie cutters. I have a gingerbread guy and a gingerbread girl and a Christmas tree, and I couldn't find a star of David, but instead, they have been joined by... a unicorn!
SISTER: The unicorn looks weird.
ME: Awesome and sparkly!
Sister gives me a skeptical look.
ME: Unicorns! Appropriate for many seasons! (then) Ooooo, should we get a stegosaurus too?
I was tempted to buy pink sparkles for it, but I don't actually like sparkles on my cookies (or frosting, or icing, or anything that has that much sugar. Light sprinklings of powdered sugar are acceptable.)
Also also, it would be nice if all my baking urges didn't happen at 10 pm. At least my kitchen is well stocked enough that I don't have to make midnight Safeway runs or very strange substitutions, though the well-stocked-ness mainly consists of me going, "Hrm. I have had this molasses since 2007. Hopefully it is still okay!"
My sister and I have not been doing very holiday-y things, largely because I have just been stressing about my Yuletide story (I WILL NEVER TRY PLOT AGAIN), most of our friends are in other places, and we mostly just feel like bumming around and watching kdramas. I keep saying I will put up the Christmas tree that has been mouldering in storage for the past two years, but so far we have both proved too lazy to do so. Maybe we will put it up on Christmas and then take it down the day after! (As you can tell, we see Christmas as an opt-in holiday. Sadly, I realized this was not true for most other people while stopping by the mall yesterday. BAD IDEA.)
Also, I am making gingerbread for the first time, so we went and bought cookie cutters. I have a gingerbread guy and a gingerbread girl and a Christmas tree, and I couldn't find a star of David, but instead, they have been joined by... a unicorn!
SISTER: The unicorn looks weird.
ME: Awesome and sparkly!
Sister gives me a skeptical look.
ME: Unicorns! Appropriate for many seasons! (then) Ooooo, should we get a stegosaurus too?
I was tempted to buy pink sparkles for it, but I don't actually like sparkles on my cookies (or frosting, or icing, or anything that has that much sugar. Light sprinklings of powdered sugar are acceptable.)
Also also, it would be nice if all my baking urges didn't happen at 10 pm. At least my kitchen is well stocked enough that I don't have to make midnight Safeway runs or very strange substitutions, though the well-stocked-ness mainly consists of me going, "Hrm. I have had this molasses since 2007. Hopefully it is still okay!"
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