Wow.

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I made hamentaschen today (yes, I know, several weeks late) and they exploded. Most of them, anyway. The directions are impossible to follow--they say, in part, that you should check after about 10 minutes and squish together any sides that have come apart. Problem is, after 10 minutes in the oven the little darlings are too cooked on those surfaces, if they'd exploded, to be able to squish them back together. So I just didn't bother to rescue any. Most of the apricot ones stayed together, some of the cherry ones, some of the poppy seed ones, and very few of the prune ones. *shrug*

I also ran over to CostPlus and to Pier 1 in search of a rug to put in the office, as I'd moved the rug that had been under the table to be under the table yet again. The carpet (and the underpadding) is squishy enough, though, that the rug was rippling and bubbling oddly. So I put it back in the office. During my excursion I found a whole whopping two things that I was interested in acquiring, and one of them I'd already passed by once because I have no place to put one if I bought one. That would be the older brother to the fishie dishes I bought last weekend, which is about a foot long (well, 9") and nifty but takes up space. The one thing I actually bought was at Cost Plus, and a larger collection of stuff that I had no interest in buying I haven't seen in a long time. I did buy a tin of ginger Altoids, which I have had one of, and of which I will not be partaking again because, like peppermint Altoids, they burn my tongue. The wintergreen ones are nicer. They also had spearmint, but I didn't really feel like getting a tin of those.

I suppose if I had a house to furnish, completely from scratch, Cost Plus would be more useful. But I was looking for a rug and they didn't have any that called to me. When the beige carpet comes up this summer, I will probably run over and get a smaller rug (the one in the office is 5'x8') to go under the dining table, but I won't worry about it right now. I did look at their drafting table, and it's ok. It is 38" wide, which is a reasonable width and will fit in that space, and something like 30" deep. It's on sale this week, so it will be $30 less if I bought it now than if I were to wait, but I have to see how the desk/drafting board experiment goes, first.

[To be fair, I'm really not interested in buying anything at Pier 1, currently, either. Cost Plus is just larger.]

Played Scrabble Friday night with David. I lost, as usual. I think the next game I am going to show him the letters I draw, so he understands the sheer suckitude of the letters I end up with most of the time. We made dinner last night--Cooking Light has an article about African cooking, this issue, so we made Senegalese fish balls, without benefit of a food processor. They probably didn't turn out quite the way they were supposed to, but this is what happens when you mince the fish instead of processing it. They were tasty. David made breadsticks, which were also tasty, and also what turned out to be an extremely soft cheesecake, because he used some of the leftover cheese from 12th Night which was runnier than commercial cream cheese. In retrospect we probably should have left the cream out. Tasty, but very, very soft.

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they have ginger altoids now? dang. i want!