Thick, Puffy Ginger Molasses Sugar Cookies

Posted on December 17, 2014December 29, 2020by wallflourgirl

{a year in Facebook statuses}

Every once in a while, I stop spamming my feed with #bakerproblems and share something meaningful. Today I’m spreading the holiday joy with these warm, puffy, thick, ginger molasses sugar cookies and a glimpse back at where this year has taken us…

{December}

Sitting at Starbucks, I bought a large coffee for a homeless man who was asking for any type of help people could give. As I continued working, I watched him, fascinated, as he limped around outside, cup out but constantly in motion. Then I realized that he was taking napkins and wiping the outside tables dry so people could sit there after the rain; he was also picking up cigarette butts and pieces of trash from the ground all around the coffee shop and throwing them away. There are people sitting outside now at the tables he dried, and there are people walking past his proffered cup on the sidewalk that he cleaned. The things we normally ignore when we’re rushing past with our heads down and our defenses up–try not to take them for granted. You never know what beauty you might miss.

{December}

There’s a special spot in heaven for bus drivers who wait for you when they see you running to catch your transfer, instead of closing the door in your face and rolling with painstaking slowness away from the curb. Or if there isn’t, there should be. A salute to all nice public transit operators who have ever made life easier for us!

{November}

Instead of becoming a batty old cat lady, I have decided to be that token girl who bakes apple pie cheesecake donuts at 4 AM after watching the world’s worst rom-com on the couch with her stuffed whale and has nobody to share them with except herself. ‪#‎thereareworseproblems‬ ‪#‎iguess‬‪#‎likenothavingthesedonuts‬

{June}

Dear lovely loud partying undergraduate neighbors….
A Haiku for you.

Take my class next year–
Bet you will shut up and study
When I flunk your derrieres.

Sincerely,
Your future potential teacher/employer/archnemesis.

{April}

I can’t believe they actually documented this…It’s me shaking hands with the famous LA Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold! After messaging him briefly, I received this direct Tweet from him last night:

“Formidable entry – intellectually coherent AND delicious! Hard not to give you every award. Congrats.”

I am still in awe. Somebody remind me how to breathe.

{March}

To my neighbors playing N64 Mario Kart: Whoever is using Toad seriously needs to quit slipping on banana peels, hand over his controller, and just let me win it for him already….

{February}

Passed quals on V-Day 2014–officially one step closer to that PhD thank you all for your amazing support!!

{August}

Uber driver wants to know if I’m single.

30 minutes to go. I knew I should’ve sat in the back. Studied silence…

{Dec}

To the anonymous person who returned my wallet (and everything in it) to the police department last night before I even realized it was missing: thank you! But more importantly, thank you for showing that my trust in the goodness of people is not misplaced. Just did a random act of kindness this afternoon to remind myself that the smallest things make a difference–happy holidays!!

What moments will you remember best from 2014?