Wednesday!

It takes me by surprise! Those things that happen outside of our control that turn out for the best. Today just before dinner, all the lights went out. This was rather unexpected given that I was in the midst of a shower. I finished up quickly, toweled off and left for dinner. When I walked in, I was somewhat apprehensive. After all, It had been a long time (too long) since my last candlelight dinner. When I say candlelight dinner, you may envision a nice candelabra, full of brightly burning yankee doodles. Here, there was one candle, to split between two tables. I only missed my mouth on one occasion, which actually had nothing to do with the dark.
After dinner, our wednesday night plans continued in spite of the lack of power. We had planned a little get together to make cookies. Luckily, the oven runs on gas, so the power outage did not bother us. Never before in my life have i made more delicious chocolate chip cookies than the time I used a headlamp while stirring! By the light of a headlamp and a few more candles, we prepared and mixed dough, and began to bake cookies.
Furthering the adventure, was the fact that we did not actually have chocolate chips. We did have, large chocolate disks. I spent a total of about 30 minutes, braking and mashing and otherwise mutilating this chocolate into chips. I may have accidentally dropped some, but they landed in my mouth.
I am not pleased to say that i lost the bet of when the lights would come back on. I guessed that they would return by 8:09 P.M. I was not awake when they returned after 2:30 A.M. As the evening began to wind down however, we enjoyed excellent conversation, and shared several laughs. I realized then, this is satisfaction. A headlamp, chocolate chip cookies and banana bread, and a group of people that love to be together. I strongly encourage anyone who is crazy enough to try. This Friday, invite over some great friends, flip your breakers off, and spend the evening mixing cookie dough by hand. How sweet is the labor of your hands!