Showing posts with label santa cakesters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label santa cakesters. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

i'm so glad they didn't throw away the fudge

when chaco and i stopped by the office the other day, we dropped the fudge off with shannon, and told her it was the biscoff fudge, and she said she have a piece a little later and give the rest to mandy- "mandy's going to love it!" so, when we left, i began to think to myself, "what if she's just trying to appease me and they don't eat anything from residents because they don't trust what they might get...what if neither of them actually try it, and they throw it away?" 

so chaco and i stopped by on our walk tonight before the wind picked up and there was another dog-owner with a big dog, so chaco looked at me and said, "you'd better pick me up before i hurt this guy and it's an all out assault!" so i did, he only snapped at big dog a couple of times and growled. (it was a little shocking, yet somewhat endearing). but when we walked in, the first thing shannon said was, "oh my goodness, that fudge that you left was soooo good, we ate it all and didn't share it with anyone else. i need the recipe!"  so, apparently they are not afraid to try stuff. and so i told them i might use them as taste-testers once in awhile since gigi moved.(boo). mandy then informed that she really loved the santa cakesters- i liked them, but they were rich!

so tonight i am making recipe cards.

 i found this receipt on my desk...
SHEET protectors for the students. (the other option really wouldn't make much sense)
the students LOVED putting 'special papers' in the sheet protectors.

is tomorrow really thursday? i cannot believe how quickly the days went by this week!

julie

Monday, December 19, 2011

smells like mexican santa in here....

today i decided i wanted to try hollie's santas. now, i will admit, hers look MUCH better than mine... but that doesn't stop people from eating them!
i obviously didn't have enough red food coloring because the suits are a deep pinkish red...also, i only found spice drops instead of gum drops, and there were no black, so i used black cookie frosting for the belt...and then i took them up to my new taste-testers (they don't know it yet), the managers office, and when i mentioned that they were oreo cakesters, faces lit up-which is a good sign.
i had to swing by the tom thumb down the street so i could get the necessities for salsa, and when i got to the self check-out, i accidentally pushed on the red banana button, but i didn't want red bananas, so the guy had to come and take it off...he said, "red bananas?" and i explained that the screen changed just before i was able to click on the cilantro. so he just went ahead and finished off the rest of my produce-assuming that i couldn't handle it. which is fine because he had all of the codes memorized...which again is fine because if we had been at the airport, i would've schooled him on airline codes-so there!

then i came back and let's just say that my little apartment was a confusing, myriad of smells (using the term myriad as a gross exaggeration), although there were several things going on. santa cakesters, some wonderful scented wax, cilantro and onions creating (once again) a delicious salsa to make my taste buds dance (a salsa dance, i'm sure....), and then there was whatever smell was wafting up from the downstairs apartment...oh, and i might mention that i am now drying cilantro for later use because they sell it by the bush!
Christmas smells in my potpourri pot! yum.
 when i first walked out of my apartment early this morning to take down the trash, i had this note on my door:
very sad that there was a naked cat on the loose out there...i hope they found him.
losing an animal is the worst. i remember when i was young in brodhead and our dog got off his chain and ran off-there had been a fresh snow, so we went looking for him early in the morning before there were too many tracks to follow. he must've been adhd because the tracks were crazy-everywhere...we finally gave up on frisky, in sadness, and i think someone ended up finding him way out by the bait lady. (that was the day i realized i was no nancy drew...i couldn't even find a dog and there were tracks everywhere...but in actuality, there was no mystery, so i shouldn't have given up on the nancy drew dreams; i should have just been reconciled that i would never amount to much of a sacajawea and left it at that).

good night,
julie