So then, is eating just one cupcake still OK?
I had lunch with my friend Beth today. This is a rare occasion because 1) most of the year she works as a school counselor and doesn’t get a chance to leave campus for lunch and 2) I don’t often get out for a lunch break either, in my very busy, vitally important position at work*.
Beth’s birthday is one week earlier than mine so we exchanged presents over lunch. I got her this deliciously fragrant pomegranate. We discovered these on an extreme shopping spree at Takashimaya in New York City a couple of years ago. Just recently Beth had lamented that her NYC pomegranate was losing it’s oomph, and a light went on in my head. DING! I will find that pomegranate and get her a new one! And I did. And it arrived and sat in my closet for weeks and weeks, adding a lovely aroma to my walk-in. I was sad to see it go, but she was so thrilled to get it, and I was just as happy to give it to her.
About a week ago, the girls (also known as fiends…I must tell that story one day) got together for brunch on what would have been our friend Julie’s 42nd birthday. Our “ritual” is to visit the cemetery and spread out a blanket and share a bottle of her favorite wine, V. Sattui Johannisberg Riesling. We drink it with tiny little plastic naked men hanging off the edge of our cups. And the cups this year had Ariel the Little Mermaid on them, swimming under the sea. In honor of Julie’s favorite Disney character, we also wore Ariel tiaras, as we sat sipping, and laughing…in the cemetery. Irreverent or not, it’s what we do, and it makes us happy. We think Julie likes it too.
But I digress.
While we were sitting on the blanket, probably talking about food or cake or birthdays or something, I mentioned seeing a new cake pan that looked awesome.
Seriously, how cool is this cake?
It is made by using this pan, reminiscent of Madonna’s bra:
Beth gave me that very cake pan today, for my birthday, because Beth hears things. And she remembers things. And then she buys those things. Now I can’t decide what to do with it first…make a ginormous blueberry muffin? A big chocolate cupcake? What to do? What to do?
*I am as vitally important as condoms are in a monastery.
LOL! I bought that very same pan for myself and tucked it away in the cupboard. But I am going to make a huge cupcake someday, yes, I am.
Happy Birthday, Catheroo!
(Michele directed me to this post, for which I thank her.)
That’s a totally cool cake pan. I think I’ll add it to my Christmas gift list.
I LOVE that you take wine and tiaras to your friends grave. It would tickle me pink if my friends and loved ones did something like that. She must look down and giggle her ass off!
I love Ariel and naked men! Can I come to your next party?? please make a big chocolate cupcake!!! Can I come to your next party???
Chocolate for sure! That pan deserves nothing but decadence!!! Bring it here for Christmas and we can make a ginormous* cupcake and eat it together! Or, I could put it on my Christmas list! Oh, the possibilities!
*One of my favorite words!!!
Oh, that’s right! I have a website now!!!
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Oh my goodness! I just bookmarked that pan because I wanted to remember to get it for my friend for her b-day. She likes to make cakes and I figured she’d have lots of fun with a giganto cupcake pan. Mmmm, icing.