22 posts tagged “birthday”
You are an important voice in my neighborhood in your passion for good food, good people, and the good in people. You have a fine partner, animals to love, and many, many Vox friends. You give back to your community and are a vocal advocate for the rights that you shouldn't even have to fight for, if this were a sane world.
Happy Birthday, Myke! I hope Kevin and the "kids" treat you like a king today.
Today was one co-worker's birthday and Wednesday is my good friend/co-worker's birthday, and I always get her a little something. This year I decided to make her a treat, and bring it in the day between the two birthdays (i.e. tomorrow). And being the warped person I am, and it being near Halloween, and these two people being able to take a bit of a joke, I decided to steal Peg of Tilling's idea from some months ago and do brain cupcakes.
Of course, they're red velvet cake inside (still using those mixes up, Mariser!) For some bizarre reason I decided they had to have marshmallow frosting. This involved, among other things, most of a tub of marshmallow fluff, buying a whole spice bottle full of cream of tartar so I could have 1/4 teaspoon, and beating the frosting while it was in the top half of a double boiler till it got stiff. And while Peg thought her frosting came out too brown, I tried for gray and only got a grayish white before I decided I'd beaten the living hell out of it enough adding combinations of red, blue and yellow food dye in drop by drop, so I quit while I was ahead (no pun intended).
I'm no cake decorator like Peg, either, so I just piped straight lines across back and forth, then dragged a toothpick down the middle to create hemispheres. Here's the final result:
I think they look kind of brainy.
It's just past midnight and now officially DavidBoBavid's birthday. May I be the first of many voxers to with you a happy birthday. You've had a big year so far, and the upcoming year will be even better when you move into the new house.
Have a great birthday, but I don't think Mama Bobavey will make you a cake as awesome as this.
Have a fine day, Lauo! I hope you get treated like a queen.
It's almost midnight, so close enough to October 8th for me to be the first (I hope) to wish Arbed a happy birthday.
Have a good one, and have a blast in Chicago this weekend with cranky and MMB!
Thanks to all the fine peeps who wished me a happy birthday today! It was a great day, and your posts and comments were a great part of it. Some other highlights:
- my best friend Susan arrived at my office to take me to lunch, bearing this cool gift, a pirate beach towel that totally matches my orange and blue bathroom.
- she also brought chocolate cake she made for me to share with the office. My co-workers were very happy.
- the Cap'n sent flowers AND chocolate. I was very happy.
.I know I still have to do a post about the rest of the trapping this weekend, and the farm the cats are going to, but my time's been crazy busy for the last few days. I won't have time till I get to Vancouver on my business trip tomorrow. So stay tuned.
In the smorgasbord that is Vox, you are the deep-fried cheesecake on our dessert table.
Have a wonderful day, I hope you get treated like a queen. (You can outrank Princess Indy for one day, can't you?)
I couldn't find a good typewriter cake photo, so this was the closest I could get. I hope the year ahead brings you even more writing achievements!
Have yourself a mad tea party with some furry friends!
Many happy returns of the day to one of my newest Vox neighbors. Hope your celebrating doesn't look anything like this:
