Dec 20
mmmmm…mayo
Wow, Christmas is still five days away and I’m already sugared out. I’ve eaten SO.MUCH. cookie dough in the past week, and every day I say, “I’m not eating any more dough!” but I am literally helpless in the face of raw baked goods. It’s like an out-of-body experience, where I watch from the outside as I shovel spoon after spoon of dough in my mouth.
I reached my limit tonight while making the fourth batch of brownies for Lindsey to give to her friends as gifts. It’s good timing, though, because we don’t get back from Switzerland until late Christmas Eve and I won’t have time to make pie, and nobody even cares. Or at least I don’t.
Let’s see…today I went to a going away for a co-worker. It was a luncheon at a local Italian restaurant, and I got shrimp cocktail as an appi, and while that sounds really yum, when it was placed in front of me, it was a pile of shrimp on a plate with at least 1/2 cup of curry mayonnaise on top. At LEAST. Now, I love me some mayo (actually my sister…she’ll eat mayo by the spoonful. GROSS BUT TRUE) but not by the cup. God. Ew, I just realized something that makes that even worse: immediately before leaving for the restaurant, we watched a forwarded video of this guy with an infected spider bite on his jaw. Have you seen it? It’s the guy, in a bathroom, squeezing the pus out of this tennis ball-sized abscess, and it really, REALLY should have made me think twice about even looking at that pink mayo. Fortunately, I had erased it from my brain until just now.
After lunch we stuffed 140 brown paper lunch bags with candy and, yes, cookies to deliver to the wounded troops. The bags had been decorated by elementary school children and were all very cute…except for the one with a grass covered grave sporting a tombstone with the letters, “R.I.P.” scrawled across them. “Wow!” we said, “THAT’S not appropriate!” and sort of…okay, we threw it away. I’m SORRY! It was not wounded-troop friendly!
Now we’re frantically prepping for our three-day Switzerland ski/snowboard trip. Or as I like to say, two days driving/one day skiing, four families TWO BATHROOMS ONLY do-we-really-have-to-goooooooo??????
I know. Whine whine I have to go to Switzerland I’m a big baby blah. Whatever. Can I say it enough? TWO BATHROOMS.
Tschuss!!
December 20th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Yeah, and who was it that turned me on to broccoli dipped in mayo? Mmmm. I am hungry now!
December 20th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
And here I am hoping to be spending new years in germany rather than spain……
December 21st, 2007 at 12:47 am
Hmm, can I just say thank you (NOT) for the spider-bite imagery? I’d also like to say you are a better woman than I for making more than one batch of brownies. One is my limit. I’m not making pie, either. Nope, this year, it’s peanut butter fudge.
Have a terrific trip to Switzerland! You’ll survive, I promise.
December 21st, 2007 at 5:34 am
oh yeah, Ive seen the spider bite on the hand email going around…. lol
December 21st, 2007 at 5:54 am
Toni - DIFFERENT.
Rodney - Oh god, choose Spain! It’s gotta be warmer than here (17 degrees this morning)!
Kari - Peanut Butter Fudge sounds,and actually IS, sooo much better than pie!
Rodney - No,no…it’s not that one. This is an infected bite on his left JAW. It’s SO DISGUSTING.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Cookie dough! YUM!
Infected spider bites? BLECH!
I think there is probably a cookie dough anon somewhere and I need to join too. If I find it, you wanna come with me?
December 21st, 2007 at 10:10 pm
I’d be at Moron…. locked down on base with sevilla only a half hour away….. atleast with germany I can go to the tree bar lol
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
OMG my 19 y/o made us watch that video a few weeks ago. I almost puked and had to quit watching it. That is the single most disgusting thing I’ve seen on youtube. Uck. Yuck. Eye wateringly bad.
I left and went into our room while my wife and son kept watching it. I can remember hearing Alexis’ comments and shreiking, especially at the end of it.
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Oh, I almost forgot!
Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! & Fabulous Festivus;)
Chris