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Jun. 13th, 2011 09:30 amThe initial plan for yesterday was for me to bake a lovely angel's food with strawberries and fresh whipped cream topping. Unfortunately it's been so long since I've separated whites that I think I got too much yolk in my batch; the eggs whites either ended up over beaten or just couldn't find it in themselves to fluff. Then the pan I used sprung a leak and nearly half the batter ended up on the bottom of the oven. At that point I figured it was a sign, and I went to a bakery to pick up a ridiculously rich brownie cake.
It ended up working out okay. I made dinner for everyone, I got more gifts than I can remember getting in a while. My folks actually paid for me to take swim lessons at the Y. And my youngest brothers got me a bar of Money Soap, which is pure genius. Whoever decided to slip $1 bills into bars of cheap soap, sell those bars for $12.99, and then tell hapless people that they might have anywhere up to $50 embedded in said soap deserves whatever riches he or she is rolling in now.
On Friday Jo and I went to check out The Book of Mormon. Funny in parts, eyebrow-worthy in parts, the second half really picked up. I've been listening to the soundtrack (I Believe and Man Up are both more hilarious in context, but it's all great) over the last few days as well. I'm just glad we got it in before Tony Weekend. We were seated next to a woman who told us she'd only managed to get her single seat ticket a month ago, and her friends were saying pairs of seats weren't available until *January*. Unreal.
On the YA front, I read Brent Hartinger's Geography Club book last week, and it was noteworthy for actually being not awful (I have such a horrible track record with YA books). To the point where I hunted down the second book in the Russel Middlebrook series, The Order of the Poison Oak. I'm more than halfway though that now.
Three days off! Yayz to mini-vacations.
It ended up working out okay. I made dinner for everyone, I got more gifts than I can remember getting in a while. My folks actually paid for me to take swim lessons at the Y. And my youngest brothers got me a bar of Money Soap, which is pure genius. Whoever decided to slip $1 bills into bars of cheap soap, sell those bars for $12.99, and then tell hapless people that they might have anywhere up to $50 embedded in said soap deserves whatever riches he or she is rolling in now.
On Friday Jo and I went to check out The Book of Mormon. Funny in parts, eyebrow-worthy in parts, the second half really picked up. I've been listening to the soundtrack (I Believe and Man Up are both more hilarious in context, but it's all great) over the last few days as well. I'm just glad we got it in before Tony Weekend. We were seated next to a woman who told us she'd only managed to get her single seat ticket a month ago, and her friends were saying pairs of seats weren't available until *January*. Unreal.
On the YA front, I read Brent Hartinger's Geography Club book last week, and it was noteworthy for actually being not awful (I have such a horrible track record with YA books). To the point where I hunted down the second book in the Russel Middlebrook series, The Order of the Poison Oak. I'm more than halfway though that now.
Three days off! Yayz to mini-vacations.
