I jetted off to Los Angeles last week for some much-desired R+R and found myself staying in a friend’s cabin in Big Bear. Of course, I had planned to unplug for the week (which is #6 on my list, but decided against it when I spotted Wi-Fi in the mountains. I’m a total sucker for some Wi-Fi and decided I’d save that line item for when I’m in a jungle. Or a farm. You know, the usual).
Instead, I winded up crossing two other items off my list — simultaneously, even! I amaze myself:
20. Make a chocolate chip cookie from scratch.
24. Wash the dishes by hand with yellow rubber gloves.
I had received a yummy-seeming recipe from Maggie, but my chef-extraordinaire hostess reminded me that they’d burn badly in the high altitude. So, we improvised and made high altitude cookies with a killer good recipe (apparently, the secret is salt!).
And THEN? Then, I washed dishes with yellow rubber gloves, provided by Jill. Really wanted some pearls, but a gal can’t have everything, and it was still totally fun. The suds! The water! And the crazy fact that I was washing dishes and my hands weren’t wet!
Loved it.
Onward, life list!
look at you go!!
(and looking as lovely as ever!)
You’re doing it! Nice. Warm chocolate chip cookies are so lovely.
oh you are sweet girls! :)
doesn’t it feel good to check one off the list?
doesn’t it feel even better to do it with a warm chocoloate chip cookie in your other hand?
Okay, so now I have to ask…
Do you normally do the dishes without any gloves? Or do you not normally do dishes at all?
WITHOUT gloves!!! can you BELIEVE it? i’ve never had them. my mother didn’t use them, so i naturally didn’t even think to use them.
i do have a dishwasher, so i normally run that, but whenever i handwash, i never use gloves. it’s life-changing. i can’t get over the fact that my hands are wet but they’re NOT wet!
amazing. :)
e.
You are adorable. :D
My hands would look like beef jerky if I didn’t wear dish gloves all the time.
ha — maybe that’s my problem! i always thought i inherited leathery skin, and all this time it’s been the suds’ fault!