awesomeness

So I just finished baking approximately 5 dozen cookies. Half butterscotch chip and half chocolate chip. Whew. And a loaf of beer bread. I broke my diet (terrible, I know) just long enough for one tiny fresh out of the oven chocolate chip cookie and a mug of skim milk (I always drink milk like that in a mug, weird). It was delicious. That is always the perfect cookie. Now I have to clean my kitchen. Yuck. I plan on just throwing everything in the dishwasher. After I unload it first.

Beer bread, did that intrigue you? Would you like the recipe? I bet you would. It's delicious and oh so easy. Here we go.
3 cups all purpose flour (sifted)
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup sugar
12 oz. beer (I use Busch light usually because that is what we frequently have)

Mix ingredients together (you can even do this in the pan). Bake in a greased loaf pan for 1 hour at 350 degrees.

I am so unbelievably excited. There was a necklace on etsy that I desperately wanted. I waited too long and it sold out. I posted a comment on the store owners (?) blog telling her how much I loved the necklace and wanted one of my very own. Well, today I happened by her store and noticed she had one for sale. I immediately purchased it. Eek! I'm so excited. I literally cannot wait for it to show up in my mailbox.

faith to believe

Wow, so the past few days have been a roller coaster. I had a second interview for a job that I really wanted on Wednesday. I was supposed to hear back that night if I had gotten the job. In the interview she also asked if I would be interested in a position in Kansas. I said of course. I actually would have rather had the Kansas job (I did not, of course, tell her this). So it seemed like I had a pretty good chance. And then Wednesday afternoon I talked to the girl hiring in Kansas and she wanted to set up an interview as well, great!

Wednesday came and went and I heard nothing about the first job. Thursday I got an email to set up an interview for the position in Kansas. I also emailed the other girl and found out I did not get that job. I was honestly crushed. I felt like I had waited so long and I was so disappointed even though it wasn’t really the job I wanted. I sat in the stair well at work and cried.

Today I was supposed to have the phone interview but she never called. I waited like 20 minutes and then called her. She said they had decided they didn’t need to interview me based on my other interviews, that they just wanted to offer me the position pending a back ground check.

I was ecstatic to say the least. I feel like everything really is working out how it was supposed to. I’m going this weekend to look at apartments. I guess I just needed to be patient and not worry about my own timing and trust that things would happen like they were supposed to.

I’m planning on baking cookies to celebrate. And re-instating Margarita Friday.

Play-Do Cookies

Before I started school my mom used to babysit while she stayed at home with my sister and me. One of the kids she baby sat was the son of one of her high school friends. There were usually fun things for us to do during the day. Aside from having extra kids to play with, we would make cookies or play dough or paint with water colors.

This particular afternoon we had been allowed to make cookies. Sugar cookies. Somehow we talked her into letting us color the cookies. Blue. Bright Cookie Monster blue. I remember them being delicious. Well, when the dad came to pick up the previously mentioned son he thought my mom was letting us eat blue play dough. We were sitting at the table rolling out cookies and eating the leftovers from the shapes.

In hindsight it probably did really look like blue play dough and my mom probably looked a little crazy. But really, who hasn't eaten some play dough as a child? Especially the homemade kind. It was always so soft and looked like it should taste good.

I've since (for the most part) grown out of making crayon colored food. However, my mom turned 60 this year and we had a tea party inspired theme. I baked 60 pink cupcakes. No, not strawberry, just pink. With pink icing. They were thing of beauty. I piped swirl designs and flowers, in pink of course, on to the top. So I guess I learned some food coloring is good, some.... well makes food look like play dough.