This morning I delivered the fruit of my wee hour baking. Donna's eyes lit up when I handed her the basket full of treats. The baby shower cookies were made from my favorite sugar cookie dough tinged with almond extract, glazed with light blue glaze, sprinkled with light blue sugar and piped with chocolate icing. Each cookie was individually bagged and tied with light blue and brown ribbon...the shower color scheme. These cookies were definitely a labor of love. I could never charge what I should to cover the time spent.
Work today was brutal. Costco surrounded me with all my wants, but cannot haves and they spoke to me the entire afternoon. The storage shed over my left shoulder whispered "I would make Mike very happy." The outdoor kitchen diagonally across from my table chanted "You know you want me!" King crab legs and jumbo prawns shouted "Buy me for dinner!" The Stag's Leap Merlot to my right threatened to leap into my cart..."I'm going to jump!" It drove me crazy. I take that back...I was already crazy. What sane person works seven days a week, ignores her loving husband to bake or write a blog and averages 5 hours of sleep a night?!
Tonight I had a rare craving for steak so Mike humored me with a trip to Outback. I was pleasantly surprised to find the $9.95 Outback Special on the menu. My meal included a 6 oz. sirloin steak, baked potato and blue cheese pecan chopped salad plus bread, good service and no dishes to clean up. It made this cash starved foodie very happy.
Many hugs,
Kathy
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