A Day in the Life of Me

I hate Mondays.

I really really hate them.

I'm lucky enough to not have to wake up extremely early. I am such a night owl. I can't help but to stay up and read a good book before bed. So this is how my Monday goes:

7:00    Wake up
7:03    Let the Rottie and the new puppy outside
7:05    Drink coffee
7:10    Homework
11:30  Get ready and head to college which is a miracle because I'm a girl!!
12:30  Math - ugh!
1:50    Study
3:30    The history of the stars and stripes
4:55    Study/cram food in my mouth
5:30    Biology II
8:45    Head home!
9:30    Eat dinner and relax

And then at some point I go to bed. Or read. It depends. Have you ever seen Treasure Planet? The silly kids movie from forever ago? It starts with this little boy 'reading' a book under his covers. That was me. Yup.

One good thing about Mondays. That was the day I got my new puppy. River the Australian Cattle Dog/ Beagle mix. Yes I named her after the Doctor Who character River Song. Because they are so alike it drives me nuts. Both are always getting into trouble. Both are very cute. Both are very smart. And as I type this River is running around chasing the cats with a very large toy snake in her mouth.

So the month of January was my "If I even think of another craft I might stab myself with sewing scissors" month. I was asked at hour 48 if I could make cookie tins for 14 coworkers of my mother. And I know I could have done just one or two types of cookies but I go over board. I made:

Samoa Bark
Peppermint Thin Mints
Stained Glass Cookies
Swirl Cookies
Double Chocolate Bread
and last but not least....
Cinnamon Hot Chocolate Mix

It was a very merry Pinterest Christmas! I changed a few of the recipes that I found.

The Peppermint Thin Mints were so good! I used a dark chocolate for a more rich flavor. 

The pinwheels were cute. I didn't use a regular sugar cookie for this. I used a butter cookie recipe I had shoved in one of my recipe boxes. I used the same butter cookie dough for the Stained Glass cookies too. It make it so they weren't really sweet so the box was not a sugar overload. 

I got the tins from Michael's on sale! Instead of paying $8 per tin it was only $2 or so. And with some tissue paper and cupcake liners to hold the yummies it was pretty easy to wrap up. All in all I was pretty happy with this for the little time I had. I did have to stay up all night to finish and helped bag these babies into the car at 6 am. Oh well. I'll sleep when I'm dead I guess!

To wrap this up I'm going to include a cute picture of my pets. Cause you know I'm weird like that.

I'm sorry but how cute is that? No one wrapped her in that blanket. She burrowed under it and plopped down and started watching Doctor Who with us. She loves the Tardis noise. If you know where I can buy a cat toy that makes the Tardis sound let me know!

Happy Monday!!