12.23 & 12.24.07
Took the 23rd (Sunday) off as usually and spent most of the day baking cookies, which is a workout within itself.
On Christmas Eve I was very proud of myself until I almost burnt the house down but we’ll get to that in a little bit. First off I woke up and ate my breakfast and then got right to work. I knew I better get my workout in early if it was going to get done at all so I lifted weights and then ran. I left the stats at home but I’ll fill those in later.
So how did I almost burn the house down you ask? Well me being as clever as I usually am decided to leave the sugar cookies in the oven overnight so that the icing could harden up some and not attract ants. Leaving them on cutting boards mind you, plastic cutting boards (you might already see where this is going). Well after my long and arduous workout I decided I would be impatient like I usually am and get some more cookies a bakin’ before I got all cleaned up. While in my state of exhausten and in my impatient multi-tasking mode I decided to pre-heat the oven without looking inside first. Yes that’s right people I forgot the cookies were in the oven. So while mixing my next batch I begin to ponder “what is that burning smell?” “oh shit, oh shit, oh shit” I open the oven and there are all my cookies and one of the plastic cutting boards on the bottom rack melting away and starting a fire non the less. So, me being the smart cookie (no pun intended) that I am reached for the baking soda and put the fire out only to turn around to see that the fire had started again. All while my son is in the background yelling call 911!, call 911!. So this time I rip open the whole box of baking soda and dump it all on it. Which killed the fire and there was no need to embarrass myself any further with fire fighters present.So I turn the oven off pull out the cookies on the top rack which were not harmed thanks to my sensitive nose and begin to wonder how the hell am I going to clean up the red melted rubber that is all over my oven and that got stretched to the sink while I was pulling out the bottom oven rack. Luckily, rubber hardens and it really easy to clean up. With my McGyver like skills I used some scissors, a metal spatula, knife and vaccum I had it all cleaned up within 30 min. You can’t even tell it ever happened except for the bag of melted evidence. So I’ve decided that I’ll never make sugar cookies again with icing, it was too hard, I’ve made better cookies and next time I don’t want to do more harm. Go me!
