2 posts tagged “nelina”

Yesterday was "meh" for the most part... Steve and I had a fight the night before, so I left almost as soon as I woke up and went to Nelina's house.  Her new boyfriend came over, and for some reason I found myself jealous after a couple hours... he seems nice and I'm happy for her, but I wanted all her attention for ME because I was in a grumpy mood.  I made myself feel better by baking cookies (which turned out quite well), but I sampled my way to 2 extra pounds (sigh) that I will hopefully lose shortly.  I find it odd that my weight will go up or down 4 lbs in a single day, how is that even possible?

I made raspberry thumbprint cookies, which go as follows:
1/2 c. oleo, soft (you can use crisco too)
1/4 c. packed brown sugar
1/4 c. sugar
1/2 t. salt
1 t. vanilla extract
1&1/2 c. flour
2 T milk
1/3 c. mini chocolate chips
raspberry preserves

Cream butter, sugars, salt, and vanilla; blend in flour and milk.  Stir in chocolate chips.  Shape dough into 1" balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.  Make a fingerprint in the cookies (kind of deep) and fill the indentation with preserves.  Bake around 10 minutes at 375.

Be careful taking these out of the oven as the preserves will be boiling, and boiling preserves act like napalm.

I generally double or triple this recipe so I can give some away, it really doesn't make that much.  Nelina took these to a neighborhood party, which is the only reason I made them... I'm not leaving my upset self at home with 4 dozen cookies, because soon there will just be a lot more of me to be upset and I'll be out of baked goods!

We also made a cheese dip (2 giant sticks of Velveeta and 2 cans of Rotel) which was good and also got taken to the party.  I attempted a coconut pie, but if you accidentally buy the wrong pudding mix then you just end up with a sweet coconut soup that is so thin it won't even clog the garbage disposal! :-)

Came home and didn't talk to Steve much, now it's the 5th and we've still barely acknowledged one another.

I called the mortgage company last week but they haven't logged in my application yet.  Must call again tomorrow.

Supposed to go to Nelina's tonight to drink, smoke, and bitch about men.... which is pretty much what we do (minus the smoking) almost every time I'm there. :-)

I'm eating some this morning for breakfast.  Been doing that a lot lately, and often for lunch too.  Good thing it was buy one get one free this week!

Steve's really depressed again... last night I went and got Panera as kind of a treat since I'm too broke to eat out much.  I'm not sure if it made him feel any better or not, but at least I really enjoyed my sandwich.

Nelina has a court date on Monday and thank god I found somebody to cover for me at work.  Pretty sure I'm taking the whole day off, although I promised the tech who is coming in that I'd call when we were done to see if she wanted to skate out or not.

Xiao Wen is being the biggest brat ever, he's started to put his feet in his water fountain (yes, they have their own fountain) and throw water on the floor.  Grrrrrrrr.  It just occured to me that I haven't mentioned Maybel, Paxil, or Wendy lately.  They're all doing well and haven't done anything irritating enough to merit a write-up here.

I think I'm keeping it together pretty well, all things considered.  My nightmare from yesterday turned out to not be true, and hopefully I won't have any more of them for at least a little while.