I made a LOLveep

Heh heh. I come up with the best things when I'm supposed to be cleaning the house.

Why I'm Moving To Ravenna

They have found a way to combine two things I love.

If I find a library that actually circulates cake, you'll never see me again.

Success!

I know I've posted here before with tales of baking woe, but today I have a success story!! One of my co-workers is leaving the library, so we were bringing in food today. She's a vegan, so I figured it was finally time to break out my Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World cookbook. I originally was planning to make lemon macadamia cupcakes, but last night I realized that the recipe called for a bunch of ground macadamia nuts, and I don't have a coffee grinder or a food processor or anything like that. So I decided to go with basic chocolate and do the variation that turns them into cookies and cream cupcakes.

They came out SO perfect! I took them out of the oven right at 18 minutes, and they were just right: toothpick came out dry, cute little rounded tops. I made the frosting this morning, and it was also great. It was tasty and a perfect consistency for spreading. When I finally got to work and could try one, I was not disappointed. They were moist, chocolatey, and just basically delicious. I was so happy! I know part of the reason they worked out is because I've moved and have a better oven, but my co-worker Cassie also suggests that the vegan gods were smiling down on me. Haha, who knows! I may actually make another batch because I still have half a package of Newman-Os (yum) and a bunch of soy milk (not so yum) sitting around.

All CNN and no play makes Chaser something something

Well, I haven't blogged in a long time, but I am so annoyed with all this election bullshit that I just couldn't control myself. I really want to punch Sarah Palin in the face. I hate her and everything to do with her. HATE. I disagree with her on, like, every issue, for starters. I am also totally enraged by the women who were Hillary supporters but now are supporting McCain only because he picked a woman as his running mate. There was a woman on American Morning the other day who acknowledged that she did not agree with the politics of McCain or Palin but that she was going to vote for them anyway. That is the most irresponsible fucking thing I have ever heard. That woman is retarded. She said something like "well, I don't want to vote FOR McCain as much as I want to vote AGAINST Obama." WELL GUESS WHAT, LADY. You can't do that. When you vote FOR McCain, it's a vote FOR McFuckingCain!! Damn. She was also saying that Obama not picking a female running mate shows that he doesn't care about women/the female vote. Uh, what? I did not know that you could only care about the thoughts and opinions of your own gender. Fucking idiots. Would these women vote for McCain if he had picked, say, Britney Spears or the green M&M as his running mate? I don't really want to know.

I'm also totally insulted that I'm supposed to be all up in her shit just because she's a woman and I'm a woman. Guess what. There are like 3 billion women in the world, and a lot of them are stupid jackasses who I would very much like to kick in the shins. I mean, if you like the Republican ticket because you feel that they are the best people to run our country, then fine. I'm just saying that it takes a lot more than having a chocha to get in my good graces.

Finally, I'm offended by all the people (male and female alike) at the convention who are proudly wearing buttons encouraging everybody to vote for the "hot" VP candidate. I don't even want to get into that one, it should be self-explanatory. She's not running for Miss America, boys and girls, she's a fucking vice-presidential candidate.

The only real upshot to all this is that Bill gets crazy angry at like, every politician on TV, and the reporters too, and it's hilarious. Here's a bit of our conversation from dinner, upon hearing America The Beautiful being sung at the RNC, with lots of patriotic posturing:

Me: Man, I guess I don't love my country as much as I should.
Bill: Why, because you're not raising your hands in the air and waving them around? This country's fucked up.
Me: ...but, I mean, they're like crying and clutching their flags at the mention of purple mountain's majesty.
Bill: They're a bunch of self-important asshats.

Hehe. Constant loop of CNN+angry Bill=good times.