This morning I went with Helen to get donuts. We arrived at Sophie's Donuts, a favorite local Krispy Kreme alternative, but it was too late. Sophie (or whatever the donut lady's name is) had already locked her doors and was counting out her drawer. She wandered out to the door to open it a crack and say "I'm already closed...", but Helen asked if she would still sell us a donut. Anyway, it turns out that normally she gives her surplus donuts to something harvest, a charity food drive thing, but they didn't accept donations on the weekend, so every donut in her display was destined to be thrown away. I just wanted to buy a jelly donut or two, but she sold me her remaining jelly donut stock (a dozen!) for 4 bucks (approximately the price of 2.). We walked out of there with about three dozen assorted donuts in boxes. We have the donut firepower to wreak chubby havoc on a dozen sales meetings, or to distract an entire precinct.

I spent the rest of the day baking crap. Peanut butter balls, mostly. I made 125 of the things. If you're getting a christmas present from me this year, expect peanut butter balls. I'm not so hot on the idea of mandatory gift giving times, so I'm not going to exchange gifts with Helen. Her family has a peanut butter ball recipe, too, as well as one for "mounds", which is basically chocolate covered coconut. I think I have already learned the secrets of this concoction. Well, the one secret. It's kind of weird: the stuff that holds the mounds together is actually that familiar dinnertime staple, mashed potatos. Yup. In candy. But then, I've heard you can make dessert out of tofu, too (from my friend Julie in Hawaii, who can cook stuff like that), so maybe I'll build an entire repetoire of desserts made of staples. Maybe chocolate rice is next. Ew.

I'm getting gifts in the mail, and there seems to be some kind of "Bee" theme to them. Why do people get me bee stuff? I mean, they're benign, cute, fluffy bees, but still. I thought I made a really overly dramatic deal about how I am afraid of bees. What do bees have to do with christmas? Ah, perhaps these are "christmas bees". Right. Goodnight.

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