As happens so often, I am a little let down after dessert night. I enjoyed the preparation, but the actual event had some kinks. I was quietly baking cookies for a couple hours and then people started coming. They kept coming through the kitchen and talking to me, or looking at the desserts...I didn't bake the molten chocolate cakes ahead of time; they're best right from the freezer to the oven, but it takes about 20 minutes. I don't know if people were really annoyed, but if your friends ordered cookies, they were done by the time you got yours. I went ahead and baked the last 4, but the rush had died down. We made about $200, not enough to cover the cost of the ingredients, although I do have lots of leftover goodies. One "friend" asked for samples of about 10 desserts--she wanted to try everything, including pieces of cookies! Honestly. It wasn't really that much of a problem because there weren't that many customers. My friend Janna didn't like the meringues because they had chocolate in them. And so on...

Of course, today I am sore and tired and probably don't feel great partly from eating too much sugar. I stayed up until midnight after we got home. I was tired, but a little keyed up still.

Yesterday morning I went to class. Then I bought some strawberries at Earth Fare--and heavy cream and a few other things. Ray and I ate our lunch together, sandwiches he had made for us. I went to a talk on aging in Finland. It wasn't that helpful, unless I wanted to learn about Finland. In fact, I dozed a little, not very good if I wanted to make an impression on the people there.

We went home and I gathered everything I needed (except a couple things I forgot) and went to the Fellowship. Ray helped me by cutting things into neat servings. I called my Dad and he came and cut up fruit for me. We put cognac on it and it was good. The minister bought the leftovers for a brunch she is having. I hope it is not too boozy! I warned her...

Ray picked up Elisa and Molli and the ice cream and a lemon. Elisa invited her friend China and they seemed to have fun. They weren't that helpful, but looked cute. We ate some supper about 6:30. Molli and Mudge left for the dog ventriloquist act at 7:30. They had a ball. We were cleaned up and out of there by 9:30 and met them at UGA.