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So uh...my roommate is sick. She has therefor asked me to not be in the room unless I'm sleeping, because she wants the light off and apparently even a computer screen bothers her. Okay, sure, we have a suite common room for that after all.
Only, I hadn't realized until now that...one of the girls in the other room in our suite seems to have moved out. And the remaining girl has pretty much let her boyfriend move in. And they have sex frequently. Loud enough to be heard from the common room (but apparently not from our room thanks to cement walls). HELLO HEADPHONES.
ANYWAYS, in other not-awkward news, next weekend is EASTER WEEKEND. Our family is one of those families that does the easter present thing, which I have only recently learned is apparently not all that common? Anyways it's kind of a big deal for us. So I've decided to bake something, of course. I spent pretty much all day thinking 'what if I added cocoa powder to sugar cookies?!!!' but turns out that those ALREADY EXIST :D so I am totally making them. Probably some regular sugar cookies as well.
I'm not sure if I'll use that royal icing recipe...I already have a similar one that doesn't include egg whites, and I'm kind of, um, wary of making icing with raw egg whites, although I am pretty sure that's standard. The problem is though that the recipe I've used relies entirely on confectioner's sugar to make it thick and white and therefor be able to be colored vibrantly, and although it went fine on regular sugar cookies, I'm not sure the colors will look good at all on a darker cookie. IDK GUYS IDK I will probably end up doing this egg white one. Also will let everybody decorate their cookies, on top of decorating eggs. Because this isn't exactly Christmas, it's not like we're giving these cookies to other people like we did at Christmas.
Anyways the other thing I want to do is buy some like, animal crackers or vanilla wafers or something cheap, and dip them in chocolate. Since I am no longer afraid of melting chocolate. I think I'll actually do colored white chocolate, like actual animal crackers do a lot (do they use food coloring for that? I assume so...or do you have to buy special colored white chocolate? I can probably look this up.)
OKAY I just looked it up and apparently there are these special oils and candy colors for coloring white chocolate, BUT you can also use food coloring as long as you mix it in really well. Alright! I'll look and see if I can get these candy coloring things at the grocery store, but I doubt it, they barely even carry food coloring (seriously, they carry like one pack of four colors, it's pitiful). Maybe they'll have them at Michael's...? They do have that little baking section...and JoAnne's also has a baking section that is pretty impressive and I just found the other day...there are no like, baking specialty stores around here :C
Anyways yeah THAT'S MY WEEKEND. I also bought some things on Amazon (all with amex points! Yay!) that I hope will get there this weekend. Some books (a few classics I haven't read yet, and Jennifer Government because I love dystopian fiction, although I was a bit concerned by the fact that there are tons on Amazon used for pretty much $4.00, lol) and a simulation computer game, Black and White 2, since I tried the demo and it's pretty addictive. Like, I want to go play the demo AGAIN even though I've already played it through and know I'll mostly just be frustrated because it's 75% tutorial.
Whatever GOING TO GO PLAY IT AGAIN.
So uh...my roommate is sick. She has therefor asked me to not be in the room unless I'm sleeping, because she wants the light off and apparently even a computer screen bothers her. Okay, sure, we have a suite common room for that after all.
Only, I hadn't realized until now that...one of the girls in the other room in our suite seems to have moved out. And the remaining girl has pretty much let her boyfriend move in. And they have sex frequently. Loud enough to be heard from the common room (but apparently not from our room thanks to cement walls). HELLO HEADPHONES.
ANYWAYS, in other not-awkward news, next weekend is EASTER WEEKEND. Our family is one of those families that does the easter present thing, which I have only recently learned is apparently not all that common? Anyways it's kind of a big deal for us. So I've decided to bake something, of course. I spent pretty much all day thinking 'what if I added cocoa powder to sugar cookies?!!!' but turns out that those ALREADY EXIST :D so I am totally making them. Probably some regular sugar cookies as well.
I'm not sure if I'll use that royal icing recipe...I already have a similar one that doesn't include egg whites, and I'm kind of, um, wary of making icing with raw egg whites, although I am pretty sure that's standard. The problem is though that the recipe I've used relies entirely on confectioner's sugar to make it thick and white and therefor be able to be colored vibrantly, and although it went fine on regular sugar cookies, I'm not sure the colors will look good at all on a darker cookie. IDK GUYS IDK I will probably end up doing this egg white one. Also will let everybody decorate their cookies, on top of decorating eggs. Because this isn't exactly Christmas, it's not like we're giving these cookies to other people like we did at Christmas.
Anyways the other thing I want to do is buy some like, animal crackers or vanilla wafers or something cheap, and dip them in chocolate. Since I am no longer afraid of melting chocolate. I think I'll actually do colored white chocolate, like actual animal crackers do a lot (do they use food coloring for that? I assume so...or do you have to buy special colored white chocolate? I can probably look this up.)
OKAY I just looked it up and apparently there are these special oils and candy colors for coloring white chocolate, BUT you can also use food coloring as long as you mix it in really well. Alright! I'll look and see if I can get these candy coloring things at the grocery store, but I doubt it, they barely even carry food coloring (seriously, they carry like one pack of four colors, it's pitiful). Maybe they'll have them at Michael's...? They do have that little baking section...and JoAnne's also has a baking section that is pretty impressive and I just found the other day...there are no like, baking specialty stores around here :C
Anyways yeah THAT'S MY WEEKEND. I also bought some things on Amazon (all with amex points! Yay!) that I hope will get there this weekend. Some books (a few classics I haven't read yet, and Jennifer Government because I love dystopian fiction, although I was a bit concerned by the fact that there are tons on Amazon used for pretty much $4.00, lol) and a simulation computer game, Black and White 2, since I tried the demo and it's pretty addictive. Like, I want to go play the demo AGAIN even though I've already played it through and know I'll mostly just be frustrated because it's 75% tutorial.
Whatever GOING TO GO PLAY IT AGAIN.
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Date: 2011-04-14 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-14 10:28 pm (UTC)Anyway. We don't give presents on Easter.. but we do color hard boiled eggs. The Easter Bunny is going to hide plastic eggs full of candy/money, some presents wrapped up in something colorful and he will leave David an Easter basket. WOO.
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Date: 2011-04-14 11:15 pm (UTC)We color hardboiled eggs too. AND do easter hunts. Even though I'm in college now and Paige and Derek are in high school. But what we do is the 'Easter Bunny' (dad, in this case...he loves doing it I think, which is why we still do) makes a scavenger hunt for each of us, with plastic eggs with clues in them that eventually lead us to our basket, which has one gift (or a few small gifts)+a bunch of candy in it. We used to do an outdoor hunt with the colored eggs, but spring is such a crapshoot here, every other year it'd be snowing and the rest of the time it's muddy :P so we just have the eggs for breakfast that morning, with waffles and bacon.
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Date: 2011-04-15 08:00 pm (UTC)Anyway. I would still totally do the hunts if I lived at home. I'm the Bunny now though lol and I love it too! :D