Preparation is important

Because if you start baking unprepared, it takes twice as long.

I've baked another 4 sorts of cookies today. Unfortunately, yesterday I was too dead from the aftereffects of my booster jab that I didn't make the usual preparations: like grinding and chopping nuts and the likes. So I was baking from 10am to approximately 4pm. Fortunately, at least the cookies turned out well enough. Tomorrow I'll decorate the one kind that needs decorating and prepare things for the day after when I'm planning to bake two more batches. In any case, I've reached the middle of my way (paved with cookies) leading to Christmas. ;)

Arm is still a bit tender and achy. Aches sometimes radiate to other body parts, but it doesn't last, thank God. I've developed a bit of a red patch around the place of the jab, but it was the same after the second jab (and that was Sputnik), so I'm not particularly worried. Time, patience and regular icing will take care of it.

Mum, of course, has no aftereffects at all. Clearly, the elder generation is made of sterner stuff. Today she got an official letter from the city government, asking her if she'll accept some cash and an official greeting in January, when she's turning 90. (All people turning 90 get this in Budapest.) I liked the expression "people in a lovely age" - it is nice.

Preparation is important

Because if you start baking unprepared, it takes twice as long.

I've baked another 4 sorts of cookies today. Unfortunately, yesterday I was too dead from the aftereffects of my booster jab that I didn't make the usual preparations: like grinding and chopping nuts and the likes. So I was baking from 10am to approximately 4pm. Fortunately, at least the cookies turned out well enough. Tomorrow I'll decorate the one kind that needs decorating and prepare things for the day after when I'm planning to bake two more batches. In any case, I've reached the middle of my way (paved with cookies) leading to Christmas. ;)

Arm is still a bit tender and achy. Aches sometimes radiate to other body parts, but it doesn't last, thank God. I've developed a bit of a red patch around the place of the jab, but it was the same after the second jab (and that was Sputnik), so I'm not particularly worried. Time, patience and regular icing will take care of it.

Mum, of course, has no aftereffects at all. Clearly, the elder generation is made of sterner stuff. Today she got an official letter from the city government, asking her if she'll accept some cash and an official greeting in January, when she's turning 90. (All people turning 90 get this in Budapest.) I liked the expression "people in a lovely age" - it is nice.