Cookie hell

Alternatively titled: The longest post about cookies ever.
Alternately-Alternately titled: 300

Because that's how many cookies I made this weekend.
Yes, you read that correctly. Also, I made a birthday cake, petit fours and another 40-something cookies.

Because I must hate myself.

How does one cram all of that into one weekend? Glad you asked, here's the breakdown:

Thursday night:
After work come home and make 2 double batches of this cookie recipe. (Would have made 3 but I didn't have enough eggs or butter. Because I apparently can't multiply)

Bake 5 cakes (should have been 7 but I ran out of cake mix. Yes, I use cake mix. But I 'jazz it up a bit.')

Friday night:

5:15 Stop at grocery store to buy eggs, butter and cake mix.

5:45 Get home and make dinner.

6:20 Bake remaining 2 cakes.

6:40 Start baking cookies. Beginning with baby shower cookies.

8:30 Finish baking 45 baby shower cookies and 200 of the 300 cookies. Switch to cake.

9:20 Finish assembling and icing 3-tier birthday cake.

9:35 Decorate 20 petit fours.

10:00 Text Brad to see where he was (See, I knew that since I had taken on far too much that he would be 'concerned' so I sent him away with our friend Scotty)

10:05 Make small batch of icing for baby shower cookies. Decorate.

11:00 Call hubs who still hasn't answered. Call Scotty (also no answer), call Scotty's wife, Heather and see if she's heard from them.

11:15 Decorate more cookies.

11:30 Frantically call hubs again. Not because I was worried, but because I was exhausted. He finally answers his phone.

11:45 Wrap up petit fours.

12:00 Brad comes home. I go pass out.

Saturday:
7:00 Wake up early because I know I have a ton to do. Put flowers on the birthday cake.

7:45 Begin baking remaining 100 cookies.

9:20 Make the world's largest batch of icing ever. (OK, probably not ever, but it felt like it.)

9:45 Start piping the outline of circles onto cookies. Continue until noon.

12:00 Begin flood filling the cookies. Get about 12 cookies in and realize that the grey is a bit lighter than the CJRW logo. Remix and darken the icing.

12:15 Wash out mixer. Realize that icing is still too light. Curse and darken again.

12:30 Flood fill 90+ cookies.

1:50 Get cake ready to deliver to friend at our 'meeting place.'

1:55 Get a block from the house and realize that the cake is going to fall over. Turn around, come home. Try not to cry.

2:00 Take cake apart (bottom tier was not holding up well), curse buying a different brand of cake mix. Curse Walmart for being out of the kind I usually buy. Suck it up and make two cakes.

2:30 Turn back around and go to meeting place.

2:40 Be grateful for really cool, understanding friends.

3:00 Decorate a few more cookies.

3:30 Meet up to deliver petit fours and baby shower cakes.

4:00 Decorate more cookies.

5:00 Rest.

6:00 Get ready for Christmas party. Don't think about baking again until the next morning.

Sunday:

8:00 Get up early. Realize exactly how much my back hurts. Decorate more cookies.

10:00 Finish flood filling all the cookies. Begin piping letters.

2:00 Finish piping 75 Cs, 75 Js, 75 Rs and 75 Ws. Text Nancy and complain about her choice of typeface for the logo.

2:30 Go to Target to return Christmas gift and 'let the cookies dry.'

5:00 Make dinner (Um, I forgot to make any lunch).

6:00-8:30- bag cookies individually.

8:30 Place bagged cookies into boxes.

9:00 Swear that I will never, ever commit to that again. Pass out, glad to have that behind me.