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12.23.2005 :: sugar high: a song from one of my favorite movies. Do you know what it is?
Sleep is over rated, don't you think?
HECK NO! I hear the resounding cry. It's almost midnight and this creature is stirring while the mice are asleep. ( I know. See? At midnight this seems like it's a version of The Night Before Christmas. And clearly it's not anything like it. At all)
Specifically, I'm stirring cookies. Okay, not stirring them persay, but baking them. The last batch before going to bed.
I have one more day of work and then a week off. One glorious, yarn filled week where I get to do nothing in particular. Or everything I ever dreamed. That's the beauty of vacation!
Okay, okay. One day of "WORK" is an exaggeration. I need to go into my place of employment, armed with cookies and plenty of them, where I will munch and visit my way through the morning before heading home well before noon. Not too shabby a day of work. And if my boss asks, YES, I am busy at work.
And she will get some peanut butter fudge to sweeten the deal.
The 2005 Cookie menu:
~peanut butter kiss cookies. Have I ever given you the recipe? They are the easiest with 3 ingredients, not one of them flour.
~jam thumbprints. Easily my handsdown favorite cookie of the year!
~sugar cookies gone lazy. No shapes for us. Just ovals. I meant to do circles, but they are now ovals. I doubt anyone's Christmas will be ruined for it!
~snickerdoodles. Doesn't the name crack you up? Who thought of that?
~easy peanut butter fudge. Yum.
I will pack them in bags. I will bring them on plates.
Dr. Seuss could do something with those lines. Not me. Not at midnight.
Now it's 2 days before Christmas. And this elf is going to bed.
Posted by Sandy on 12.23.2005 AT 12:02 AM
Comments
I'm thinking that, unlike me, you actually KNOW how to bake stuff.
;-)
Have a great holiday!
Posted by: claudia on 12.23.2005 AT 01:44 PM
Have a good last day of 'work'! Merry Christmas to you and yours. I hope that Santa is good to you, especially for not peaking, and I hope it is worth the wait! :D
Posted by: Tiffany on 12.23.2005 AT 12:50 PM
Oooh...snickerdoodles.... *drool*
I fell in love with snickerdoodles when I was living in Nashville and my then-boyfriend's mother made us a batch. Now I live in Denver, and with the altitude difference I just can't get them right. They end up flat and crunchy around the edges. Anybody have a high-altitude snickerdoodle recipe that works?
Posted by: Imbrium on 12.23.2005 AT 12:15 PM
You must be one tired little elf.... Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Posted by: Maureen on 12.23.2005 AT 10:13 AM
What? Stephanie doesn't know snickerdoodles? Ok, we gotta send her some ..... from Our People. Hee.
I got the baking bug last night, too, and went shopping for all the finest artery-clogging and fat-producing ingredients. I'm going to try some new recipes: The eggnog poundcake I mentioned previously, Canadian Maple Sugar Pie, and a fancy-falutin' French lemon tart. Also going to throw in some cranberry-orange bread and maybe a cookie or two. But, as I told my sister last night, "this is all subject to change based on my mood, so don't get your hopes up." ;-)
Posted by: Norma on 12.23.2005 AT 09:22 AM
Seriously, Snickerdoodles?
Posted by: stephanie on 12.23.2005 AT 09:03 AM
Peggy beat me to it! Empire Records it is! With a very young, kind of chunky in a baby fat not Bridget Jones kind of way Renee Zellweger belting out a verse on the roof.
Honestly, though when I think Empire Records, I think ACDC "If you want BLOOD, YOU GOT IT!"
Have fun!
Posted by: Cara on 12.23.2005 AT 08:55 AM
Go Sandy! Lucky co-workers - have a very Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Mary Beth on 12.23.2005 AT 08:19 AM
Sounds good - have a great day at *work* and enjoy those cookies!
Posted by: Carole on 12.23.2005 AT 08:18 AM
Could I have that recipe for the peanut butter kiss cookie? Sounds right up my alley
Posted by: linda on 12.23.2005 AT 07:56 AM
mmmm cookies. now, that would be a good work day. passing out of of cookies and going home before noon. why can't they all be like that.
my vacation started today, and yet i'm awake at 6am. but at least i don't have to do anything.
Posted by: maryse on 12.23.2005 AT 07:05 AM
Empire Records!!!
I was just thinking tonight that I should do up some thumbprints tomorrow. Just a smallish batch so I don't eat them all myself. ;) Some to give away and some for me and the little B.
Posted by: peggy on 12.23.2005 AT 01:17 AM
i love the peanut butter kiss cookies - when i first made them for the man he did not believe that there was nothing in them but peanut butter and sugar - magic!
Posted by: Jenn on 12.23.2005 AT 12:37 AM
Mmmm, snickerdoodles.
And thumbprint cookies! These were my all-time favourite holiday cookies when I was a kid. I hope your co-workers all appreciate your baked bounty of christmas cookies. Have a great holiday week!
Posted by: Michelle on 12.23.2005 AT 01:45 PM