December 11, 2008Spritz seem to be either very easy, or very frustrating. It's one of the first cookies I bake, to get me into the swing of things. Mostly my shapes are traditional: trees (often green) with multi-colored non-pariels and a silver dragee for a star, hearts, diamonds, red and green pinwheels, and blue camels. Hey, I didn't say it was everone's tradition.
Normally, Flash games skate right on by my awareness. Last year, I set out to find some really cute, not-too-challenging, fun, wintry games. What better than a game that combines the fun of ice skating with the danger of hot cocoa? Challenging, but you can always reward yourself with some hot cocoa. This game of Santa sledding can compensate when the weather won't cooperate for a white Christmas.
My mother told me this story when we attended the wedding of our former next-door neighbor.
Back in the hard-drinking 70s, when the three-martini lunch was more reality than fable, my parents went to a party at our next-door neighbors' house. In the wee hours, they toddled home across the lawn and went to bed.
And then they woke up the next morning.
They must have had a lot to drink, because neither of them could stand up. They decided they needed coffee. First, one of them got up and got the cups and pot out of the cabinet, then ran back to bed.
Then the other one got out of bed and filled the pot with water and put coffee into the mugs, and ran back to bed.
Then the first one put the pot on the stove ....
Then the second one refilled the pot with water and started heating it again.
And then they finally made coffee. I'm told it took about an hour.
Tell me about your own hangover!
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Last updated December 2008