We Can Finally Relax!
Well Christmas is finally over… I slaved and cooked for 6 days straight. Gordon and I decided to make gift baskets for our families. In the gift baskets we had one jar of my homemade Spaghetti Meat Sauce, one jar of my homemade Marinara Sauce, 1 Christmas container of homemade hot chocolate mix, 1 canister of a dozen homemade cookies consisting of sugar & gingerbread cookies, plus a couple of extra things that I didn’t have to make. The meat sauce takes 2 ½ hours to cook and I made 3 batches and the marinara sauce takes 1 ½ hours and I also made 3 batches of that, so you can imagine how busy I was all week. Thank God I work part time!
Christmas Eve rolled around and I made the Savannah Bowtie cookies with the chocolate dipping sauce that everyone liked so much at our Christmas get together, along with Green beans with fennel & onions and Asparagus with olive oil, kosher salt and a squeeze of lemon. I made the two veggie dishes at my mom’s house that night and it was such a bitch because she has a kitchen that is not very functional. But I got the job done and helped her make some sweat potatoes that she wasn’t sure what to do with. I ended up mashing them up with some butter, heavy whipping cream and some brown sugar and one egg for more fluffiness and cinnamon & nutmeg and because they were so cold from sitting out for so long I just but the oven on broil after she took out the turkey and put them in there for a little bit until they warmed through and were crusty on top.
It was a great night and everyone was in great spirits. There was no awkwardness which was nice for a change and everything was just peaceful. On Christmas morning I got up at the crack of dawn with Gordon and we headed up to Victorville to see his family. I slept all the way there and then some more once we got there because I was so exhausted and I got no sleep because I left suddenly from my mom’s house extremely sick. I am fine now but I don’t know what it was that got me so sick. We opened our presents and I was so grateful with what we got. Gordon got his Kitchen-Aide mixer that he has been wanting for a long time and I got a Panini maker that I wanted for a long time and a new deep fryer for both of us because our old one finally took a dump. We also got a mini food processor which was just in time because our big one broke after trying to make the gingerbread cookies because it’s basically just pure molasses and the blade got stuck. Gordon got a pasta maker which will be fun to experiment with and some new baking sheets which we needed badly. Gordon’s sister Eve gave us this nice 5 Quart saucepan with a lid so that was pretty sweet and all the Flannery kids including myself and the grandkids got new PJ’s.
I left Gordon in charge of one thing that whole week and it was to get gifts for his niece and nephew. He got his niece a gift certificate for iPod music and his nephew a gift card for Walmart. Stephanie never got the iPod gift certificate emailed to her and he couldn’t find the gift card for Jonathon. This actually became a joke between all of us, at least me and the kids and we just laughed about it. They thought it was funny he did that after that just being his one responsibility, when I think about it too I chuckle to myself. All I can say is that he better make it up to them somehow. Poor Gordon!
We got home last night around 7pm and Gordon and I finally got to have our Christmas, alone, together. It was nice and peaceful. I got Gordon a pair of Jeans, a shirt and a belt. In his stalking I got him a plastic Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo from South Park so he can always say now that his wife got him shit for Christmas… LOL… I thought that was pretty clever! He stuffed my stalking with a bunch of goodies like candy that I eat and he surprised me by signing me up for a cooking class, it’s actually just a knife skills class to learn knife skills. I thought that was so cool. So I am doing that on January 3rd. We didn’t get each other much because we were decided on just getting a big gift for the both of us that this family really needs. I think that we may be getting a kitchen cart, mostly because this kitchen is large but there is absolutely no counter space in here at all and it is a real bitch sometimes. And we have been talking about getting one for a very long time now and I think this will help the both of us since we both cook a lot. Now it’s just a matter of trying to find the right one and an affordable one but Gordon is good and finding bargains so I am sure we will find a good one to get.
Last night I was all motivated to get up this morning do some laundry, take the car to get washed, mostly because Gordon spilled almost a whole bottle of Sprite in there on the way home last night so its should be like syrup now and then I would go shopping and buy stuff with my gift card and then go to my moms. Well… its 12pm and I am still in my PJ’s, I have only managed to put laundry in the washing machine and I am no where close to getting out of this house right now. I believe that I am on melt down at this moment. I tried to sleep in the best I could this morning but my back was aching like it was been for over a week now. Not sure what is wrong with it but I do know that either I need a nice dunk in a Jacuzzi or I need a good strong massage. I hope that one comes to play soon because I am in a lot of pain lately.
Oh yeah… before I forget… I started my new job last week at Anaheim Automation. So far I really like it and the people there are really nice and down to earth. I like that I work with other music enthusiasts, that really means a lot to me no matter what kind of music they are into. I worked with my friend Cathy for a year at CSAA and even though we didn’t listen to the same music it was so awesome to have a friend that had a passion for it like I did.
