Working for the weekend
Oct. 26th, 2014 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammarwomanThe Emperor's 10th birthday has come and gone. His school district doesn't close for the Columbus Day holiday, but instead schedules a couple days near the end of October for teacher in-service and conferences, which has meant for several years now that he gets a 3-4 day weekend for his birthday.
This year, he decided that he didn't want a birthday party like last time, where we rented a tumbling place for a couple of hours and invited his class. Instead, he wanted a sleepover with three of his friends. Two out of the three couldn't make it, alas, but one did, and they had a fine time.
Most of my spare time of the last few weeks has been spent in service of the Emperor, either working on his Halloween costume or planning and executing his birthday weekend. I took Friday off work and drove him over to an electronic game store so he could pick out a Nintendo 3DS and a few games, then spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning up from costume construction. Saturday morning I got up and made pancakes for him and his friend. Today I spent most of my time making cake layers from mixes (he wanted a half-yellow, half-chocolate cake) and chocolate buttercream frosting from scratch. Seven sticks of butter plus cocoa and powdered sugar can't be wrong; I've got several cups of frosting left over in the fridge to go on top of whatever can be dipped in the bowl. Since I didn't want a towering monstrosity, I only made one layer of each flavor and used the rest for cupcakes, which will go into my work tomorrow (not that they deserve it).
I love having a functional oven again. The previous one had been dying for years and couldn't hold an even temperature, which was death on baking stuff. But now...mwah hah hah! I may even get around to making my former overload levels of holiday cookies.
Ugh, I do not want to go back to work tomorrow. Everyone I work with is being extra-irritating, and I just want a break from the "one more thing"s that never seem to come with any kind of gratitude. At least there will be a cupcake to brighten my morning.
This year, he decided that he didn't want a birthday party like last time, where we rented a tumbling place for a couple of hours and invited his class. Instead, he wanted a sleepover with three of his friends. Two out of the three couldn't make it, alas, but one did, and they had a fine time.
Most of my spare time of the last few weeks has been spent in service of the Emperor, either working on his Halloween costume or planning and executing his birthday weekend. I took Friday off work and drove him over to an electronic game store so he could pick out a Nintendo 3DS and a few games, then spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning up from costume construction. Saturday morning I got up and made pancakes for him and his friend. Today I spent most of my time making cake layers from mixes (he wanted a half-yellow, half-chocolate cake) and chocolate buttercream frosting from scratch. Seven sticks of butter plus cocoa and powdered sugar can't be wrong; I've got several cups of frosting left over in the fridge to go on top of whatever can be dipped in the bowl. Since I didn't want a towering monstrosity, I only made one layer of each flavor and used the rest for cupcakes, which will go into my work tomorrow (not that they deserve it).
I love having a functional oven again. The previous one had been dying for years and couldn't hold an even temperature, which was death on baking stuff. But now...mwah hah hah! I may even get around to making my former overload levels of holiday cookies.
Ugh, I do not want to go back to work tomorrow. Everyone I work with is being extra-irritating, and I just want a break from the "one more thing"s that never seem to come with any kind of gratitude. At least there will be a cupcake to brighten my morning.
