In the afternoon I used that dough to make some candy cane cookies. I don't think they came out very well at all, though; they weren't minty enough, and oddly enough I thought they were too salty, even though I followed the recipe. Very strange and unfortunate.
Later on in the afternoon Carrie went and picked up Lena, and she helped us to decorate our tree! Linnea and Eva came over at the very end of it all to help Lena put the star on the top of the tree:
It was fun hanging out with the Tarbet women. We like them a lot, and they're also going through crazy house stuff right now, just like we are!
After I took Carrie back to the store so she could teach her class, I came home and wrapped presents for her out-of-town family. Then I got a massive headache, so I took some Tylenol and spent the next couple of hours sitting like a lump on the couch and watching Elf
. Which, by the way, I hadn't seen before. I thought it was pretty funny in parts, though I had a hard time suspending my disbelief about some characters (especially the Mary Steenburgen character). Carrie came home and made some macaroni, I watched Alton Brown make a wonderful-looking cheese soup, and then we went to bed.
And, yes, if you look closely at the photo of the tree above, you'll see a purple ornament. Yes, that is a picture of me in that ornament. I was given the Fools Play ornaments a while back, so I have an ornament of every color fool except Jade, as well as a group photo:
It's me! Me on a tree!
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