Making Brownies

I'm trying to get past the bad zen and back into the groove of just letting the words happen.  It should be simple, right?  It used to be.  Brownies are simple too.  Just chocolate, butter, sugar, eggs and flour.  There might be a little salt too.  I'd have to check to be certain.  Still, if you want try your hand at baking, brownies are as easy as it gets.  Tess and Zander aren't having any trouble.

This weekend has been simple too.  Lots of shifting and (more!) shredding.  In the great push to ready my two unoccupied bedroom for occupancy, I found yet another paper stash chock full of offers for credit cards (those were the days, right?) and bank statements and bills.  It took me the entire run of my On Demand stash to reduce all of that paper to little curls and shreds....let's pause for a moment to thank Sarah and Jesse for hauling it all to the school's recycling bin....moving on....Admidst the tree carcasses I did manage to find a few gems.  I found 2 of my Lakeshore High School report cards.  I also found 2 books of stamps, one was dollar stamps and the other was 37cent Love stamps.  My best find was a rough draft of Princess Tessa and the Mysterious Missing Frog.  It starts like this...

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Tessa .  Tessa had a magical frog named Buttercup that the Desk Fairy had given her.  Tessa loved Buttercup and Buttercup loved Tessa.  The only problem was Buttercup would sometimes disappear for a very long time.

I am sure you would like to read more about Tessa and Buttercup.  I know I would.  I should really finish that story.  Tess and I worked the start out together.  Tessa decides to ask the Desk Fairy how to find Buttercup.  The thing is Tess has to find the Desk Fairy.  She has to look in all of the mysterious places in her house.  When I was little there were lots of mysterious places in my house....under the bed, in the back of the corner cabinet, behind the furnace.  It only seems natural that Tess would find the Desk Fairy in one of those places.  But she doesn't.  Turns out the DF likes light and warm breezy air stirred by a southern wind.  Not what you generally find in Michigan.  But most fairies will stop by for a visit on the promise of warm chocolate brownies and cold milk. 

Do you think that's what Tess and Zander are doing?  Making brownies for the Desk Fairy?  I'll just bet they are.  And when she shows up, Tess will sit down with her and share a cup of panzy tea and the two of them will work out together just how to save Buttercup from a great calamity.

Zander, it seems, is not actually part of this quest.  He has gone in search of a desperately hungry Darcy the dragon.  

Technical Notes:  In the grand scheme of blogging this post would be peppered with links.  Links to a scan of my report card, to the .pdf of Tess's story and the .pdf of Zander's.  Sadly my scanner is currently refusing to perform this function and Tess's story isn't finished and Zander's story is stuck on another drive.  I need my own Desk Fairy.  I am sure she'll show up.  After all, where do you think Tess and Zander got the recipe?