Snow and Cookies

If you’ve been under a rock for the past 3 days, there’s a small snow storm currently centered over the Mid-Atlantic states and it’s dropping EPIC amounts of snow on the ground…it is in this area that my wife and I happen to live.  At last measurement (a few hours ago) it was over 18” of the white stuff, and it’s still snowing pretty hard.  I’m guessing by tomorrow morning we should have over 2 feet of snow!!!  That’s just crazy!

On the plus side, Amy and I had a ton of social plans that have been, unluckily, cancelled due to weather, but this has given us time to take care of all the Christmas stuff we’ve been needing to do, so we’re sure we are ready for the holidays.  It’s actually been kind of a stress relief to have the snow and allow us to get all this other stuff done.

One of the main things we needed to do was to make some Christmas cookies (yummy!)  So far we are at 8+ dozen cookies.  I add the plus in because we had just a few over that.  Our biggest asset today in baking has been the addition of Amy’s Kitchen Aid stand mixer which I got her for her birthday.  That thing is awesome when it comes to making cookies!  Previously all of our cookies had been hand mixed, which when all the dry ingredients were added made mixing pretty hard, but with the mixer, just dump the dry ingredients in and it handles all the mixing no problem, it’s great fun.  Tomorrow is another baking day for us and it’s going to be great fun, lots of good cookies planned, I can’t wait!

Oh yeah, one more thing that I don’t believe I have mentioned here is the fact that Amy and I are headed to PAX East this year in Boston!  For those who don’t know PAX (or Penny Arcade Expo) was started by the two guys who run Penny Arcade (penny-arcade.com) which is an online web comic for gamers by gamers.  The guys over at Penny Arcade are also known for the other major charity we support beside Toy Lift (toylift.org), known as Child's Play (childsplaycharity.org.)  It’s a great charity to help get video games and video game systems for children’s hospitals so the kids who have to be there can have something fun to do while they are there.  Any, I digress…

PAX has typically been a massive once a year gaming event in Seattle and it’s one of the largest gaming conventions the world over.  In 2010 though PAX is breaking into two events, PAX Prime (which is the event in Seattle) and PAX East (which is the event in Boston.)  So far from the forums that I’ve been reading, it looks like PAX east is shaping up to be tons of fun.  There will be a BYOC (Bring your own computer) room so I’m sure I’ll be brining a laptop with me for a bit of gaming fun and enjoyment.  Also there will be a table top gaming room, along with a hall full of every major, and I’m sure many smaller, video game vendors out there.  Amy even has a Saturday pass so she can see what all the hype is about and also have some fun playing all the different games the various vendors will bring.  Hopefully I’ll get a chance to post from PAX with some pictures or other fun things, but if you want to follow all the fun make sure to follow me on Twitter @itzerokewl.  PAX East takes place near the end of March, so I’m sure I’ll post more as details come out about PAX. 

Well, it’s still snowing but I think I’m going to curl up with a good book and read for a while, more later on.

~C