Cookies and Books
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sakon76Last night Wonderful Husband and I baked cookies. Part of this was prep for Fanime in two weekends' time: we work in ConOps and always, always bake a metric fuckton of cookies and schlep them up in our luggage for Ops and anyone who happens by to enjoy. So a week or two beforehand we usually test out recipes. Last night we did chocolate chip, which came out quite well, and tried out a new oatmeal raisin variant, which... tastes quite nice, but is very flat and too sticky for good packing/schlepping/ease of subsequent separation.
However!
The purpose of these cookies was in fact two-fold: not only were they to test recipes, but they were to be a bribe! For tonight, not too far from our home as these things go, Tamora Pierce was giving a short talk and then signing books. So I sewed up a couple small bags (embroidered her initials on the one that was plain muslin), we stuffed them with cookies, and off we went carrying ten hardbacks between us. I haven't been able to attend one of her signings since 2003, you see.... So now all of our Tortall books are signed (save the three we haven't acquired in hardback yet and the two that are, ah, very clearly ex-library copies...) as well as two of the Circle books. Which leaves me with eight more Circle books on the shelf as well as two short story collections. She's doing another signing Saturday evening in Pasadena, but though I think Wonderful Husband enjoyed tonight's talk he will probably not be willing to be schlepped to another one in two nights' time. I will probably go alone. So, should I take six (the remaining parts of the Circle quartets), eight (all Circle books), or ten (all books) with me...?
However!
The purpose of these cookies was in fact two-fold: not only were they to test recipes, but they were to be a bribe! For tonight, not too far from our home as these things go, Tamora Pierce was giving a short talk and then signing books. So I sewed up a couple small bags (embroidered her initials on the one that was plain muslin), we stuffed them with cookies, and off we went carrying ten hardbacks between us. I haven't been able to attend one of her signings since 2003, you see.... So now all of our Tortall books are signed (save the three we haven't acquired in hardback yet and the two that are, ah, very clearly ex-library copies...) as well as two of the Circle books. Which leaves me with eight more Circle books on the shelf as well as two short story collections. She's doing another signing Saturday evening in Pasadena, but though I think Wonderful Husband enjoyed tonight's talk he will probably not be willing to be schlepped to another one in two nights' time. I will probably go alone. So, should I take six (the remaining parts of the Circle quartets), eight (all Circle books), or ten (all books) with me...?
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Date: 2009-05-15 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-15 04:27 pm (UTC)Bad news about the oatmeal raisin. I likes me some oatmeal raisin.
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Date: 2009-05-15 05:31 pm (UTC)We're open to requests and suggestions for other types of cookies to bake and bring, BTW. The anzacs seemed to go across well last year, and we've done snickerdoodles before as well....