Tonight the project begins.
Tonight, I start the weeks-long process of trying to get all my Christmas cookies done. For me (and this is just for me, because as we all know I'm kinda weird) it's a balancing act—getting cookies made close enough to the holidaze so they're still fresh and yet giving myself enough time to get them all made. This year, thanks to the way the calendar sets up, I find myself with a deadline or two, which means that they need to be ready to give to certain people on December 22nd. And since today's the 12th of December...let me do a little math here...that means I have...allow me to carry the one...ten days to get them done.
Right?
That's not actually too bad a time frame; there have been years, after all, when I tried to make six kinds of cookies in a day. And trust me when I say this—that is not something I recommend to ANYONE. Sure, I was young & naïve then, but still—do not try that at home. Just trust me on that.
As always, I'll be making six kinds of cookies to give away to family and friends this year. There are the five kinds I usually make—my Grandma cookies, the cherry-chocolate explosions, the mint-chocolate mindblowers, the Nutella cookies, and the lemon-rosemary wonders. Then I always make one kind that I usually don't make, a wild card cookie. And this year it's a special requests, as Loraine wanted me to give making my mom's fudge meltaways a try.
That should fit into the holiday theme, right?
By the time I'm done, I'll have ended up with somewhere between 25 and 30 dozen cookies. I eat maybe seven of them. Not seven dozen, but seven total. Loraine eats some, and the rest, like I said, go out to friends and family, and get brought over to holiday gatherings and the like. I did the math once, and it's astounding—I'm gonna end up adding almost 25,000 calories into the lives of people I know and love, which (at 3,500 calories to gain a pound) means that I'll be personally responsible for eight pounds being added to the collective weight of people around Marquette.
For that, I apologize in advance. But it's not my fault. Blame it on the holidays.
8-)
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