This holiday season I have come face to face with my addiction. My addiction to cookies. Our cookie journey begins with a trip to target, Monday after Thanksgiving. I was deciding what to do, and I made tentative plans with Ashley, at my apartment at 8 o clock. She had recently returned home from travelling around the country, she went on a trip to Dallas, TX, and another trip earlier to Denver, CO. I was anxious to catch up with her. I left work that day hungry, I had not eaten much at lunch, because I stopped by Sterling, and I was busy visiting, and Aunt Casey was there. I left work with some time to spare and I stopped at the Target in Springfield. I usually speed walk through Target because there is a lot to see, and not enough time. I stopped in the grocery aisle and picked up refrigerated cookie dough, of the pumpkin variety. I had no choice but to buy them because it was on sale. When Ashley visited I had warm cookies to offer her. She had gotten back from the movies that day, she saw the movie Thor. She updated me on her love-life drama and I updated her on mine. I sent her home that night with a bag of cookies, the pumpkin ones from target as well as some leftovers from my pre-thanksgiving cookie project- acorn cookies (mini vanilla wafers, with honey to glue a hershey kiss and a butterscotch mini morsel to either side).
The next part of the cookie-themed story takes us to the Knowwho Christmas party on Friday, December 20th. I anticipated much cookie consumption, based on memories of last year's Knowwho Christmas party (last year, Charles even gave me a frosted shortbread cookie from starbucks. Charles and I have had long conversations about cookies, and it was natural that he brought a special one for me on Christmas. Come to think of it, the journey really begins on Halloween when I received a frosted shortbread cookie in the shape of a pumpkin from Panera). This year, as anticipated, cookie consumption occurred on that Friday of the secret santa gift exchange. This time, Kelsey was the main provider, she informed me that she bought pumpkin cheesecake cookies from target. I gave her my verbal approval, but did not expect the delight that would come from these bites of heaven. They are sold in a box by target's "market pantry" brand. Kelsey left a ziploc baggie of several of these special pumpkin cookies on my desk, with a note that said "text me". I scarfed them down upon arrival at my desk after the gift exchanging.
Let's fast forward to the next day, at Ashley and Daryl's Christmas party. there I consumed an m&m cookie (or two or three) with a Hershey kiss implanted inside of it, while Ashley taught me how to play minesweeper. The next morning, I am in my apartment, and Jenny happens to be there. She hands me a plastic container filled with cookies, homemade by her boss. How I ended up with them is undeserved, but their arguments compelled me (Kelsey can't eat nuts, Jenny can't eat gluten), and I graciously accepted the treats. I continued to sneak cookies throughout that day and the next morning, in between work and packing, before our departure to Williamsburg for the Christmas eve holiday.
Now Christmas eve brought on another beast- Kyleigh and her new-found baking hobby. she has embraced the domestic goddess role lately, and decided to share her delightful homemade nestle toll house chocolate chip cookies with our family on Christmas eve, which we consumed with beer that Luci brought while we watched "It's a wonderful life". Kyleigh's baked treats would appear in our lives again when she passed onto us a basket of warm peanut m&m's cookies after we dropped off Luci at their apartment after we got back from our weekend in NYC.
The cookie consumption did not end after NYC. On New Years Eve my mom bought the ingredients to make pretzel chocolate bites (pretzel with a hershey kiss with an m&m, slightly melted in the oven). I did not bake them, but I found a plate of them the next day when I came back with Adam for New Years brunch. On our drive home from Williamsburg on New Years Day, Kelsey shared with me another packaged product from target- more limited edition holiday cookies by Market Pantry. they were in adorable star shapes and covered in fudge and sprinkles. Irresistible. I went with Sherell to target when we got back and further took advantage of the after-holiday sales. I got my own box of white fudge covered cookies.
This cookie story shows that if you dream it, it will come. If you daydream of cookies and sweets, then they will find you. Whatever you dream, don't be discouraged if you don't see your dreams come to fruition right away. It might take a Christmas miracle, but dammit, have faith.
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