girlfiend

The bad thing about hosting three dinner parties in a week and a half (two in two days!) is that the house is still a mess. The good thing is that there’s plenty of food and wine leftover. We just polished off two cupcakes, there’s half a carrot cake in the fridge, dinner for tomorrow night is taken care of,  and the leftover loaf of Italian bread will do for sandwiches for most of the week. I am currently drinking pink wine.

The children (for the time being, anyway) are sleeping and I am using a new to me computer that moves faster than the pony express. E brought me a computer he rescued and refurbished so I’m no longer stuck using my state of the art circa 2000 HP with the recurring “virtual memory is low” error message. Thank you, E!

I seem to have misplaced my knitting and my camera cord (found!). The bread I mixed earlier today didn’t rise enough and the brown butter sugar cookies didn’t come together the way they should. I have two batches of chocolate chip cookie dough in the fridge waiting to be baked or frozen and two dozen pumpkin cheese muffins in the freezer. The wheat thins I made didn’t turn out too well. I’ve got a spicy cheddar cracker recipe to try next. I really need a new rolling pin. And these storage containers.

I brought a bunch of change to a coinstar machine and got two $40 gift cards that came with rebate forms for $10. The rebates will come in 6-8 weeks in the form of two $10 gift cards. I love holiday promotions. The Christmas shopping is almost finished. The Chanukah shopping was finished a while ago. The baby is getting yet another tooth. The Fiendling climbs into bed with us every night around 3 in the morning. Sometimes he wakes us, sometimes we just find him there in the morning.

Things are okay for me right now. Robin isn’t doing so well though. He’s been left for dead in the potty.