Way to go, bluebicycle and Scooter!

bluebicycle, I totally understand about the traveling, especially for work. I have been on disability for a long time now, but I used to travel at least a few times per year for my old job. Sometimes to Taiwan R.O.C., and other times to several cities a pop within the US. The last time I traveled for my old job (years ago) it was a very horrible time. That's an understatement! I won't even go into what happened. When I managed to get home that time I believe I had to go inpatient almost immediately. I believe that period was traumatic for me.

Well, today hasn't been bad. I did a little work on the project I've mentioned lately, and also cleaned and then semi-messed up the kitchen again. I pushed myself to eat a healthful lunch, for a change (veggie burger with salad). Then I made another Czech Christmas cookie (actually balls) that I had not yet made. It was a recipe of a friend of my husband's family. They are OK, but don't even come close to comparing to my mother-in-law's rum balls. The latter are super delicious. They are made with a chocolate walnut dough and are wrapped around rum-soaked dried cherries. The former are just plain chocolate nut balls. They could have rum or other liquor. I made them with Amaretto di Sarona, but I couldn't taste the liquor. Only the chocolate. They look pretty (see below), but don't have the right oomph that my mother-in-law's do. Plus who doesn't like a rum-soaked cherry? I like the photo, so I'll use it for my mother-in-law's rum balls, even though hers are slightly bigger. Otherwise they'd look exactly the same. I won't include the recipe for the ones I made today in my blog post. Only my mother-in-law's.

I feel that I'm finally past the hypomanic/manic episode I had been in for quite a while. Hopefully it won't start up again. I'm not usually a hyperspender, but I've realized that I've spent at least $300, in recent weeks, on Christmas cookie related stuff, alone. I even spent over $40 today, again for Christmas cookie related stuff. I don't think that's related to hypomania. I think I just still have a little obsessive focus on that project.

The chocolate nut and liquor balls pictured were rolled either in unsweetened cocoa, finely grated coconut, ground almond flour, or multi-color nonpareils.