I have tried to avoid the stress and strain of this holiday season. I usually get so wrapped up in the crazy that I actually forget the point that it is about thanking those that you care about for being in your life. But this year I think I have up until this morning, achieved shopping nirvana.
I go to Lifehacker and see their post about Gifts.com. Now I have seen the commercials and wanted to avoid the hype. But really... honestly.... its actually pretty damn kick ass. I thought for sure that it would just link to some sponsored sites and that would be it, but really its pretty dynamic. When you click through to a site you are stuck with some header at the top you are not forced to buy directly from the original site, you are directed to the merchant. Its pretty awesome. And this causes me great stress because really now I feel everything I have bought is in-adequate and lame.
I also very much am in love with the idea of these. I don't know that for the money they are worth it because they are on the small side and not microwave safe but they are pretty and shatterproof. But I would rather have them be microwavable versus able to withstand my being a klutz. And I love me the Plum Party site. I just have to have a party so that I can order from them as they have a ton of things that would be terrific for any kind of soiree, thus they have found their niche and I am just along for the ride.
I also have to have a party because I have the ice swan makin' in the freezer. The hipster dude at the Urban Outfitters said that no one has bought one which shocked me, because really honestly this is a great idea. I wonder if they make other shapes? I need to find out... apparantly they do (but not the same company and only decorative on one side, lame).
I am sitting here my cubie annoyed by the grating loud talking of another cow erker. I don't know what it is about her. I just want her to shut the f up and stop talking out her ass about nothing. She talks to herself about what she is typing or where her papers are or what she JUST SAID ON THE PHONE... its annoying. She talks to herself alot and about nothing all day long... I am not built for cube life. There it is out there... it all its ugly truth.
So to avoid the harsh truth of putting on headphones and trying to NOT listen, I have focused on my baking list for the holidays. I have adopted the theory that I need to make edible joy for the holidays again this year. I have done it in the past and short of buying something for all these people I work with, a small little tub of homemade fudge is going to have to do. So I have planned out how many packages I have to make, which I then worked out to how many batches of fudge I am going to have to make and then realized, I need to figure out how much sugar etc I have to buy. How many cups are in a bag of sugar? What if you buy a 5 pound bag of sugar? How many cups are in that thing? I don't know. Oy. The pressure. So what does a gal do? Searh the Google. And oi'la... here is a really great resource to have handy, not exactly the most store friendly document, but certainly it worked out very well for me just now. Its a really great serving converter and basic all 'round kitchen conversion tool and it had the information that I wanted. Excellent.
Happy Mid-week and if you need me I will be at the grocery store buying 12 pounds of sugar, but actually probably 15 since the small bags come in 5 pound bags.
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