It's motherf***ing cold right now.
Nov. 11th, 2010 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Yesterday was my manager's birthday. His family sent like 4 dozen cupcakes from Trophy Cupcakes. Every time I try to diet, something TERRIBLE like this happens. I ended up trying FOUR of them:
1) Tiger Tail: Coconut cake topped with raspberry buttercream rolled in coconut flakes and drizzled with raspberry syrup
2) Chocolate Hazelnut: Valrhona chocolate cake with Nutella buttercream edged in candied hazelnuts
3) Hummingbird: Banana pineapple coconut cake with cream cheese frosting
4) Lemon Coconut: Fresh lemon butter cake with coconut buttercream and shaved coconut
How wrong is that?!
Speaking of sinfully delicious desserts, the D/G gals are getting together on Sunday and I am bringing the classic chocolate cake from Bakery Nouveau. I ordered the cake a few days ago, paying for it over the phone, etc. Then I talked to K., and she was like, why don't you pick it up on Saturday instead, because you'll already be in West Seattle, and that cake tastes better the next day anyway (which is true)? So I just called them to change the pick up date, and THEY COULDN'T FIND MY RESERVATION FOR IT. OMG, well thank goodness I wanted to change the date! Otherwise I would have shown up on Sunday and if they didn't have the cake I would have had to go all ballistic and use my WTF voice and be super disappointed, etc. So, thankfully such a crisis has now been averted. I know. You are all as relieved as I am.
I'm going to have to clear out my garage so I can park my Pontiac in it. :( Right now, half of it is free and clear so I can park one car there (not the Pontiac). The other half is still being used as storage space, though my mom helped me clear it out a lot. I've been parking my Pontiac outside, which has been fine until the other day, when it was so cold that ice froze on the windows over night, making it impossible to see out. I had to pour glasses of water over the windshield in order to melt it off (thank goodness it was only a thin layer of frost) so I could see -- I'm very picky about my driving that way. Anyway, I don't want to have to do that every morning now that it's getting colder and colder, so I want to park it in the garage.
Last night around midnight, Jade and I went on one of our insane/stupid quests. I was watching HIMYM (last season's!), and some mention was made of Marshall loving the McRib. And it was funny so I emailed the quote to Jade. She was like, you know, I always hear about it being this thing that everyone loves. And I was like, me too!!! We were like, and it just so happens that the McRib is actually available right now, so obviously it was Meant To Be. Basically we decided to run out to our respective McDonald's locations and get the McRib, because we want to know what all the fuss is about. When I opened the bag, the BBQ sauce from the sandwich had leaked out of the box and into the bag. I took one look at it and thought, I should email Jade my preliminary thoughts about it now, because once I start this messy sandwich, there's no typing until I'm done. And... I liked it. The meat was kind of strangely rubbery, but the sauce and flavor was good overall. There was so much sauce the bottom bun was kind of soggy. Jade emailed: Pretty good, but needed more sauce. I was like, wha? Is she being sarcastic? Or does she want, like, a McRib stew? It turned out that unlike mine, hers barely had any sauce on it! Totally contrary to how it's advertised! She was so ripped off.
Got my first Amazon Fresh delivery this morning. :D They came between 4-6am. I hoped they wouldn't ring the doorbell or anything (they didn't). Get this though, they didn't send the email saying that I wouldn't be disturbed until 2am. Yes, I am up at 2am waiting for my 4am delivery. O.o Anyway, it was very exciting to open the door and see those Amazon Fresh boxes all stacked up. It was like Christmas!
1) Tiger Tail: Coconut cake topped with raspberry buttercream rolled in coconut flakes and drizzled with raspberry syrup
2) Chocolate Hazelnut: Valrhona chocolate cake with Nutella buttercream edged in candied hazelnuts
3) Hummingbird: Banana pineapple coconut cake with cream cheese frosting
4) Lemon Coconut: Fresh lemon butter cake with coconut buttercream and shaved coconut
How wrong is that?!
Speaking of sinfully delicious desserts, the D/G gals are getting together on Sunday and I am bringing the classic chocolate cake from Bakery Nouveau. I ordered the cake a few days ago, paying for it over the phone, etc. Then I talked to K., and she was like, why don't you pick it up on Saturday instead, because you'll already be in West Seattle, and that cake tastes better the next day anyway (which is true)? So I just called them to change the pick up date, and THEY COULDN'T FIND MY RESERVATION FOR IT. OMG, well thank goodness I wanted to change the date! Otherwise I would have shown up on Sunday and if they didn't have the cake I would have had to go all ballistic and use my WTF voice and be super disappointed, etc. So, thankfully such a crisis has now been averted. I know. You are all as relieved as I am.
I'm going to have to clear out my garage so I can park my Pontiac in it. :( Right now, half of it is free and clear so I can park one car there (not the Pontiac). The other half is still being used as storage space, though my mom helped me clear it out a lot. I've been parking my Pontiac outside, which has been fine until the other day, when it was so cold that ice froze on the windows over night, making it impossible to see out. I had to pour glasses of water over the windshield in order to melt it off (thank goodness it was only a thin layer of frost) so I could see -- I'm very picky about my driving that way. Anyway, I don't want to have to do that every morning now that it's getting colder and colder, so I want to park it in the garage.
Last night around midnight, Jade and I went on one of our insane/stupid quests. I was watching HIMYM (last season's!), and some mention was made of Marshall loving the McRib. And it was funny so I emailed the quote to Jade. She was like, you know, I always hear about it being this thing that everyone loves. And I was like, me too!!! We were like, and it just so happens that the McRib is actually available right now, so obviously it was Meant To Be. Basically we decided to run out to our respective McDonald's locations and get the McRib, because we want to know what all the fuss is about. When I opened the bag, the BBQ sauce from the sandwich had leaked out of the box and into the bag. I took one look at it and thought, I should email Jade my preliminary thoughts about it now, because once I start this messy sandwich, there's no typing until I'm done. And... I liked it. The meat was kind of strangely rubbery, but the sauce and flavor was good overall. There was so much sauce the bottom bun was kind of soggy. Jade emailed: Pretty good, but needed more sauce. I was like, wha? Is she being sarcastic? Or does she want, like, a McRib stew? It turned out that unlike mine, hers barely had any sauce on it! Totally contrary to how it's advertised! She was so ripped off.
Got my first Amazon Fresh delivery this morning. :D They came between 4-6am. I hoped they wouldn't ring the doorbell or anything (they didn't). Get this though, they didn't send the email saying that I wouldn't be disturbed until 2am. Yes, I am up at 2am waiting for my 4am delivery. O.o Anyway, it was very exciting to open the door and see those Amazon Fresh boxes all stacked up. It was like Christmas!
