battles we fought and do not lose (much)

I have decorated the doorway to the kitchen with garland while playing Christmas/Sarajevo 12/24 and ate honey peanut butter straight from the jar because I like living dangerously.

My ribbons absconded from the tree. I put them back. Multiple times. I ate more honey peanut butter.

I discovered that the left garland around the kitchen doorway is colored lights and the right is white lights. I ate more honey peanut butter. May have forgotten the spoon.

I can't make the garland outside the front door stay up. There is no more honey peanut butter and now I'm forced to actually make cookies because the danger continues and I just don't want to be a person who eats brown sugar directly from the bag.

...more brown sugar directly from the bag. My fingers are kinda sticky, yeah.

(What? Don't knock it until you try it.)

The season, it tries to fight me. I pity it. There will be joy in these parts and it will twinkle and be decked with gold ribbon or God help anything that stops me.

Comments

[leonie_alastair]

I spent 4 hours yesterday trying to assemble a prelit tree and plug the lights in sequence so they all worked. I finally gave up and brought in several extension cords and just dropped them down the back of the tree. I wish you better luck!!

[seperis]

Dude, been there. It took me multiple tries to work out how to get what plugged in where. Like, color coding, number coding ANY CODING why not?

[domarzione]

For the past year I've had a brown sugar container with a terracotta disc that keeps it from drying out. It's great for that purpose, but what it also means is that I no longer have the excuse of nibbling on the pebbles of hardened brown sugar that TOTALLY cannot be used to bake with and I'm doing everyone a service.

[seperis]

Exactly! What else can be done with the pebbles!

[bratfarrar]

Having an excuse to eat the "spilled" brown sugar is one of the perks to baking from scratch.

[seperis]

God yes. Brown sugar just tastes so good.

[dine]

good luck with the joy and twinkling and gold ribbons! you will achieve festiveness, I'm sure.

mmm, brown sugar. when I was a kid, we used to get brown sugar & butter sandwiches as a snack (my Depression-era grandmother didn't have a background in nutritional theory, but did know what kids liked)

[kore]

Ooh, my Nana (also from that era) made those. Also brown sugar and honey cured ham sandwiches.

[out_there]

...more brown sugar directly from the bag. My fingers are kinda sticky, yeah.

Best part of cooking with brown sugar is being able to sneak a little straight from the bag.

[kore]

I'm not that into Xmas, but "There will be joy in these parts and it will twinkle" made me caw like a crow.

[seperis]

The holiday spirit will suffuse all things, one way or another.

[alassenya]

If the absconding ribbons are due to gravity, then safety pins might help. If they are due to pets, just accept defeat gracefully. :)

[rissabby]

I recommend mixing cinnamon powder into the honey peanut butter. A 16oz jar lasts me about three days. I once finished a five pound jar in about three weeks.
I'm gonna go make spiced almond butter now.

What spices do you use in yours?

[jesse_the_k]

To my amazement, garam masala makes a damn nice mix-in with almond or peanut butter.

Re: What spices do you use in yours?

[seperis]

...seriously? And I just happen to have like a lot from my ill-fated attempt to make samosas.

(Ill-fated: I sort of ate all the filling I prepared before I got around to uh, rolling out the pastry. It was amazing.)

Re: What spices do you use in yours?

[jesse_the_k]

Yep! Thin it out a bit with rice vinegar, and it’s lovely on crunchy veg.

Re: What spices do you use in yours?

[(Anonymous)]

I will try the garam masala. I usually use cinnamon, sometimes ginger and a tiny bit of cloves. Lately, I've been adding chopped walnuts. Last week, I added almond flour to my peanut butter, it was great.

[dorkael]

See, I'm frequently relieved this time of year on account of my holiday decor choices being more or less limited to clearing the mantel for a lit garland and some images for Saturnalia (and sneaking up in the dead of night to wire my Castiel Funko Pop to the top of my roommates' tree while they're asleep), but now I regret failing to integrate honey peanut butter and brown sugar into the proceedings sooner.

[selenay]

I have not yet attempted lights, shiny stuff, and twinkle, but it's my plan for the coming weekend. I am sad my tiny flat is too tiny for a tree. And my cats are too nimble for a baby tree that they could steal/knock over.

I put brown sugar on my porridge. And I always sneak a little extra spoonful straight from the bag because brown sugar :-D

[grammarwoman]

I had the best intentions of getting all holiday up in my household this past weekend, and then I started playing Let's Go Eevee, and, well, yeah. Oops!

[hopelessheathen57]

Damn. Honey peanut butter is starting to sound really good right now.

[seperis]

I am really resenting I don't have anymore. Chocolate shortbread just isn't a replacement, though tasty.

[silveraspen]

You will deck the halls successfully, I am sure of it!