I'm currently baking the traditional Easter lamb cake. This year it's funfetti, because Pilsbury makes a gluten-free funfetti cake mix now. Woo!

msbelle, I had really excellent pistachio gelato earlier and thought of you.

mmm gelato.

we bought gelato for dessert tomorrow.

So cool, Suzi!

I bought chips and made dip for tomorrow, and figured out what platter. I have an excessive amount of crudite for what will actually be six people, but the big packages were on sale! I guess I will have no problem eating carrots and green beans this week.

Now I should do my nails, but I literally don't feel like that much effort anymore.

Man, I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't seem to have the energy or focus to do anything. I felt like I was doing okay until I got sick a couple weeks ago, and even though I'm over the cold I'm still just useless. Lying in bed at night I think of all the things I'll surely do tomorrow, and lying in bed in the morning all I want is to not get up.

hands are done, now working on toes.

Lamb cake seems to have collapsed through the ribcage area, but according to the toothpick test, it is baked through.

I hope to god that's true. (Or that someone else brings a dessert tomorrow, though I am also making chocolate-covered strawberries. Because I don't trust the lamb cake.)

I should paint my nails! Maybe blue. Though I'm wearing a pink gingham blouse tomorrow. But I don't think I own pink nail polish.

Zen, you might still be fighting off the sick.

Is the lamb cake gluten free or are you making cake you can't even eat??

I am doing much less dancing at my convention than planned, because I just haven't wanted to. Which is bad and good--I'm giving myself permission to not try to do it all, but worried I'm veering towards "skipping out on the good stuff just to "chill" and I'll regret it later"

Way to go, Suzi!

One year our homemade Xmas tree ornaments included clay lambs, and one of them got painted with white fleece festooned with garlands of confetti, so I imagine the funfetti lamb cake looks just like that. Although part of me keeps trying to interpret it as lamb-based meatloaf frosted with mashed potatoes.

I have done hardly any of what I hoped to do today. Oh well. I made it to Tai Chi, and it was a good practice session with a little more push-hands stuff. Had the mild epiphany that learning to hold a frame for ballroom dance a million years ago is helpful for holding a good frame in tai chi. Same basic idea. Then went by my parents' because mom had come across my prom dress and other mementos of mine in cleaning out one of her closets and figured there's no reason why I can't keep them in my closet if I want them kept (and I do, I think), and we went out to lunch because it was lunch time, and then when I thought it was time to go home my dad wanted to go over some more planning for backpacking in August. Which it's probably good we did, but I got home later than expected and also not feeling great. Too spicy a lunch or something? IDK. So it goes, I've still got tomorrow to do some work in the yard, it'll be fine..

Is the lamb cake gluten free or are you making cake you can't even eat??

It's definitely gluten-free. I'm not selfless enough to make a dessert I can't eat.