Here's what I did...
New Year's Eve: Woke up around 10-ish, checked postings, decided to make French Vanilla cake (I wanted to get it done quickly so I cheated and used the Betty Crocker mix...someone slap me). Went to the store to get a few supplies, headed back home. Set the CI for 350 degrees, Combined all ingredients in the KA, put batter into 8" rounds, and waited. Buzzer went off so I removed pans from the oven...used my trusty Cake Tester to check if they were ready. Removed each layer and placed both on cooling rack. After it was 100% cool, put it on glass cake pedestal and applied frosting. Set VCR from 9:00 PM--2:00 AM for South Park marathon. Watched TV until dinner...some sort of Mexican casserole and Borracho beans (pinto beans, 1 Corona, and fresh salsa, cilantro, etc...they're DELICIOUS and were served at the wash-in if some of you remember). After dinner, watched more Comedy Central, fell asleep around 11:45, and woke up RIGHT AT 12. Fired off a few confetti "poppers".
New Year's Day: Woke up around 11-ish, checked postings again. Stripped the bed and drove to the 'Mat to wash my comforter...too thick even for the 1-18. Watched some SPLASHY Huebsch and Wascomat double-loader action (who says FL's can't be water hogs?)! Wascomat oversudsed to the point of completely covering the window, but spun it all off before the first rinse. Drove back, put comforter in dryer. Took sheets down to the shed, opened the laundry room, and proceeded to load the WO-65-2 for the first Unimatic load of 2006. Added 1 cup of Ariel OxyBlue, watched pulsating action, heard water spin out into cabinet, and watched the hypnotic 1140 RPM spin. After loading sheets in the dryer, took my dad's recently purchased 2000 Infiniti I30 out for a LONG test drive (Glenn, are you listening? ;-)). Arrived back and smelled a wonderful spiral-sliced honey ham with cinnamon glaze, along with black-eyed peas. Ate a nice New Year's dinner with some STRONG red wine, and checked postings and AIM. Found out I missed an awesome New Year's party the night before...some were wondering why I wasn't there too...damn!! Talked w/ Jamie, Jon, & Reggie in a LONG chatroom session about vacuums, washers, you name it! Went to bed at 12:15.
Very boring, to say the least!
--Austin
