scandinavian tradish?

soooo. apparently it is a scandinavian tradition to bake up a shitload of sweet lil round disks (cookies) during christmas. being a non-relig jew, i am lucky enough to get a batch of vegan latkes goin (we almost forgot to light candles last night hahah.) and have NO idea about other people's traditions and what goes on for christmas. last year, nigerium invited me to her family's xmas cell-uh-bration. haha just kidding it wasn't like being in a cell! it was fun and we ate some field roast en KROOT and various delish pcc salads + homemade stuff + we watched rugrats!? idk if that is a fam tradish of hers, buuuuut it was quite lovely because we watched the story of hanukkah rugrats style. maybe it was a showing dedicated to the lone jew in the room, who knows!

anyways, in her fam it is a tradition to bake up hella cookies and pile them up on a platter for christmas! aaand this year, they are going to have like 12 people or somethin craaaazy invadin their house (k. maybe invading is harsh. they ARE family!!). so nigeria and i baked up like 4 batches or so of coOoOOoOoOokie monsters yesterday! i gave her the new vegan cookie cookbook Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by Isa Chandra Moskovitz (obv a fellow jew-dee-izm!!) little does she know she is helpin another jew help make christmas cookies! haha thx grl <3

we ended up makin the vegan chocolate crinkles and peanut butter cookies! nigeria made two batched of crinkles aaand i made a batch of peanut buddas. the crinkles crinkled even though the recipe says they rely on corn syrup for the crinklin, but we omitted it because we say: dats nastay! but the crinklin crinkled and crinkles it shall be! the peanut budda cookies were reel kyoot. and smelled reeeeel nice!

her mom also asked me to make buttermint cookies, sooooo that was really different and i think more traditional aaaand i haven't worked with butter in years. muy interesante! personally, i can't really imagine the combo meal of mint and butter soooo i'll have to wait to get some feedback on those cookies to see what's up, haha.

buttermints in the midsection of thy wallaby:

tonight we are goin to deck the hall ball! i am SOOO excited. tickets went on sale and right when i heard about MUSE being in town (and 30 secs to mars (never heard them)....phoenix (sorta heard them)...visqueen (local band nvr heard of them)...and vampire weekend (hardly heard them).. and metric! (like them a lot but hope they do not lip sync or i will forever abandon!) haha randz thought: lip sync is like the perf term for lip singing because a) lips are synchronized with the mu-sak b) sync sounds like sing so its a play on the werdz. gud job you deserve a waffle, jenna! i just had to get tix for nigeria my brothaaaa and i! (nigeria=bday prez, brotha= hanukkah prez) thx. anyways. muse=amazing. tonight=amazing :)

Doors: 4:30PM

Locals Only! VISQUEEN : 5:10p – 5:30p

VAMPIRE WEEKEND : 5:50PM – 6:20PM

PHOENIX: 6:40PM – 7:10PM

METRIC : 7:30PM – 8:00PM

30 SECONDS TO MARS : 8:30PM – 9:15PM

MUSE: 9:45PM – 10:45PM