Mouse in the Library

I just made this: http://anahata56.livejournal.com/926957.html

(Edited due to cut tag not wanting to behave.)

Granted, I had to tinker with it a tad, as we didn't have quite enough chicken stock on hand and no mushrooms at all. But only a small amount of on the fly tinkering.

I am currently almost finished with a serving.

The urge to speak in tongues is creeping up on me. Assuming I can stop melting for long enough, of course. Or purring. My dear anahata56, if there is something I can do for you for sharing this, please, let me know.

I have a family caramel recipe I could share . . .

In case I never mentioned it before, I've always been lousy at keeping up with diaries and journals and whatnot. Especially so when life is going mostly smoothly.

We have (sort of) done the December decorating. We have a very small fake tree set up on a stool, on account of not having room in the apartment for anything larger. It still looks very cute, and it has ornaments and blue beads and silver stuff. It's in front of one of our bookshelves, the one that we nailed four stockings to. There's more blue beading draping from stocking to stocking, and lights strung around the shelving a bit above that. It's a very nice effect.

I have made caramels, and they are good. This is an understatement of vast proportions, but it does not do to let the entire world know that you make an addictive substance in your kitchen. I will be asking warinbear to cut the sheets later this week, because that's the only way they'll get cut as opposed to eaten outright.

The three of us, reana and darcsyde took Bear-Cub and Puppy Christmas shopping yesterday. JoAnn's, a half-priced bookstore, and Marshalls. With lunch out between the bookstore and Marshalls. Started around 11:20 and Warin headed down to Huntsville with the girls at 3:00. Uff da. Those girls have frickin' energy.

louisadkins and I have a chiropracter appointment later today. We also need to get some gorcery shopping done. We'll do one more grocery run on Thursday to get some of the more perishable stuff for Christmas dinner, and then we'll hole up in the apartment.

I'd almost forgtten how much running around tends to accompany this part of the year. -laugh- Ah, well. It's all good.