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Jameson and I finished our 2000-piece doughnut puzzle!
We've got good teamwork :)
On Sunday I gave myself a PTO extra day off. Sunday is a great day to do this because my week is pretty much 2 days working - 1 day off - 2 days working - 2 days off. Breaks up the week nicely.
But ironically, right at 5:30am which is normally about the time I get up for work, all the smoke detectors in the house went off!!
Scared the daylights out of us. We though it was the motion sensor at first since that occasionally beeps. And it was 5:30am so we weren't thinking clearly. But after a minute we figured out it was the smoke detectors, which are all apparently on the same circus and will scream an ungodly chorus together should one of their batteries die. Good lord! So at 5:30am Jameson went around replacing batteries while I stared at each alarm to see if the light on it was red or green. Bleeeeh.
Well after that, I still got more sleep than I would have on a workday. Woke up significantly later and had breakfast, and went out to check on my new pollinator garden. I was a little freaked out that the plants looked wilted again...I mean come on I know it's hot here, but all of these plants are supposed to be able to handle FL summer, and I just spent $$$ on them and significant physical effort preparing the ground for them, so they had better not die!! At least not all of them!! I watered them a little but tried not to get too crazy as I've read that some hot weather plants will wilt on purpose, and it's not necessarily a sign of doom.
Anyway, back inside I worked on two fun food projects: mojito popsicles, and oatmeal sandwich cookies!
Both turned out pretty well. The popsicles were easy to make, although the recipe I used had way too much lime juice if you ask me. Also the popsicles keep overflowing their molds and I can't tell if it's because of the booze, or the tonic water, or me overfilling them (although there is a fill line). Whatever, it's a pain to keep having to clean their drippings. Next time maybe I'll fill them less or not use tonic. All that aside they do taste good! I used mint from my garden to make the mint simple syrup :)
The sandwich cookies were MUCH more successful. They're meant to be kind of a Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie knockoff, but as you can see they don't look very similar. If I wanted to make a true knockoff I think next time I'd use fine-ground oats or maybe even oat flour, and also incorporate molasses into the cookie to achieve the chewiness and color. Anyway the homemade version is absolutely delicious. Just plain oatmeal cookies with some homemade buttercream sandwiched in between. I'm really pleased with how they turned out.
In the evening we teamed up with two of our most awesome circus buddies, Applesauce and Shrek (nicknames obviously) to play Overcooked 2 together! We achieved this by joining a game together, then holding a Zoom meeting while we played so we could all scream at each other. It was great fun!
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Jameson and I finished our 2000-piece doughnut puzzle!
We've got good teamwork :)
On Sunday I gave myself a PTO extra day off. Sunday is a great day to do this because my week is pretty much 2 days working - 1 day off - 2 days working - 2 days off. Breaks up the week nicely.
But ironically, right at 5:30am which is normally about the time I get up for work, all the smoke detectors in the house went off!!
Scared the daylights out of us. We though it was the motion sensor at first since that occasionally beeps. And it was 5:30am so we weren't thinking clearly. But after a minute we figured out it was the smoke detectors, which are all apparently on the same circus and will scream an ungodly chorus together should one of their batteries die. Good lord! So at 5:30am Jameson went around replacing batteries while I stared at each alarm to see if the light on it was red or green. Bleeeeh.
Well after that, I still got more sleep than I would have on a workday. Woke up significantly later and had breakfast, and went out to check on my new pollinator garden. I was a little freaked out that the plants looked wilted again...I mean come on I know it's hot here, but all of these plants are supposed to be able to handle FL summer, and I just spent $$$ on them and significant physical effort preparing the ground for them, so they had better not die!! At least not all of them!! I watered them a little but tried not to get too crazy as I've read that some hot weather plants will wilt on purpose, and it's not necessarily a sign of doom.
Anyway, back inside I worked on two fun food projects: mojito popsicles, and oatmeal sandwich cookies!
Both turned out pretty well. The popsicles were easy to make, although the recipe I used had way too much lime juice if you ask me. Also the popsicles keep overflowing their molds and I can't tell if it's because of the booze, or the tonic water, or me overfilling them (although there is a fill line). Whatever, it's a pain to keep having to clean their drippings. Next time maybe I'll fill them less or not use tonic. All that aside they do taste good! I used mint from my garden to make the mint simple syrup :)
The sandwich cookies were MUCH more successful. They're meant to be kind of a Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie knockoff, but as you can see they don't look very similar. If I wanted to make a true knockoff I think next time I'd use fine-ground oats or maybe even oat flour, and also incorporate molasses into the cookie to achieve the chewiness and color. Anyway the homemade version is absolutely delicious. Just plain oatmeal cookies with some homemade buttercream sandwiched in between. I'm really pleased with how they turned out.
In the evening we teamed up with two of our most awesome circus buddies, Applesauce and Shrek (nicknames obviously) to play Overcooked 2 together! We achieved this by joining a game together, then holding a Zoom meeting while we played so we could all scream at each other. It was great fun!
( Read more... )
