I’m in week 2 of my spring break and I’m leaning into it a bit.  It’s a bit of a weird break but it’s good.

I’m enjoying the downtime and getting a bit done too.  The best thing about having time off is Monday morning pole classes.  I’m feeling really fit, healthy, and a bit sore but it’s great starting my week with 2 hours of exercise that doesn’t feel like exercise. 

The only downside, they don’t get cookies.  I’ve thought about it but I haven’t brought them into the cookie circle.  Is that bad?  Monday nights and Wednesday nights get cookies, but I’m just not sure I have it in me.  Luckily, very few Monday morning people also do Monday or Wednesday nights so maybe ignorance is bliss for them?

Not sure.  I do feel slightly guilty though about not including them in the cookie fold.

This week’s cookies are amazing – Gochujang Chocolate Chip Cookies and Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies from Sarah Keiffer’s 100 Cookies.  Both are incredible but the Gochujangs are next level.  They’re not spicy but they have a tinge of heat to them which makes them really nice.  They’re less spicy than some of the other chilli chocolate ones I’ve made, but they have a lovely warmth to them.  Big Fan!  I am secretly paranoid that one of the cookies will be a full on spice bomb with ALL the chilli heat in one cookie, but it hasn’t happened yet! 

And the brown butter chocolate chip ones are really good too.  I’ve finally learned to brown butter without fear.   I mean, there’s the constant fear of going too far and the butter burning, but also the fear of not going far enough and just having butter.  But this brown butter was perfect.  And the cookies were delicious!

So that’s a good metaphor for life right now, kind of being in limbo but being good-ish.  The cookies, like life, are just spicy enough to be interesting but not blowing me away.  There’s lots of exciting things are the horizon over the next few weeks, but for now, we’re just mellowing and waiting!

Oh…. and I got Crocs. Only 4 years late to the Croc party, but I’m in the Croc gang.