very cheerful and very smug :)

I am cheerful and smug this morning. :) I got this nifty calendar for Christmas, a 12 months of chocolate calendar that has recipes. I didn’t get to make last month’s dessert yet (a honey walnut chocolate torte) due to lack of proper equipment. This month’s recipe, though, was heart-shaped chocolate breakfast scones, to be served with strawberry jam and whipped cream.

That I could do. :)

So I got up this morning and trundled downstairs to make scones, but I hadn’t found a heart-shaped cookie cutter, so I had to hand-cut all the scones, which was actually kind of fun. And I didn’t chill the dough, so I ended up with lots more than they said I’d get, and also they were much less dry, so I think the dough ought not be chilled. And I dusted them with powdered sugar and served ’em up, and told Ted if he got up and took a shower that by the time he came downstairs breakfast would be ready. He was expecting pancakes, so hee hee hee hee hee :)

I’m not a real Valentines kind of girl, as in, I don’t expect or particularly want anything for Valentine’s Day, but I really quite absurdly like doing things like that to surprise Ted. :) I’m very pleased. *silly smile* Tonight I’ll make chicken pot pie, not for any Valentine’s thing, but because that’d been the dinner plan, and besides, Ted usually does the cooking, so he deserves a day off, huh? :)

AND! Not that this has anything to do with Valentine’s Day, but Ted has a job interview in Cork on Thursday! Or more like a, “Come down here so we can get a look at you and decide if you look trustworthy,” I think, since the guy asked him a bunch of questions on the phone already. So that got us all excited and looking at Cork, and wow. Gosh. I think I’m taken with the idea of Cork, anyway. You can live 20 minutes outside Cork on the train for about what we’re paying to live here, and there are trains in and out until late, and Cork’s a city of reasonable size, so there could be Things To Do and you’d be able to *get* to and from them. Hm! Cork! I was in Cork once! It was…

…well, actually, it was insanely beautiful (at least the area, if not the city itself, and the city was Just Fine) and we had a very good time even though we’d gotten off a ferry and had no sleep all night and couldn’t get into the hostel to sleep until like 3pm and so we sat around in a fast food restaurant writing postcards and trying to stay awake and staggering around and I can’t remember if we went to ring the bells that day or a different day, but we liked it a lot.

So maybe Cork!