Day 81
Cake.
Plain and simple, I want cake.
And by cake I don’t mean Angelfood nothingness or though good, German Chocolate or Spice. Definitely not white (ew) or yellow or anything pink. And forget Red Velvet. What is with that anyway?
I want chocolate (and when do I not want chocolate). I want it warm with extra thick chocolate fudge frosting (the kind out of the can is best) and it needs to have at least two layers (none of this sheet cake stuff) … and I want it NOW!
But I don’t have cake and nothing else will fill that momentary desire. So, I will go to bed dreaming of cake with chocolate frosting … and just for the heck of it … sprinkles on top.
There is something to be said about sprinkles. The little nuggets of sugary goodness are not only fun but so festive and make just about anything extra special.
When I was in 8th grade I was on an all-girls softball team. For whatever reason we went out for soft serve ice cream with our majorly hippie coach every once in a while. I don’t know what his story was … I thought about it later and wondered if he was doing some sort of community service. He was the most unlikely role model and person to be a coach ever and yet everyone liked him and seemed to have some errant crush on him! For the longest time I’ve had this feeling he died in Viet Nam … he had an incredibly low draft number. I don’t know whatever happened to him but when I eat sprinkles I think of Bob and remember how the sprinkles on his ice cream somehow wove themselves into his beard. We all laughed at him though it was really rather disgusting (but also quite fascinating for a 13 year old at that time).
The other day I watched a commercial for some car company and they showed a Great Dane in the car … named Mr. Sprinkles. I think that will be the name of my next Pug or Frenchie – even if it’s female. It just has a nice ring to it.
A few weeks ago I was on a cake kick … almost just as I described. Individual pieces of cake are sometimes for sale at my grocery store (or maybe they are always for sale and I hadn’t noticed them before) … in any case, for a few days in a row I bought a piece of chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles on it … and each piece was glorious! I might have to stop and get a piece tomorrow morning for breakfast!
And cake is okay for breakfast … it gives you all day to burn off the calories! Better than eating it before going to bed! And life is short … eat dessert first!
I’ve been so stressed lately with packing and getting things organized and blah, blah, blah … ad nauseum … about all things move related. And I realized tonight that I need more desserts in my life … after all, isn’t STRESSED spelled backwards … DESSERTS?
Which brings me back to thinking about … cake!