Cake and boys

[tacit]

Because I think it's cool, here is (blurry) evidence of a birthday cake I made at the weekend. It took all of Saturday to make, and various households in the Nottingham/Derby area are still eating it, but it did look pretty good. You can't really tell how excessive it was from the pictures - it was about 30cm (a foot) tall, and even had icing ivy growing up the side of the house. Those little dyed marshmallow bushes had perfectly formed icing flowers on them. The roof was a victoria sponge with chocolate icing, and the walls were coffee cake with butter-coffee mortar, and between them they used a mammoth twelve eggs. Is was like Extreme Cakemaking, the sport.

I need a job.



And, because I know that at least dodificus finds stories of My Tragic Lovelife deeply amusing, I will share with you the latest.

I went off boys for a while after several excruciating first dates, but then met a guy (at a funeral!) a few months ago who reaffirmed to me that there are some nice, normal, single men out there, even if good chemistry is a bit more hit-and-miss. So, I rejoined my old standby match.com and have had email conversations with a few potentials - no bad first dates yet, because none of them were appealing enough to subject myself to that nonsense. And then I discovered that PWP guy was back on the market.

First off, let me reassert the opinion that he is absolutely gorgeous. Also, funny and kind and cuddly and smiley. I do not know what I was thinking when I let it fizzle out. He'd just come out of a long term relationship and I'd been single forever, so we were out of synch and he was reboundy. I do tend to freak out when I get a new guy - either my entire future happiness rests on the perfect construction of the next text message, or I am bewildered by not being single... or both - so we were a bit out of step at times. But, gorgeous! Wonderful! He even called me on my shit, once, which I appreciated - I'd gone from total!floozy to too!cool!to!text and he eventually sent a late night text going 'WTF?!' But in a good way that totally fixed my dumb behaviour. ♥ At lonely, life-hating times, he's The One That Got Away, who I kick myself over. And he's back on the market! \o/

I spent an embarrassingly long while constructing an email to him yesterday - light, breezy, non stalkerish; while in reality I was not feeling light or breezy, and very much stalkerish. I agonised to deltacephei and naye about what to say. The mail is still up in a tab, waiting for me to read it over with the distance of a day or two before I decide send/not.

BUT HE EMAILED ME FIRST!!! He wants to know if I'm up for a drink! I no longer care that we have very little in common. I'm gonna meet up with him asap.

I am keyboard mashing over a 3 line email.

\o/ !!! &hearts

Yes, it will blatantly all go pathetically wrong. But this part? Is FUN!

Comments

[dodificus.livejournal.com]

Could someone cooking challenged recreate something like that? Well, it's not so much the cooking that I'm bad at, it's the design side of things.

Yes, it will blatantly all go pathetically wrong. But this part? Is FUN!

I hope things go well this time but on the off chance that he turns out to be a cross dressing hobo or something equally ridiculous...I'll be here to gleefully listen to the stories:)

[tacittype.livejournal.com]

Could someone cooking challenged recreate something like that?

Absolutely! I made the mistake of trying to build it hollow, but cake =/= supporting walls. Just pile the cake up in a house-shaped stack and ice it into shape! And the dumb details are all dumb, but the sheer quantity of details make it, imo, kinda cool :) You got a cake to make?

I hope things go well this time but on the off chance that he turns out to be a cross dressing hobo or something equally ridiculous...I'll be here to gleefully listen to the stories:)

ThankyouIthink :p

[dodificus.livejournal.com]

You got a cake to make?

It's always someone's birthday and a cake like that would definitely be a party stopper:)

[tacittype.livejournal.com]

Shout if you want help!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

\o/!!!

[tacittype.livejournal.com]

Indeed!! &hearts

[crownglass39.livejournal.com]

That cake is freaking awesome!

[tacittype.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I had a little too much time on my hands...

[deltacephei.livejournal.com]

That cake looks great! You did have a quite some time on your hands, didn't you? *g* And it's A LOT of cake. No wonder half the town is still eating from it. Um, now I'm kind of hungry. Great. (I'll take the roof, if it's all the same to you.)

Also, \o/! The One That Got Away maybe didn't get all the way away! \o/

[tacittype.livejournal.com]

The cake went down well! It subsided a little on the way to C and JJ's house in an earthquake the car, so the full effect was lost, what with the wonky roof. But people were still impressed. And an impressive quantity of it was gone by morning. Success!

The One That Got Away maybe didn't get all the way away!

I hope not! I'm refreshing my hotmail account almost obsessively, waiting for his reply to my reply. I am such a girl! *g*

On the downside, this may mean I have to tidy my house. I haven't properly tidied my room since last time he came over! Am a pig. But a pig with a love interest! \o/

[raisintorte.livejournal.com]

That cake looks AWESOME!

(also, yay PWP guys!)

[tacittype.livejournal.com]

The cake has finally been all eaten up - only took 10 days. It was pretty damned cool, though! I wish I had some better pictures.

Yay indeed! &hearts