last night i was boring
it's been nearly a month since my last appearance on second impression. where does the time go? as usual, i clicked the "new post" button without a damn thing to say, but i'll think of something...
as of last night at approximately 10:00, i am the proud owner of flour. and food coloring. and baking powder. i even own some vanilla extract. i have never owned any of these things before. i have had this nagging desire to bake sugar cookies for the last several weeks so i finally googled a recipe and made a shopping list. i was only slightly disappointed to learn that of the ingredients listed, i already had just two in the house. and that is only because the recipe includes 1/4 tsp. of salt. even i have salt! naturally, now that i own flour and granulated sugar en masse, i also had to purchase some canisters to contain said ingredients. i have never had those either. but now i have two shiny black canisters with chrome accents to match all of the black and chrome appliances on my counters. being a grown up is expensive. but there are a lot of opportunities for color coordination.
last night after i returned from my trip to target and put all of my new accessories into the dishwasher, (i also now own some cookie cutters, a rolling pin and some rolling mats because i am not the type of person who can roll out dough directly on the countertop. i don't care how "clean" one might think the surface is.) i tried to fall asleep to my current netflix movie, but like so many other nights in my life, couldn't fall asleep to save my life. it isn't quite the same as it was when i was little and would lie awake for hours worrying about things that were not even real. but i do recall that i was thinking/ruminating on something last night that wasn't allowing my brain to shut off for the day. and like so many other mornings in my life, whatever it was that seemed so significant and so troubling last night totally eludes me now. i have no idea what i was worried about, but i am sure it will come back to me as soon as i turn out the lights tonight.
as of last night at approximately 10:00, i am the proud owner of flour. and food coloring. and baking powder. i even own some vanilla extract. i have never owned any of these things before. i have had this nagging desire to bake sugar cookies for the last several weeks so i finally googled a recipe and made a shopping list. i was only slightly disappointed to learn that of the ingredients listed, i already had just two in the house. and that is only because the recipe includes 1/4 tsp. of salt. even i have salt! naturally, now that i own flour and granulated sugar en masse, i also had to purchase some canisters to contain said ingredients. i have never had those either. but now i have two shiny black canisters with chrome accents to match all of the black and chrome appliances on my counters. being a grown up is expensive. but there are a lot of opportunities for color coordination.
last night after i returned from my trip to target and put all of my new accessories into the dishwasher, (i also now own some cookie cutters, a rolling pin and some rolling mats because i am not the type of person who can roll out dough directly on the countertop. i don't care how "clean" one might think the surface is.) i tried to fall asleep to my current netflix movie, but like so many other nights in my life, couldn't fall asleep to save my life. it isn't quite the same as it was when i was little and would lie awake for hours worrying about things that were not even real. but i do recall that i was thinking/ruminating on something last night that wasn't allowing my brain to shut off for the day. and like so many other mornings in my life, whatever it was that seemed so significant and so troubling last night totally eludes me now. i have no idea what i was worried about, but i am sure it will come back to me as soon as i turn out the lights tonight.
posted by shelly at 12/04/2006 06:49:00 AM
1 Comments:
Well, what was the movie?
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