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Making Rum Cake and other Christmas doings

December 27th, 2014 at 07:07 am

Christmas Eve was very special. NE and I went together to a Christmas Eve program at my church. That was hugely special to me because it was the first time he's agreed to go to any kind of church function with me since the first time we dated in 2004.

Afterwards we drove around looking at Christmas lights for nearly 3 hours! There were some pretty amazing displays, and one particular neighborhood off a street that CreditCardFree mentioned that was really well done.

On Christmas Day NE came over around 5 and we worked together to make dinner - mashed potatoes, corn, stuffing, vegetarian dinner roast, and crescents. It didn't take a lot of time, especially with both of us working together. We both ate too much and decided to make the cake on Friday night.

So tonight (Friday) we made the rum cakes *before* eating leftovers. One cake we made according to the Pillsbury box directions and the other we made according to the Internet recipe directions.

The second cake had us pour rum into the actual batter. The other cake only had us pour the rum infused glaze mix on the cake.

Of the two, we both definitely preferred the one with only the rum infused glaze.

After we each had some of both cakes, we went to the local grocery store and picked up some meds for NE (pain meds dealing with his shoulders.) I had a coupon that was in the newspaper a few weeks ago -- it made one of his $42 prescription only $12!!!

Then we took a huge portion of the rum infused batter cake to his friend B and to his sister. Friend B talked for 30 minutes straight without hardly taking a breath ...

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I received a Christmas card from someone in Texas ... I have NO CLUE who they are. The card was addressed with my name, spelled correctly and everything ... Weird/neat/mysterious ....

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Tomorrow I need to go to the library to pick up a few items on hold. Other than that though, I plan on being a homebody this weekend. Going nowhere and doing nothing (other than minimal grocery shopping.)

6 Responses to “Making Rum Cake and other Christmas doings”

  1. CB in the City Says:
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    How odd about the card. Not too long ago I got a warm hug from someone I could swear I've never met in my life!

    The rum cake sounds delicious!

  2. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    The rum cake without the rum in the batter was pretty delicious. I could barely eat one bite of the other ... even took a swig of milk to try to get the taste out of my mouth (I don't drink milk very often anymore .. doesn't sit well anymore)

    Maybe the hugger was doing a social experiment? I've seen some videos of people doing stuff like that.

  3. scottish girl Says:
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    I'm intrigued about your card. It must be someone who knows you well since they had your new address?

  4. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    SG - There were two different full names listed on the address - neither of which I recognized. I have no idea how they got my name and address.

  5. rob62521 Says:
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    Interesting about the card. Did you google the names?

    That's nice NE went to church with you. What a blessing!

  6. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    No I haven't Googled the names yet - though that's a good idea!

    Yes, it was quite a blessing. Smile I couldn't stop smiling from ear to ear. Smile

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