So how dumb am I? Pretty dumb.

I made 2 batches of cookies tonight, and both ended up a complete disaster for completely different reasons, and now I’m going to have to start all over again. I didn’t remember how much I hated making cookies. I mean, they are super simple, so they lull you into a sense of complacency, and you put them in the oven, all proud and victorious, and start making a different kind and then forget about the first batch and leave them in too long. Cookies need to be babysat. You need to put those suckers in the oven and stare through the door for the 8-10 minutes they take to bake, and then BAM you need to execute a praying mantis-like grab for the cookie sheet and get those suckers out before they turn into charcoal.

Now, to get back to the actual disaster that was my baking… Batch number one, Chocolate chip and Scor cookies, hourrah! New recipe, that I followed to the letter, just like I always do the first time I make anything. Recipe says: place a rounded teaspoon of dough onto a cookie sheet with a piece of wax paper covering. So down goes the wax paper, on goes the cookie dough, and into the oven. 5 minutes later, the oven starts smoking. “MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Turns out the recipe is WRONG and you do NOT put wax paper in the oven, because the wax on the paper melts, causing wax-melting-mayhem. So it wasn’t completely my fault. But still, ruined.

Second batch went fabulously, through the oven and everything. Half of the dough was peanut butter, and half was peanut butter chocolate chunk. Wonderful, I love those cookies, and I burnt my mouth eating two right out of the oven. Only one problem. The person I’m making these cookies for? HATES PEANUT BUTTER. So now I have 36 peanut butter cookies, that I am probably going to end up eating, and get fat, and scor cookies that actually came out of the oven okay, but I don’t know how bad it is to eat wax.

In other news, aside from Kate hurting her knee somehow and spending the better part of the day limping, we had an excellent day, went to Angels, went to the armoury and the covered bridge, went and bought too many CDs, bought myself awesome vintage earrings that I didn’t need but I absolutely adore, bought Marissa her present, and then went to Nathan and Anthony’s Xmas play.

AND Kate is staying until Sunday. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS—Kate would like it to be known that she got an excellent necklace that she didn’t need but absolutely adores too! Yay!

(And she also insists that:)

P.P.S – there is no such thing as P.S.S