cookies with Luke

[ljgeoff]

I had promised Carl and Sam that we'd go to Return of the King on Sunday night but didn't follow through and get a babysitter, so Mike took them, and I stayed home with Luke. It wasn't a big sacrafice - I'll get to see it, eventually, and I wanted to spend some time baking cookies, anyways.

So we baked the peanut butter cookies with chocolate kisses, and a chocolate cookie with Andes mints melted on the top. Luke licked the beaters, and helped me roll the cookies in sugar. They turned out very good. I like the Andes Mint cookies best; chewy wafers of chocolate mint.

I also neatened the house. It looks so nice now. That was my Christmas present to myself -- eight hours of paid housekeeping last week. We threw out three huge lawn-sized bags of clutter, and I bought a Rubbermaid storage drawer thingie for Luke's toys. Everything looks so nice, and it feels wonderful. We just did the downstairs. There's still the upstairs to do - mostly the guest room, it's a dumping place, and Luke's room, also a dumping place.

I worked for a litte while on chapter seven, too. I like what I have, so far. I know what I want to accomplish in the chapter, but not exactly how. Damn, I want this novel to be good. I want everyone to rave about it. (sigh) Setting myself up, I know.

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[kightp.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay for neatened houses! I spent a good part of yesterday tidying mine, which had grown pretty messy over the last couple of weeks. It felt so good to sit in a clean, sweet-smelling living room last night watching the Solstice candle burn away to nothing against a backdrop of tiny white lights and cedar boughs.

I'm not a fanatic housekeeper (heh ... to put it mildly), but order in my home helps me induce order in my mind.

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's so wonderfully wonderful to have my home less cluttered than it was. I walked in the door from work about an hour ago, and there was a basket of folded clean laundry on the couch (along with a handsome 11 year old boy, doing homework), said boy's boots, coat, and book bag in the middle of the floor, and a sprinkling of crayons, a coloring book and some hot wheel cars on the carpet. No dishes, no trash, no spilled box of cereal ground into the carpet! Lovely.

The Return of the King & etc...

[(Anonymous)]

Just found your journal (you told me to leave wierd messages, lol)
Was good seeing you again. Laura told me how it seems that you just seem to brighten things with your presence, and I agree, it was a real picker upper on our day.
As for seeing LOTR: The Return Of The King, If your up for company id love to go see it again. (yes, this is a shameless excuse to go see it again *grin* )
What an experience.
I laughed, I cried, and there were even a few parts that made me just about fall out of my seat.
I never thought I'd say this... (and youll understand when you visit) The LOTR trilogy just beat the stuffins out of Star Wars in my mind.
For me thats a huge revelation, it would be almost like saying someone elses cooking was better than my mothers, something I still think impossible. *wink*
Although the trilogy does diverge from Tolkeins work in some places, I believe if he was alive today, hed be genuinely pleased with them.
And it seems your a writer too!!!
YAY! *jumps up and down*
We have to get together and talk shop soon :)
Anyways not only is this note Wierd, but also looong, so I'd best make like an Ent and leaf, lol.
- Grigorii