Not getting the Matrix Reloaded remark and feeling like a dork...

she said she'd have to charge like $900 a cake to make it worth her time

I would almost pay $900 if that cake tastes as wonderful as it looks. Those are amazing.

Chiming late - vw, cakes should be yummy. Pretty is optional. As long as it isn't sliding off the plate (or slithering away), anything with 21 squares of chocolate will be a hit.

Your roommate ate a cupcake you made FOR THE DOG - enough evidence?

Not getting the Matrix Reloaded remark and feeling like a dork...

There was a cakegasm scene. I thought it was kinda' dumb.

(It was the scene in the fancy restaurant with the character who's name I couldn't spell in a million years.)

(It was the scene in the fancy restaurant with the character who's name I couldn't spell in a million years.)

The Merovingian?

Merovingian

Yes.

OK, I probably could have spelled the name in less than 500,000 years, but I was lazy....

She really does. Everybody at the engagment party was asking if she was going to go into cake baking full time (she's an ER doc in her non-baking life) and she said she'd have to charge like $900 a cake to make it worth her time. They just take so long to make!

She can easily get that for wedding cakes. My parents were really cool and helpful about my wedding. But my mother went a little momzilla about the cake. There's this woman with a great reputation for baking wedding cakes, who is local. Half my friends had her husband as their orthodontist. Which has nothing to do with anything. Anyhow, she bakes them out of her home. My mother took Scott and I there for a tasting. We ended up with a chocolate kahlua fudge cake. She decorated it with real flowers. We wanted the cake to be our dessert, not just boxed up in those little take-home boxes.

My mother got out of control with the cake. It was gorgeous and lovely, but I think she spent well over a thousand bucks for it, but I stopped paying attention, because the whole enterprise made me feel nervous and guilty. I remember my father's skin turning a little grey when she told him the price. He then made it the running joke. And we made sure we got tons of photos of the cake, to tease her with.

We ended up with a chocolate kahlua fudge cake. She decorated it with real flowers.

That sounds amazing!

There was a cakegasm scene. I thought it was kinda' dumb.

Oh. I hated that movie. Loved the first one, but the second two made me yawn. Like, forever.

Half my friends had her husband as their orthodontist.

Now, if he'd been their dentist...

I know. The details of my life are a lesson in how not to develop an arc.

An ugly cake once bit my sister.

Sweetie, nothing looks pretty when it's in somebody's mouth. I've seen pictures.

...Johnny Depp would. And Gillian Anderson. She'd look pretty in somebody's mouth. And so would Jack Davenport, I'm betting. And Alexis Denisof, and Eliza Dushku, and Michael Shanks, and Ben Browder, and....[this paragraph could last a long time. Let's just suppose that it has continued for Quite Some Time and skip on to the end, shall we kiddies?]...and Sean Maher, and Gina Torres, she'd look good in somebody's mouth, boy howdy. Ahem. But chewed up foodstuffs in people's mouths? Not so much with the picturesque. So I apologise for my porny tangent, because I totally agreed with the thrust (heh, thrust) of Erika's point.

Cake and wrasslin'? Could be the best weekend evah!

And once again, Mr Sweden is me.