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And Christmas shopping done! I think! I hope! (Minus some stocking-stuffer type things for Alex, which will have to happen next week.) Hopefully everything ships on time and isn't badly delayed!

Also need to figure out my plans for baking. My favorite of what I made last year was the kolachis, so I definitely want to make those again. I'm on the fence about the yule log cookies. They were really cute, but not my favorite cookies I've ever made. I think they might be better with more spices than just nutmeg, so I sort of want to try that, but they were also a little labor-intensive.

I think Alex wants to make the zucchini cake he made a month or two ago, but hasn't decided if he wants to make anything else. A recipe for "Norwegian butter squares" (buttery sugar cookie bars, basically) came across tumblr, and Alex loves all things Norway, so he said he'd try making those.

We may also make kahlua truffles again, because those are a pain in the ass, but delicious.

(Plus anything that we might bake at my mom's house, if I spend Christmas Eve there. I usually do, except for last year.)

Mostly the question for everything is just WHEN? lol.

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We are supposed to have a really horrible windstorm tomorrow, so I'm a little nervous about that. Should mostly hit while I'm at work, so hopefully not going to impact my commute. But gusts of up to 85mph, with isolated gusts of up to 100mph! No thanks! I texted my mom and told her to bring stuff in, but I don't know if she'll check her texts.

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Nicely productive "weekend". Got some stuff cleaned, got shopping done, did stuff like replace a weird lightbulb that's meant I couldn't use my bedside lamp for more than a year, lol. Now to try and translate a bit of that into writing, lol.

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That's a pretty intense windstorm. Winds that bad can turn semis into sailboats drifting across lanes of traffic. I used to live in one of the worst places in the US for wind. Like we'd have 100 Pound Days where people who weighed less than that should stay indoors and were excused from school. Wind can be brutal.

Have fun baking!

It was suuuuper intense. Got to watch several sections of fence and soooo much construction material go blowing through the parking lot and bouncing down the street, hitting cars, sticking in trees...

I've never gotten a warning about "if you weigh less than 100 lbs, you shouldn't go out!" People were warned about taking small/medium dogs out today, and I do remember being blown off my feet and into a wall in a school courtyard when I was 7 or 8 and a gust hit me, lol.

Oh, I love the Norwegian Christmas butter square recipe! I totally need to make them again, they're delicious.

I'm glad to hear it! The notes were full of rave reviews, so I'm excited to try them!