Holiday Cooking

Mood: Un-excited
Song: Baba O'Riley - The Who
Units of Caffeine: 3

Okay, so My Space entertained me for a while and now I'm back to the real world, (whatever the hell that is.) So, here it is: the week after finals and the week prior to the holiday break, which means it is boring as all hell here. I never thought I would be saying this, but I am actually dying for work - But I must add the disclaimer to say that I am dying for some of my own work, and not anyone else's. This past week, I was given a major project of the financial secretary's. Why is the financial secretary not doing it? Because she doesn't know how to use Excel. Fan-frigging-tastic! Well, I'm almost done with that project - AND my vacation begins at 5 p.m. today, so I'm pretty damn happy. My boss gave me tomorrow off - I know it's only one extra day. but I'm actually glad of this or else I would be banging my head against my desk.

So, K and I began making a gingerbread house last weekend and it's turning out well. Yeah, I know what you're saying: "You started a gingerbread house last weekend and you're still not done!?" Well, first of all, a gingerbread house isn't all that difficult to make, it's just that we're facing all the stumbling blocks that people run into when doing something for the first time. Besides, we were pretty much moving without a compass: We couldn't find a template or anything like that, despite many trips to craft and kitchen stores, so we both decided that, with our artistic abilities, we could design it ourselves. And so we did. Since we were doing this for the first time, we decided to do a fairly basic structure. I drew out a scaled design and then went about drawing and cutting out the wall, roof and chimney pieces. I got a gingerbread recipe off Food TV.com which claimed that it made enough dough for one gingerbread house. Well, apparently the house K and I are building and the house Food TV makes are completely different sizes because the recipe made enough dough to only make one wall of my house. After making a couple of wall pieces, I ran out of some ingredients, so we saved the remainder of the baking to another day.

*Fast forward to "another day"*

We bought more ingredients and made a crapload of gingerbread dough. In fact, we had enough to make other various cutout trees and other decorative things and I still have some dough in my fridge. The actual building and decorating of the thing wasn't/isn't too bad, it's just that, we're doing it amidst our regular work schedule and various social events. So, what would normally take a Saturday or Sunday afternoon is now spread out over a period of a week or so, but we DO plan to have it completed before Christmas day... (even if it means working up until midnight on Christmas Eve); but that is the cutoff point. I am hoping that Santa will help us fund a new digital camera so that we can take a picture of this thing to post on the blog.

And yes.... Despite my colorblindness, I might post a color photograph of it.