Attention, charities that send me free address labels:

Much obliged for the lifetime supply! I think it's safe to stop sending them now, seriously.

Further refinement of Candy Corn Cookies

My friend Linda saw this post and decided to make her own candy corn cookies in two varieties. Being a wonderful person, she brought some of the results to church on Friday to share with me! So once again, here's real candy corn:



And here's Linda's candy corn. I definitely liked the look of them without nuts.



Little did Linda know that I had picked yesterday to fast on bread and tea (significantly easier than a bread and water fast-- you still get your caffeine fix, and of course tea requires lots of cream and sugar! Okay, St. Jean Vianney I'm not, but then I never claimed to be.) So her gift certainly enhanced the penitential nature of my ascetic practice, but that just made me look forward to today all the more. First thing I did when I got up today was photograph the cute little cookies.



"I wanted to use lemon extract for the yellow," Linda told me, "but I couldn't find any, so I used butter rum. My husband sat down and ate two dozen of them!"

Yikes, two dozen! I cannot imagine eating two dozen of these cookies in one sitting, mainly because Linda didn't give me quite that many. :) By the way, guess what I had for breakfast today?




(On a related note, whatever smugness I felt about my awesome Catholic desserts was just knocked out of me by a blogging mom and her cupcake rosary.)

Then again, I'd look cute in any habit

And here is irrefutable evidence of that, kindly provided by Vincenzo in the last post's comments. Apparently this order's apostlate involves hangin' with the sisters, eating candy corn cookies, and blogging. I must admit it's growing on me.

You're not supposed to pick a religious order by the habit

But I'm not joining this one, all right? Just forget it!


(Actually, I once talked to a priest about picking an order based on the habit, and he remarked, "St. Padre Pio joined the Capuchins because he wanted to grow a beard." So there you go!)

I was cleaning my keyboard without paying attention to what was happening on the computer screen

This was the result: