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Dec. 12th, 2023 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlk- I ushered for UMS on Sunday. It's only the second event I've been able to usher this season, as I have had other obligations for other events (or I'm not at all interested in them -- theatre immersions, modern dance). I guess it's better than last season, when I didn't usher any events until January! Sunday's show was Michael Feinstein and Jean-Yves Tibeaudet doing a show called "Who Could Ask For Anything More?" It would have been a much better show had they not amped the pianos so much -- concert grand pianos are not supposed to sound like good electric pianos. Ushering a Sunday afternoon concert is as much time out of my day as actually *playing* a concert, although it's not quite as much work. More standing, though.
- one of the storage shelves in the workroom is failing. I could fix it (I think), but it'd only be a temporary fix. It will be easier (FSVO) to just replace the unit. Unfortunately, it's the one in the back corner, so I basically have to move everything in the space so I can get the old unit out and a new one in. foo. I really didn't want to spend the next two weeks rearranging the basement. :(
- I found last year's Christmas cards. Next to the stack of Christmas letters. oops. Don't know if I'll get them sent out before we go to see Nana, but I will get them out this season. Really I will!
- today is "go through the pantry to see what ingredients I need" so I can take Nana's holiday baking down to her next week. Step one for that is probably "decide what I'm making". I know apricot bread and cranberry pecan bread and probably cinnamon diamonds. Maybe Scotch Bars, and plain ol' chocolate chip cookies (with walnuts, because that's how she likes them). She called yesterday with an invitation to join the "pennybyrn singers" as they go caroling through the complex. :)
- one of the storage shelves in the workroom is failing. I could fix it (I think), but it'd only be a temporary fix. It will be easier (FSVO) to just replace the unit. Unfortunately, it's the one in the back corner, so I basically have to move everything in the space so I can get the old unit out and a new one in. foo. I really didn't want to spend the next two weeks rearranging the basement. :(
- I found last year's Christmas cards. Next to the stack of Christmas letters. oops. Don't know if I'll get them sent out before we go to see Nana, but I will get them out this season. Really I will!
- today is "go through the pantry to see what ingredients I need" so I can take Nana's holiday baking down to her next week. Step one for that is probably "decide what I'm making". I know apricot bread and cranberry pecan bread and probably cinnamon diamonds. Maybe Scotch Bars, and plain ol' chocolate chip cookies (with walnuts, because that's how she likes them). She called yesterday with an invitation to join the "pennybyrn singers" as they go caroling through the complex. :)
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Date: 2023-12-13 02:07 am (UTC)Choc chip cookies with walnuts are better than without (and are the original version according to Max Miller's "Tasting History" over on YouTube). I like them with walnuts so well, and am not the biggest fan of chocolate chip cookies that I once made the basic recipe with ONLY walnuts. Disappointingly, they were not as good as they ought to have been.
K. [still thinking about Xmas cards.... I got one already!]