Yeesh.

I’ve been having an incredibly lazy week…calling each evening to see if I have to report for jury duty. And no, I have not had to report for jury duty. However, we are nearly up to my number for tomorrow, which is inconvenient considering that I got a call for a teaching job interview tomorrow. Fortunately, after being treated extremely rudely by someone at the commissioner of jurors’ office, I was told to report on Monday. Phew.

Monday, I slept in, accompanied Rand and his friends John and Amy to a long and leisurely lunch at Gabriel’s Gate. I luuuuuuuurve The Gate. And I disovered something new…they have good dessert! I ordered cheesecake with raspberry sauce, and oh my GOD. It was divine. It was good and creamy, just the way I like it, not that harder, cakier type.

I got a haircut, got my lip and brows sugared (far superior to waxing, IMHO), made a bank run for Rand…and yesterday, I decided to make cookies.

Several weeks ago, Jen and I ventured into the Lexington Co-op, and I spied a bag of chocolate ginger…mmmm…so I got it, but was kind of disappointed to find that the pieces of ginger were much too small. I might as well have been eating a bag of chocolate chips, I said.

Hmmm…

Of course, then it got WAY too hot to turn on the oven. But now the temperature is comfortable enough to bake. We were out of a couple of things, so I had to run to the store. This was sort of funny…I stopped at the mini mart on the corner to pick up a small can of Crisco. They only had one left, and this was the price on it:

$312c.

The girl at the checkout looked at it, and said, “That can’t be right.” I shrugged. “Let’s make it $2.49,” she said. Fine with me. 🙂

I found a recipe for “Chocolate Ginger Cookies,” which were really just chocolate chip cookies with chopped ginger in them. Perfect. They turned out pretty well, I think.

Bit of trivia I learned on the radio today…Anthony Head (Giles from Buffy) is Murray Head’s brother. Who knew? Well, apparently Rand did. 😉

I’ve got my friend Jennifer’s wedding picnic this weekend, so Rand and I will be heading out of town tomorrow evening after he’s done working. That should be a good time. 🙂

Oh, and head over to All Things Jen(nifer) to see the photo of us from last Saturday that made it onto Buffalo Barfly! Heehee…