Dreaming of a White Christmas
Scratch white. I'll settle for cold.
My AC went out Saturday. Again. So one of the maintenance people stopped by to clear it out. It was the same lady who came last Saturday to fix it. Last time it worked for a week. This time it worked for 2-3 hours. But by the time I knew it wasn't working again, it was past the maintenance staff's usual hours, and I felt bad about calling them back over Christmas weekend, so I decided to wait until the 26th to call. That's in 20 minutes, and yes, I'm counting. The weather hasn't been so bad, so I thought I could tough it out with just my ceiling fan. And to be fair, it hasn't been unbearable, but there is absolutely no way to get a cross breeze in my apartment, so even though the outdoor temperature has been in the mid- to upper-70's, my apartment has been right around 80. Again, not unbearable, but not particularly pleasant.
Turns out my dryer isn't working either now, so I have a veritable laundry list of fix-it items for them (c'mon, it was a good pun!).
This morning I knew my family in MN was having omelets and abelskivers (they're Danish--kind of a pancake batter ball with jam inside), so I thought I'd make myself something special for breakfast, too. And by special, I mean not an apple or cereal. I didn't have buttermilk to make my own abelskivers, but I did have some pancake mix so I whipped some of that up. One slight hiccup in the recipe was the vegetable oil. What little I had in the cupboard was old, but I was determined to have pancakes, so I substitued olive oil. The first pancake turned out too think so I added more milk, and the next two were too thin. But I ended up with 3 on my plate, and as long as the maple syrup flowed generously, I was kindly oblivious to the switcheroo of core ingredients.
After calling my family for a nice, long, morning Merry Christmas chat, I curled up and watched Holiday Inn. I love old movies as it is, but Holiday Inn and White Christmas are two of my favorites. Especially the part where Bing Crosby's character is upset that Linda and Ted have gotten together, so in the bit where L&T are dancing and he's directing the band but also trying to sabotage them, he's dressed up as someone like Mozart and his wig is all mussed and crazy looking, to go with his mood. Makes me laugh every time.
Anyway, even though I couldn't be back in MN with my family for Christmas, I got to spend dinner and the evening with some close friends of mine down here, which was really nice. We did some kitchen experimentation with a pannini press (yes, it was a new gift in their house!), and quite a good bit of time playing Wii games. Tennis was the ultimate favorite, and we even got everyone to play at different points. Very fun.
It's now officially 1 minute into the 26th, but I'm still going to end by saying a big Merry Christmas to all!
My AC went out Saturday. Again. So one of the maintenance people stopped by to clear it out. It was the same lady who came last Saturday to fix it. Last time it worked for a week. This time it worked for 2-3 hours. But by the time I knew it wasn't working again, it was past the maintenance staff's usual hours, and I felt bad about calling them back over Christmas weekend, so I decided to wait until the 26th to call. That's in 20 minutes, and yes, I'm counting. The weather hasn't been so bad, so I thought I could tough it out with just my ceiling fan. And to be fair, it hasn't been unbearable, but there is absolutely no way to get a cross breeze in my apartment, so even though the outdoor temperature has been in the mid- to upper-70's, my apartment has been right around 80. Again, not unbearable, but not particularly pleasant.
Turns out my dryer isn't working either now, so I have a veritable laundry list of fix-it items for them (c'mon, it was a good pun!).
This morning I knew my family in MN was having omelets and abelskivers (they're Danish--kind of a pancake batter ball with jam inside), so I thought I'd make myself something special for breakfast, too. And by special, I mean not an apple or cereal. I didn't have buttermilk to make my own abelskivers, but I did have some pancake mix so I whipped some of that up. One slight hiccup in the recipe was the vegetable oil. What little I had in the cupboard was old, but I was determined to have pancakes, so I substitued olive oil. The first pancake turned out too think so I added more milk, and the next two were too thin. But I ended up with 3 on my plate, and as long as the maple syrup flowed generously, I was kindly oblivious to the switcheroo of core ingredients.
After calling my family for a nice, long, morning Merry Christmas chat, I curled up and watched Holiday Inn. I love old movies as it is, but Holiday Inn and White Christmas are two of my favorites. Especially the part where Bing Crosby's character is upset that Linda and Ted have gotten together, so in the bit where L&T are dancing and he's directing the band but also trying to sabotage them, he's dressed up as someone like Mozart and his wig is all mussed and crazy looking, to go with his mood. Makes me laugh every time.
Anyway, even though I couldn't be back in MN with my family for Christmas, I got to spend dinner and the evening with some close friends of mine down here, which was really nice. We did some kitchen experimentation with a pannini press (yes, it was a new gift in their house!), and quite a good bit of time playing Wii games. Tennis was the ultimate favorite, and we even got everyone to play at different points. Very fun.
It's now officially 1 minute into the 26th, but I'm still going to end by saying a big Merry Christmas to all!
posted by Shannon at 11:39 PM
2 Comments:
Glad you had a good, albeit warm, Christmas.
Wow, yeah. Jenny and Erin "playing" a racing game on the xbox. Not so much. But it was rather entertaining. And I can't really brag at all. But I did do wayyyy better than either of them! Sounds like FL is still nice and warm! Supposed to get another 12" of snow, well today i guess (thurs), here in CO. Fun times!
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