Despite a less-than-stellar Saturday (not bad, just not good), Sunday was a peach! Zach and I woke up floppy and happy and sat around for a while, working on the computer and reading, respectively. I headed out at 530 to go to Book Club. Little did I know that gale forces had overtaken the area. AWESOME! I didn't have my camera with me to take daredevil shots of the bridge (more's the pity) but it was magnificent! The wind was blowing like crazy and the water was splashing up across one side of the bridge and coming down FOUR LANES OF TRAFFIC over. WOWZA! I got splashed several times, much to my delight (using windshield wipers when there isn't any rain is totally awesome). Once I'd cleared the splashing zone, my car was being buffeted around so much that I opened both front windows a scootch. This proved to be interesting as the occasional blast of wind would negotiate its way into my car and literally SLAP me upside the head. So. Rad.

Book Club was fun. We read Wicked and Kate themed the meal to the book. Everything was green! We had spinach fettuccine with pesto, french bread with fresh parsley butter, green salad, a sparkling green apple chai drink she whipped up, and mint icecream (with green-iced sugar cookies) for dessert. Ho-larious. And tasty! I will have to make some fancy butters in my Cuisinart now that I know it's possible. Mmmmmm.

Back home I got bitten by the cooking bug. I whipped up a feta cheese spread (feta cheese, cream cheese, fresh basil, onion powder, garlic powder, white pepper) in the Cuisinart. Oh how I love it! I'd been hankering for cookies for quite some time so I nabbed my newest Martha Stewart and used her recipe for basic (Soft'n'Chewy) Chocolate Chip Cookies. Zach was my sous-chef and helped me mix in the ingredients (Ghiradelli milk chocolate chips -- oh my!). I used my Silpat mat for the first time with cookies. We sat in the library and read together while we waited for the first batch to come out of the oven.

O heavenly mother of all that is good and pure! These cookies are the motherfrickin bomb! Zach and I did little delicious cookie dances while I baked. They were awesome! Martha scores big! We munched cookies and played Clue and had a wonderful night together. I neglected to bring any cookies for lunch today (logic: then I won't feel guilty when I eat a bunch tonight) and now I'm totally craving them.

What do you do when you're having a cookie craving! Take a walk! Norah and I walked briskly up and down the street and then came back to bowls of hot vegetable soup she made last night. Super yum! I'm making lasagne tonight so that's going to be my contribution to the lunches at the house. Fun!

All this talk about food has got me started on a new project. I've finally decided that it's necessary for me to start a recipe repository. I will look into getting some kind of filing system at home (all the printouts and handwritten notes just won't cut it anymore) but I'm also working on one for my site. I like the one on Daymented and I'm pulling a little inspiration from there in terms of organization (sadly, no flashy-flashy light-up mouse-overs for me).

In other news, I swear to the Lords that the fax machine just meowed.