well, not just yet, thank god. i still have quite a few things to do. bake bread. i have a list of things, but the list isn\u2019t so bad.<\/p>\n
ok, i do have a brownie issue. amy has a fabulous brownie recipe, it makes the most delicious chocolatey delicious chocolate brownies ever. i\u2019ve never found a brownie recipe that\u2019s as good as a boxed mix, but these are PERFECT. i made a recipe in a big round pan and kept checking it and it just didn\u2019t seem done enough, so i baked it longer than the time. and then i cooled it and flipped it over…and it turned over with a loud THUNK.<\/p>\n
BROWNIES SHOULD NEVER THUNK. it should be a pain to turn it over, it should be slightly underdone so it breaks up a little bit and has to be jammed back together and frosting it should be a little tricky because of the pieces of moist brownie clinging to the frosting.<\/p>\n
but no, the frosting was easy because the flipped-over brownie was hard. i frosted it anyway, thinking the frosting would make it softer. it looks BEAUTIFUL now, with a white frosting spider web. i decided people wouldn\u2019t care…but his morning i woke up and thought WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? so i\u2019m going to make another one. because i just have to.<\/p>\n
my friend gary sent me an idea for a halloween decoration from martha stewart, glow stick spiders. they look really cool and i thought I COULD MAKE THOSE.<\/p>\n
but time\u2019s up. NO MORE DECORATIONS.<\/p>\n
I SOLEMNLY SWEAR NOT TO BUY ANY MORE DECORATIONS TODAY.<\/p>\n
unless i find a big ceramic plate.<\/p>\n
i keep saying that every day, and every day i buy something else. lately it\u2019s not decorations so much, it\u2019s halloween ceramic dishes. i really need a good-sized halloween plate (ok, ANOTHER halloween plate), but all i see are little one, so i buy those. so now i have quite a few small halloween plates. BUT THEY\u2019RE VERY VERY CUTE plus everything now is on sale, because it\u2019s TIME FOR THE XMAS DECORATIONS ALREADY, WHY ARE YOU WASTING YOUR TIME BUYING STUFF FOR HALLOWEEN?<\/p>\n
i can\u2019t imagine being this excited about the xmas decorations. maybe if we were having an xmas party. but no, it just wouldn\u2019t be the same.<\/p>\n
i also got an e-mail from allrecipes.com, with HALLOWEEN BAKING IDEAS. no no no, that\u2019s all i have to say. last night i spent about three hours decorating a whole lot of halloween cupcakes. they\u2019re very cute, i have to say, but at some point i thought “these cupcakes are really for kids, aren\u2019t they?” what with the large amount of decorations. but then i decided i didn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n
but i made a bunch of cupcake spiders, but they required licorice legs. i bought a big bag of licorice – and it\u2019s the wrong kind. i bought licorice VINES and i needed licorice ROPES. oh brother. i don\u2019t usually ever buy licorice. i hope they sell licorice ropes at walgreens because i really don\u2019t have time to spend the day hunting down licorice ropes. i have to make that new brownie.<\/p>\n
“you could just forget about the licorice,” you might say. BUT THEN THEY\u2019D JUST BE LEGLESS SPIDERS. they don\u2019t even look like spiders without the licorice.<\/p>\n
i have to go now. time is ticking.<\/p>\n
ok ok ok,<\/p>\n
friday morning grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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