Now that I have your attention - I have a question. Would someone please explain to me why shopping carts have flimsy little wheels on them??? Especially in locales that get hoards of snow and slush and other weather unpleasantness? May I suggest that shopping carts should come equipped with all terrain tires with at least some semblance of tread on them.... I mean, yeah. I get it. Shopping carts are primarily used inside. The land of tiled floors and smooth terrain (ta da!) but let's think for a second, shall we, about what happens when we discover that our car is in fact parked outside. In the Icy Tundra. At the end of the parking lot. Which is filled with crazy moving vehicles, crazy frantic people, and crazy short-tempered me. and not in a weather shielded, tiled floor Eden???
I'll tell you what happens. A horrible game of Ice Frogger (or Rain Frogger or Slippery Fall Leaves Frogger or Blinded-By-The-Sun Frogger - the last one has nothing to do with the wheels on the cart, but is just maybe an explanation as to why my retinas put up a fight every time I head to the grocery store). I love going to the store to come out and be presented with a "Cosmic Challenge" (not!).
Do the managers of these grocery stores take pleasure in seeing women struggle with shopping carts that have the steering capabilities of of hot air balloon on a windy day????? I can only assume yes, because if not, I wouldn't have to take my life in my hands when I am forced to participate in the Metal Death Ballet with a full shopping cart. So as you make your many trips to the market to gather toys and festive foods for your loved ones, I wish you God Speed and Good Luck. May you be the Prima Ballerina in the Metal Death Ballet and come out of the experience victoriously clutching your ripened bananas as if they were an Olympic Gold Medal!
In other news, I have graduated from Advil to 'for real pain killers' for my back (yay). Last week, I spent most of my time on my back and legs elevated (DIRTY! Get your filthy minds out of the gutters) to alleviate the pressure on my spine (which was helping) only to be taken down by fate yesterday. I finally left my house to go out to breakfast, and upon returning, fell down a few outside stairs (wooden - not concrete THANK GOD). So today, I am sporting lovely bruises on my arse, back of my thighs and arms, and ego. I still blame the wii for killing me in the first place. The stairs were just karma's way of saying... HAHA we forgot how much fun it was to see you in pain!
The good news is that the 'for real pain killers' have been causing quite colorful dreams. I mean, really. Do you think it would be possible to dream of a world made totally out of corn without them???????? Oh yeah, Lovelies. I said it. Corn. I had corn shoes in this dream. I lived in a corn house. The clouds were in beautiful fluffy corn shapes What an amazingly buttery and delicious dream. *sigh*
The happy pills have also caused:
- Bouts of extreme sleepiness.
- The need to proclaim my undying love to EVERYONE in my phone's contact book... including, but not limited to: people that I do not in fact love or have spoken to in quite some time. WOMP
- An unparalleled ability to sing (or think I can sing. christmas carols. at the top of my lungs. in front of people)
- Me to say yes to future outings and events that I would NEVER have agreed to go to or participate in if I were not hopped up on 'the juice'.
- And lastly, the urge to say phrases like "no huh!" and "you're a butthead" and "why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why!?!?!" when I don't get my way. (super classy. I know.)
And then I wonder why I'm single. :)
Alright. Time to go. There's much laying with elevated legs and hallucinating to be done.
Happy Monday!
P.S. If you would like the recipe for Zimtsterne, click below
Zimtsterne
Preheat oven to 300
Ingredients:
1000 grams of almonds ground (it's cheaper to get whole almonds and to just grind them in your food processor) - it's a little under 4 1/2 cups of ground almonds...
600 grams of confectioners sugar
2 tbsp cinnamon
4 egg whites
4 tbsp milk or amaretto
Topping:
2 egg whites
250 grams confectioners sugar
Instructions:
- mix almonds, confectioners sugar, and cinnamon in mixer with bread hook attachment (beater attachment is too weak and won't get through the dough) If you don't have a standing mixer, just mix together by hand in a bowl until it's all combined and make like bread dough
- add unbeaten egg whites and milk (or amaretto)
- continue mixing until all ingredients are combined
- roll out dough with powdered sugar to 1 cm thick
- use cookie cutters coated in powdered sugar to cut out shapes
- place on parchment papered cookie sheets
- set aside cookies
- make topping - whisk together egg whites to form firm peaks add confectioners sugar slowly
- coat top of cookies with topping
- bake for 10-15 minutes on the bottom rack of the oven. the topping should stay white. if it browns, that means the cookies are over done... so beware. mine normally take 12 minutes
- let cookies sit for 3 ish minutes, and then move to cooling rack
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