I made Nanaimo Bars for the open house on Saturday and they ended up being a gooey mess. I couldn’t figure out why until tonight — I had *melted* the butter instead of merely softening it. I let it soften naturally tonight and got a decent middle layer of icing.
Happy Jen!
Oh yes… the recipe is here. You need to double the chocolate and butter used in the last part.
OK… my Thanksgiving:
The Good
-singing “Earth and All Stars” for worship
-the FOOD!!!!!
-being with family
-being able to get spumoni
-mushroom risotto for lunch followed by more spumoni
The Bad
-having wicked nausea/cramps during worship on Wednesday night
-the [insert nasty word] who drove for 40 miles behind me tonight with his bleeping brights on
-the headache from person mentioned above
-almost hitting Bambi last night
-the number of people at Wal-Mart on Thanksgiving night!!!!! (this wasn’t even for Black Friday)
The Furry
-Fred and Loogy (my aunt and uncle’s cats)
-the fleece I got at Wal-Mart to make into blankies for Project Linus in honor of my parents for Christmas
For the first time in 6 years, I will be spending Thanksgiving with part of MY family. (It’s the first time in 5 years that we’ve spent it with either of our families.) After worship (which is in like 30 minutes), we’ll pack and head south to Great Falls. My aunt and I will cook. Jon will replace the taillights on the Volvo. (He who smashes them out fixes them. :P)
Tomorrow I will go torture the nice people at Joann Fabric on Black Friday and get the fleece for two Project Linus blankies. (I already have one crocheted.)
So… Happy Thanksgiving to all and hopefully all y’all who are travelling get to wherever you are going safely.
I went to Shelby this morning for a haircut and to drop off my paperwork with Shelby Public Schools. Well… turns out my hair appointment was earlier than I expected, so I just dropped stuff off at the school district office and went back home.
I called Chester to find out about fingerprinting and they told me to just go to the sheriff’s office and they could do it for me. Well… I drive 20+ miles there to find that the sheriff can’t accomodate me because there’s only one deputy who can do it and he’s out. So… I called Shelby to ask if they could do it in an hour (which is about how long it was going to take to get from Chester to Shelby) and they said yes. So… I truck 45 miles back to Shelby and a nice deputy fingerprints me. All in all, I think I drove 75 miles for 5 minutes of fingerprinting. I’ll have a parishioner take it over to the schools for me.
Tonight, Jon had a council meeting so I did some baking: gingerbread cats. I have kitty cookie cutters and I got this recipe oof of AllRecipes.Com. I only made half a batch and got 7 cats out of it — I think 2 batches should yield enough for Ke to decorate.
I also realized that I needed a life when I started drawing out plans for how I’d build a gingerbread house and decorate it — making everything from scratch. I never wanted to be Martha Stewart and I’m afraid that I’m turning into her!!!!!!!!!!! *runs screaming*
Life here has been kind of crazy this week. We had to get the car titled and new license plates, try and get driver’s licenses (we failed because we’re in a unique situation in terms of residence), get DSL installed, and we thankfully were able to get satellite TV today.
I’ve been reading murder mysteries, trying to unpack the kitchen, working on a blanket for my brother’s girlfriend (my mom just commissioned one from me so I need to finish Jeanette’s), and snuggling with 4 very affectionate cats. I swear that my beasts are thinking “maybe if we’re nice to her, she won’t stuff us in cages and take us to a strange house again”.
We also went to Glacier National Park this week. Some parishioners were needing to get some stuff from their cabin and they invited us along. It was bee-you-tee-full!!!!!!! (I’ve been told I was in the boring part of the park and still it was wonderful.) I should probably make a list of things I have to do in Montana before I move (which I should have done for Minnesota) and I know I can at least cross that one off!