Soltice Velociraptor!
Dec. 8th, 2018 01:09 pm If people are specifically looking to reconnect to their former Tumblr mutuals, there's a new community just for you (and me): the_great_tumblr_purge. I haven't posted there yet, but I think I will. I'm not exactly a refugee from Tumblr, but I sure would love to be able to recreate the sense of community in fandom that I found there.
Meanwhile, I spent much of today baking. I got up early only to discover that we had no coffee in the house. MAJOR EMERGENCY. So, even though I had to take Mason (my son) into work at the Science Museum at 10 am, I made a mad dash out to my coffee shop and then picked up some extra baking supplies on the way home.
Shawn's friend Liz, someone she's known since kindergarten, came over and we made many batches of cookies.
These are cookies that Shawn calls "sand tarts." They're a kind of chewy cookie that has an egg wash on the top that makes them somehow even more tasty.

I always sneak in a few non-traditional holiday shapes. I think this year I got both dinosaurs (we have a velociraptor and triceratops) and a dolphin.
I just finished up a batch of spritz, as well:

You'd think with as many cookies as we make that we have plans to give them away. But, no. We hoard them and eat them throughout the dark winter months, which, in Minnesota, last until late March. Shawn will take half of each of these batches and put them in Tupperware and put them i the freezer. That way in the middle of March when the snow drops on us unexpectedly, at least we'll have a few cookies to assuage our deep and unending suffering.
Mason and spent part of the day playing Super Smash Bros: Ultimate. As I am a button masher, I can not hope to defeat Mason. However, I found great joy in picking very pretty characters just to watch capes swirl and whatnot. I am easily amused.
Meanwhile, I spent much of today baking. I got up early only to discover that we had no coffee in the house. MAJOR EMERGENCY. So, even though I had to take Mason (my son) into work at the Science Museum at 10 am, I made a mad dash out to my coffee shop and then picked up some extra baking supplies on the way home.
Shawn's friend Liz, someone she's known since kindergarten, came over and we made many batches of cookies.
These are cookies that Shawn calls "sand tarts." They're a kind of chewy cookie that has an egg wash on the top that makes them somehow even more tasty.

I always sneak in a few non-traditional holiday shapes. I think this year I got both dinosaurs (we have a velociraptor and triceratops) and a dolphin.
I just finished up a batch of spritz, as well:

You'd think with as many cookies as we make that we have plans to give them away. But, no. We hoard them and eat them throughout the dark winter months, which, in Minnesota, last until late March. Shawn will take half of each of these batches and put them in Tupperware and put them i the freezer. That way in the middle of March when the snow drops on us unexpectedly, at least we'll have a few cookies to assuage our deep and unending suffering.
Mason and spent part of the day playing Super Smash Bros: Ultimate. As I am a button masher, I can not hope to defeat Mason. However, I found great joy in picking very pretty characters just to watch capes swirl and whatnot. I am easily amused.