So I hope everyone is well and they had a great Christmas, I know that we did. The dogs even scored this Christmas, my mom got them ropes to play with, we got them big bones, Gordon’s mom got them treats and his sister Kathy got them little coats, which Abi’s is the cutest, it is pink and furry and has white furry trim around the collar, I will have to get pictures of her in it, she absolutely loves it. So I leave with a goodbye and hopefully I will have a new post in me after New Years.
Christmas Eve rolled around and I made the Savannah Bowtie cookies with the chocolate dipping sauce that everyone liked so much at our Christmas get together, along with Green beans with fennel & onions and Asparagus with olive oil, kosher salt and a squeeze of lemon. I made the two veggie dishes at my mom’s house that night and it was such a bitch because she has a kitchen that is not very functional. But I got the job done and helped her make some sweat potatoes that she wasn’t sure what to do with. I ended up mashing them up with some butter, heavy whipping cream and some brown sugar and one egg for more fluffiness and cinnamon & nutmeg and because they were so cold from sitting out for so long I just but the oven on broil after she took out the turkey and put them in there for a little bit until they warmed through and were crusty on top.
It was a great night and everyone was in great spirits. There was no awkwardness which was nice for a change and everything was just peaceful. On Christmas morning I got up at the crack of dawn with Gordon and we headed up to Victorville to see his family. I slept all the way there and then some more once we got there because I was so exhausted and I got no sleep because I left suddenly from my mom’s house extremely sick. I am fine now but I don’t know what it was that got me so sick. We opened our presents and I was so grateful with what we got. Gordon got his Kitchen-Aide mixer that he has been wanting for a long time and I got a Panini maker that I wanted for a long time and a new deep fryer for both of us because our old one finally took a dump. We also got a mini food processor which was just in time because our big one broke after trying to make the gingerbread cookies because it’s basically just pure molasses and the blade got stuck. Gordon got a pasta maker which will be fun to experiment with and some new baking sheets which we needed badly. Gordon’s sister Eve gave us this nice 5 Quart saucepan with a lid so that was pretty sweet and all the Flannery kids including myself and the grandkids got new PJ’s.
I left Gordon in charge of one thing that whole week and it was to get gifts for his niece and nephew. He got his niece a gift certificate for iPod music and his nephew a gift card for Walmart. Stephanie never got the iPod gift certificate emailed to her and he couldn’t find the gift card for Jonathon. This actually became a joke between all of us, at least me and the kids and we just laughed about it. They thought it was funny he did that after that just being his one responsibility, when I think about it too I chuckle to myself. All I can say is that he better make it up to them somehow. Poor Gordon!
We got home last night around 7pm and Gordon and I finally got to have our Christmas, alone, together. It was nice and peaceful. I got Gordon a pair of Jeans, a shirt and a belt. In his stalking I got him a plastic Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo from South Park so he can always say now that his wife got him shit for Christmas… LOL… I thought that was pretty clever! He stuffed my stalking with a bunch of goodies like candy that I eat and he surprised me by signing me up for a cooking class, it’s actually just a knife skills class to learn knife skills. I thought that was so cool. So I am doing that on January 3rd. We didn’t get each other much because we were decided on just getting a big gift for the both of us that this family really needs. I think that we may be getting a kitchen cart, mostly because this kitchen is large but there is absolutely no counter space in here at all and it is a real bitch sometimes. And we have been talking about getting one for a very long time now and I think this will help the both of us since we both cook a lot. Now it’s just a matter of trying to find the right one and an affordable one but Gordon is good and finding bargains so I am sure we will find a good one to get.
Last night I was all motivated to get up this morning do some laundry, take the car to get washed, mostly because Gordon spilled almost a whole bottle of Sprite in there on the way home last night so its should be like syrup now and then I would go shopping and buy stuff with my gift card and then go to my moms. Well… its 12pm and I am still in my PJ’s, I have only managed to put laundry in the washing machine and I am no where close to getting out of this house right now. I believe that I am on melt down at this moment. I tried to sleep in the best I could this morning but my back was aching like it was been for over a week now. Not sure what is wrong with it but I do know that either I need a nice dunk in a Jacuzzi or I need a good strong massage. I hope that one comes to play soon because I am in a lot of pain lately.
Oh yeah… before I forget… I started my new job last week at Anaheim Automation. So far I really like it and the people there are really nice and down to earth. I like that I work with other music enthusiasts, that really means a lot to me no matter what kind of music they are into. I worked with my friend Cathy for a year at CSAA and even though we didn’t listen to the same music it was so awesome to have a friend that had a passion for it like I did.
So I hope everyone is well and they had a great Christmas, I know that we did. The dogs even scored this Christmas, my mom got them ropes to play with, we got them big bones, Gordon’s mom got them treats and his sister Kathy got them little coats, which Abi’s is the cutest, it is pink and furry and has white furry trim around the collar, I will have to get pictures of her in it, she absolutely loves it. So I leave with a goodbye and hopefully I will have a new post in me after New Years.
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