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If I told you about them I would say they are a conversation in my mind. While that is not a lie it is a very one sided conversation. See, what happens is I think of the things I would like to say, I go through the words, the exact words I would use. But I don't wait for your reply, I change my words, I change the last phrase. I reorder my thoughts and start from the beginning again. And again. I one sided conversation which I never hear your reply
Baking cookies, carefully measuring the ingredients but then banging in a little more of this, or that, because the consistency doesn't seem quite right (oh no, too much oats, well, can't take it out now). Then setting the temperature, setting the timer and preparing the next nine. Just nine at a time as I don't want the cookies to touch. Buzz, and taking the cookies out thinking they don't look right, surely a little longer, a little more golden. But no, a minute cooling and they have settled into their shape. And taste. Yes. This is what a cookie should taste like.
