relief society disaster

Diana and I decided to make St Patrick's Day cookies for the girls we visit teach.  I got lazy and purchased store bought sugar cookie dough (at least the frosting was homemade).  Apparently it was not the kind of dough you can roll, cut-out, and have it retain that festive shape.

They kind of look like clovers, right?  Good thing I made Diana drive around to find clover cookie cutters.
After the first pan came out like that, we re-formed the next pan into balls to make circle cookies.  Then put them in the oven without a timer and didn't remember them until they were quite crisp.  Here's Diana posing with not one but TWO ruined pans of sugar cookies.
Third time's a charm.  Please work, because we're running out of dough.
Ta da!  Round, but green so they still speak to the holiday.  They're probably delicious, but I wouldn't really know.  (OK well I had a bite and thought it was quite good.  Shh don't tell.)  This was not a great time to be off sweets when faced with an entire pan of cookies run together that cannot be given away.
And here is the cute new jacket I got in the mail today from my mom for St. Patrick's Day.  Thanks mom!

really good jambalaya

Friday night I went to dinner at Montage with some friends.  They have excellent jambalaya and mac n' cheese.  The atmosphere is very quirky and the restaurant is located under the east side of the Morrison Bridge.  Also, they wrap your take-home food in crazy foil shapes.  Here's my snail filled with cat fish jambalaya.  So good.  And so fun.

wicked

Last night I went to see "Wicked" with a bunch of friends.  I loved it!  The Glinda the Good Witch character was so funny.  Her mannerisms were a cross between Molly Shannon's Mary Catherine Gallager, Sheri O'teri's Spartan cheerleader (both from SNL), and a really peppy blonde Utah girl.  Amazing.

Some of us girls decided to wear red to shoes to make the event more festive.  I had discussed at length buying shoes to put glitter on, but in the end just wore some red shoes I already owned (with a purple dress, why not).  Kristine really came through with the sparkly shoes and green tights.

The scenery, costumes, and music were all fabulous.  I wasn't familiar with the music before I went and was worried it would damper my appreciation of the play, but it didn't at all.  Here's Diana and me during intermission.
Emily and I outside, excited for the show to begin.  Thank you Emily for organizing this event months ago so we could all get tickets and go.
What a fun night with a great play, great dinner, and great friends!

randomness

OK this guy at the client who I’ve never seen or spoken to before comes into the audit room (my senior is out of the room so it’s just me) and is all “Did you know the phones play music?” Umm, no, I didn’t, and who are you? He grabs the phone and shows me what buttons to push and now I’m listening to NPR. Isn’t that really weird? What would have possessed him to think “The auditors must really want to be listening to music right now and I bet they don’t know the phones in every room will play music.”

This pretty much what the audit room looks like-- just imagine a phone playing NPR sitting in the middle of the piles of paper. I don't even like NPR all that much. If the phone had an i-pod dock then I'd be set.