I think I ate my own body weight in cookie dough this weekend. Oof. Thank goodness for pajama pants.
Yesterday I filed a police report about my wallet, and I don't expect it will turn up but at least I feel like I've done everything I could do for it. The bathroom floor got a nice clean, too, because I dropped my sugar scrub all over it. Twice. At least the oil has made the floor very shiny and pretty!
Today my dad (remember him? Click on the links to read his guest posts about
a recipe for Caesar salad,
growing herbs,
the cost of bread, and
unusual food stories!) left for Cambodia. He is going there for at least a year to investigate war crimes with the United Nations. He has done these kinds of missions in the past but it has never been to anywhere quite so far away, and it's never been for quite this long. I'm super excited for him and very proud (and also looking forward to going to visit him:)), but it's also been a rather sad and stressful weekend.
As I have already noted, cookie dough is one of those go-to's for a lot of people when the going gets rough. After my experiences with this technique of dealing with stress this past weekend, I figured I'd pass on some tips:
How to eat a pile of cookie dough! - choose chocolate chip cookies because they are the easiest, most classic cookies.
- get your sister to make the dough so that you don't have to do any work (make sure its homemade. Store bought stuff won't cut it; this way, you can add huge mounds of chocolate chips whereas the food manufacturers might skimp out on them).
- have a taste once the cookie dough is made but then stick it in the fridge (or, if you're really desperate, put it in the freezer). Cookie dough
always tastes better when its cold.
- distract yourself while the cookie dough is getting cold. Drinking tea, reading blogs, and dropping your sugar scrub all over the place are excellent for taking about the same amount of time as it will take for the cookie dough to be cold enough.
- put on your pajama pants while waiting. This is an essential step to the cookie dough eating process. You won't notice when you've eaten far too much*
- eat lots of cookie dough, straight from the bowl, preferably with said sister at your side (it tastes better if you have company). Wander away to take a brief break and let the dough get colder, then return to eat a lot more.
- stop eating the cookie dough when it makes your throat sore and you get a sugar headache. This will likely happen when you've eaten about half the dough.
- the next morning your sugar headache should be sufficiently subsided so that you can have some more for breakfast!
(Seriously, has anyone else ever had a sugar headache from cookie dough? I've never gotten a stomachache from it but apparently my head doesn't like all that added sugar. My tummy sure does though, judging by the massive sugar cravings I have been having all day. Oh dear).
On a completely unrelated note, I just want to let all of you bloggers know how much I love to read your blogs. One of the best parts of my day is when I get to sit down and check out tons and tons of blogs and see what insightful things you have to say. I am looking forward to the end of this term so that I can spend more time really appreciating your writing, opinions, ideas, and thoughts!
*until you put your jeans back on the next day.
Yesterday I filed a police report about my wallet, and I don't expect it will turn up but at least I feel like I've done everything I could do for it. The bathroom floor got a nice clean, too, because I dropped my sugar scrub all over it. Twice. At least the oil has made the floor very shiny and pretty!
Today my dad (remember him? Click on the links to read his guest posts about a recipe for Caesar salad, growing herbs, the cost of bread, and unusual food stories!) left for Cambodia. He is going there for at least a year to investigate war crimes with the United Nations. He has done these kinds of missions in the past but it has never been to anywhere quite so far away, and it's never been for quite this long. I'm super excited for him and very proud (and also looking forward to going to visit him:)), but it's also been a rather sad and stressful weekend.
As I have already noted, cookie dough is one of those go-to's for a lot of people when the going gets rough. After my experiences with this technique of dealing with stress this past weekend, I figured I'd pass on some tips:
How to eat a pile of cookie dough!
- choose chocolate chip cookies because they are the easiest, most classic cookies.
- get your sister to make the dough so that you don't have to do any work (make sure its homemade. Store bought stuff won't cut it; this way, you can add huge mounds of chocolate chips whereas the food manufacturers might skimp out on them).
- have a taste once the cookie dough is made but then stick it in the fridge (or, if you're really desperate, put it in the freezer). Cookie dough always tastes better when its cold.
- distract yourself while the cookie dough is getting cold. Drinking tea, reading blogs, and dropping your sugar scrub all over the place are excellent for taking about the same amount of time as it will take for the cookie dough to be cold enough.
- put on your pajama pants while waiting. This is an essential step to the cookie dough eating process. You won't notice when you've eaten far too much*
- eat lots of cookie dough, straight from the bowl, preferably with said sister at your side (it tastes better if you have company). Wander away to take a brief break and let the dough get colder, then return to eat a lot more.
- stop eating the cookie dough when it makes your throat sore and you get a sugar headache. This will likely happen when you've eaten about half the dough.
- the next morning your sugar headache should be sufficiently subsided so that you can have some more for breakfast!
(Seriously, has anyone else ever had a sugar headache from cookie dough? I've never gotten a stomachache from it but apparently my head doesn't like all that added sugar. My tummy sure does though, judging by the massive sugar cravings I have been having all day. Oh dear).
On a completely unrelated note, I just want to let all of you bloggers know how much I love to read your blogs. One of the best parts of my day is when I get to sit down and check out tons and tons of blogs and see what insightful things you have to say. I am looking forward to the end of this term so that I can spend more time really appreciating your writing, opinions, ideas, and thoughts!
*until you put your jeans back on the next day.