I feel like garbage right now. Reason? Gingerbread cookies. Blech!!

My sons have been asking about making gingerbread cookies (so they can use cookie cutters), and I finally gave in. I was planning on being really good, but I wanted to make sure that the dough tasted right — the feedback on the recipe was mixed, with many women saying it was “the best recipe” and many others saying it was “awful,” “tasted like cardboard,” “too sweet,” “not sweet enough,” “heavy on the spice,” etc. So I tasted it — it was pretty good. Then when I helped my kids with the cookie cutters (left alone, they overlapped the pieces pretty severely, and cut cookie after cookie with the same cutter, without removing the first one, so they were stacking up inside the cutter), I fell back into my old habit of eating scraps and pieces. It tasted good… but not *that* good. I’d've much rather had chocolate chip cookie dough or something.

Now, it’s been a few hours since I ate them, and I feel like garbage. A slight headache, very sleepy (which is unusual), weird feeling in my arms, general lethargy. Yuck.

I’m writing this not because I feel in the mood for a confessional, but just because I want to remember this feeling, so I won’t be tempted like this in the future.