UII: Addenda/Update

So two *edit: NO THREE! Three more of the little buggers showed up in my spam-box. I went to the website (which is definitely user-driven), plugged in the card ID code and it said ERROR! The card you have requested does not exist or has been removed by the sender.

Mmmmkay.

Like, you know, whatever.

Revenge of the Montreal Hungarian Blacksmith Metrognome Gimp Drum Circle Gang

So, as my punishment for talking smack the Montreal Hungarian Blacksmith Metrognome Gimp Drum Circle Gang, as I have just now taken to calling them, have left town but not without leaving me a present. I came home last night to discover their treachery. I mentioned in my previous post that I could only hear them in the bathroom. Upon entering my porcelain chamber yester-evening everything appeared normal as I tread the tiled path. Right up until the stepped on the bathmat. I would point out again that everything else appeared totally normal, e.g. DRY. This is not the condition in which I found my bathmat. It was, in fact, utterly sodden. There was no evidence of any malfunction with the fixtures. Pipes are still dusty - check. Le toilet appears normal - check. All beauty-related items sitting on the sink are dry - check. Tub is as it should be - check. So apparently, the Montreal Hungarian Blacksmith Metrognome Gimp Drum Circle Gang snuck into my apartment and made water on my bathmat. And my bathmat only. Oh, but wait! There was another watery casualty - my makeup bag. Which, I didn't figure out until later had been massively moistened in the attack. I would assume this meant war if the front wasn't totally quiet. But perhaps this is their strategy?

Cupcake Addenda

They're even pretty BEFORE they go in the oven! Stay tuned for more Lemon-Strawberry Delight ac-tion! *claps hands* *giggles*
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And... we're back. It's evening now, post-cookout. And for the first time in the very brief history of my cupcake obsession I am cupcake-less within one day. Every last one of the little suckers got gobbled up because they are rockin' good delicioso. Seriously. Mine even had a mis-adventure in the car - wherein my friends decided that on the way to the cookout that we had to stop at the mall and I had no choice but to leave the cupcakes in the warm car which melted the buttercream frosting I made so they were decidedly unlovely but they went over like buttah at the cookout. I got soooo many compliments.

Anyhoo, here is a shot of the finished product, pre-frosting:



Aren't they pretty? They were a bit tricky to get out of the cupcake pan, and the cake part of the cupcakes split a little on one or two when I tried to lift them out but they managed to make intact. They were just itchin' to get naked and shed their papers too!

I followed Coconut & Lime's basic buttercream recipe, adding the juice of a whole lemon and some zest as recommended and it is absolutely DELISH! So very tart and tasty. And the lemon cupcake is really lemon-y and the strawberries I got were wonderfully ripe and sweet. I couldn't wait until we got to the cookout to eat one - I just had to. Here it is on it's way home to my belly:


I am so very pleased with the results. I'm going to have to make another batch because I've promised them all over town. I'll probably do that tomorrow because I'm totally exhausted now but I have PLENTY of frosting left over so that's one less thing to do.

Now, for my next trick - I go in search of the perfect vanilla cupcake. I think it will involve homemade vanilla sugar *raises eyebrows suggestively* because I am just that fou-fou.

This is Why This Blog is Called Jenn Addenda

Addenda to the Previous Post:

In going back and obsessively reading all of my previous posts I came to realize that some major things have happened between posts about my personal life that I didn't exactly make really clear on the blog... many of you probably already know about these things say, if you actually talk to me in RL or if you are an RPer you probably know these things from my posts there, but anybody (not that I'm suggesting that people outside those circles necessarily read my blog but hey, a girl can dream, can't she?) else might not. So here is a list of things that have happened since my original post that started the blog in the first place:

1. I accepted the position the acceptance process of which drove me to the brink of insanity. I accepted it at the offered rate of pay, despite a rejected counter-offer because, as I mentioned, it is a great opportunity for me.

2. I am back in school part-time.

3. I agreed to continue working for my former employer, one day a week until the end of June when my new position has the possibility to go full-time and the office overhaul at the old job takes place.

I know readers could probably have figured those things out from the preceeding post but it's nice to have everything laid out in #000033, ya know? ;)

Question to my readers: When I go back and edit previous posts for grammatical, spelling, and various other small errors, does it send subscribers an update message? I'd hate to think you guys are getting 3-4 messages for such tiny little changes... if this is the case I'll either try and be more careful when I publish the post or just leave the imperfections alone. (Which might, truthfully, prove difficult.)