Awww, fuck, Matilda's birthday cake has suffered a total collapse of structural integrity. And I had the top layer all nice and together! But when I poured the chocolate icing onto it, everything startled to fall away.

But the butterscotch icing in the middle is very tasty. It'll taste good - it'll just look like a train wreck.

It's a yellow cake. Yellow cake may taste yum but it's not a strong as chocolate! Emmett's cake was far sturdier.

On the bright side, Matilda's still young enough not to much notice cake aesthetics. I suspect it is the mission of all toddlers to smear as much icing on their faces as possible.

How did it get to be 4 PM already? Without, you know, me taking a nap or getting very much of anything done?

On the bright side, Matilda's still young enough not to much notice cake aesthetics. I suspect it is the mission of all toddlers to smear as much icing on their faces as possible.

I'm not worried about her so much as the in-laws. Oh well. JZ will have her frosting decoration kit. I suppose we could plug rosettes into the gaps.

76-Year-Old Man With Purple Urine

You encounter some fascinating stuff reading the New England Journal of Medicine. Take NEJM's Image of the Week this week -- yes, yes in fact that is a bag of purple urine. Since you asked:

Purple discoloration can occur in alkaline urine as a result of the degradation of indoxyl sulfate (indican), a metabolite of dietary tryptophan, into indigo (which is blue) and indirubin (which is red) by bacteria such as Providencia stuartii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, and enterococcus species. The clinical course is benign, and the urine typically clears with resolution of the bacteriuria and acidification of the urine.

Who knew?

Make it into parfaits!

Mmm...delicious cake.

Yellow cake with chocolate frosting is my all-time favorite of cakes.

Good luck with the decorating--I'm sure it will be lovely.

Happy Birthday, Alibelle!

Jesse is weird.

Phone rang with krav drama just after I finish (no lie) rolling around in stomach pain (isn't there an upper limit after which they're not allowed to hurt you anymore) so I'm uber-spaced. Gave my narcotics another hit, since even if they don't work on the headache maybe they can take this pain/cramping away a little. Don't want drama. Really don't.

My pizza order yesterday turned out to be for two larges instead of two mediums, so all those sauce suggestions are a few days away from reality. I have eaten so much purchased chicken in the past week...

Now I wonder what the Krav drama is.

Good morning so far: spinach and bacon souffles followed by green-tea lemonade. Then I watched some of FNL. Picked up paperdol, went to visit Grace at UCLA and she was awake and pooping and loving the new binkie I brought her. Now I'm home and Noah and I are getting ready to go to K's softball game.

AND we got tickets for the Noah's Ark exhibit at the Skirball. I'm Very Very Very excited to take our Noah.

I'll tell you when it's officially announced. But it doesn't involve anyone you know, I'm pretty sure.

Spinach and bacon souffles sound marvellous. There's cheese too, right?

Sounds like a great weekend there, Kat.

When non-profits go really wrong, with an appearance by P Diddy. Now, anything can go south, and markedly so. I'm always curious about the people doing it in a case like this. Do they pretend to each other to be totally above board? Do they mutter and cackle like cartoon baddies? Casually defiant? What? Because that is more like wrong profit than non profit, and I wonder how many legit people can be involved.

That, right there, is why I'm going to up till midnight tonight working on federal paperwork for my nonprofit. Thank you, disreputable nonprofit! This case of Doctor Peppers and extra bag of coffee are in your honor!