Knee-deep in the hooplah
Well, the trip to Grandma's is off. They got a ton of snow up there, and I guess neither my grandma nor my aunt and uncle are feeling that well, so we're postponing until January. Victor and I will do some Christmas shopping this weekend instead.

I bet he will also watch some episodes of The Shield. He has lately become obsessed with it. Over the last week, he has watched almost three seasons. He likes to watch it loud, which is slightly annoying, especially if I'm trying to sleep. I'm trying not to get into it, because I watch too much TV as it is, but I'm following the story a little bit. Victor says if he was a cop, he'd be a dirty cop.

Our washing machine exploded last night. Water cascaded down the stairs and out the door. That was lovely. I hope the landlady gets it fixed soon.

I made cookies last night too. Right now I'm eating pretty badly, but it's cold and I don't care. So I made chocolate chip cookies with my new KitchenAid stand mixer, which was a wedding present from my parents. It's my first stand mixer, and I really like it. I love to bake, so I'm probably going to get good use out of it. In the recipe, I used real granulated sugar, but for brown sugar I used a Splenda blend, and it worked really well. So at least the cookies weren't as bad for us as they could have been.