Already behind and haven’t really started…

November 30, 2008 by · 44 Comments

I think back to last year at this time and I was so ahead of the game. Tree was up, as well as all holiday decor. All the gifts were bought and wrapped. All the Christmas cards were done and addressed, stamped and ready to go. This year I do have some holiday decor up but no tree yet. That was suppose to be done Friday night, then Saturday night, then tonight (yeah, not happening somehow we got the tree up, I think this post nudged me a little to do it). I have one gift bought. I think I have wrapping paper somewhere. Christmas cards? Not purchased. Have no idea where my address book is (it's been missing for months). Stamps? Do I even have those? Sigh. To top it off I have 9 holiday parties I have been invited to. Five of which of course are on the same night. :( Boo. I hate to tell people no, I don't want them to think we don't want to come. But I have done the spreading yourself thin and go to all five party thing before and it is no fun. You don't get to enjoy any of the parties … [Read more...]

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Good in theory….

November 26, 2008 by · 36 Comments

Good in theory...bad in practice. I say this a lot in my life. Mostly in hockey though. For there are a lot of things I see so clearly in my mind yet when I go to execute them at hockey they never go that way. It's a very sad sight indeed. Sometimes the good in theory, bad in practice phrase also relates to my baking. This week's Tuesday's with Dorie (which we were allowed to post late due to US Thanksgiving) was a Thanksgiving Twofer Pie (La Casserole Carree). It's basically a combo of pecan pie and pumpkin pie. I of course set out to do something different. I wanted to make a pecan pie cake. Pumpkin ice cream. And then turn that into a Baked Alaska. The cake itself was tasty, but when I went to cut into circles it rebelled against me...with a vengeance and I never got a very good circle out of any of them. The ice cream was super yummy. I made a Kabocha Squash and Pumpkin Ice Cream. But getting the ice cream on top of the mutilated pecan pie cake was also difficult, even with me … [Read more...]

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Identity crisis….

November 24, 2008 by · 46 Comments

So to round out what had already been a very odd week, LFB was scheduled to be spayed on Tuesday. After getting blood work and the once over LFB was cleared for surgery and I went home (this was around 9am). Now even though spay and  neutering is very routine I was still a tad nervous, as anytime a small animal goes under anesthesia it is never good, and LFB is only a little over 2 pounds total. Around 2 pm I got a phone call from the veterinarian. I was suppose to get LFB at 3 pm and so I assumed it was them telling me that everything had gone well and I can pick up LFB in about an hour. But instead it was the Vet telling me that their was a problem. My heart sank. I asked if something had gone wrong in the surgery and he told me no, that LFB had not even gone into surgery yet. At this point I was confused. The Vet told me that he was embarrassed to say this but that LFB could  not be spayed that day. I asked why not and he said because LFB was not a girl, but at BOY. Yes, that's … [Read more...]

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Rounding out the tour…

November 21, 2008 by · 50 Comments

I stole a book from the library once. Though I didn't know I stole it. I found it years later and noticed stamped inside was the name of my high school library. Oops. That book was The Field Guide to North American Birds. I am still not sure why I would have even checked out a book like that. Not the field guide part, but the bird part. So I had a bit of a flashback when Anita's (Dessert First) cookbook arrived in the mail. For there in the mail was the best field guide I had every seen, a field guide about cookies! Now surely if my high school library had that this cookbook in it, it would have totally made sense that I would rip it off (though really I must say I do not condone stealing...buy the book instead!). Anita Chu's first cookbook Field Guide to Cookies, or How to Identify and Bake Virtually Every Cookie Imaginable, packs an enormous amount of cookie recipes and cookie information for such a compact little book. I had a myriad of cookies to choose from but the minute I saw … [Read more...]

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