|Lindsey Roman|

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If you want to make the cookies from scratch (that’s what I did for the 1989 Secret Sessions), you can use this recipe I found on a baking blog I like, joythebaker.com and I believe it was originally from a book called The Pastry Queen. If you want another great baking blog, I get a lot of great ideas from smittenkitchen.com too. This is a recipe for basic insanely good sugar cookies. I added the chai element to the recipe because I thought it would infuse cozy holiday vibez into the cookie and it really did. So I’ll star the part that I added in the recipe.

http://joythebaker.com/2009/06/giant-vanilla-sugar-cookies/

***after you add the egg and vanilla, cut one chai tea packet open and empty the crushed up tea leaves into the batter CAUSE CHAI COOKIES ARE ABOUT TO HAPPEN UP IN HERE***

I made an icing for the cookies, but they’re fine on their own. If you want to make icing for them, just mix 1 cup powdered sugar with 1/4 T-spoon of nutmeg, 1/4 T-spoon of cinnamon and 3 TAYblespoons <—-(I’m so annoying, it astounds me sometimes) of milk or eggnog if you can find it this time of year. The more milk/eggnog you add, the more your icing will become a glaze. But glazes are legit too so basically just LIVE YOUR LIFE.

I lightly sprinkled cinnamon over the icing once the cookies were baked and iced, but there are so many icing options you can pair with these cookies—I mean it’s out of control. If you’re really feeling like living on the edge, you can go ahead and add a few drops of food coloring to the icing to make it festive. No one is going to stop you.

Why?

Cause the bakers gonna bake bake bake bake bake.

To this:

*ahem*

BUMMM BUMM BUM BUMMMM BUMM BUMM KNEW HE WAS A KILLA

i i i i  see how this is gon go

“but if i’m a thief then he can join the heist”

baby let the games begin! let the games begin! ahAH AHHHHHHHH

GETTING .5 SECONDS INTO END GAME AND UNDERSTANDING WHY THE ALBUM IS CALLED REPUTATION

“ahHHH and ya heard about me”

ed sheeran rapping on a taylor swift song

“i swear i don’t love the drama IT LOVES ME”

ed in the background of the last chorus: “be yoUR A TEAM NOW”

the string plucky things in the beginning of i did something bad

“if a man talks shit then i owe him nothing”

THEN WHY’S IT FEEL SO BANG BANG GOOD BANG BANG GOOD

“and i’d do it over and over and over again if iiiii could”

RAH DI DI DI DI DI DI DI DI DI DAHHHHH 

“they’re burning all the witches even if you aren’t one”

taylor apparently wanting to be set on fire

((agreed))

the harmonies on this album filling my entire soul

“oHHH LORD SAVE ME MY DRUG IS MY BABY I’LL BE USING FOR THE REST OF MY LIIIIIIIIFE” aka the only prayer i’ll ever say again

i get so high OH… trip of my life OH

the way she sings “using for the rest of my life oHH OH OH OHHH” after the bridge damn son

“my reputation’s never been worse so he must like me for me”

taylor finally discovering alcohol

the way she says “coz i know that it’s delicate” so…. delicately

how delicate feels like a rain shower in a desert

:) i :) don’t :) like :) your :) little :) games :)

OH look what you made me do

“i don’t like your kingdom keys, they once belonged to me”

“i’m sorry the old taylor can’t come to the phone right now. why? oh! BECAUSE SHE’S DEAD” is singlehandedly the most iconic thing i have ever and will ever hear.

so it goes being chill and then the chORUS AND ALL THE PIECES FALL!!! RIGHT INTO PLACE!!!

;) scratches ;) down ;) your ;) back ;) now ;)

o n e  t w o  t h r e e

how getaway car is the only song i ever want to hear ever again

WE NEVER HAD A SHOTGUN SHOT IN THE DARK

think about the place where you first met me

“there were sirens in the beat of your heart”

the way she says getaway

the chorus of this song feeling like driving down a highway with the windows rolled down in the middle of the night

GO! GO! GO!

being part of a heist, leaving money in a bag in a shady motel, stealing keys and getting tf out in her getaway car. zoom zoom bitch.

COS NOTHING GOOD STARTS IN A GETAWAY CAR

“all the boys in their expensive cars, the range rovers and jaguars never took me quite where you do” calvin harris WHOM

the drums in king of my heart are more important than my need to breathe

“your love is a secret i’m hoping, dreaming, dying to keep”

~up on the roof with a school girl crussshhhh drinking beer outta plastic cupsssss~

i’ll never let you goOOO

but we were dancing BASS DROP dancing with our hANDS TIED, HANDS TIED

“oh baby can we dance, through an avalanche?”

“swaying as the room burnt down, i’d hold you as the water rushes in” …. “so i punched a hole in the roof, let the flood carry away all my pictures” ….. h e c k

fiRST TIME FIRST TIIIIMEE OH 

how dress is literally an orgasm turned into a song and i’m… into it

take it oH OH OH OH OFFFF

“carve your name into my bedpost”

“but if i get burnt at least we were electrified”

wildest dreams who???

“and i woke up just in time, now i wake up by your side”

say my name and everything just stops -EVERYTHING STOPS-

THE ALARM BELLS IN THE BEGINNING OF NICE THINGS

ra’lin’ the chandilier

THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE! THINGS! DAR!LIN!!!

AWaaaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAAY

“and therein lies the issue, friends don’t try to trick you, get you on the phone and mind twist you”

the sound of shots being fired from every possible angle

if only you weren’t…. so shadyyyyy :)

they don’t care about the HE SAID SHE SAID

the way she says “and here’s to my baaabyyy”

the organ?? piano???? during “and hereeee’s to youuu…” oh my god

CACKLE “I CAN’T EVEN SAY IT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE”

her voice at the end when she just says “nice things” 

her world crumbling around her and that’s just fine?? because of joe???? i wasn’t ready 

I’M THE ONE HE’S WALKING TOOOOOOO

“loves me like i’m brand new”

“all my flowers grew back as thorns” …. “all the flowers that we’d grown together died of thirst” again…. clean WHOM

I’M DOIN BETTER THAN I EVER WAASSSS

i’m laughing with my lover makin forts under covers trust him like a brother yeah you know i did one thing right

not because he owns me but cos he really knows me. which is more than they can say.

“you don’t need to save me, but would you run away with me?” “yes.” :’)

call it what you want is the lightest, softest pink sunrise seen from the window of a peaceful airplane in the early morning of a good day

how we went from pop anthems to??? i’m bawling in a sea of tissues on my bedroom floor at two in the morning and new year’s day is the most beautiful song i’ve ever heard??? 

it’s just a guitar and a piano and she’s harmonizing with herself

“don’t read the last page, but i stay”

“i want your midnights, and i’ll be cleaning up bottles with you on new year’s day”

“i can tell that it’s gonna be a long road” as in she knows that even if it’ll be a long road they’ll always be together don’t TOUCH me

hold on to the memories, they will hold onto you

hold on to the memories, they will hold onto you

hold on to the memories, they will hold onto you

and i will hold onto you

“please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh i could recognize anywhere”

oh cool my heart’s shattered into a million pieces this is fine thanks

how there’s ten seconds of silence at the end of new year’s day because you bet your ass i need recovery time before the album starts over again and i gotta get back to boppin’

BUMMM BUMM BUMM BUMMMM BUMM BUMM KNEW HE WAS A KILLA