Orphan Christmas Eve dinner: plan a menu, pick up food, invite people over and make them cook!

Spent yesterday biking around like a crazy person, leaving tomorrow for a cruise with Brad and his fam, and now I've got piles of dishes to do!

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The only thing that's been in my room since high school is a picture of Brittany Murphy that Elizabeth cut out of Rolling Stone (I think? the back of the picture is just another photo) and put in a gold-painted frame some time our Junior year.  The Google is so flooded with real time results that I can't find who she was supposed to be impersonating in the image, it was a small artist who had gained notoriety by re-arranging the paintings in a ritzy gallery, if anyone knows who this is referencing, please let me know.

The image on the back of the page is more morbid, I wonder if I should turn it around.  

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Tags: 2009, свадьба, спб

I co-opted Cooking at Brads for Cookie-ing at Brad's purposes, as I wanted to do something nice for my coworkers and also try some new things. Made:

• Rocky Mountain Chocolate Chip Cookies (not a new thing, the recipe is I think from the Silver Platter cookbook and is one of my Mom's favorites)
• Cranberry Noels (a new thing, they're ok, I like that they're pretty, I wish I'd put more effort into making them prettier, or getting a better cookie pan, as the botoms browned to quickly)
• Peanutbutter Cookies (some with strawberry jam, which worked out exceptionally well. it helped that brad did an amazing job with the dough, despite little experience and an under-specified recipe)

Thanks to mr_um2312 , Mikey (do you have a desired internet link presence?) and brad for their help in cookie production!