The Zen of Chocolate Chip Cookies

It's been said that nirvana can be found by eatting a hot chocolate chip cookie. How much better will it be if the chips are dark chocolate from Ghiradelli? I'll find out and post a photo of the cookies here soon. Sorry smellovision or smellnet hasn't been invented yet... so I can't add in the lovely warm toasty chocolatey smell of the cookies when I take them out of the oven. WAIT!!! That's not nirvana that's an orgasm. Silly me... confusing the ultimate reality with, WAIT!!! Maybe that IS the ultimate reality. ;-)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

At least on the next row over from my cube. They decorated and even had a block party today with lots of gooey treats, hot chocolate and hot cider. I've visited three times for chocolate goodies and assorted other sweets. So I've been enjoying this Christmas season.

Last weekend, I wrapped and wrapped like a mad woman to get packages ready for Chicago (Oak Park), Boston (Roslindale) and San Antonio. Chuck had his own set of packages ready to go to Oregon and California. THEN, my friend in Chicago sent me a card asking if we could scale back on Christmas this year!!!

AFTER I had wrapped about 10 gifts for her AND mailed them to her. You see, we both like opening gifts so we buy many assorted things for each other. I love shopping for odds and ends for her, as she's a bit eccentric and finding just the right things can be quite fun. The gifts must include mustard (her favorite spice), something for the kitchen and a quite odd present. The odd present this year was given to me and immediately I saw the regifting opportunity. My BFF would love it. I'll go into details in a post-Christmas blog in case she's reading this, but it does involve doing almost obscene things to a chicken. :-) Use your imagination!