I'm in the process of baking several hundred cookies for people's Xmas presents, because I am too broke to do anything else this year. At least all my bills are paid off.

So far I have given a metric fuckton of sugary pastries to my bus drivers, the coffeeshop guys, my co-workers, and random friends that I've had time to get ahold of.
I still have to bake for some more co-workers (vegan orange cardamom cookies for my vegan buddies, yeeeeah, who loves you?) all of my stoner hippes and punk kids and homeless guys on my route in the city, my doctors,the local firehouse, a couple of people I'm gonna try shipping cookies to, (oh god, how do I send cookies in the mail?) and then, I wanna eat some.

I've also (if you couldn't tell) been doing free portrait sittings for a bunch of my friends and co-workers, so that's been fun too.
SOMEHOW, between all the baking shit and doing portraits, I've managed to cram in a full 5 days of 8 hour shifts at work, so I'm exhausted, but I'm still on such a productive streak that I'm gonna try to ride it out, full steam ahead until Xmas, where I get like, 4 days to crash out and do nothing. Sweet.

A motley collection of awesome from some of my favorite artists. Props y'all!

Wow. I just HAD to go out and shoot photos on the lake with Annie on THE COLDEST DAY OF THE WEEK. Staggering genius there. 20 degrees and a 15 degree windchill on an open giant lake will give you severe windburn. Nice. You can totally tell where I was wearing giant sunglasses, because my face is all red and chapped except for the giant untouched circles where they were. Awesome.

The pictures turned out nicely though, and I got some totally sweet ornaments at the dollar store. Niiiiice.

Welp, I didn't get pictures of my thanksgiving spread, due to not exactly having time to do anything but frantically cook, and then frantically eat everything in sight. Oh well.
Everything went off without a hitch and I fed 8 people, and then pawned off the majority of the leftovers. Whew.

The upcoming photo project starts tomorrow, and continues as soon as I can grab some more people, so look out for new work! Wheeeeeeeehoo.

Btw, it's December 1st, and it will be 50 degrees in Chicago today. Huh. Toasty in comparison to last year, that's for damn sure....

Tomorrow is Turkey day, so I'll be up early to go start fucking with the grill and assaulting the carcass and drinking coffee and baking. I am actually really excited for this, and I'm pretty sure that I actually have everything I need. God, I hope I do.....

stocked up on: potatoes, butter, vegan butter (for Geri) wild rice, stuffing stuff, butternut squash, a pie, olive oil, thyme,oranges, (to stuff the turkey with) sage, rosemary, mushrooms, celery, brussels sprouts, and veggie stock. I think I'm set.
Reports (and probably pictures) to be forthcoming.