Am drinking champagne and contemplating going back downstairs to get a second piece of cake. I made a cake! For the first time in, like, 4 years or so. There was a time, when my sister was wee, when I used to make fabulous birthday cake extravaganzas every year - cakes shaped like dragons, covered with chocolate button scales, with wings made from icecream wafers, cakes shaped like the tablecloth-draped table where a group of marzipan bears were eating a teddy bear's picnic, complete with wee cake in the centre of the table - that kind of thing. But not for years. However, I have Made A Cake. A very simple cake - I get irritable about following recipes, so this is just normal cake recipe with lots of cocoa added, and then the cake sliced in half when nearly cool and filled with cherries in amaretto syrup, and a bit of cream. And I used Betty Crocker icing, which was okay, and decorated it with silver balls and little lilac-coloured flowers and lilac-coloured sugar crystals. It was
very
pretty.
And I'm making lots and lots of typos, which may be related to the champagne.
Oooh! And we saw a hedgehog! We have a hedgehog living in the back garden. BLESS. Very cute.
Ack, I didn't wish Fay the happiest of birthdays yet. Happy Birthday!
Back is like a damn spasmatic right now. Am cranky for it. Must search for weakass muscle relaxers. The tingly part is really weird.
That sounds fun, Fay. Now I want some champagne.
so this is just normal cake recipe with lots of cocoa added, and then the cake sliced in half when nearly cool and filled with cherries in amaretto syrup, and a bit of cream. And I used Betty Crocker icing, which was okay, and decorated it with silver balls and little lilac-coloured flowers and lilac-coloured sugar crystals. It was very pretty.
This does not sound like a simple cake to me. I am glad you are enjoying yourself.
{{{{{{Cass}}}}}} Get better.
Lots of people rec'd me the Bissell PowerTrak last week
I actually bought the Bissell Power Trak!!
(I would love to claim shared-brain-ness with Cass but the truth is that I was taking notes in Natter last week. Just in case.)
Susan, sorry about the flight delay but I'm glad you were able to make it there. Peace to you and your family.
This does not sound like a simple cake to me.
sj speaks for me.
I am glad you are enjoying yourself.
This, too!
{{{{{{Cass}}}}}} Get better.
Aaaaaand this.
Stay tuned. I might find my own words. In time.
Nicole, can you hop on AIM for a second?
Never mind-- I am going to nap now.
Oh, Susan, I am a tactless ass. I just pretty much skipped, in my drunkenness.
I think you should write the Eulogy too; from everything you've told us, your dad sounds like a wonderful man, and the words should be said, or at least put together. There will be, I think, a sense of rightness in putting him into words, inasmuch as one can.
I can only imagine how this must feel, and the strangeness of coming together with people with whom you're intimate in some ways, being related, but may not always agree with or enjoy being with. What do they say? You can choose your friends but not your family? I'm happy for you that you were so blessed in your father, and I'm sorry that you have lost him now. It is clear from what you've said that he was a good and loving and honourable man, and that he touched other people's lives. I hope that I leave such bright and loving memories behind me, and that I can say with honesty that I have tried to make the world a better place, as he evidently did.
Susan, continued ~ma to you and your family. Take care.
