I’ve posted the gingerbread recipe to the blog.
Picture sounds cool, FCM.
Glad you got to celebrate at least a little bit, SO.
Awake and about to embark on laundry. And other things to keep me busy for a while. Then it’s in to work for a few minutes and then off to church (probably with some more stuff at home in between).
Yep, it’s another fascinating day chez GT.
Still no takers for tomorrow???
We had some kind of winter advisory until 0900, but looking at the radar, it was all to the north of us. Until now (0930)-it’s snowing fast and furious, but small flakes, almost sleet.
We are going to buy a flat screen TV today. And our tree. I am making oatmeal Scotchies later, and kicking around the idea of adding some cinnamon chips to them. I had a dream about this that involved the Dope.
I dreamt I wanted to make these cookies, but wasn’t sure how they’d taste, having never had cinnamon chips before. So, at first (in the dream) I decided to make one batch and split it 3 ways:
one regular OS recipe
one OS with cinnamon chips added
one oatmeal with just cinnamon chips.
And then I thought well, that’s not many cookies of each kind, so why not double the recipe and then do the split? And now you enter Eleanorworld, which is strange place. I dreamt that I was going to double the recipe, and then split the doubled recipe into thirds to complete my “experiment”, but I got hung up, IN MY DREAM, about just what 1/3 of 2 is. I tried to do the math in my head. After struggling, I dimly remembered something about converting fractions to decimals for just this type of contingency. So, 1/3 is .333, so I tried dividing 2 by .333 in my head. I came up with .6, but couldn’t finish the computation. And then, again in my dream, I thought–I know, I’ll post it on the Dope and someone nice will explain it to me. I even thought of a title for the thread: Math and Cookies.
And then my dream changed and I was in a deli, at the counter, wanting to order my lunch but I was brushing my teeth and couldn’t talk and there was nowhere to spit and the guy was getting impatient and suddenly everyone around me was brushing their teeth and I said, where did all these people come from? I spotted a small paper cup, spit into that and made my order…
Who needs drugs? Not me!
That’s a great dream, rigs. Made me laugh out loud. Truly.
It’s raining cats and dogs right now. Maybe I’ll defer the errands I’d toyed with running.
GT
[COLOR=“Lime”]Hippo Birdy Butt Pinch, Nooner!![/color]
Okay, that done tired me out, must drink coffee now…
Oh, and the Unemployment Department may suck the balls I do not have. That is all.
Happy Birthday, Special One!
Yes, Taz got many skritches, or at least as many as he’d let me. He wasn’t feeling really thrilled to have dog-in-law Abby there, so he had a tendency to go hide – although being the handsome boy that he is, he’d have to come out for more skritches after a while. Although I will say that, fat and spoiled as she is (she’s a cairn terrier), Abby is really funny sitting up and begging – she sits upright on her fat little butt and watches and watches and watches you, and Papa Tigs was her designated beggee. Alas, she picked the wrong guy, he doesn’t feed dogs off his plate no matter how cute they are!
Moooom, isn’t there any flour in that gingerbread recipe? Because it had a texture like an ordinary bread, whereas the recipe you gave seems like it would only make, uh, goo, not to put it too finely!
The basement apartment is really, really nice. And the colors are really, really colorful. Especially the green bedroom, which is seriously cave-like! But it’s a really cute little apartment. I hope they appreciate it!
Yes, I finished the socks, and now I’m working on a hat for my SIL for Christmas. It’s my first two-color knitting in many years, but I’m pleased to say it’s going smoothly. We’ll see if that continues. At least I was able to check off one more item from my list of UnFinishedObjects.
Speaking of UFOs, the pile of work I’ve got sitting here is the biggest UFO of all, so I’d better get to it. At least it’s a good day to stay home – it’s just a few degrees above freezing and raining, totally miserable. Yuck.
Okay, I read that recipe three times and didn’t see the flour. Am I blind, or an idiot, or both? Take your pick… Sigh…
There’s 3 and 1/4 cups of flour in the recipe(?)
Or maybe you secretly want gingerbread goo…
No answer to what 1/3 of 2 is? <sigh> I guess I’LL have to do it, then. Hmmph,
Now the flakes are big and it’s really coming down! Yay–I LOVE WINTER. It’s so beautiful and fun and wintery. I just finished reading Winter World by Bernd Heinrich, which is all about animal survival in the winter. It was fascinating, if a bit pedantic. Some passages are poorly written (he tends to get lost in his parantheses and also come backwards at topics and sometimes I wonder if English is perhaps a second language for him). But the information is very interesting. Did you know some animals supercool to survive? And hibernation isn’t what we learned in grammar school. (don’t ask me to explain it–I only read the book!). Did you know there’s such a thing as snow fleas? Doesn’t that just gross you the hell out? It does me.
