Bad Cookie Day

Yesterday I wasn't feeling very good. My boss' family has had the stomach flu and colds recently, and I think I had a touch of both of those. I felt achy all day and very drowsy. I took vitamins all day long and went to bed super early. Well, I woke up this morning to my daily phone call from Jeff, who calls me every morning on his way to work. (He calls every morning at 6:15 and we talk for about 35 minutes...isn't he sweet?) So anyways, I woke up and we talked on the phone for a while. Usually, after I hang up with him, I fall back to sleep for a while longer. But I didn't today. I gave you this whole background story, because EVERY time I don't feel good, the next morning that I wake up and feel better, my first thought is always: "Hmmm...I should make some cookies." I am totally serious! Everytime I am sick, when I finally feel better, I wake up in the morning and I make cookies. So after I hung up with him, I was quite happy that I was feeling better and I decided to make cookies. I always bake something on Thursdays anyways, but today I was going to go above and beyond. I got it into my head that I was going to make three new cookie recipies: honey cookies, spiced molassas cookies and a different chocolate chip cookie recipe. I got online and found my honey cookie recipe and mixed that dough up. While I was baking those cookies, I made the spiced molassas cookies dough and the chocolate chip cookie dough. The honey cookies turned out very well. They weren't my favorite taste wise, I don't think I will make them again, but they turned out okay for my 1st time making them. The spiced molassas cookies are just plain scary looking!! I didn't have light molassas, so instead of the cookies being a light brown color...they are a super dark black color. Not to mention, they have a really strong flavor: yuck, yuck, yuck. Now, I've used the chocolate chip cookie recipe before, and they are really yummy. But the thing with this dough is it can NOT be over stirred...which is impossible in a big family. That dough was stirred over a million times...at least!! (okay, not really.) They still taste really yummy, but they are so ugly looking! I was so disapointed. I didn't even take a picture of them to post, that's how bad they looked. So in a nutshell...it was a bad cookie day.