Monday, December 1, 2008

That's the way, the cookie crumbles

The past few years the last weeks of November and the whole of December usually were a rally from city to city visiting clients and having extensive lunches and dinners with them plus having a few internal Christmas parties. That always resulted in additional kilos on the scale, him being tired and on quite often hung over and desperate for the Christmas holiday-break. Thanks to the financial crisis, the bear market and cost savings this fast feeding will not be as extensive this year - in a way luckily, but somehow unfortunately as it was always good fun with the clients and colleagues.

2008 is different. We realised that in many senses already and therefore Markus took unmotivated 2 days off last week spending them mainly at home and in the gym. This short break gave him the opportunity to practice his skills in his favourite Playstation3 game – NBA2k9 – matching himself with his brother Stefan from 1000 till 1600 on Thursday yielding him in the end even victories thanks to some very helpful hints from his opponent!

The bear (market) is eating away the dinners - but we got our cookies

During the past weekend, the first of the 4 advent-weekends, for the first time real Christmas feelings came up: On saturday night we celebrated Tanja’s birthday with mulled wine and Feuerzangenbowle in the backyard of their house in Kritzendorf and on Sunday we took on the challenge again of baking cookies. We limited ourselves to three kinds: gingerbread, shortcrusts and vanilla cornets, whereas for the latter two we got a dead-poof recipe from Heidi which always works and provides for cookies that do not fall apart. Well, we do believe we dismantled the recipe of it being dead-proof, as the pastry crumbled massively. After all we somehow managed some cookies to stay together and got them out of the oven in one piece. And they are ideal. Ideal for people with no eyesight. They look horrible, but taste good. Some of you might be offered one or the other. In case that happens, please just close your eyes and enjoy!

Kerstin & Markus

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