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I didn't want to work on anything for the new job, my art, or MSH stuff: my left eyeball was throbbing out of control and needed to do something else today.

I worked on finishing painting the back patio. I started it last fall (remember dirt-colored eww stucco is now brilliant white stucco?), then paused a bit for winter. Today was very warm and sunny, a good time to finish painting my stucco edges and paint the windows trim blue.

I painted the wood for the Ishihara Color Plates at the same time, so it wasn't entirely a full day of "back stressful work! back!"
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I'm burned out on food. I cannot think of anything that tastes good or would be fun to cook. John wants burritos for dinner, easy.
I picked up a few cookbooks at the library: Creole, Key West, and Israeli. Maybe I'll dig up some good ideas.

One Cookie and Kitchenaid Doom

THAT'S IT KITCHEN, I AM DONE WITH YOU!

Remember when you used to go out on Saturday nights? Back before video phones? But then people started taking videos of you and they ended up youtube and now you stay home and yell at the Kitchenaid.

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The burritos ended up fine. Good even. I taught John how to make Spanish Rice.

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So then I thought cookies sounded nice and still have Martha Stewart's Cookie Book and the Chocolate Waffle Cookies looked easy and good:
http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/chocolate-waffle-cookies

I made half a batch because it says it makes 4 dozen and I don't need 4 dozen cookies.
Of that half batch, supposedly 2 dozen? I got one whole cookie.

The first 4 burned and fell apart. The second 4 just fell apart. The third set of four I got one whole cookie. And then I was out of batter.
So I mooshed all the cookie bits into a ball (like you used to with wonderbread) and ate that, saving the one whole cookie for John.

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The Kichenaid barely survived this mess. After 2 years my beaters are chipping (yes, Uncle Mark put them in the dishwasher). John ordered me a normal new one, a burnished one, and one of those after market finned beaters. The "burnished" one oxidized right away. "Send it back." The first finned one didn't fit, the second finned one makes my Kitchenaid make this horrible noise (but it mixed great!), and the normal one worked fine. The Kitchenaid clearly broke something and will need to spend time in the Hut.
My mother got it for me "Refurbished" and it's never been quite right.

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Perhaps I should give up cookies?