thinks to do…

…today: – call the theatre to see if they have better seats available for Chess than ticketmaster does – vacuum the living room – wash the diaper wraps – clean the kitchen – get books signed, enveloped, and addressed (50% accomplished, which is what I really figured was achievable) …in the next 24 hours: – get books into the mail – an Elegant Legacy update …this week: – catch up on the 5300 words I’m behind in writing *sigh* – go to the Steve McCurry photo exhibition, nevermind that this…

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thinks to do…

…this morning: – clean the kitchen – empty the fridge of all the stuff ruined by the Great Power Outage of 2011 – eye the freezer to try to determine if things were ruined by the GPO2011 – go buy some essentials like milk & baby yogurt to replace the above etc etc etc – get laundry started …today: – get a shopping order put in – buy tickets to Chess – tidy and ideally vacuum the living room …in the next 24 hours: – get books signed, enveloped, and…

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best cake: not

Well, after tasting the batter and the frosting, I have to say that the so-called best cake ever tasted exactly like I thought it would, which is to say, it tastes like a box cake. That was a lot of trouble to go to to make a box cake. And I weep for anybody who thinks that’s the best cake ever. I’m embarrassed to send it to Ted’s work.

best frosting ever?

I have just made a frosting billed as the best ever, but I’m afraid I’m underwhelmed. I like my roughshod buttercream better, though I will say it is a very light fluffy icing. It’s just that it tastes to me like something you’d get on a commercial cake, and why anybody would want to replicate that flavor at home is beyond me. I have put chocolate into the frosting now, which makes it taste slightly less commercial, so that helps, and I have put it all on top of what…

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