Actually, I am eating most of the cookies but whatever. I got a Kitchenaid mixer for an early Christmas present so I am now an unstoppable cookie making machine. This past Monday I went to my bookclub meeting (women of a certain age are required to join a bookclub. A friend of mine has been successfully dodging bookclub membership for twenty years but they will get her eventually. No one gets out of this life without reading at least one Barbara Kingsolver novel) and we had a cookie exchange. Initially, I felt I hadn’t brought enough cookies but then I realized that I had brought adult cookies and no one’s kids would want them so I was good. I made ginger cookies (in my cookie goddess mixer) and let me tell you, this recipe is not messing around. Small children shrink form them and dogs generally leave them alone. Delicious.
I got the recipe from a cookbook I got out of the library and although I love the cookies I think I am done with new recipes for the coming year. My goal is to try all the recipes I already have. I hope it will be indicative of what I plan to do with other aspects of my life, which is to do and use what I already have. This is leading me to a shopping frenzy that will probably last up until the last day of the year but that is okay. The world is on sale this time of year. I have also decided that I never want to wear, let alone go shopping for, another pair of shorts for the rest of my life. I have no idea what I will wear come summer but that will be a problem for my future self and I’m sure she’ll think of something.
Well, I am off to paint my fingernails. Since junior high I have been trying to figure out how to keep polish on my fingernails for longer than five hours. The friend of mine that has been dodging bookclubs gave me a tip today. If it works I will share it with you. If it doesn’t I will never mention it again. The new year will be all about success!This will be the opposite of that hilarious fail blog I hate to admit I have been chuckling over for the past year.
Okay, to sum up- Planning to use what I have before going to get more, no more shorts for the rest of my natural life and focus on success rather than failure.
I’ll need another cookie before I get started on this.