Ho, Ho, Ho.....Santa's Elves

I love the Christmas season. For so many reasons I can't even count. One small reason is the weather. With the weather rolls in my need to bake. Or maybe I should say obsession to bake. I have to make something. Always. It has to be done this time of year. I remember last year hosting an assortment of friends, watching White Christmas, and baking in mass quantities. I absolutely loved it.

This year was a little different. I sometimes have a little down time at work. Because of this downtime, I think about lots of random things. You see Laura and I wanted to bake. Bake in mass amounts. We decided we were going to on Tuesday night. Tuesday is actually my Saturday and she just thought it would be fun. Well, Monday this amazing idea pops in my head that I'm pretty sure Santa himself inspired. He said to bring the spirit of Christmas to Mattress Firm. So I took those cookies that Laura and I made that night.....Chocolate chip (Santa's Favorite!!!!) and bestowed them with milk to the Mattress Firm's in Pinellas County. With an accompaning note. It took me a total of 2 1/2 hours to go to all the stores. Honestly though, never had so much fun. I love surprises and I love surprising people. It was an amazing success. Though I did an awful job hiding my tracks. Everyone found out it was me. I guess elves are not very good at being ninja's.

Tonight, I was still in the baking mood. And have made seven...that's right....SEVEN batches of cookies. With possibly one more to do. I made three batches of chocolate chip, sugar cookies, and pumpkin oatmeal raisin cookies. The recipes for the easy sugar cookies and pumpkin oatmeal raisin cookies can be found on allrecipes.com. They were delicious. I have bagged them all up. Three choc. chip, 2 sugar and 2 oatmeal in individual bags. They will be going to my coworkers tomorrow night at our Christmas party. I believe I have now satisfied my obsessive need to bake.

However, Laura and I watched Julie and Julia. It was actually way better than I was expecting. I'd heard some not so good things about it. I absolutely loved it. I really was not sure I would. Although, I really do feel Amy Adams and Of course Meryl Streep are super de dupper talented. I highly recommend it to anyone. Especially if you are in any way a fan of cooking. I am really thinking about trying to conquer some higher cuisine. Maybe even try French cooking. I am petrified of messing up though. I am such a perfectionist. Aside from the fact that the diet I should be on should reduce the amount of butter I'm eating. Not triple it. lol. All in all though, I kind of had a perfect Saturday night in. Baking cookies, watching Julie and Julia and previous having dinner with the best friend. The funny thing is my day was only so, so. Proves that Julie and Juila was right. Cooking makes everything else go away. :)