My Christmas shopping is not going quite as planned.
I was going to send a restaurant gift certificate to some friends. Turned out the gift certificates for the site I looked at were only discount coupons, so they would still be required to spend money.
Daughter asked for a certain book for Christmas. Turns out that book is due for release on 12/30/14. One of the most popular series of kids books for some time. Talk about a marketing fail!!
I was going to buy daughter more clay, this time white clay. The local clay company closes too early for me to get there except on Saturday, when daughter is with me. That's New Mexico. So I had to order the clay to be delivered from Amazon. Sure the delivery person is gonna love me, being a 50 lb package.
Oh, well. Going shopping for more stuff tomorrow.
Definitely gotten more efficient at making fudge. Within 45 minutes after work today, I had two batches of fudge on the stove, done with the cooking stage and cooling down. The down side to this is that you cannot go anywhere at all while it's cooking and not for long when it's cooling. Every stage is highly temperature dependent. It has to be stirred frequently or constantly in some stages, then watched closely until it reaches the correct temperature. Then more ingredients added, then the temperature watched closely as it cools to a certain temperature and then manually stirred and poured.
Oh, well. One batch I'm making now is going to be chocolate/bourbon/espresso/pecan. Ultimately fattening but if it comes out as planned, better than sex!
I was going to send a restaurant gift certificate to some friends. Turned out the gift certificates for the site I looked at were only discount coupons, so they would still be required to spend money.
Daughter asked for a certain book for Christmas. Turns out that book is due for release on 12/30/14. One of the most popular series of kids books for some time. Talk about a marketing fail!!
I was going to buy daughter more clay, this time white clay. The local clay company closes too early for me to get there except on Saturday, when daughter is with me. That's New Mexico. So I had to order the clay to be delivered from Amazon. Sure the delivery person is gonna love me, being a 50 lb package.
Oh, well. Going shopping for more stuff tomorrow.
Definitely gotten more efficient at making fudge. Within 45 minutes after work today, I had two batches of fudge on the stove, done with the cooking stage and cooling down. The down side to this is that you cannot go anywhere at all while it's cooking and not for long when it's cooling. Every stage is highly temperature dependent. It has to be stirred frequently or constantly in some stages, then watched closely until it reaches the correct temperature. Then more ingredients added, then the temperature watched closely as it cools to a certain temperature and then manually stirred and poured.
Oh, well. One batch I'm making now is going to be chocolate/bourbon/espresso/pecan. Ultimately fattening but if it comes out as planned, better than sex!
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