Time is an illusion. Con time doubly so.
Thursday, May 28th, 2026 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelNarrativity is in one week. OMFGaaieeeeeeeeee! I am, as is only to be expected, Not Ready. Although given the number of new things, old things that are newly mine to deal with, and just generally Things, I suspect I'm a lot closer to ready than I might be.
The cookies are done, photographed, and packed up. Three batches of dough plus an emergency back-up batch, which I ended up cutting and baking because the baked cookies last just short of forever, whereas the raw dough has a limited fridge life. I made some fairly ruthless choices about what got decorated and what didn't; the following, which I really think is about three batches of dough worth, are going to the con:
15 grins (+3 that stayed home)
12 mice (dormice)
12 hats
27 clocks
19 lobsters
64 chess pieces (4 sets of 16)
48 card suits (12 each of hearts, spades, diamonds, & clubs)
12 eat-me cakes
10 drink-me bottles
12 flamingos (+7 spares that I don't expect to survive the trip)
12 hedgehogs
12 medium-sized rabbits
4 large rabbits
7 small rabbits
That's 273 cookies going to the con, although that's somewhat misleading because the chess pieces and card-suits are quite small (small-rabbit sized). We'll see how many I end up bringing home.
...plus about a dozen each of teapots and teacups, which I decided I just couldn't, and another dozen or so coulda-been-cat-faces-but-actually-tulips and a couple dozen circles. The tulips I decorated, along with a random half-dozen circles; the crispier circles are now (undecorated) tea biscuits, as are the teapots & teacups.
Really, honestly, three batches of dough was plenty.
I measured the time in episodes of Cabin Pressure and, later, Hitchhikers Guide (because even I can only listen to St. Petersburg so many times), roughly half an hour per episode:
making dough = 7 eps (3.5 hours)
cutting and baking = 13 eps main, plus 4 eps for backup dough (8.5 hours)
decorating = 4+3+5+9+7+7+6+7+2+5+6+8+1 = 70 eps (35 hours)
pics and packing = 2+2+1+5 = 10 eps (5 hours)
for a grand total of 52 hours. Yes, the cookies are a full-time job.
Also, for the record, HHGttG gets really weird toward the end.
The cookies are done, photographed, and packed up. Three batches of dough plus an emergency back-up batch, which I ended up cutting and baking because the baked cookies last just short of forever, whereas the raw dough has a limited fridge life. I made some fairly ruthless choices about what got decorated and what didn't; the following, which I really think is about three batches of dough worth, are going to the con:
15 grins (+3 that stayed home)
12 mice (dormice)
12 hats
27 clocks
19 lobsters
64 chess pieces (4 sets of 16)
48 card suits (12 each of hearts, spades, diamonds, & clubs)
12 eat-me cakes
10 drink-me bottles
12 flamingos (+7 spares that I don't expect to survive the trip)
12 hedgehogs
12 medium-sized rabbits
4 large rabbits
7 small rabbits
That's 273 cookies going to the con, although that's somewhat misleading because the chess pieces and card-suits are quite small (small-rabbit sized). We'll see how many I end up bringing home.
...plus about a dozen each of teapots and teacups, which I decided I just couldn't, and another dozen or so coulda-been-cat-faces-but-actually-tulips and a couple dozen circles. The tulips I decorated, along with a random half-dozen circles; the crispier circles are now (undecorated) tea biscuits, as are the teapots & teacups.
Really, honestly, three batches of dough was plenty.
I measured the time in episodes of Cabin Pressure and, later, Hitchhikers Guide (because even I can only listen to St. Petersburg so many times), roughly half an hour per episode:
making dough = 7 eps (3.5 hours)
cutting and baking = 13 eps main, plus 4 eps for backup dough (8.5 hours)
decorating = 4+3+5+9+7+7+6+7+2+5+6+8+1 = 70 eps (35 hours)
pics and packing = 2+2+1+5 = 10 eps (5 hours)
for a grand total of 52 hours. Yes, the cookies are a full-time job.
Also, for the record, HHGttG gets really weird toward the end.
