I'm another who goes to bed cold and wakes up too warm -- and well before the automatic thermostat raises the temperature in the AM, too. I figure it's my capillaries relaxing or something when I'm rested.

Just heard that the Senate voted down the Keystone XL pipeline, which is a welcome surprise.

They did? I am pleasantly surprised.

Just heard that the Senate voted down the Keystone XL pipeline, which is a welcome surprise.

Well, hooray!

Timelies all!

I'm so not ready for the winter weather. Emotionally, I mean.

Just heard that the Senate voted down the Keystone XL pipeline, which is a welcome surprise.

Whoa. To quote Allie Brosh, maybe everything isn't hopeless bullshit?

I got results from some random standardized testing (NWEA RIT? whatevs) Dillo did at school, and apparently he reads at the level of the average 8th grader (he's in 3rd.) My clever rabbit.

Whoa. To quote Allie Brosh, maybe everything isn't hopeless bullshit?

I'm such a pessimist that I'm just braced for the grand jury decision in Ferguson. All other news just keeps bouncing off my brain while I'm waiting for that.

It's not as bitterly cold here as it is many places, but I think it calls for soup. Specifically broccoli cheese soup, although I am too impatient to roast the broccoli.

I am battling the weather with (vegetarian) shepherds pie. Yum!

Oh! Dumb-ass baking question: I've never baked/assembled a layer cake before, but I'm making one tomorrow. You know how round cakes tend to bake up into a dome shape? What's the best way to slice off the dome so the cake is flat enough to frost/stack, without destroying the cake in the process of slicing off the dome?

I should amend that: what's the best way to slice off the dome that doesn't require special tools, because I have none and am not going out to buy a cake dome-slicing tool. So it has to be using normal kitchen tools (knife, etc.).