Sometimes having a high IQ is NOT all it's cracked up to be... Certainly there are less practical applications for intelligence than you might suppose.
1) I have waited very, very late to begin Christmas shopping, and I have NO FUCKING CLUE what to get some people.
2) Walking out of the bedroom this afternoon, I knocked a bag from Target on the floor and stepped on it. It contained - Ribbon for wrapping Christmas Presents (flat) and 4 refills for our plug in air-fresheners, which all popped in a glorious drenching of breezy freshness. Well. At least the bedroom smells nice.
3) I misread one of my cookie recipes and used 3/4 a stick of butter instead of a 3/4 of a cup of butter
4) I was so busy trying to get things done today that could be done today that I wrapped all the presents I have currently inhouse. Forgetting completely that I wanted to take pictures of the photo album (recursive, anyone) that I made, so I could look at them later. And that I was going to show them off to Liz.
5) My CD burner went kaput. This is not entirely my stupidity or anything, but is VERY annoying because I am planning on giving several people custom CDs as part of their gifts, and now I only have one burned and I have no idea how I'm going to get the rest of it done. Again, not that it's my fault, but it does make things difficult.
6) I left a pound of butter on top of the stove when I baked cookies. Go ahead. Try and imagine... you can't....
7) I've purchased a new dress for Jess for christmas. It's very cute. She only has one pair of shoes. They're sneakers. Bleh.
Posted by tisfan at December 17, 2005 05:40 PMHey, at least you can be reasonably certain that if you had another pair of shoes for Jess, she'd *wear* them. Penny can sometimes be coaxed into wearing her black sneakers instead of her white and pink sneakers, but any other shoe sends her into paroxysms of headshaking and "NO! NO! NO!"
Oh, and the butter thing? I've done that. Er, them. Both. Yeah.
Posted by: Liz on December 17, 2005 05:45 PMOUCH. Ditto on the melting butter... and yeah, I've done Stoopid Cooking Math more than once (word of advice, don't EVER mix up teaspoons and Tablespoons-- especially if it's salt.) As to prezzies... well... I'm just glad that several ppl on my list aren't expecting them *by* the holiday. :D (I love you guys.)
Posted by: Gris on December 17, 2005 09:20 PM