Isn’t that the lamest, most boring title ever? I’m ashamed of myself for being so uncreative. I blame all the cookies I’ve eaten today. And the cold weather. Can cold make you dumb?
John and I don’t get all worked up about celebrating Valentine’s Day, but I promised one of my marketing managers that I’d make sugar cookies as a treat. Somehow, most likely because I can’t avoid complicating things, that turned into me making up little bags of cookies and candy up for the people on my team. I carefully assembled them and closed them up with little heart twist ties, only to end up stuck at home today after a combined snow/ice storm made it impossible for me to get out of my neighborhood. We didn’t get all that much snow – maybe five inches, but then it all got covered with a coating of about two inches of ice. Ok, the weather guy on the news just said that it was sleet, not ice. I’m not sure what the difference is, but apparently we got 5.5 inches of sleet here in Frederick. And they didn’t get around to plowing my street until after 6 tonight.
So anyway, instead of taking the leftover cookies in to work, I sat around eating them all day. I guess it is a good thing that I don’t work from home every day. Having the kitchen right there is very distracting, although the presence of fresh baked frosted cookies probably made it a little more distracting than usual. My day went something like this – walk Seamus (who doesn’t weigh enough to break through the ice/sleet, so he spreads his toes and does this odd beagle-ninja thing. It’s hysterical), eat cookie. Have breakfast. Debate whether or not to eat another cookie. Eat cookie. Watch a guy in a Jeep struggle to get up my street, decide I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. Log in to work email, and let boss know. Work for a bit. Call in to work weather line and find out we’re not opening until 11. Work some more, since I have my doubts I’m going to make it in by 11. Call back to the work line for an update at 10, and learn that they are encouraging all employees to work from home. I have to say, this is a huge step forward for my company. HUGE, and much appreciated by me. Hey, I should eat a cookie to celebrate!
You get the idea. I did chill out on the cookies after that. Plus, there weren’t that many left at that point, and I had to give some of them to John. And I had a lot of work to do.
Hope you had a lovely Valentine’s day, filled with cookies and love. Or whatever your heart’s desire might be.
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