This weekend is a blur. It's the first one we've had that wasn't interrupted in some way by a trip, appointments, or a party of some sort.
Beeper arrived at noon on Saturday with sandwiches and coffee and ready to help in any way we could steer her. First thing we did was load all the hazardous waste (paint, garden pesticides, etc) into the car to do a run to the S.A.F.E. collection center. Then we stopped at the $.99 store for squeegees and spent a gorgeous day outside washing all the windows! Meanwhile X stayed in and packed/sorted through his 4000-paperback-book collection. We loaded tons of boxes to empty shelves that need to be sold at the garage sale next weekend. We wound down and grabbed dinner and pints of swamp suds at Rajun Cajun.
Sunday morning came way too quickly after losing a much needed extra hour of sleep with the Daylight savings time change. Our guy from Cool Earth showed up around 10am and did a solid four hours of through cleaning in every room while we continued to pack and ready the house for open house.
I'm getting a little burned out from sorting and needed to switch gears for a bit. I decided to do a little comfort baking, plus I need to use up stuff in the pantry before the move. I whipped out the Scharffen-Berger bar I'd been saving for a rainy day and made Double Chocolate Cookies, with a twist. Instead of finely ground coffee, I used 1 tsp of espresso we got in Vienna. Then instead of just unsweetened chocolate broken into small chunks, I used half that and half peanut butter chips. I didn't put any nuts in. Oh boy were these yummy. I will be making them again!
Then just as these were coming out of the oven our neighbors came over with a couple bottles of wine to share - gotta squeeze in that quality time where we can!
I work hard, I play hard. At some point I need to sleep for a week.