Happy Birthday, Noonie Lunch Master Ribald Noone Internet Lunchtime Husband!!! (etc., etc.)
Good morning everyone. I’ve got my cawfee, and I’m trying like hell to wake up.
We’re going to wait a bit to get our tree, I think. I’m afraid it would just be too crispy by Christmas.
My friend and her family went and got their tree yesterday. The pictures she posted on Facebook show a beautiful tree. At least they know it’s fresh because they went to one of those U-Cut places. Still, I just don’t think it’ll be in that great of shape by Christmas.
It sounds like a nice time was had by all at the **FCM **gathering.
I had very strange dreams again last night and woke up pissed at my entire family. Something to do with housework is all I can remember.
It’s not snowing here. It’s rainy and gray. This weather pattern promises to continue the entire week.
I’m not looking forward to going to work tomorrow, at all. I need to win the lotto or something, but the damn lotto is not cooperating because I never win. Last week, I actually won nine bucks on a ticket. That’s the first time in over a year that I actually won something.
It’s not like I buy the tickets on a regular basis anyway. Maybe one a month, if that.
**rigs, **I suck at math and am not awake enough to even attempt to sit down and figure out what the answer to your question is.
Rigs- 1/3 of 2 is 2/3 or .6666667
1/3 of 1 is 1/3, so for 2 just double it…
(eg 1/2 of 1 is .5 so 1/2 of 2 would be 1)
Your wish is my command! Remember your woolie hat and thermals - my polish friend tells me it’s mighty cold in Poland! 
GT, I’ll take tomorrow, if you’re still looking for a volunteer. 
Seriously, though, I’m formulating an idea for an OP … rolling it around my head. These days, there seems to be a bit more room there. 
Yes, the weather is fairly miserable here–just above freezing and rainy. But at least it’s not freezing rain/sleet or snow. Glad to hear that the open house went so well, FCM; that gingerbread recipe sounds good too. Hah on poor, put upon Taz, although it does sound as if he’s been a good boy of late. crosses fingers and knocks on wood three times
Time again to share my favorite holiday video.
See? This is JUST the kind of BS I’m talking about. How can 1/3 of 2 be 2/3s?
Makes no sense to me. Stoopit math.
I’ll try.
You have a pie, and cut into three pieces. That is 1/3. If you have two pies, and cut them into three pieces each, one third of the combined 6 pieces (or 2 pies) would be two thirds.
Does that make sense?
Rosie, I love those guys! I’ve never heard of them! Now I have to watch all their videos.
Now I want pie.
Howdy Y’all! I’m home! I had fun. Family was fun. The party was fun. It’s rainy/drizzly here now and has been all weekend all over the state. Still, we hung outside at the party a lot cause it was just a slight drizzle and I was wearin’ a jacket with a hood, which is better than an umbrella.
Ol’ y’all know who will be here in a bit. I told him I’d nuke some frozen beast stew and make cornbread muffins for a quick dindin. We’d talked about goin’ to grab sump’n quick but I’d rather not go out in the ick. Besides he’s stayin’ the night at da cave. This way once he’s here I can [del]pounceonhimandriphisclothesoff[/del] have him all to myself.
I hope this is not too late…
<AHEM> CLEARING THROAT <AHEM>
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Haaapppyyy biiirrrttthhhdddaaayyy toooooo youuuuuu!!!
Haaapppyyy biiirrrttthhhdddaaayyy toooooo youuuuuu!!!
Haaapppyyy biiirrrttthhhdddaaayyy deeeaaarrr NNNOOONNNEEERRR!!!
Haaapppyyy biiirrrttthhhdddaaayyy toooooo youuuuuu!!!
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Oh crap!
I forgot to say:
Happy Birthday, Nooner!
tarra it is!!!
Ran errands. Went in to work for exactly one hour. Ate dinner (turkey, mozzarella and mango chutney sandwich and some grapes). Am off to churchify.
Back later.
GT
GT, your sandwich sounds really good, especially the mango chutney.
Made banana bread finally. I’m about to pop a loaf over to the neigbors. Pork chops and something on the menu tonight.