Thurs. Dec. 7, 2023: Cooking Baking Marathon Part II
image courtesy of Valeria via pixabay.comThursday, December 7, 2023
Waning Moon
Chiron, Uranus, Jupiter Retrograde
Cloudy and cold
It snowed a little overnight, and is 21F. By Sunday, it’s supposed to be 61F. Crazy weather.
You can read the latest on the garden here.
Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain:
Episode 144: The Meet
Pravin hands over Emlyn’s work.
I had such a good time writing this episode. It mixes comedy and action/thriller elements, and sets off an action-packed few episodes.
Yesterday was a baking marathon. I baked steadily for about six hours, resulting in 9 dozen oatmeal currant lace cookies, 12 dozen molasses spice cookies, and 12 dozen chocolate peppermint crinkle cookies. The latter are a new addition, and boy, are they good! They may have to stay in permanent rotation.
It was snowing, so I skipped tarot circle, not wanting to drive back in the dark in bad weather. Hate not having decent night vision anymore.
Did 3 small coverages.
Two of the packages sent on Monday were delivered (one in Maine, the other in upstate NY). The rest should start hitting today or tomorrow. As I suspected, they’re not all arriving as quickly as predicted, but that’s why they were sent early.
Made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner – been awhile since I did that.
Was too tired to do anything after except stretch out on the sofa with Charlotte sitting on me. A friend asked for the chocolate peppermint crinkle recipe, and I couldn’t face getting off the couch, booting up the computer and scanner and sending it, so I will do so this morning.
Didn’t do any of the promo rounds for anything yesterday, so I’ll have to make up for it today.
I was in bed ridiculously early last night, regretting that I hadn’t invested in chef’s clogs. Charlotte started bothering me at 2 AM, so we battled until I got up at 6:30, because Tessa complained I was late. I am sore from yesterday.
On today’s agenda: meditation, designing/printing the cookie cheat sheets, delivering the platters to one side of town and the neighbors, some writing, some promotion, some script coverage, and then a double yoga session. Yeah, it’ll be a crockpot meal tonight!
I decided not to make the stollen this weekend, but wait until next weekend. I think I’m “baked out” at this point.
Have a good one, my friends!
