I'm still tired

I really hope the aches and pains are related to the fact that my allergies have ramped up, and are not the early warning sign of the flu strain that was not in the flu shot this year.

Most of the cake went last night. The "extra" cake had been made for a children's party and had lots of fluffy pink frosting, and I guess that time of night, the women decided they preferred a plainer cake with raspberry sauce (the way I make it, it is not very sweet) instead.

I have a few pieces left over (and the sad second half-cake, which, I don't know, I might just freeze for myself. Or try a piece to see if it's edible and then freeze it).

For Thursday, I'm going to do a chocolate Texas sheet cake. I've decided not to worry about the fact that the main dish is lasagna and that Texas sheet cake is maybe a bit heavy after lasagna, because if I think about it too hard, I will be trying to make zabaglione or some dang thing on the departmental stove 15 minutes before the lunch and that way lies madness.

And anyway, Texas sheet cake is easy, and most people seem to like it. And you can frost it while it's still warm and the frosting is sort of semi-liquid.

I also, um, need to do cookies for Friday now. I probably shouldn't have volunteered, but the local "drug court" (a thing where low-level offenders go through a process of rehab and restitutionary justice, and usually the recidivism rate is lower than the folks who go through the conventional court/prison-punishment system) is having its "graduation" and the judge in charge asked to use our church. They asked us (the CWF) to provide food and they wanted to do it up nice, so they were asking for people to make sandwiches or cookies and not very many people volunteered.

I'm debating doing the cookies tonight. They'd probably still be fresh enough for Friday. Or I could do them Thursday afternoon, I have less stuff then.

I need to learn to get better at flaking. Or rather, get better at keeping my mouth shut/reminding myself I'm a busy person when these kind of things come up. I'm too good at volunteering for things and then kicking myself later because I have to fit it into my schedule like everything else. (Flaking is not good because people are already depending on you. Not volunteering is OK because then people know you won't be planning on doing it)

Then again: if being shown some level of respect and kindness keeps one person who went through that court on the right path, I suppose it's worth it.

I have to force myself to do that grading this morning.