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Her psychic powers are intact

admin — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:28:16 +0000

I got home from work in a panic ready to force feed my cat so she wouldn’t die and found her still on her bed in the office. But then she got up all on her own, walked to the kitchen, ate a bit, then went to her water bowl and drank for five minutes. Just like she knew what I was going to do if she didn’t eat and drink on her own. This obviously made me feel better. She seems a bit more lively (not that she’s ever very lively) tonight. Though later she did then go sit by her food dish and not eat, so I gave in and got 5cc’s of food/water puree down her throat with the syringe. I now have another hole in my finger from that battle. She took most of her meds without problems and drank some more water, though still not very much. Now she is napping on her heating pad. I’ll probably try to feed her one more time tonight before bed, but she’s hanging in there.

Thanks again for all the encouragement and concern!

All the worry is starting to affect the rest of my life though. I was making a yellow pound bundt cake tonight and I nearly burned it badly. Silly uneven oven temperatures. Though I suspect my co-workers will still manage to eat the whole thing tomorrow.

The view

admin — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:33:33 +0000

From my apartment of the first snowfall of the season:

In my kitchen as I work on a cake for Thanksgiving. I love my KitchenAid mixer!

one of these things is not like the others

admin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:22:19 +0000

Can you spot which one just doesn’t quite belong?

I made M&M cookies with the ‘limited edition’ mint chocolate M&M’s. The recipe I used said it made six dozen, but I was only able to scrape out four dozen, plus the giant cookie. There wasn’t enough dough left justify a big cookie sheet with only a couple of cookies, so I grabbed the smallest pan, which was a loaf pan and put the last bit of dough in there and tossed it in with the last batch.

Some cookies will go to work tomorrow, some will go to pre-football game festivities on Saturday, wherever I take part in them. Maybe if you’re lucky, you’ll get to try one.

Today

admin — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:15:17 +0000

Today, I went to the new ginormous Menards and bought a carbon monoxide/gas detector. I woke up this morning, after a night of horrible dreams that paralyzed me with fear, and thought that maybe my cat and I were slowly being poisoned by my apartment. According to the detector, I am just crazy, but maybe I’ll sleep better tonight. Well, I know I’ll sleep better because I’ll just take some Ambien before bed. I’d rather not take the drugs, but when the alternative is frightening dreams all night, for now I’m taking the pill.

I also got a new blender that was on clearance. My old blender is the one I had had since college, and while it was fine functionally, it smells like burning when I use it. Which isn’t really what one looks for in a small appliance.

Finally, I tried to make pancakes for dinner tonight. Tried and failed. I don’t know why but I’m just terrible at making pancakes. I can bake so well, but I cannot get pancakes right. They’re either undercooked or burned. We won’t even speak of my attempts at french toast in the past.

It was kind of an odd day. I hope tomorrow is less weird.

frosting! sprinkles!

admin — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:58:03 +0000

Some pictures of my cupcake creations from yesterday that my co-workers were privileged enough to receive.

And presenting my new favorite baking accessory: The Cupcake Courier. It is so great. It holds up to three dozen cupcakes all nice and safe and no smooshing about. There are three layers, but I only needed two for this first run. Its actually a bit heavy, but works exactly liked designed.