busy domestic day ahead!

okay, today i need to finish scrubbing the excess grout off of a chunk of the bathroom wall (i've been repairing grout in sections). then i need to bake some cookies for a potluck i'm going to on monday. i'm thinking trilobite cookies, except with nutella instead of jam in the middle. but i couldn't find any little eye dot type stuff at the store i went to, so i'll probably just give them lots of eyes by shaking small non-pareils onto their little chocolate carapaces.

what the heck am i talking about? trilobite cookies: http://www.georgehart.com/trilobites/trilobite.html

*then* i need to clean up the house a bit and get ready for some folks coming over tonight to drink booze, eat cheese fondue (must remember to use much less wine this time), and watch VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. (cheese and cheese! get it?)

tomorrow i head off to sf27 movie marathon. but that's tomorrow and this is today and there's a bunch of stuff to do between now and then.

but before any of that, i really really need to shower.

saccharine cat-related content. warning.

i have three cats. it's a good thing there aren't more, because this morning laying in bed would've been completely unmanagable. i woke up with the alarm and was loafing around in bed listening to the current wake-up cd in the alarm box (currently the propellerheads - good stuff), and ended up surrounded by all three cats who were all being very adorable and pat-able laying on the bed and exposing their furry little bellies and purring loud enough to shake the paintings off the walls.

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well, i've gotten jack done so far. i was partway thru assembling ingredients for cookies when i discovered that (in spite of being *sure* i had baking powder in one of my cabinets) i was out of baking powder. so i had to finish drinking an entire pot of tea and now i'm ready to go out and buy some and then make cookies. i am such a slacker.

oh feh.

the little chocolate trilobite carapaces didn't come out so good. i got a little experimental with the chocolate and it turned out kind of mediocre. so i stopped after putting carapaces on only half of the trilobites. overall, tho, tasty.