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THE MONSTER WON!

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The Cookie Monster visited me this morning...he comes around and nags me whenever I run out of something sweet to eat and, since I finally finished that "not-so-good" apple cream cheese crisp thingy I tried out, I figured he'd be making an appearance pretty soon.

Was just sitting at good ole puter minding my own business, sipping coffee and answering mail, when he began .... usually starts with just a whisper in the ear..."I Want Cookies.."and usually I can ignore it...put it off...procrastinate till I'm in the mood...gotta be in the mood to cook...but not today.

Only took him about 20 minutes to send me scurrying to the kitchen to begin throwing flour, sugar, eggs, etc into a bowl and letting my trusty lil Sunbeam mixer do the job for me. Those are the best darned little mixers...had one given to me as a wedding present that lasted over 20 years! Don't make 'em like that anymore!

Cookie sheets greased, blobs of dough arranged a dozen to a sheet, oven fired up to 375...all set and 1st batch in,....I returned to puter and 20 minutes later...kitchen was full of smoke and 1st batch burned to black hockey pucks!

Fussing & fuming, I sprinted about the kitchen flapping a towel like mad shooing the smoke out the kitchen door while the cats fled in all directions away from the crazy lady beating the air with a dish towel.

Alright! Let's try again....Ha....Use that timer with the ding **** on it....it sets out on the counter all the time and I always forget to use the darned thing.

Was a breeze from there on in till 3 dozen were cooling on the racks and I could turn the oven off and clean up my mess. Forgot to tell you I sneezed in the middle of measuring out the oatmeal and blew it all over the counter and floor.... at least it wasn't the flour...trust me...oatmeal is a trifle heavier than flour and doesn't travel in the air as far as flour will!

Picked up the cookie sheet without a hot mitt and burned my fingers which made me drop it into the dish pan full of soapy water...splashed it all over the counter where it mixed nicely with the oatmeal already there....figured if I kept on, I'd eventually have another batch of dough mixing itself up on the kitchen counter...

Kitchen finally cleaned up ...smoke cleared out ... I ate a cookie...[ not bad if I do say myself]...and asked the monster if he was satisfied now? He was nowhere to be found...think he fled with the cats during the towel flapping.

Hope you have good luck with whatever you attempt to do today.

Hugs , Gayle, critters and the monster

Added: November 6, 2009
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