The Rest of What I Did During My Vacation

[gnomi]

Back to handy-dandy bullet points:

Sunday
-- Went to osewalrus' parents' 45th anniversary party. Saw lots of fun people to whom I happen to be related (among those: osewalrus, beckyfeld, lisafeld, hammercock) and fun people to whom I'm not related (including 530nm330hz and introverte).

-- After anniversary party, changed out of finery and did stuff around home. Contemplated running errands and decided against it.

Monday
-- Stayed home while mabfan was at work.
-- Watched more "Project Runway" than I ever had before (Bravo was running a marathon of season 2)
-- Knit a lot
-- Baked cookies (chewy cocoa cookies, recipe from tsuki_no_bara) for a New Year's Un-Party
-- Went to said Un-Party. Enjoyed spending New Year's Eve as one of 9 people at small gathering.
-- Got home about 1:30 AM. mabfan called scarlettina and I kibbitzed from my seat
-- Went to bed around 2:15 AM. Had, at that point, been up 20 hours.

Tuesday
-- Got up around 8:45 AM
-- Went grocery shopping (local store open New Year's Day, yay. Rain storm that turned to snow storm while we were in the store, boo).
-- Went to lunchy gathering at friends'
-- Returned home (snow had become rain), got DVDs back from friend
-- Went to elul_3 and joules314's to deliver other DVDs, hang out for a while
-- Came home, didn't do laundry
-- Baked *more* chewy cocoa cookies. These will go with me and with mabfan for our coworkers to enjoy tomorrow.

Tomorrow, I return to work. It's been fun being off this past week and getting lots of time to relax, and part of me would love for it to continue, but another part of me looks forward to returning to my routine.

Comments

[eal.livejournal.com]

And I'll likely see you tomorrow as I did not for the last week. So here's to getting back to routines for both of us!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I should be around most of the day.

Yay for routines. :-)

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

how did the cookies come out? did people like them? did you make them with chocolate chips?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

All three times I've made them, I've used chocolate chips. And they've come out wonderfully (well, I've had very positive feedback on the two batches that went anywhere; the third one, currently sitting on the dining room table waiting to come to work with me and with mabfan, I haven't gotten feedback on yet).

I brought a bunch to the Un-Party (at which there were 9 people); there were significantly fewer on the cookie plate at the end of the evening.

Thank you so much for the recipe!!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Waaait. You are related to hammercock?? How did I miss that? What's the connection?

I think you just got me back in terms of world-shrink. :-D

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

hammercock's cousin (osewalrus) is married to my sister (beckyfeld). So I guess she's my cousin-in-law-in-law.

[osewalrus.livejournal.com]

Who are the other LJ users who were at my folks party?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

The non-relatives? Members of Sha'arei; the husband went to high school with Michael (I don't want to give their full names here in an open post without their permission).