personal and professional in the mixing bowl

[lagilman]

The plans for today (making cookies and other party-prep) have been modified by the arrival of author proofs for BLOOD FROM STONE. They're due back on the 7th, tho, so for once I'm not feeling a mad rush about them. Yay for the holidays actually adding time to schedule, not depleting it!

So, cookies and proofs. I call that a Good Plan.

[specifically, meringues, sugar cookies and, if I have energy, tortes. Gingerbread will have to wait for another day]

Also, I am having coffee for the first time since coming down with the Ugh/Sinus Sludge last Friday (coffee when I'm sick is always a Bad Idea). Yay! My taste buds are still out of whack a bit, but the caffeine is welcome...


EtA: note to self: if eggs are not forming nice peaks, it is time to stop, have another cup of coffee, and then restart using only egg WHITES this time, not whole eggs.

moron.

Comments

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

We're in the middle of the page proofs for Peter's next Star Trek novel and I am about to strangle the typesetter. There is no excuse for the sloppy typos and added punctuation and the dropped lines (and a paragraph). Also it is littered with hyphens. I remember when hyphens were a last resort rather than a first defense.

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

"Could you send me some sugar cookies? Please?", she asks in a wistful kind of voice. I don't make cookies any more at Christmas because I am the only one that eats them. But I never made sugar cookies. My grandmother made them though, and they were delish!