11 December 2001
Tuesday? It's only Tuesday??? It feels like it ought to be Thursday.
Tuesday? You're sure.
Alas.
The lovely Johanna says she's never used paper on a baking sheet to make brandy snaps - just a nonstick baking sheet, and a metal spatula/scraper to lift them off the sheet when they've cooled a little.
So perhaps I'll try this recipe just one more time. After I go buy a metal spatula.
I need to call my parents and arrange to make moon cookies either Friday or Sunday evening. Friday evening would probably be better. (Saturday is my office's holiday party.)
I need to actually get into the kitchen and make the rest of my planned cookies.
Though before I do that, I need to get into the kitchen and clean up the mess from the previous attempts.
I need to finish buying and wrapping Christmas presents.
And then I need to pack and ship a few boxes. Hopefully in time for the holiday.
(I need to not be stuck at work for the next two weeks...)
Moisturizer is addictive.
I got some lip gloss with moisturizer in it. Now that I've been using it regularly for a week or so, I wake up in the morning and my lips feel chapped and dry. Or maybe that's just that I've been fighting allergies for the past few days, so my lips are chapped and dry.
But no... I've been using this body wash with moisturizer in the shower. It was my concession to the fact that in the winter I start shedding skin like a snake, but haven't the patience to apply lotion after I get out of the shower.
This morning, for whatever reason, I forgot to use the moisturizing wash. Just soaped up and rinsed off and got out of the shower. Now I'm suffering. About the only part of me that doesn't itch is my back. Everything else feels tight and dry and scaly.
I keep a little tube of lotion on my desk, so I thought I'd put some on my hands and face, to help the itchies. My skin absorbed an astonishing amount of lotion. Enough to have sufficed for most of my body, back when I was in high school. And I'm still feeling a little dry in patches.
It must be that moisturizer is habit-forming. The other option - that I'm just drying out as I get old - I refuse to contemplate.
Word of the Day:
deflagrate - (intransitive) to burn rapidly with intense heat and sparks being given off; (transitive) to cause to burn in such a manner
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