Like a Drug Deal

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

As you know, I work from home and occasionally go into the office in Salem.  However, my employer also has other locations in Oregon and sometimes, people transfer around a bit.  Recently, one of my coworkers, Pam, moved from the office in Salem to the office in Eugene.

And it was not long before I received an email from someone in Eugene inquiring about my baking skills.  Apparently, Pam was promoting my baking in the office.  For a food pusher like me, I was thrilled and this gave me an opportunity to do some baking.  I thought I’d bake up a crowd pleaser and very simple recipe, Toffee Gooey Butter Cake.  The last time I made this, I made it for my Salem coworkers!

Just to recap, here are the ingredients (and vanilla):

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And look at the bottom of the pan:

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So cute and a nice little surprise.

After throwing everything together…

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I put it in the oven and decided to create a card.

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As you can see, Bing wanted to help.

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Okay, well, it’s not really a card, but it works.  And then the cake was done!

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Perfect.

The only issue?  I am not working today and I rarely drive to Eugene.  Thus, I had to find transportation for the cake.  I ended up recruiting Pam for some help.  Because she drives from Salem to Eugene every day, we decided to meet somewhere along the way.  This is also where it kind of became like a drug deal because we decided to meet at a Denny’s located right on the I-5 freeway.

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That also means that Pam was kind of like a drug mule.  Sorry Pam.

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Another Milestone

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

Not only am I married to a man that’s 51 years old, but now all of my step-children have graduated from high school.  Crazy times.

And George is in California attending his youngest son’s high school graduation!

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That’s George III on the left, Michael in the middle, and G on the right.  G told me the ceremony was great and Michael gave an excellent speech (the teachers selected him to give a speech during the ceremony)!  Pretty cool.

While in California, G’s been hanging with these peeps:

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By hanging with, I really mean they are babysitting him.  Because I wasn’t able to go to the graduation, George III and his wife, Courtney, had the unfortunate luck of having to fill in as G’s babysitter.  At least there are two of them.  And I don’t think it needs to be mentioned, but…umm, like father, like son.

CONGRATULATIONS MICHAEL!!!

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My Favorite Notification

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

Besides looking through all the porn emailed to me every day, my favorite emails are these ones:

THE FOLLOWING ITEM YOU REQUESTED IS
NOW BEING HELD. PLEASE PICK IT UP
WITHIN FIVE DAYS.

1   Seven up / Janet Evanovich.
Evanovich, Janet.
call number:M EVANO                                     copy:2
2   The Scorch trials / James Dashner.
Dashner, James, 1972-
call number:Y F DASHN                                   copy:1

Just makes my day.  And then I spend all day getting excited about heading to the library to pick up my books.

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I know, I need a life.

Anyway, as you can see by the books that are ready for me to pick up…I’m on book 7 of the Stephanie Plum series (my OCD requires that I read them in order) and the second book of the Mazerunner series.  Excellent recommendations everyone…thank you.  Fortunately, I have ample reading time while G is busy watching 142 playoff games and trying to figure out how he can hook up with Kobe, Lebron and/or Kevin Durant.  Personally, I prefer Dwayne Wade.

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Year One

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

I can’t believe it, but one year ago I started this little blog.  After publishing 354 posts (this is 355) I thought I’d share some of the fun things I’ve learned along the way.

First, I never thought I’d post a picture of myself online that looked like this:

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Or that I’d admit that G and I eat entire cakes:

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But I think I learned the most about my wonderful readers.  First, I’m a little concerned that you might like G more than I do…maybe I’ll hold an auction for him during my second year of blogging.  I’m also a little concerned that some of you have found my blog by searching some interesting topics on the internet.

I’m not surprised by these:

  • mean girls christmas card
  • trophy wife naked
  • never washed hair
  • desserts for four people
  • leave marriage for twenty years to become trophy wife

What surprises me almost daily, though, is seeing that people find CTW by entering different variations of this:

BLACK PEOPLE EATING FRIED CHICKEN or

BLACK MAN EATING WATERMELON

I am not joking.  I went through my stats and I’ve had over 550 views that came from people entering those search terms (or similar ones) into search engines.  I only counted searches regarding black people and fried chicken or watermelon.  There were multiple searches for black people eating cake or just plain eating as well.  WTF?!

I only did one post where G ate fried chicken and watermelon.

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I had no idea that people searched those terms (and would click on a blog link) almost every day.  Wow, just wow.

I also discovered (after doing a guest post) that people think I’m inappropriate and/or offensive.  For the record, I’ve also been told I have no class or decency…in real life, not in the blog world.  I actual love stuff like that, thank you.

Honestly, I didn’t think I would last this long in the blogging world or that I would enjoy it as much as I do.  So thank you, loyal readers, for taking the time to read and comment.  I really do appreciate it, even if you found me by searching for “black man eating watermelon pic”…I hope you found what you were looking for.

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Seven

Posted on May 20, 2012 by

This:

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Plus this:

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Equals seven hellish miles on the treadmill.

While I’m happy to have those seven miles over with, I’m not looking forward to more long runs before the 1/2 marathon next month.  On the other hand, it makes running 3 miles seem like nothing…which is really a miracle.

And that’s your running update.

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