Friday I made all things almond & stars – the cinnamon almond stars, and the almond cookies with chocolate stars glued on top. I had to take the old Toyota that John’s been driving out to Monona Motors to get checked over. It’s a 2003, that Mark inherited from his dad and I bought from him for probably a little too much in 2009, but I was rich back then, and Mark needed the money, so I guess it’s OK. We reserved a zipcar, 1st experience with that, to go pick up the Toyota at the end of the day. I was going to bus back after dropping the Toyota in the morning, which would’ve taken like an hour, but a friend took pity on me and followed me in her car and brought me back – so I got to baking sooner. Good thing, since I only had until 1:00, because I had to go to into work for a meeting.
When the meeting let out it was time to go get the zipcar & retrieve the Toyota. The news on the Toyota wasn’t good – essentially the car’s worth about $4000, but it needs $2500 of work.
The zipcar experience wasn’t so good either. We couldn’t get it started, trying to leave Monona Motors – turned out it thought it had been returned because, in trying everything to get it started, Mark scanned the zipcar card to the box on the windshield. The magic trick was to scan the card on the inside of the car. I guess that makes it know it’s not returned, if you’re inside. Anyways we were 10 minutes late returning. I got email from zipcar the next day informing me of the $50 late fee. Jeez.
A friend who’s retiring wanted to be taken out for a drink after her last day of work. We met up at a bar & then a smaller group if us proceeded on to Merchant and had a little dinner. We were home by 9:30, but I couldn’t face real baking. I had one beer, 1 cocktail, and a few sips of a nice white wine with a decent panini (that was more like a grilled cheese) that came with a huge pile of salad. I made all the nukhorn dough and called it a night.
Saturday I made the chocolate toffee bars, 15 pounds of nukhorns, and dough for Mark’s mom’s rolled gingerbread, my frosted ginger creams, Mexican wedding cookies, and Rose’s crescents. I baked the ginger creams – I’ll frost them tomorrow. I baked the Mexican wedding cookies and rolled them in powdered sugar. But I didn’t have the energy to do much after that except clean up.
So the tally is: 19 kinds done, with somewheres between 12 and 14 to go. John hates grad school again. I got a “B” in my systems analysis class. I’m on the last episode of season 5 in Mad Men. Pictures in the morning. Good night.
