Our house is beginning to feel just a little bit like Christmas. No decorations up yet, but there are presents and rolls of wrapping paper in the closets, holiday cards waiting to be displayed and a growing array of baked goods. I've spent the last three nights baking and I'm not anywhere close to being finished. Breads, cookies, candies....if I didn't have so much guilt about all the tasting I "need" to do to ensure quality, then this would be a blast.

Actually, the sad part is that I burnt the roof of my mouth the other day and I can't really taste anything - but not that this lack of sensation stops me from trying.

Tonight there will be more shopping and hopefully a chance to watch last night's episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and maybe a nice holiday nightcap of cocoa and Kahlua...it's these kinds of things that keep me going right now.

Hmmm, I wonder if this is a clue to that Danny Secretion-related, would-be blog entry that I was trying to remember.

And, trying to be upbeat for once, things I'm enjoying right now: new Kingsbury Manx record, having my car back from the shop and the lovely, frosty glow of December mornings.

P.S. Oh look, the comments system seems to be working again. Hint. Hint.

P.S.S. No surprises here, I am just a fast accident waiting to happen. Via Different Kitchen and Coolfer:

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